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GLD32405 To moke uniform poini products you need o un/torm ododess soft/enf/ ODORLESS MINERAL SPIRITS ALWAYS UNIFORM! Phillips Soltrols assure uniform results. Every precaution is taken to protect the excellent physical properties necessary to assure you of uniformly good results at all times. 9 DEPENDABLE DELIVERIES! You can be sure of on- time deliveries when you deal with Phillips. Full scale pro duction and up-to-the-minute manufacturing facilities assure you a reliable supply at all times. 6 CONTROLLED DRYING TIME! u* soitroi 130 to. conventional drvina characteristics. Soltrol 170 for loneer PETROLEUM COMPANY Special Products Division Bartlesville, Oklahoma Bartlesville 6600 GLD3 24 06 CHICK ITIM 90 PAIHT.VIUa YHEMKAL Review r.r--rtr MUMTMLSMUC MCVTOV btaUUrf US3 Far tklrty-MTMi t mt i U only waaUf Joanui ia Awria derated aachwiralr * * fiat aad VmtmUk laJuatfW O. M(L HOWARD, hallm PuMi*hd ry WxUn^y Wy Palat A CitxieJ P(UuU*| Ca. at 417 So. Dortxn SL, CkUmg*. Taiopkoao Wabwh 1*30 *' P. ADAM*, Tmaia Nw York Offico, 1133 Broadway. ALtX. SMITH, Ku.|______________ ttoMraa -- Inal-CIm Molt.r hw t. 1W, at tte fal OtW at Cktcaao, I1L, i'Ha At T Mm* l 1W. Sakacriytaaa Rataa $3.00 Par Yaar U. S. A. $4.00 Par Yaar Caaada. $4.S0 Par Yaar Foraiya. Vol. 70 No. 1 CHICAGO. JU I.Y 7. 1!>20 - 10c Per Copy Time Brings Changes T it with pleasure that Tun Rk v ik w erects its friends I this week in a new guise and under a new name. The change is one which has l>een made after long name, in advance. Furthermore the use of the three words paint, oil, and drug by three leading publications in different sequence and careful consideration and for reasons whichever be was confusing both to the trade and the general public. lieve will commend themselves to our readers as being Therefore while any change in an old and valued friend for their best interests as well as our own--as our in is apt to lie looked upon with regret by the conservative terests are of course mutual in every sense. The new mind, still it must he admitted that change is one of name, Pa in t , On. a n i> Cu k mic a i. Ri:v ie w , correetlv if the laws of progress, "The times change and we change not completely describes our field of endeavor, eliminating with them" and a publication like ours must always be the word `'drug" which had long been a misnomer, ex in the foremost of the march of progress. cept as the drug trade have been handlers of paints, As to our change of form to a "standard" 9x11 site, oils and chemicals, and which had led to frequent mis this too is in the line of "standardization" which we be understandings and mistakes. lieve in thoroughly as in accord with the best modern On the other hand the substitution of the word "chem methods. It has many practical advantages which our ical" formally recognizes the advent of a great new advertisers will be quick to recognize and which will en- element in the commercial life of our country, the growth Hble us to give our readers better all round service. of a new industry closely allied to the paint, varnish, We shall hope to receive the congratulations of our color and pigment industries, and the demand among subscriliers and are always open to suggestions for fur our subscribers for more information and more complete ther improvement. Finally wc wish to say that the Handling of the new problems and possibilities thus de changes arc entirely external and do not extend to our veloped. Our Chemists' Forum has indicated our recog personnel. While there have been some additions and nition of this need for the past year and the cordial improvements in our staff the control of the paper is welcome and steady growth in support accorded that de exactly as it was in February. 1914, when the present partment has already more than justified the change itt owners purchased the property. Mistakes of Lacquer Makers discouraged over individual failures and mistakes. Learn all you can and put your knowledge to practical use. A case in point is the failure in the new lacquers of \C\>UER made from nitro-cellulose is not a new L product in one sen-se because it was made back in the last century but in its present principal type many attempts to make good lacquer from solutions of old films and similar used materials. Comparatively in experienced makers are still using these products and the and the uses to which that type h Adopted it's in its in public are finding that this class of lacquers does not hold fancy. Along with other growing infants it has its in up. The unfortunate result is a prejudice on the part of fantile diseases, growing pains and what not! . the public against all lacquers--whereas the fault is only The public brought up on paint traditions try to apply them to lacquer and find themselves much at sea. Evapo-' ration against chemical drying, solvents which destroy old |>ainted surfaces, mixing of colors which used to pro in this type. The lacquer made from new nitrated cotton is as lasting as any pigment ever made. Some day we may learn to make as good from old pyroxylin films hut we doubt it. duce certain other colors but fail entirely with lacquer, At present in the interests of the. public and for the are example*: of the kind of troubles which bother and good of the industry we advise our readers to play safe. liewilder the buying public and even the painter himself. Buy the best material obtainable. Educate your customers Ignorance on the part of manufacturer, salesman and in the use of the new protective coating and study their user are bound to lead to errors and misunderstandings, needs as to the exact type of pyroxylin compound flut make no mistake, lacquer is here to stay, and we they need and you will be working._ccm<jtCtictlv>lv will learn to adapt ourselves to it and use it. Don't be both for yourself and the whole industieV GID32407 $1A A New Paint Theory N THIS IKSUK appears an address made ly Mr. John IR. Marl iri-gor of the Eagle-l'ichtr Lead Co., which pre sents a totally uetv idea of the paint subject. It has side wear. Therefore a paint should contain other vehicles ili.ui linseed oil. which should lie vehicles to help spread the paint and at the same time when the paint has been applied always been understood that linseed oil was the life of ]stint.to the surface will evaporate, leaving the paint applied with Advertising' campaigns have been based on this theory and the minimum amount of oil necessary to form a good film. the dealer has used it as a selling argument for many years Mr. MacGregor lakes up the subject of cracking, chalk past. In the paper read by Mr. .MacGregor before the I'cnn- ing, iiecling