The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-18
CLAIM NEW FABRIC ' |SPUNCTUREP PROOF: Louisville Man Patents His
 New Process USED IN AUTO TIRES It Is Said to Be Absolutely Puncture Proof and Will Even Resist
 Bullet Fired Directly
 at It

A movement that gives promise to revolutionize the rubber tire industry of the world was inaugurated yesterday by the organization of the Puncture- Proof Fabric company, a corporation that proposes to manufacture a non puncturable fabric for use in all pneu- matic tires and which is said to re- sist the probability of all punctures by nails, glass or other sharp pointed or cutting instruments, such as are usually picked up on all thoroughfares
 This wonderful discovery, recently protected by patent applications issued from the United States patent office al Washington, is the result of exper- iments along this line by Dr. A. D. Jones of Louisville, who is also the inventor and patentee of many other useful and economic devices among which the most notable and interesting g is now in use on short lines of sev- eral railway systems, first tried and successfully used near Holt, Ky, which is the telephone on moving trains, used for talking from a moving train to q stationary point. He also invented the SSAtf r used by physicians and barbers as well as the automatic electric fuse and sev- eral other time, labor and money say ing devices.
 The basis of the -puncturable fabric is cotton. The cotton is treated with a powdered chemical composition mechanically intermixed with the fibre which resists all instruments whether sharp of point or edge, and is claimed to be an absolutely n-puncturable fabric.
 An automobile in Birmingham was recently fitted up with one of the Pune ture-Proof Fabric company's reliners or cushion and given the severest test maginable by driving sharp naiis through a plank, the nail points be- ing placed at an angle of 90 degrees to the tire. the auto being driven upon and over this plank, the tread of the tire going directly over tine points of the nails. and after passing over an examination of the tire disclosed that the nails had pierced through the rub Der as usual, but in coming in contact with the n-puncturable fabric, were bent in all directions, thus saving the inner tube from even the semblance of harm.
 The original purpose of the Pune Proof Fabric company is to man ufacture re-liner which is to be placed between the inner tube ana rne outer casing, acting also as shock absorber, and if the demand be suf- ficient as the industry grows it will later manufacture the outer casing in- cooperating this -puncturable re- liner or mat as one of the layers which go to make up the casing.
 In speaking of the possibilities of the new industry, one of the principal stock holders said: ''The establishment of this new industry would mean much to Bir- minghann. Two hundred and fifty thou sand automobiles will be manufactured and placed upon the market this year, which of course means 100000 tires. in the United States, which means 1,6oo,- 900 tires. There are 2,600,000 tires today, the owners of which are awaiting anx- iously for this non-puncturable fabric. The cotton producers of the south will be enriched by an annual consumption Of thousands of bales of the fieecy staple, as Well as bringing nunoreos oI expert and scientific workmen into the Birmingham district. It is estimated that this fabric will be placed on the market at a nom inal cost and the automobile public given it's time and money saving use at a cost within the reach of every man who owns or controls a car. It means millions of dollars annually to the city of Birming- ham alone. D
 This fabric will become of universal use. At distance of seven feet 1t fiattens bullets fired from 3S caliber smith t& Wesson improved pistol the bullet spending it's entire energy and falling to the ground, leaving mere mark upon the fabric. In India and all tropical countries, where man is sub iected to the dangers and deadly poisons off the snake, this fabric means the saw ing, of thousands of lives annually, for the fangs of the snake and other rep tiles cannot penetrate it's composition.