The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-06-07
New Rubber Processes.
NEW PROCESSES GIVE ASSURANCE OF
AMERICAS CONTINUED SUPREMACY
= IN RUBBER MANUFACTURE.


IN RUBBER MANUFACTURE.
Because Of certain advantages
which it will be hard TO overcome
England may remain the largest
producer of crude rubber for long
time to come, but America is EN-
phasizing daily her prominence in the
field of rubber manufacture.
Crude rubber is grown largely under
the British flag, but the United States
is the great rubber manufacturer Of the
world and her position as leader is
becoming more assured as the years go
by.
The most recent development in the
field of rubber Misunderstanding an
nouncement by the United States
rubber company of three remarkable
new processes of manufacture gives
new proof of Americas leadership.
Nearly seventy-five per cent OF
all rubber articles made in the world
are produced in the United States.
Through American methods of man.
ufacture and exhaustive laboratory
Of which these three new
processes are illustrative, American
rubber products are uneqnalled
the world.
In the rubber world, one group of
men is being watched with
the greatest interest. For number Of
years this. group has been making an
of important new dis
coveries with a regularity that has
centered the attention Of the whole in
dustry upon it.
This group makes up what is known
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the United States rubber company and
It is responsible for the Development
Of the three new. processes just announc
ed.
President Charles b. Seger Of the
United States Rubber Company in a
recent letter to the stockholders of the
announcing these discoveries,
the belief that these three
developments mean more to the rubber
and TO the user OF rubber
products than anything that has been
In the rubber industry
since vulcanization was discovered In
1899
The three new developments are:
u Sprayed rubber. for use in the
of all rubber products; ca
Web Cord. fundamental improve
ment In the art OF cord tire making;
and (3) new method of building and
cord tires.
SPRAYED rubber is produced by a
new method which
that great bugbear OF rubber
lack of uniformity.
Factory units for making sprayed
rubber are in operation by the United
States Rubber Company both in this
country and on the company's large
In Sunatra.
While of Importance to manufactures
Of all kinds of rubber goods, the
development Of this type Of rubber is
important to tire
insuring toughness and
uniformity never before known.
Web Cord is the name of q wonderful
new cord fabric for tires in which each
Individual cord has been immersed II
virgin liquid rubber until it is literally
Every motorist knows
by now that the length of life OF his
tires depends largely upon the
with which each cord IN
the carcass is impregnated and
surrounded by rubber, the object of
this being to reduce friction
The third development new
method building and vulcanizing cord
tires has a wide significance in tire
where it displaces the
old core" method of tire building
To the tire user it means that the
structure Of the carcass Of the tire is
brought very much nearer to perfec-
ton than ever before. and that many OF
the causes Of tire breakdown have
been eliminated.
The new process is called the fiat
band I" process Of tire building. the
name being derived from the fact that
under this method tires are built flat
and then fashioned into normal tire
shape by special machinery, instead OF
being butt to tire shape around al
metal core.