and other interesting phases of the paint subject sylvanin State Convention of Master House Painters and in such a maimer that many of the old, well-known theories Decorators, in January, he ujisets all the old theories and Have been upset . advances proof that "paint" is the element which protects The discussion which followed the reading of Mr. Mac the wood and it is the linseed oil in the jsiiiil which is tlt- Gregor's |ia|ier is most interesting and we are informed that stroyed --therefore the less linseed oil used to form a good as vet no one has come forward and offered any denial of film the longer the paint will wear. Of course it is a well-known fact that linseed oil alone, when painted on a board and exposed to the elements, will soon |k is s away and fail to protect. Mr. MacGregor also shows that you can't get maximum spread and maximum thickness out of tiny one gallon of paint, for when you brush out a paint over an excessive area the life of that paint is pro|x>rtionatrly decreased. The theory advanced is that the the facts ipiotcd by hitn. and in view of thd fact that he seems to have substantiated his statements, his paper offers' an opiMirtunity for scientific study along lines which are Inlallv neve and well worth considering. l/nlikc many pajiers read by white lead men, Mr. Mac Gregor dues not in this one boost his own product to the disadvantage of another. He treats the subject of paint in paint which carries a minimum amount of linseed oil and a a broad and thoroughly scientific manner, whether he it right maximum amount of pigment will give better service for out or wrong. The Great Aniline Merger HE need of an actual offensive and defensive alliance T of chemical interests, tn meet German and any other competition after the war, is so absolute that the re other hand while they will be the strongest individual factor in the business with a capital of twenty millions and while the new company will have among its officials cent merger of some of the largest dyestuff concerns sinuch leaders in the industry as the two brothers J. F. tha United States in a twenty million dollar combination Schocllkopf and C. P. H. Schoellkopf, Dr. Wm. Beckers seems almost a matter of course. and I. Frank Stone, there are thirty odd competing plants in The name chosen for the new gigantic consolidation is the country already and new ones arc springing up every that of one of the moving powers in the reorganization, day so that it will lie anything but a monopoly and still namely the National Aniline Si Chemical Co., of which the efficiency of the great organization is apparent. They Mr. I. Frame Stone is president. will produce many chemical products besides dyes, in The name National truly expresses the scope of the great cluding explosives, acids, coal tar distillates, pharmaceu project. The companies which will he combined in tical preparations, and supplies for the electrical, photo- clude the Schoellkopl Aniline & 'Chemical Works, of Buf ihic and many other industries. falos the W. Heckers Aniline & Chemical Works, of Brook his is proliably only the first of several great con lyn : Benzol Troducts Co., of Marcus Hook. I'a.. and the solidations of this character which will put the color and departments of the General Chemical Co., and >Harrett Co., chemical industries in America on a par with their rivals which have prixluccd cjuidcs and intermediates. This will on the Rhine, provided always they can have the intel give the new organization control of production from the ligent ro-i iperation of the government, which is so essen outset so that they will be independent of all other in tial. The result should lie of great advantage, to the paint terests. from raw material to finished product. On the trade and all the allied industries. Motor Cars and the Paint Business HE paint trade is gradually beginning to appreciate the T great advantage of the motor driven vehicle. Both trucks and medium weight delivery wagons are coming into experts can discuss the relative merits of eight and twelve cylinder engines. With good reason the industry is now classed as one of general use and the speed and convenience afforded as cothme greatest in the United States. Last year some 892,000 pared with horse-drawn vehicles, make it only a question motor vehicles were sold in this country. The estimated of time when practically all the heavy hauling as well as -production for the current year is 1,200,000. The retail the delivery work will be handled in this way. In this re value of the cars sold last year, including the trucks, was spect the paint industry has not responded as promptly as $691,000,000, of which the passenger cars were valued at some others but the idea is at work and wherever two or $565,000,000. three manufacturers, jobbers or dealers get together nowa-davs the question of motor trucks is very apt to be under These totals afford a measure of the volume of the busi discussion. ness and another measure is found in the by-products. For Any man who owns a pleasure car, and there are thou example, automobiles are credited with having consumed sands of them in the trade, is already half converted to the truck idea. No other industry has ever enjoyed a growth so amazing last year in this country 980,000,000 gallons of gasoline and nearly 29,000,000 gallons of lubricating oil and approxi mately 12,000,000 tires are used each year. as has the manufacture of vehicles that run by their own That the motor vehicle is rapidly becoming the universal power. This year is the twentieth anniversary of the mo means of getting persons and things from place to place is tor vehicle's birth. Throughout these two decades the indicated bjr the fact that the proportion of such vehicles to. advancement in the industry has been progressively aston the population of the country is as one to forty-eight, while ishing, from the day of the "one-lunger," as the single cyl Iowa, with its registration of 117,407 cars, has one ear for inder machine was termed, to the present time, when the every nineteen persons, thus standing first. 