The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-13
TO MAKE NEW
METAL ALLOY
HERE
Inventor Claims to Have
Made Aluminium Available
for General Use.

If the claims made by the officers OF
corporation which begins it's existence
today prove to be well founded this
city will shortly be the manufacturing
centre of new metal which will revo-
lutionize several industries and give
to the arts a material having qualities
superior to almost any other. The new
metal Is said to be as light as alumni
mum, has the strength and f1exibllity of
steel, the malleability of gold and the
-oxizable properties of the precious
metals. Samples of the new metal
show 1t to be silver white in color,
closely resembling aluminium, which is
the chief component of the alloy.
The papers filed today authorize the
Flexible Alumetal Company to issne
800 900 Of stock, all of which has been
subscribed for by the syndicate of
wealthy Newarkers organized by Frank
A. Boettner. who is the authorized
agent of the company The incorpora-
tors are Victor Coppee, of College
Point. L. l., inventor of the new metal;
George Studer, of POI West Eighty
eighth street, New York city, and Ed
mund Dodge, of 397 Market street, this
city
Beside the qualities claimed above
the new metal is reported to be as
easily and strongly soldered as tin or
copper One modification of the alloy
makes a solder with which aluminium
may be pleced together as readily as a
tin can. This quality widely differen-
tiates the new metal from aluminium,
inasmuch as one of the chief difficulties
in the use of that metal exists in the
fact that heretofore nothing has been
discovered that could be used as f1ux
for 1t.
In Mr. Boettner's office are samples
of aluminium soldered together 80
strongly the Joint will hold longer than
the metal itself. Tests made of the
soldered aluminium joints in Ballan-
tines brewery one day this week
proved that 1T would hold while the
metal tore away above the edge of
solder
The officers of the company have SUBJ
mitted the new metal to the practical
tests and manipulation of several we'll
known manufacturers. One OF the lar
gest corset manufacturers in the city
has tested the flexible or tempered rib
bons of metal and declares 1t to be
superior to steel. In fact, the first
metal to be sold commercially will be
for this purpose, the concern in ques-
tion having placed an order for delivery
as soon as the metal can be produced.
Another local manufacturer. whose
automobile bodies are famous, has
tested the metal in every conceivable
way, and the officers of the company
say, satisfactorily.
Mr.. Coppee, the inventor of the new
metal holds it's manufacture and COM
position as a secret process, and it is
not the purpose of the company now
being formed to take out patents. They
say they can produce the metal in any
quantity and at about 10 per cent. less
cost than aluminium, the metals maxi
ing up the alloy being made cheaper
than the pure aluminium.
Mr.. Coppee is a French chemist and
metallurgst now engaged in the prac-
tise of his profession in large metal
working plant in Long Island. He will
leave there next week to supervise the
plant to be erected in this city for the
manufacture of the alloy.
Arrangements are being made to
have samples of the new metal submit
ted to scientific tests In the laboratories
of Stevens Institute and at the Column
bia School of Mires. They believe such
tests will show Ghe metal to possess all
and more qualities of superiority than
they claim for It.