

THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I August 1, 1915. 



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Vol. hi. AUGUST 1. 1915. No. 5. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



Shall We Keep the Faith? 583 



Aerial Preparedness 583 



One Reason We Import German Rubber Goods 584 



Will There Be Any Rubber Men? 584 



A Famous Chance for a Rubber Detective 585 



The Tire Adjuster Doomed? 585 



Minor Editorial 585 



Story of Gutta Percha 



Illustrated 586 



India Rubber in the Making of Explosives 



Illustrated 590 



Rubber Trade in Canada 593 



Rubber Statistics for the United States 593 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 594 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 



Illustrated 596 



New Machines and Appliances 



Illustrated 599 



Editor's Book Table 603 



Tentative List of Soft Rubber Druggists' Sundries 604 



German Rubber Press Again Criticizes the American Rubber 



Trade 604 



Annual Outing of the Rubber Club 



Illustrated 60S 



United States Rubber Co.'s Dividends 608 



Obituary Record 6og 



[With Portrait >r W. M. Ivins.] 



Origin of Rubber Foam 



Illustrated 610 



Annual Meeting, American Society for Testing Materials 611 



Testing Rubber in Rubber-Lined Hose 



Illustrated 611 



Testing Tire Fabrics 



Illustrated 612 



News of the American Rubber Trade 613 



Rubber Trade in Boston . . . 



By Our Correspondent — Illustrated 616 



Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



By Our Correspondent 617 



Rubber Trade in Akron 



By Our C nt 61S 



Rubber Trade in Trenton 



Cox Automatic Load Regulated Air Spring 



Illustrated 621 



India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Correspondent 623 



Earnings of German Rubber Workers 626 



German Military Uses of Motor Vehicles 628 



Plantation Rubber's Vulcanizing Capacity 



By Our Correspondent 629 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 630 



[United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand. France, Germany.] 



Market for Chemicals and Compounding Ingredients 631 



Market for Cotton and Other Fabrics 632 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 634 



Rubber Scrap Market 638 



IMPROVED HOSE KEEL 



A new hose reel is constructed so that by moving the reel truck 

 on the ground a friction transmission causes the reel to wind or 

 unwind the hose A simple clutch arrangement neutralizes the 

 friction gearing at will. [German Empire Registered Sample No. 



THE RUBBER SCRAP MARKET. 



T~* I f I'" Russian embargo on the exportation of rubber scrap 

 has closed for the time being the source of large supplies 

 that were imported to the United State- previous to the war. 

 However, it is announced that arrangements are being made 1>\ 

 the Department of Commerce of the United States and the Rus- 

 sian foreign office, by which u: Is will he exported from Russia 



under a guarantee that they will not he re-exported. It this 

 arrangement is consummated, it will release considerable rubber 

 scrap that is now withheld from the American market. The 

 imports of rubber scrap into the United State- from Russia 

 during the year 1912-1913 were 7.468.274 pounds, valued at 

 $619,594. In the year 1913-1914 there was imported 5,018,555 

 pounds, valued at $453,522. The Italian government has now 

 plaeed waste and reclaimed rubber on the list of goods con- 

 sidered absolute contraband. 



Muring the month of July there was ver\ little business being 

 done in a public way. but the firm tone of the market and steady 

 prices seemed to indicate that considerable business was being 

 transacted quietly. As a rule, the mills are quite busy in July, 

 and as the manufacturers have been working overtime on war 

 orders, the indications are that the waste trade will soon feel 

 the effects of this general trade movement. 



Early in the month, boots and shoes were held at 7fjjc. de- 

 livered to the mills, although some business was reported at a 

 shade less. The price of Goodrich and Goodyear auto tires was 

 firm at 6>sc. delivered ; and Xo. 1 inner tubes continued strong 

 it 25^i@26c. As the month progressed there was very little 

 trading, and it is evident that large quantities of scrap have 

 been quietly absorbed by the mills from various sources, which 

 is now being used. 



During the last week of the month the purchasing trade ap- 

 peared reluctant to enter the market with large orders, but the 

 impression exists that next month will record better business. 



The rubber scrap imports for eleven months ending May, 1915. 

 were: 9,833.120 pounds, valued at $652,019. against 23.361,452 

 pounds, valued at $1,889,125, for the same period in 1914. Ex- 

 ports for the same period in 1915 were 2,056.564 pounds, valued 

 at $241,781. against 5.610,213 pounds, valued at $532,945, for 

 1914. 



Rubber scrap imports received at the port of Xew York dur- 

 ing July were as follows: July 6, by the "Havana." from 

 Havana, 50 packages; July 8, by the "Athinai," from Piraeus, 

 1 barrel; July 9. by the "Tropea," from London, 35 barrels: 

 July 13, by the "Parima,'' from St. Croix, 1 box: July 13. by 

 the "Saratoga," from Havana. 29 packages: July 13. by the 

 "Kentigern," from London. 25 barrels. 



PRICES PAID BY CONSUMERS FOR CARLOAD LOTS. 



New York, Ji.lv 30, 1915. 



Per Pound. 



and shoes cents 7^@ 



White Goodrich ami lyeai tires ' '" 



Morgan .\ Wright and t". S. tires 6 1 A<q 6 J A 



Trimmed arctics 6 @ <> j 



Auto tires, mixed 5 tg 



Solid tires *$i@ 



N ". 1 inner tubes 25 (§ 26 



Xo. 2 inner tubes 11 



Kill tubes 



Bicycle tires 3 " 



Irony tires 1 . S 



Xo. 1 auto peelings S @ 8J4 



Mixed auto peelings 6?4(5 7 



soft white rubber 11 <</ 1 2 



While wringer rubber 9J4'" 



No. 1 red scrap 10 @10 i 



M t iced red scrap ' . <> 7 



Mixed black scrap 2 = .. .< 2H 



Rubber car springs > 



shoe pads 



Matting and packing y 2 ,/ 



I iarden hose 



Air brake hose 



1 tton fire hose ] ^ ui _■ 



Rubber, iron, copper, etc.. No. 2,509. — Sealed proposals will be received 



at the office of the Lighthouse Inspector, Y. M. C. A. Building, Portland. 



Me., until August 16. 1915. fir purchase of old materials, such as bell 



metal, rubber, iron, copper, yellow metal, rope, boats, etc. Illank pro- 



- and particulars may be had by addressing above office. 