82A GLD32408 LT. WELLS MARTIN RETURNS. Lt. Well* Martin of the Martin-Senour Co., hat returned to Chicago after receiving his honorable discharge from the Army. Since last April Lt. Martin has been working in the Bureau of Aeroplane Construction specializing on ``dope'* or chemical vamish for aeroplane wings, an assignment which was given him because of his experience in the varnish in dustry. Lt. Martin returns to the trade as General Manager of the Martin Vamish Co. and is receiving the congratulations of his friends on' his record in the service and his well earned promotion. OBITUARY. William Elmendorf. Willard Klmcndorf. president of the Elmendorf Vamish Company uf this city, was killed Monday evening. Dec. 83, when lie was struck by an automobile. Mr. Elmendorf.' who lived at 37i>8 North Racine Ave., was returning home from his office and was crossing the street after getting off a street car wlien lie was mil down, one wheel of the auto passing over his body. The driver immediately $top]>ed and assisted by iliusc- who witnessed the accident placed Mr. Elmendorf in the car and started for a hospital, but he passed away be fore reaching there. I torn in Chicago January 7, 18<!0. the son of William Alex ander and Sarah Hillings Elmendorf. he grew to nymhood in the city of his hirth. >n his graduation from high school he entered the employ of the Elmendorf Varnish Company established hy his father in isi8. Eor a nttniitcr of years he successfully represented the com pany on the road aiid was admitted to |iartnersliip in the firm jn 1899, succeeding to the presidency of the company on the death of his father in 1911. Mr. Elnvendorf was a master of the technique of varnish making, having made this work his life's study. GLIDDEN CO. BUYS' WHITTIER COBURN.. rP HE purchase of the Whittier Cobum Co. of San * Francisco by the Glidden Vamish Co. for a'consid eration said to be in the neighborhood of $300,000 is one of the interesting developments of the past week, Alexander Sclater, formerly vice-president of the Uniort Oil Company at Los Angeles up to Msrch 1, has been msde a vice-president of the Glidden Co. and will be general man ager ot the San Francisco home. It is said that Messrs. W. B. Weir, president of WhittierCobum, and W. J. Weatherley, secretary, are to retire from the business. NEW WHITE PIGMENT. The record! of the U. S. Patent Office call attention to the Brow ing importance of titanium oxide at a new white pigment. U. SPatent No; 1,117,163 U dcicribcd SI a white pigment suitable for me in paint! made by treating compound! of titanium containing iron and lulphurom oxide with luphuric acid in the preience m line sulphate. The reiulting mixture ia heated with KaCI to temperature from 300 to 700 degree! or sufficient to effect the dacomposition of the man and the formation of titanium oxide and Zinc oxide. The ioluble substances are then wathed out. In patent Np. 1,317,1 S4 to the titanium oxide ia added water os hydration 03 parti, zinc oxide 3 pirta and treated with 1.3?6H>PO. I. W. W. IN THE. PAINT TRADE. George Manos, discharged as shipping clerk by the Mid land Linseed Products Company, at 140 West Yan Buren street, is alleged to have written a demand for $2,500 and signed the letter "An I. W. W. Member.1' Benjamin P. Epstein, assistant district attorney, asserted Msnos threat ened to blow up the company's plant if the money was not left at his home. 1214 Clyboum avenue. He was arrested there and held to the federal grand jury. Reduce Your Costs and Solve Your Labor Problems at the Same Tone One Unskilled Laborer EIGHTEEN 36-In. Water Cooled Stone Mills Everything but Straight Japan Colors esn be ground on this Type Mill. They Require No Dressing. There is No Loss of Material in the Mill. They Grind Finer. Therefore Use Leu .Tinting Colors. Let Us Show what this Machine will Save in YOUR FACTORY. THE J. H. DAY COMPANY CINCINNATI, OHIO GLD32409 a; DEATH OF MILO S. CLAPP. Just as we are going to press we receive the sail new* of the death of M. S. Clapp. President of the Warren l'aint costs per cwt. half as much again as lead. On the other hand a coat of zinc will cover adequately half at much again in area of painted work, so that this more than equalizes die cost. If white lead to the value of i\ covers work to die value of ft, zinc white to the value of fl 10s. covers work to the value of 3. On the other hand, there is a distinct saving in carriage and handling, and the use of zinc white paint is s lighter job and consequently a quicker one." Milo S. Clapp. Co., of Warren. O.. after an illness of five months at the age of 71. Every one looked on Mr. Clapp as one of the ablest as well ns'the most venerable figures in the paint business. A full biography will appear next week. ZINC PREFERABLE TO LEAD. An English publication formerly devoted to the exclusive use of lead makes the following statement: It is a striking example of the change of opinion which comes about from a careful investigation of this important subject, the value of which is greatly accentuated by the new English restrictions in the sale and use of white lead. "From lengthy experiment with zinc whites for exterior work, especially on greenhouses, inside and out (than which no severer test can be tried), I am personally convinced that a mixture of zinc oxide and sulphide with a percentage of barium sulphate or asbestine, if used in pure linseed oil of the best quality and care be taken as to the proper thinning of the sequence of coats, will outlast the same covering of commercial white lead in linseed oil. "The increasingly difficult problem of an adequate aupply of linseed oil of a high purity and of pale color is a far more prolific cause of the failure of zinc whites than the pigment, itself, for, as I have before remarked--and the remark bears frequent reiteration--`Oil is the life of paint.' "The cost of zinc as against lead is just now a matter for consideration. Roughly, zinc white of the quality desired NUBIAN TRANSFERS TO OLIDDEN. The (Hidden Company, in accordance whh their contract, have purchased from the Nubian I'aint & Varnish Company of this city, J!.">!ix:t2o feet'at the northwest corner of l-eclaire Avenue nnt Moffett Street: IWxMtn feet, IN feet south of the-St. Paul Kailway ami in Moffett Street: .VIOxllO feci, HO feet west of Leclairc. A total of ! was paid for the three properties. The t Hidden Company announces ten tative plaits for improving the corner lot with an office build ing and the inxd'fn lot in l.ectairc Avenue with a four-Hiirv paint factory. REICHARD-COULSTON COMBINE. Of interest to the color and chemical trades was the an nouncement this week of a merger between the firms of |. \V. Collision & Co. and F. A. Reicltard. The former is a leading factor in the importation of dry colors and the latter a large imjtorter of colors and chemicals. Doth houses agreed to dissolve and incor|virate under the nntni' of Reichard-Coulston, Inc., beginning business the first uf May. at 303 Fifth avenue. New York City, the present ad dress of F. A. Rcichard. The incorporators of the new firm are \V. I. and J. W. Coulston, of 80 Maiden lane; A. Paluel De Mnmion. also of si) Maiden Lane; and F. A. Reichard of :iKi Fifth avenue. The capital is 8300.000. Sales