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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[December 1, 1914. 



SUIT AGAINST INDIANA RUBBER Ic INSULATED WIRE CO. DROPPED. 



The suit brought against the Indiana Rubber & Insulated 

 Wire Co., of -Marion, Indiana, by the Buffalo Specialty Co., 

 of Buffalo, New York, to enjoin the former company against 

 alleged infringement of rights in a tire fluid, lias been dis- 

 missed in the United Stataes District Court at Indianapolis. 

 patent for this tluid was purchased by the Indiana con- 

 cern from the invei nd in turn sold to the plaintiff 

 this action, whose complaint charged that after the sale the 

 defendants had made tluid as covered by the patent. 

 MORE COMPANIES TAKE SPACE FOR JANUARY AUTOMOBILE SHOWS. 



On page 82 of the November number of The India Ri 

 Woh mention was made of space having been allotted to .i 

 numbi impanies engaged in rubber ami allied manu- 



factures in tile automobile shows to he held at New York 

 and ' fanuarj -' '' and 21-30. Several other companies 



have Mine been allotted space. These include: The Cutler- 

 Hammer Clutch Co., Milwaukee; The Dreadnaught Tire & 

 Rubbei ' o., Baltimore; the Globe Rubber Tire Manufactur- 

 o.. Trenton; the Standard Woven Fabric Co., Framing- 

 Massachusetts, and the Newmastic Co., Xew York. 



I he Following concerns have taken space for the Xew York 

 show only: Essex Rubber Co., Trenton; Rutherford Rubber 

 Co., Rutherford. Xew Jersey; the Marathon Tire Sales Co., 

 Xew York — a branch of the Marathon Tire & Rubber Co., 

 of Cuyahoga Tails. Ohio; the Steel Pneumatic Tube & Tire 

 Co.. Xew York; the O'Bannon Corporation. Providence. 

 Rhode Island, and the Ashley Wire Wheel & Rim Co., New 

 York. 



DECISION AND AWARD IN WEED TIRE CHAIN SUIT. 

 A perpetual injunction has been issued by Judge Tuttle in 

 the United States District Court at Detroit in the suit brought 

 by the Weed Chain Tire Grip Co., the Parsons Xon-Skid Co., 

 Limited, and Henry D. Weed, restraining the Perry Chain & 

 Grip Co., the Union Steel Screen Co. and the Motor Specialty 

 Co. from the manufacture of tire chains which infringe patent 

 No. 723,299 issued to Henry Parsons March 24. 1903. The 

 plaintiffs in the case were awarded $18,000, to cover costs of 

 the suit and the profits which the defendant- had made from 

 sale of devices infringing this patent. 



IMPORTING FIRM ASSIGNS FOR BENEFIT OF CREDITORS. 



Fred'k Probst & Co. (Adolph Vietor), trading and commis- 



its, of < s 2 Beaver street, Xew York, made an 

 assignment on November 11 for the benefit of creditors, with 

 liabilities approximating $1,000,000. This business was estab- 

 lished in 1845, by 1'robst & Memerlstaza. who were later suc- 

 ceeded by Fred'k Probst cc Co.. Mr. Vietor obtaining owner- 

 ship in 1897. Included in the assigned estate are property 

 rights in a large block of timber land in the State of Cam- 

 peche, Mexico; right, title and interest in a plantation in the 

 State of ' Mexico, and a plantation in the City of 



>an, Guatemala, also a mortgage on property in the city 

 of Vera Cruz. 'This assignment is said to have been caused by 

 the i 00,000 of the firm's funds by the general 



manager and cashier, William F. Bostelman, who committed 

 nber 21. 



THE SOUTHERN TIRE & RUBBER CO. TO MAKE TIRES. 



