The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-16
Paints Made in IT, S. A. Go
To All Parts of the Worla
No Other Country a Serious Competitor in
This Article-Zinc Oxide Basis
of Big Industry. .
BY G.. B. HECKEL.
secretary Paint manufacturers ISIS,

association Of nc tHitcd states.
ca quickly and must be constantly
stirred: whereas zinc il light n huhy
and easily remains in suspension an
holds the other igments up. Conse-
auently the prepared paint industry was
based On zinc oxide.
Bi. Change In Ideas.
Paint vas originally regarded chiefly
as a decorative material, but 1t was soon
discovered that the right kind OF pant
is also protective and preventative. As
a result. our ideas regarding IL nave
completely changed during the last ten
or fifteen years, and there nave Deen
much research and specialization IN the
industry.
The Paint Manufacturers Association
of the United States, for instance, main
| ,ains at the Institute of Industrial lie,
scare in Washington { lily cq,h ped
chemical. physical and meteorological
laboratories, where a corps OF experts
is constantly at work studying pant
materials and painting problems. II
results of these Investigations go 10 me
manufacturers in technical bulletins, ana
to the consuming public, through dealers
in the form Of circulars, pamphlets, etc''
written in ~untcchnical language, .
This Bureau, since its organlzation III
1904. has issued forty-siN bulletins
twenty-six bound booklets. thlrty-one
circulars and twenty-slN "tabloids Ten
yelope cards.. The circulation OF the
booklets has cxceeded 5000 400 copies
of one of them. The Paint Catechism,
GOO, 400: of the little -tabloids, "25, 100000
This literature tfeats of paint in general
as an economic proposition, n not Oh
individual products.
This Bureau, AZ "A result Of testing and
research. has reached some conclusions
Of interest TO every painter, paint dealer
and paint consumer. Among those on
! illusions are the following:
wo or more of the prime white pig g
mepts (basic carbonate white lead, basic
s~ulplate white lead and zinc oSide) III
combination, with or without n moderate
percentage of inert reinforcing pigment
make a paint that is in every way SUI
perior 10 paint made from a single pig
nient.
Prevents Disintcarat ion.
Concrete and cement surfaces can he
successfully and satisfactorily painted
with ordinary high-grade linseed OF,
paints, and thus preserved from dis
integration,
Certain types of paint promote the
c~orrosion of steel in the presence oi
moisture; others inhibit or retard it
The latter should be used in printing
coats for steel structures, incidentally
il is interesting t. that zinc is ONT
OF the best of these so-called -inhibitiv'
Pigments. v.
"Siing.es can be protected from fir
, due 70 flying cinders, brands or spark
bv the use Of ordinary metallic oXld'
paints. Therefore paint the roof an
prevent fire.
"Rosin and rosin oil appear to promote
early cracking of the paint film ant
therefore should not be used IN hons
|, paints.
"Oil paints in drying giveo of germicida
vapors; therefore the painting Of interio
walls IL efficient d~isinfectiOn.
|, Light colored paints transmit NOR
heat than dark colored paints or the so
, called bronzes, Radiators should there