offices will he conducted in he principal cities iii the country. The Texas Company has increased its capital stock from $55,500,000 to $69,375,000, making it the largest capitalised domestic corporation doing business in that state. The Texas Company has plans under consideration for greatly enlarging its facilities for refining and marketing its prod ucts. --. ABOUT THE GRAYS. Gray is gray to the average person, and yet there are many grays. Some have a cold bluish cast, a warm, red. yellowbrown or a green tone. The particular shade of gray which looks so well with certain color combinations doesn't hold its own when placed amid new color surroundings. The tendency ,for years has been to simplify color formulas. For outside painting there may not be great reason to do other* wise, yet without adhering to simple formulas too closely much more beautiful tints and shades are produced. The grays made with lampblack only are crude and cold and can never equal those produced with both lampblack and raw umber. When mixing grays for interiors it is very necessary that TVss oat of imy firm deaUrt handling Hor*o*hoa Brand Paint* and VarnUhoa art doing m tsrfir point basin*** than any athandtalar in tha soma town. If not mlroady ropnsontod in yom town wo will ha gtmd to axplain oar axelmiiim agarwy proposition. Write u* boat it. Mound City Paint and Color Company Swt . CfM. PftUml Wm. h. Cnat, Jt., Kh--g-iUm SAINT LOUIS t. H. Or*r. runtiij Om--km Kmms Ck; Mn U S4A GLD32410 they be given a tone or cast to relate them to the color moat in evidence in rugs and furnishings. Colors mixed from a white base and a single tinting color do not have the life and charm of those mixed with two or three tinting colors. A gray may contain a touch of red in its composition which you cannot see as such, but it has its effect in the impression given. This fact is noticed when you try to match some fine colors. Your mix comes very near matching, vet you can tee or feel that something is lacking. You don't know what color ought to be added to tone Op your mix, because you cannot see it Here are five gray formulas to keep in mind. The last two aie especially fine: 1. Lampblack and white lead. 8. Raw umber and white lead. 3. Lampblack, raw umber and white lead. 4. Ivory black, a touch of medium chrome yellow and white lead. 5. Raw umber, a touch of blue and white lead.--Notional Review. GOHEEN PLANT BURNED BY SPIE8. German spies are suspected of having caused the $200 000 fire which completely dealroyed the Goheen Manufac turing Co.'s plant at Canton, Ohio. The plant was producing f>aint for the United States Navy, used mainly for submarinea and for camouflaging ships. The fire was one of the most spectacular ever seen in the city. The flames spread with rapidity. When the file reached the basement of the plant, drams of turpentine blew up. Nobody was injured. An -investigation to trace down the plotters who are believed to have caused the fire was started immediately. PASSONNO MADE CLEVELAND MANAGER FOR BENJ. MOORE ft CO. Announcement is made of the appointment of Fred J. Pansoimo as general manager of the Cleveland office of Benjamin Moore & Co. - This apimintment comes as a.distinct advancement to Mr. Passonno, who has been connected with the Brooklyn office of the company in the capacity of talesmanager, to which po sition he was graduated a year ago in recognition of his meritorious work as salesman in eastern and southern terri tory. Mr. f'assonno's entire business career has been spent in the paint industry, he having started as a lx>y in a retail store in his home city. Watervliet, N. Y. His new position as head of the Cleveland office will give Mr. Passonno ample opportunity for the display of those abilities which have made |K>ssible his remarkable progress in the paint manufacturing business. OTTO 1SENSTEIN ft CO. CHANGE NAME. Otto Iscnstein & Co., importers of Varnish Gums, have announced that Mr. Otto Iscnstein has by authority of the Supreme Court changed his name to O. G. Innes, and that the Corporation changed its name.to Innes & Co., Inc There will be no change in the ownership or management, and the business will be conducted the same as heretofore. First Sale of An Enemy Allen Bronze Powder Factory.' By consent of the United States Government and order of the Supreme Court the alien enemy bronze powder fac tory of B. Ullmann & Co.. Inc., located at Closter, N. J,, has been soM and transferred to Henry H. Mandle and M. A. Harwick, who have organized a new company under the firm name of Uhited States Bronze Powder Works, Inc., with main offices at 220 West 42nd street. New York City. It is a source of great satisfaction at this time to know that, while heretofore bronze powder factories have been usually foreign-owned, the new enterprise is distinctly'. American in management and ownership. Why should this not be so, when we have in this country the metals and all the materials needed for the most diverse and compli cated processes, as well as the mechanical skill and execu tive ability to transform them into finished product? t Made in Cawby-Ctark Plant C. P. Chinese Blue C. P. MSori Blue C. P. Bronze Blue C. P. Prussian Blue These Chemically Pure Iron Blues repretent the maximum of iirength, clearness of. tone and dependable uniformity. They arc carefully made and thor oughly washed by a Du Pont Process which ensures softness of texture. We also manufacture C. P. Soluble Blue Bluflex Blue Blue Lakes Violet Lakes Purple Lakes Our facilities mud modern methods en ables us to manufacture on es large scale, thus ensuring satisfactory end prompt shipments. & Co.E. Ld u Po n t d e Ne mo u r s (iNCORPOMArCO 1 Se/ey/^of.Llthopone.Diy Colors <md Ptymmts Division WILMINGTON DELAWARE 111IU Mm M* Crayt ttnj fteai CBItMM nuflmn SaMI^ an nuMneo L M. m anchaa GLD32411 85A Formula Department Formulas, Processes and Comments on Paints, Oils, and Varnishes hy Dr. W. G. Scott (( iiH/ixucrf from ijinc J:fbnniry 20) CONCENTRATED VARNISH DRIER. Weight per gallon, 7.00 Hi*. Formula 100 11>s. H. Rosin. J lbs. Slaked Lime. ;>0 gat. V. M. Linseed Oil. 20 lbs. Manganese Dioxide. 100 lbs. Red Lead. 100 gal. Wood Turpentine. 