September 1, 1915.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



667 



SOHRADER ADDITIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS. 



\ contract has been awarded foi the construction of a si 

 story addition, 100 x 160 feel in area, to tin fact 

 Schrader's Son, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York. 



This linn, whose recent impro in tire valves have been 



n. 'teil in these columns, has introduced among the accessory 

 dealers a new container for thi 



This container is damp-proof and dust-prool and id so 



that each washer is kept separate from the others. 



TRADE NEWS NOTES. 



The Akron Tire Co.. Philadelphia, which deals in Akron-made 

 tires, has brought suit against the Vkron Hre Co. of New 

 I" restrain the latter company from 



Pennsylvania under it- present name. \ preliminarj injunction 

 has been granted, pending hearing of the suit. 



I lie Aniline Products Corporation has been oi tni ed al St. 

 Louis, Missouri, with a capital stock of #12.000. to manufacture 

 chemicals. The incorporators are i linton E. Udell, John J. 

 Morse, .1. D. John on and Oliver Frazier. 



A new law is being enforced at Cleveland, i ' dating the 



weight of motor trucks, which, for vehicles having tire- less than 

 three inches wide, operating on stone, brick or macadamized 

 5, must ii"t exceed 3.400 pounds. Permission to operati 

 vehicles of great, i ni.d weight over country roads must be 

 obtained from the Board of Countj ( orhmissioners. A prohibi- 

 tion is placed on vehicles or contrivances having flanges or lugs. 



The Standards Committee of the Societ) of Am. .mobile 

 Engineers will hold an interim meeting at Chicago on Octo- 

 ber IS. 



The National Association of Automobile Accessory Job- 

 bers, which recently met at Chicago for its mid summer ses- 

 sion, will hold a meeting at Excelsior Spring-. Missouri, 

 October 20 



The Giant Tire & Rubber Co.. of Omaha. Nebraska, is soon 

 to open a sales branch at Dallas, Texas. 



The United States Rubber Co. is making the fabric for 

 the balloon now being built by the Connecticut Airship Co., 

 of New II ' mnecticut — the first of the proposed lleet of 



dirigibles — for the United States government. 



The complete Iini trie wire-, cables and .aide acces- 



- exhibited by The Standard Underground Cable Co., of 



Pittsburgh, at the Panama Pacific International Exposition 



at San Francis.-... has won for thai company a gold medal. 



the highest award in its class. 



The Dreadnaught Inner Tube Armor Co.. recently incor- 

 porated at Toledo. Ohio, is looking for a site for a factory 

 in which to manufacture tires and a patented inner tube 

 claimed to be puncture-proof. 



The Washington Tire & Rubber Co. has purchased a plant 

 at Washington, Pennsylvania, for tire manufacturing pur- 

 poses. It is expected that work will commence by December 

 1. with about 150 employees. The plant will be in charge of 

 C. J. Davis, of East Palestine, Ohio. 



All the real estate, machinery and stock of the Quality Cement 

 Co., manufacturers of rubber cement at Fernwood, Pennsyl- 

 vania, near Philadelphia, will be put up for sale on the morning 

 of Friday, September 3. 



Among the concerns conspicuous for rapid and remark- 

 able development is the McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East 

 Palestine, Ohio. This company has recently increased its pneu- 

 matic tire production 75 per cent., and is making appreciable 

 progress in its solid tire department. It expects soon to erect 

 a new administration building. 



The manufacture of a fountain pen requires 210 distinct opera- 



i" In the "Ideal" line, made by the L. I'.. Waterman Co., 



there are almost 15,000 different kinds ..f pens, differing in size, 

 in Style and finish and in character of point. 



In the litigation between the I . I Waterman Co. and the 

 Modem Pen Co. regarding the u name "Waterman" 



in connection with the sale of fountain pens, the New York 



Supr. n I tly confirmed a former decision an 



ili. Modern Pen Co. to continue the use of the name, and 

 ranted an injunction re-training the I.. 1''.. Waterman Co. 



from circulating copii an injunction obtained by it and 



bringing a multiplicity oi actions against customers of the 



Modern company. 



["he B & R I i I 



the distinct i its uniqiii -red" gray rub- 



soli that is lighter than auy other known rubber 



-ole manufactured It weighs, size for size, from 25 to 50 

 ■ m I. than the averagi The makers 



that repeated service tesi havi demonstrated that these soles 



easily outwear leather. "Armortred" and other B & R quality 



and competitive stocks v. ■ ially designed by their chemist, 



\\ . bster X. irris. 



UNITED STATES MAIL CARRIED ON RUBBER BELTS. 



A system of mechanical conveyor- recently installed in the new 

 Post Office at Forty-fifth street anil Lexington avenue, New 

 York City, is said to be the most extensive and complete oi its 

 kind in the world. Sacks of mail brought by vans or mail cars 

 are taken into the building and deliver various de| 



Conveyor Belts in New York Post Office. 



ments for sorting by conveyor i.elts. When sorted, the mail is 

 replaced in the sacks, which are then delivered to the waiting 

 vans or mail train by carrier belts — in fact, the sacks are not 

 handled while in the building except by the sorters. 



The mechanical carriers which perform this novel service con- 

 sist of bucket lifts and moving rubber belts. One is a 5-ply belt. 

 30 inches wide and 500 feet long. Another is 6-ply, 30 inches 

 wide and 800 feet long, and the largest is 6-ply, 36 inches wide 

 and 850 feet long. 



The conveying machinery was constructed and installed by the 

 Alvey-Ferguson Co.. and the rubber belts furnished by the 

 Cincinnati Rubber Manufacturing Co., both of Cincinnati. Ohio. 



THE TRAILER INCREASES TRUCK EFFICIENCY AT SMALL COST. 



The increase in efficiency of a rubber-tired motor truck 

 equipped with a trailer lias been figured by experts to L< 4 : S 

 per cent., at a 6 per cent, increase in cost. In Detroit, the 

 home of automobile manufacture, many motor trucks thus 

 equipped are in use, and figures from that city show that a 

 live-ton truck with trailer has a load average of 10 tons, in 

 all kinds of weather, and has hauled as much as 14 tons. I he- 

 trailer idea involves the principle that les 

 required to drag than to carry a load. 



