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Title: India rubber world
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Rubber industry and trade
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Bill Brothers Publishing Corp.)
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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st in every kind of athletic sports, and he has lost none ofhis early love for outdoor exercise. It was long well knownthat every Saturday was his day of rest, devoted to shooting,fishing, or yachting, no matter what the demands of his busi-ness might be. He is a member of the New York, Sea-wanhaka, Larchmont, and Atlantic yacht clubs, and wasone of the syndicate who, with the Vigilant, successfullydefended the Americas Cup against Lord Dunravens Val-kyrie. Every New York newspaper has contained references toMr. Flints use of an automobile on the streets of this city and hissuccess as a chauffeur. Mr. Flint is square and stocky of figure ;big boned, straight shouldered, and keen eyed ; with closelycropped side whiskers and thin mustache that scarcely veil thesuggestion of determination that marks every feature. Mr. Flintwas married in 1883 to Miss .Simmons, of Troy, New York, andhis home is at No. 4 East Thirty-sixth street, New York city. 148 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD (February i, 1902.
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A MONSTER BELT PRESS IN A RUBBER FACTORY. A BELT press unique in many particulars, and withoutdoubt the largest ever built, is shown in the illustrationon this page. It is what is known as a five platen press, whichmeans that four planes of belts may be stretched and vulcan-ized at the same time, and all under the control of one man.The bare citation of the dimensions ot this giant among pressesgives but a faint idea of its size or its productiveness. It is,however, interesting to note that its weight is 130 tons, or three times that of an ordinary passenger locomotive. Its length is30 feet, and its width 50 inches, which gives a total pressurearea of 500 square feet, The hydraulic pressure of each ramis 3000 pounds. The capacity of the press is 8 tons of rubberbelting in ten hours, or twelve miles of 2 inch belting a day,This press was built for the Boston Woven Hose and RubberCo., and is now running in their factory at Cambridgeport,Massachusetts. AMERICAN RUBBER SHOES IN ENGLAND. A

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