100 gat. Naphtha .14 (benzine). No. 1009 gal. 12 gal. Loss. 24tl gal. Product. Directions: Melt the rosin, sprinkle in the lime ami run to 490* F. Hold at 4.10* F. for about 10 minutes, then com mence adding the linseed oil in small portions. Continue the heat so that the addition of the cold linseed oil will not solidify the rosin, then, when all the oil is in, raise the temperature to 320* F. Full from the fire and commence adding the hlack oxide of manganese, a little at a littus Stir very frequently and as soon as the temperature begins to^all. put tlu- kettle hack on the fire and again raise the heal to 320* I-', (this means that in a large kettle the heat will rise to 400* F. to 445* F.l. therefore aim to cook at 420* j;. to 4JO* I-, tin no event above 480* F.). until the manganese is taken up. known hv a sample oil glass showing a transparent anilirr color When the manganese has been taken up. In-gin adding the red lead in small portions, stir very frequently, whip down the foam when necessary, and aim to cook at 420* K. to 490* F. until the lead is taken up. The cooking is completed when a tough "pill," free from tackiness is obtained. It must not lie a hard brittle "pill." otherwise the japan will not mix with raw linseed oil. When the cooking is finished, pull from the lire and then thin with the turpentine, usually at a temperature of 4Mi* F. lo 4o' F.' When all of the turpentine is in and the heat is down to 32(1* F., or lower, lollow with the benzine. B. CONCENTRATED DRIER. No. 1009 Weight per gztlon, 7.19 lbs. Formula Percentage 120 lbs. H. Rosin ................... -....................................... ' lbs. Slaked-Lime .................................................. -- 120 lbs. Rcd l.cad ............................................................ 80 lbs. Manganese Dioxide ......................................... 80 gal. V. M. Linseed Oil ............................................. 72 gal. Heavy Naphtha. 48* I'. ................................... 188 gal. Naphtha. 54* F. (Ilcnziuel ........................... *-*n -*9 *-* *-6<1 sosn 20.48 48.08 31-t gal. 20 gal. Loss. 493 gal. Product. i Directions: Melt the rosin, sprinkle in the slaked lime and then run to 490* F. and hold for 10 minutes. Add the cold linseed oil in small quantities, stir well and continue the heat so that the temperature will remain at about 300* F. When all the oil is in, and the beat is up to 200* F. or 340* F. pull from thr fire and commence adding the red lead, about 4 pounds at a time. Stir constantly, and as soon as all of the lead is in, put the kettle back on the fire and heat slowly and cautiously to .130* F. Heat will probably rise to about 4SS* F., at which point frothing will brgin; therefore stir very frequently and whip down the foam. Cook at 400* F. to 490* F. until the lead is taken up. usually in t 'A hours to 3 hours, then com mence adding the manganese dioxide, about a pound at a lime. If excessive frothing takes place, pull the kettle from the fire and beat down the foam, then replace on the fire and continue the addition of manganese. When the manganese is all in, cook at about 430* F. until taken up. About t hours cooking will be required to take up the soluble part of the manganese, and the resultant "pill" must not be brittle, otherwise the japan will not mix with rawlinseed oil. Thin at 490* F. or 420* F. with the 'heavy naphtha, and at 330* F. or lower, with the benzine. EXTRA STRONG CONCENTRATED DRIER. Weight per gallon, 7.96 lbs. Formula 30 gal. V. M. Linseed Oil. loo lbs. Red Lead, loo lbs. Plain Hand Rosin, No. ISO. 73 lbs. Manganese Dioxide. 100 gal. Wood Turpentine. >00 gal. Naphtha. 54* F. (Benzine). No. 1007 281 gal. 13 gal. Loss. 248 gal. Product. Directions: 'Pm 40 gallons of the linseed oil in the kettle, reserving to gallons of the oil for future use. Heat the 40 gallons of oil in the kettle to 420* F. then com mence adding red lead in small .quantities. Sprinkle thr red lead on the surface of the hot oil and allow it to remain for I or 3 minutes lieforr stirring. Cook at 420'F. to 480* F. with frequent stirring and whip ping down the foam when necessary, until the lead is taken up. which usually requires about an hour, then iced in jhe rosin and stir until dissolved. After tlu- rosin has dissolved and the temperature is -up to aliout 420* K. commence adding the manganese, little at a .time, stirring frequently and whipping down the .froth when necessary. When about half of the magaiu-se is in. add the 10 gallons of oil held in reserve, and bring the lu-at up to 420*. F., after which continue the addition of manganese. ,, Cook at 420* F. to 480* F., preferably at about 430* F., until the manganese if taken up, known by a sample'on glass showing a transparent amber color. About 2 hours will.be required to take up the manganese, and the cooking is fin ished when a tough "pill," free front tackiness, is obtained. Thr ''pill" must not be hard and brittle, for if it is the'japan will not mix with raw linseed oil. When the cooking is finished, puli front the fire and thin at 430* F. or 420* F. with the turpentine, which will drop the temperature to 320* F., or lower, then lollow with the benzine. 6A GLD32412 LIVERING OF BONE BLACKS WITH GRINDING JAPANS. In reply lo your request uf April inr tit explauution x* tn "the ciuie of livrrinK of liour Macks with grinding Japans." for the purpose of roiiduriinjt a iJixruvMon on the suhject in the Chemists' Forum, wc would state that we have liccu unable to ex plain this phenomenon to our satisfaction. We know that the claim is frequently nude that bone blacks high in carbon content are more prone to liver than those of low carbon content. The Itixher carbon content blacks bring supposed to contain recovered sugar house blacks. We have not been abb as yet to confirm this rlaim Assuming that the grinding ja|ian i- properly made, we have been unable to decide whether the phenomena connected with the livering of certain hone hlaeks are due tn the physical characteris tics of the esrbott present mi the Mack nr due to chemical reactions between the constituents of the black with the constituents of the grinding Japan. Acting on the supposition that substances other than the recog nized normal constituents--calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, and carbon--influenced the livering. two hone blacks were sub jected to a detailed analysis. No. I. exhibited the phenomena of livering, being a low-priced black and \n. -j being a Mark of the good quality which did not liver The rarlmn contents of both were within one per rent of each i.ihct. 'Ibe ronlls are pre sented herewith: I II 1'er Cent I'er Cent Fat (ether soluble extract i......................... U.o: O.I* Soluble aalls ................ ............................ o.iti o.Sii Soluble carbouatr .............. ............. ..... None 1.01 Soluble carbonate ........................................ O.n: Oat I Calculated to sodium carbonate.) Thr soluble salts in racli ease were essentially sulphates and chlorides of sodium and ixitassiuin. Another non-livcriug 1*-Jiic black of the licst tpiality was ex amined and was found to contain ti.us per cent calcium hydroxide and S per cent soluble carbonates, calculated to sodium carbonate. Examinations of other blacks gave similar results, and it appears doubtful In the writer's opinion if the impurities present have any influence on the livering. Very truly yours, C. D. Holley GLIDDEN CO. ENTERS NEW FIELD. The Uliddeii Co. have taken a new step toward the control of raw materials in leasing the plants of the bankrupt Yaryan Rosin & Turpentine Co. for one year with an option to purchase at the expiration of the lease at a figure said to lie about $2,000,0<*0. The plants at Gulfport and Brunswick are covered in the lease. The. Yarvan Company has been o|eratinp under a receiver and turning a profit said to Lc n|>))roxim.ilelv 2)00,000 per month. It is understood that the capacity of the plants will be doubled and that linseed oil will he added to the products manufactured. EIGHT HOUR LAW IN MINNESOTA. The house labor committee held a hearing Tuesday after noon before a large crowd on the Devoid eight-hour day bill and the Lydiard bill providing one day of rest in seven for all employes. The Devoid measure provides an eight-hour workday for employes of linseed oil plants, flour mills and for underground miners. J. W, Daniels, president ArcherDaniels Linseed Oil Co., Minneapolis, in opposing the bill declared that it would rub this industry. Mr. Daniels sug gested that a quarter of a cent added to the price of linseed oil would meet the extra expense incurred by working short er time. Representatives of various Minneapolis milling in terests and G. M. Gilette, president Minnesota Employers' association, spoke in opposition to the Lydiard hill. PAINT COMPANY TO INCREASE CAPACITY. The I'cnn Kivxione Paint Comp-iny, at Antes Gap, near Williamsport. Pa., which lias Ih -c ii running overtime to fill -rush orders the past lew months, is making preparations to make many improvements in the plant in the near future, which will mean mam more employees. All tilt- old machinery in the plant \\ ill he taken out and it placed with new up to-tlale machinery. The machinery,, which is made in Si. I.nuis. is cx|iected tn arrive within the ' next few days and will lie installed at once. The officials of llu- conctrn claim that the paint is in such a demand that several car loads could lie slti|i|>rd every week if sufficient machinery and employees were available. . In the Present War Situation with aniline colors scarce and difficult to obtain, a number of our fine high grade Black pigments may be satisfactorily em ployed as substitutes for many purposes, either straight or in conjunction with other colors. If you have been using a Black of which you cannot now get a supply, why not try some of the fine pigments to which we re fer? We may have just what you want and now is the time to try them out. Write today for sample and particulars. BINNEY & SMITH CO. 61*83 Fulton Street, NEW YORK, N. Y. ASBESTINE (r2tUJ RemainSotpeeitea INTERNATIONAL PULP COMPANY n ew vofic c it y EAGLE PICHER LEAD PRODUCTS for Paint Grinders, Varnish and Color Makers Sublimed White Lead . Sublimed Blue Lead Basic Carbonate of Lead . Red Lead Litharge Orange Mineral Uniform Quality Gs mrmnttii Prompt Shipment* BEAGLE-PICKER LEAD COMPANY CHICAGO N*w Vacfc - rkfUJxtpki* SaltimM Seffalu ClKfawatl Fkukurgk St. Lwia Iimi City Wmrtkimt llnti lx alt fvlai^xf CMm GLD32413 87A INERT PIGMENT IN ANTI-RUST PAINTS. A Reply. Dear Mr. Howard:--1 have read with interest the com ment* .on barytes, lithopohe, red lead and sublimed blue lead as related to their various properties when used as paint for the prevention of corrosion. ' Also note the statement that sublimed blue lead is composed of sulphides and that a cer tain amount of inert material in red lead is beneficial. I do not desire to take up the cudgel in defence of any particular pigment, though' the statements made by Raker in your paper do not accord with my experience. As I un derstand the problem of corrosion and its prevention hy paint ing, it is absolutely necessary that the pigment used must be strongly basic or a chromate, and this pigme'nt must be in sufficient -amount so that every spot on the surface of the metal comes in contact with the inhibiting pigment. If mixed with an inhibiting pigment there be particles that are not in hibiting, but possibly accelerators, corrosion is apt to start at these unprotected points, and although the corrosion may be extemely slow at first, nevertheless the inhibiting action of the pigment has been reduced to such an extent that cor-' rosion will be more rapid than if the inrrt or accelerating! pigment were left out. 1 ' An excessive amount of linseed oil used with inhibiting pigments will act very similar to the dilution of these pig ments with inert or accelerating products because there will Ik ; considerable distance between the pigment particles, the interstices ltwecn the particles living filled with linseed oil. Such Iving my view of the theoretical action of inhibiting paints, I can see no reason front an efficiency standpoint for ti-ing inert material with an inhibiting pigment. I do not question, however, that a certain amount of inert material may cause red lead, or jmssihly any other pigment, to wear lieticr when it is used in the top coat. However, red lead is never used as a top coat: instead, over the red lead is usually a paint designed to resist atmospheric conditions, regardless of its inhibiting qualities. A painted surface of this type is constructed along lines that arc scientifically sound, because the metal is protected by an inhibiting pigment, and in turn the inhibiting pigment is protected by a paint fitm resistant to atmospheric conditions. As a suggestion, my ideal scheme for protecting iron wopld be to use as a priming coat a finely ground pure red lead paint. The red lead, however, I believe ought to contain about 15 percent of litharge to obtain basicity, not litharge Standard Cooper-Bell Company Takes Over Standard Varnish Works Business in Twenty-one States THE Standard Cooper-Bell Company, formerly the Cooper-Bell Varnish Company, announces that it has Ifirit the Chicago plant of the Standard Vamiah World --and has licensed all of the Brands, Trade-Marks,Patents, and Trade Names of the Standard Vamiah Works. The Standard Cooper-Bell Company hx* secured the ex clusive right to carry on the business conducted by the Chicago house of the Standard Varnish Works fa> the state* shown. The Standard Varnish Works of New York will continue to handle the domestic and foreign trade outside or the rtatca named. The new company offers you the full service of the combined organisation--the same standard merchandise--amd