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GOODRICH ANNOUNCES NEW PROCESS
Plating of Metal with Rubber May Aid in Development of
Frozen Confection Venders
Development of a new method! of forming
rubber compositions by the electrolytic dis­
position or rubber from water has been an­
nounced by the B. P. Goodrich Rubber Co.
The operation is called the anode process
and is shared by the Eastman Kodak Co.
and Anode Ltd. Use of the new method
enables the producer to produce a variety
of shapes otherwise difficult to secure and
eliminate the building up of layers of rub­
ber by hand.
Research in the laboratories of the Good­
rich Company has also brought out a way
plate metals, wood and concrete with a
covering of rubber, according to J. D. Tew,
president of the company. Mr. Tew said:
It was found that by heating rubber un-
er regulated conditions with suitable re­
agent® a variety of modified rubbers could
secured, varying according to conditions
o preparation, from material similar to
a ata to hard, resinous products. When
Us«d as a cementing coat between rubber
and clean metal surfaces some o f these al-
, re^ mbber products were found to stick
e rubber firmly and permanently to the
metal.
Other means o f securing such adhesions
ad long been used, but the ease o f applica-
10n ° f the Culcalock process immediately
enarged the field of commercial applica-
ions of rubber-lined metal apparatus to
anks, pipe, barrels, chutes and other prod-
c s- It has been used to unite rubber to
Wood and to concrete. Rubber-dined tank
cars for transporting muriatic acid save a
Uf®r ° f 25,000 pounds of acid per month
a ut 40 per cent o f his cost through lower
reight rates and greatly rediuced labor
charges.”
Other developments indicated by Mr.
ew deluded the production o f a rubber
ompound said to be harder than steel and
more resistant to abrasion, and a fully vul­
canized rubber which retains its flexibility
an ls resistant to contact with acetic acid,
win if process o f coating metals with rubber
I
be of great interest to the vending ma­
? ln?tra de, because at least one inventor
ruhk
n Waitin£ for the perfection o f this
er plating process to complete his frozen
onfection vender. One of the difficulties
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encountered by developers of ice cream and
frozen confection venders was that the least
bit o f moisture on the packages, or the
sweating of the packages in the vender,
caused them to freeze to metal parts con­
tacted by the package. It was known how­
ever, that the confections would not freeze
to rubber. Engineers of the Goodrich rub­
ber company said that they could coat met­
als with rubber, and now comes the inter­
esting announcement of the perfection of
this process, along with other important
processes.
Some of the frozen confection venders
under development plan to use dry ice as a
refrigerant, which is proving highly ad­
vantageous for this purpose. Now that
metal parts can be rubber plated, many of
the problems in the construction o f these
venders wil be greatly simplified and we
can be assured that inventive minds will be
quick to avail themselves of the use of this
new process.
Nickel and Dime Market
The New York Times the other day
ran a heartening list of some 30 corpora­
tions that had shown larger net earnings
in the first quarter of 1930 than in 1929.
Among them are such names as General
Electric, Bethlehem Steel, Allis Chalmers,
International Business Machines, General
Railway Signal, Sheffield Steel.
And along with these are United Biscuit,
Cream of Wheat, General Foods, William
Wri^ley, Jr., Curtis Publishing, Paramount-
Famous-Lasky.
Evidently the public that likes chewing
gum, the movies, crackers, breakfast foods
and popular magazines—and that public is
all of us—hasn’t stopped spending money.
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