:i about to ( ntcr tin field of rubber 

 thern Tire & Rubber Co., of Augusta, 

 which expects to be ready to start work by about 

 the middle of December. This company, which is capitalized 

 at $75,000. ha~ a new brick plant at Augusta, in the vicinity 

 rmour fertilizer works. This plant — the main portion 

 of which is 52 x 230 feet in area, ami which has an addition 

 30 x 60 feet — with its equipment, is sniii to represent an out- 

 lay of approximately $70,000 "This equipment has already 

 been installed. The company purposes manufacturing auto- 

 mobile tires, employing from 12 t<> 15 workmen at the start, 

 with a capacity of about 50 tires a day. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Cutler-Hammer Clutch Co., of Milwaukee. Wisconsin, 

 well known in most of the large American rubber factories 

 as the manufacturer of the Cutler-Hammer Magnetic Clutch 

 ami brake, has removed its Cincinnati office from the Fourth 

 National bank building, taking larger quarters in the Gwynne 

 ding. 



A •■■ nspection was recently made by representatives 



of tin I asi Palestine Rubber Co. to the plant at Clyde. Ohio, 

 formed) occupied by the General Motors Co., its suitability 

 as a supplementary tire factory to the company's plant at 

 East Pah tine, Ohio, being under consideration. 



The Superior Tubes & A. Limited, has been in- 



corporated at Toronto, Ontario, with a capital stock of 3300,- 

 000, 1" manufacture automobile equipment, etc. The incor- 

 porators are W. V J. Case, J. B. Tax lor and C. G. Lynch, 

 and the principal office of the company is at Toronto, 1201-5 

 C. V. R. Building. 



By arrangements recently effected, the H. W. Johns-Man- 

 ville Co.. of Xew York, has taken the exclusive distributing 

 agency for "Tirenew" and "Narco," products of the Xational 

 Rubber Co., of St. Louis, Missouri. These products, which 

 are rubber compositions intended respectively for coating 

 tires and tor tire filler, will hereafter be known as J-M Tire- 

 new and J-M Xarco. 



According to an announcement made by the Business Men's 

 Association of Findlay, Ohio, the newly formed Toledo- 

 Ford Tire Co. will locate in that city, manufacturing a line 

 of tires exclusively for Ford cars, to be sold direct to the 

 users. The company states that it expects to be able to sell 

 at 25 per cent, below usual price. 



The Pneumatic Hub-Tire- Wheel Co. has been incorporated un- 

 der the laws of Delaware, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. 

 by L. C. Evans, G. J. Lampton and X. W. Rowland — all of 

 Louisville. Kentucky — with the purpose of erecting a factory 

 as soon as satisfactory arrangements can be effected. 



A demand has been made upon George D. Porter, Phila- 

 delphia's Director of Public Safety, by a committee appointed 

 by the Rotary Club of that city, for an immediate test of the 

 fire hose in use there. In spite of assurances of Councils that 

 the hose is all right, repeated charges have been made that 

 the city's fire hose is in bad condition and liable to burst at 

 any time, and the manufacturers consider it their right and 

 a matter of importance to themselves to know that this public 

 equipment is in first class shape. 



Judge Dodge of the United States District Court of Massa- 

 chusetts recently denied the petition of the Harris Raincoat 

 Co.. of Boston, for the sale of the assets of the < Ixford Rub- 

 ber Co.. of Cambridge. Massachusetts, the receiver of the 

 Oxford company assuring the court that he would soon 

 present a similar petition. 



The plant of the Fisk Rubber Co.. at Chicopee Falls, Mas- 

 sachusetts, which was closed during the first week of Novem- 

 ber for annual inventory, reopened on the 9th. 



The Williams Tire X Rubber Co.. which recently acquired 

 property at Vista, near McKeesport, Pennsylvania, on which 

 to erect a plant for the manufacture of tires and other rubber 

 good-. ' xpects to have ready for operation t>\ Spring a fac- 

 tory which will require the services of 500 workmen. Work 

 on this new plant is very soon to begin. A. D. Williams. 

 president of the company, of Glassport. Pennsydvania, is 

 quoted a- stating that $60,000 of the new $255,000 stock issue 

 of the company — formed last September — has already been 

 subscribed for. 



A convention of the sales force of the Standard Woven 

 Fabric Co. was recently held at the company's factory at 

 Framingliam. Massachusetts. A convention address by the 

 general manager. Mr. Burdick, discloses a very satisfactory 

 business for the past year, the sales of "Multibestos" brake 

 lining during that time having doubled. 