a peat wiUrngncaa to co operate with you in nary way. STANDARD COOPER-BELL COMPANY Factoryymd Office*: 2600 Federal St. ' CHICAGO added as such, but what is known as red lead analysing 85 percent Pb,04. Red lead of this type is a standard article, Iicing specified by the Navy, New York City, and many rail roads. Top coat the red lead with any weather-resistant paint. H. A. Gardner, of the Institute of Industrial Research. Washington. D. C,, has conducted a long series of tests on - red lead of varying compositions, aad inspection of his tests shows that a red lead containing HO uoM Rb,04, rather than a highly horned VO to V8 percent Fb,04, is most desired for inhibiting paints. At ctm aime red bad could not. be purchased on the market with a guammeotl l'b.,0, contentr the commercial grades ran all the wav from 5<> to K.'i j>crent I 'li tand a paint manufacturer who endeavored to make paste or liquid jxtint from these products could never lie as sured tliat his iiaint would not liardrn in tile package, because very often in one shipment lie wuuhl receive, lots that would show the aWnc variation. 'However, the pnxluctinn of red lead now is under such control that a manufacturer can buy hi- red lead with a guaranteed l'li,t >, eimlent, ami h has lieen ilemonsiraieU over period of years that an 8a per cent 111,0. ted lead can be used with perfect safety for mak ing paste or liquid paints. J Ih Tea-ini lilho|nine perished so quickly on the Atlantic City Test l'eticc may lie attributed directly to the well-known properly of lithojione to oxidize from zinr sulphide to zinc sulphate. Zinc sulphate is soluble in water and very readily washes away, and, in addition, soluble sulphate accelerates corrosion very materially. In sublimed bine lead, the sulphides are practically negli gible. the amount is so small. It is the inherent basicity of sublimed blur lead that makes it a good inhibiting pigment. Sublimed blue lead is a basic sulphate of lead of almttt the following rom|x>siliou. according to Gardner and Cushman: Lend Sulphate ..............................................5"% Lead Oxide ..................................................... 3.V;,' Load Sulphide .............................................. ``/'o Lend Sulphite .............................................. 5% Zinc (>xide .................................................... Carbon .................... ..................................... 3$ In Trading this analysis it should l>c retnemlicrcd that the trail oxide and the lead sulphate are chemicallv combined is basic sulphate of lead. Yours truly, Edwin 1'. Lowe, NEW JERSEY ZINC CO. SHOWS GAIN FOR FOURTH QUARTER The re|>ort of the New Jersey Zinc Company issued Mon day for the last quarter in 1919 shows income, after the de duction of taxes, amounting to 82,790,412, as compared to 83,025.918 in the preceding quarter. After deduction for other charges but before the payment of federal taxes, net ineomc for the period was 82,675,412. as compared to 8?.CfO,!)18 after the payment of chargrs and allowances for federal taxes of 8300,000 in the third quarter of the year. Surplus was set down at 8207,412. Good In Combination. Barium Carbonate, in so far as its covering quality is con cerned, would be rated about, between Blanc Fixe and Zinc Oxide. When being used as a flat wall finish in conjunction with lithopone, Zinc Oxide, etc., it produces very satisfactory results. The surface will not be so apt to dust and the re sult is a coating of a soft velvety finish. This kind of a finish is greatly needed for use on flat wall surfaces and every ex perienced painter will attest to this fact. NEW INCORPORATIONS. Standard Color Works, Inc., Brooklyn, manufacturing all kinds of dyes, rolors, chemicals, etc. Capital, $25,000. Incor porators: J. Feibel, 296 Sterling Street; F. Schaefer, 272 Ster ling Street, Brooklyn; R. R. Shearer, " Liberty Street, New York city. Southern State Paint Manufactunng Co., Jacksonville, Fla Capital, 8100,000. Incorporators: C. J. Baumgartner, C. * Jennings and A. C. Shannon.- 88A GLD32414 F. L. BROOKE TO OPEN BROKERAGE OFFICE. . F. L. Brooke, well known to the trade as manager of the purchasing department of the Chicago Varnish Company, has severed his connections after 21 years of continuous service with that concern and witl engage in the brokerage business on his own account. He has secured temporary offices at 826 Peoples Gas Building, which will serve him until such a time as his permanent offices are ready. Mr. Brooke is a recognized authority on naval stores products and has been a power-for good in his constructive work as a member of the Naval Stores Committee of the National Association. He has teeured a number of accounts and is negotiating for others and will handle a complete line of naval storea as well as oils, colors and chemicals used by the paint and varnish manufacturing trades. Mr. Brooke will continue to operate the retail and steam coal business which he has conducted for the past twenty years in con nection with his other business. CALO A VICTIM OF AUTO THIEVES. The comings and goings of P. E. Calo, the genial manager of the General Naval Stores Company, have been seri ously interfered with through the heartlessness of an auto mobile thief. Ifr. Calo received a new four passenger Chandler roadster from the dealers on Tuesday last and on Thursday he was relieved of his treasure by a discerning thief, who selected his car from among hundreds of others parked in Grant Park. The loss was fully covered by insurance and as soon as adjustment can be made and a new car delivered Mr. Calo will take up autoing where he so suddenly left off. FROTH AS A FIRE-KILLER. l-'roili--a thick ma-s of tiny stiff bubbles--is the latest agency pro|>osed for stifling tires, especially burning liquids like petroleum ur alcohol, which have always been practical ly impossible to quench. The froth, which consists of bub bles filled with carbonic-acid gas. is made quickly, as needed, by the mixture of two liquids which are kept sep arate until used. One is a soda-lve containing froth-forming ingredients; the other is a solution of alum, etc. Both liquids, it is claimed, can l>e kept exposed to the atmos phere. and require only that the water lost by evapora tion should be replenished. The solutions do not freeze until the thermometer has gone down to -- 5 Cent. (23 I'alir. i. In one of several tests described in lintjim'criny. 15 tons of crude benzine were lighted in a tank and pro duced enormous smoke clouds. "After the tire hjad lasted live minutes, the foam was turned on under two-atmosphere pressure. There being a strong wind, the violent agitation of the burning liquid by the foam stream could lie watched on the one side of the tank. The spreading foam-layer stifled the fire, hut there remained, at first, some isolated flame jets, especially near the edge of the tank. In six minutes the fire was extin guished. "Ten minutes later the liquid would at once relight when the foam had been swept awav. The layer had a thickness of two inches five minutes after extinguishing the fire, which consumed nearly one ton of crude benzine. About 1.800 liters (475 gallons) of foam must have been used; some 4,000 liters (roughly 1.000 gallons) of foam must have been floating on the benzine immediately after extinction of the fire, and two-thirds of the original vol ume of the frothy liquid were lost owing to the use of the hose and the exposure to the air and flames. The experts concluded that the frothy liquid should be applied undet small pressure, so that it may spread quietly without caus ing splashes and eddies which would rekindle the already stifled flames. The number and dimensions of the pipeand hose should be selected so as to insure a quiet dis charge of the frothy liquid. * * "It would thus appear that huge oil and spirit fires cat be dealt with by this system, with the aid of installationsuch as would not unduly '(implicate petroleum tank plants, oil and spirit stores, docks, etc. Some provisioi must he made for fire-extinction in all these cases and th< additional cost would probably be moderate." The Famous Paint or liquid Strainer For Fin and Rapid Straining Hat No Equal Will strain from five to ten gallon* of paint or enamel per minute through 120 mesh screen. A wonderful labor saving device. All part* are detachable. Strainer cloth interchangeable. To clean and change from one class of work to another require* but a few minutes. The machines are built in two size* All machines are furnished with undertanks and faucets for can filling. Over fifty of theae machine* are already in use among the beat known paint manufacturer*. We refer by permission to the Adams & Elting Co., Devoe & Reynolds Co., Wadswortb-Howland Co., Bradley & Vrooman Co., Sears, Roebuck Ac Co., and Heath Ac Milligan Mfg. Co., all of Chicago, 111. Otterson & Turner Mfg. Co. 108 South Clinton St. Chicago Rapid Liquid Mixer With Portable Tanks made in twe sizes Tanks 60 to 150 gallons capacity Manufactured by the Kent Machine Works Builders of High Grade Paint and Varnish Machinery. 37 to 41 Gold Street, Brooklyn, N.T. GLD32415 89A The Chemists' Forum This department is maintained in order to meet a very general expression of the need for an open forum for the discussion of scientific and practical problems of a chemical character espe cially as related to the paint, oil, varnish, pigment, chemical and mineral dry color and gum in dustries. It numbers among its staff of contributors the best known chemists in the business and is open to all who have a message for the allied trades. t h e d e t e r min a t io n o p t it a n ic o x id e in p ig me n t s WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MIXED PIGMENTS By L. E. Barton The commercial introduction of the pigment titanox has stimulated interest in methods for the determination of titan ium and analysis of mixed pigments containing titanox. To meet the demand for a reliable method, the Titanium Pigment Co., Inc., ha* upon request, supplied copies of the volumetric method here given under the head of ''Volumetric Method for Determinations of Titanic Oxide." This method has been recommended for its accuracy and rapidity and because likely to prove generally reliable even in the hands of comparatively inexperienced operators. The method has the further advantage that the determination of titanium Is not interfered with liv the presence of other ele ments likely to be present and i therefore applicable to the analysis of mixtures of pigments. The disadvantage of the method is that it requires the assembling and maintenance of special apparatus and reagents: these, however, are usually not difficult to obtain and are easily kept in condition. Analysis of Titanox Determination of Barium Sulphate Weigh yt gram sample into a 250 cr. Pyrex glass Ix-akcr: add SO cc. concentrated sulphuric arid and T or x grams sodium sulphate. Mix well and heat on hot plate until fumes of sulphuric anhydride are evolved and then heat directly over flame to boiling for five minutes or until solution is complete. Traces of silica, if any, remain as an insoluble residue. Cool, take up with too rc. of water, hoil and tiller off leiriiiut sulphate and silica, washing with j per cent sulphurir acid to free residue from titanium. Volumetric Method for Determination of Titantic Oxide The volumetric method used (or determination of titanium is essentially that described h.v P. W. & E. B. Shinier, Pro ceedings of Eighth International Congress of.Applied Chem istry; the method hereafter rescribed differing principally in the form of reduclor and also in a few details of operation. Reagents: Standard ferric ammonium sulphate solution. Dissolve 30 grams of ferric ammonium sulphate in 3np cc. water acidihcd with 10 cc. o( sulphuric acid: add potassium permanganate drop by drop as long as the pink color disap pears, to oxidize any ferrous to ferric form; finally dilute the solution to one litre. Standardize this solution in terms of iron. The iron value multiplied by 1.4329 gives the value in titanic oxide (Tit),), and iron value multiplied by .88044 gives the value of the solu tion in terms of metallic titanium. Indicator: Saturated solution of potassium thiocyanate. Reductor: As a reductor a 300 cc. Pyrex glass dispensing burette is used- The internal dimensions of the burette are inches by ft inches. The reductor is charged with about 1200 grams of amalga mated zinc, making a column about It inches high and hav ing an interstital volume of about 135 ec. The zinc it tup.ported by a platinum gauze covered with a V* inch mat of fibrous asbestos. On the mat it placed a one inch layer of 10 mesh zinc followed by a six inch layer of 20 mesh zinc and finally by a five inch layer of stick zinc. This form of re ductor it convenient, and when used as hereafter described is adapted to maintaining a hot solution, which is essential for complete reduction of the titanium. The reductor is connected to a litre flask for receiving the reduced titanium solution through a three-hole rubber stopper, which carries also an inlet tube (nr carbon dioxide supply, and outlet tube for connecting with the suction pump. The reductor is prepared for use hy first passing through it a little hot dilute sulphuric arid followed hy hot water, finally leaving sufficient hot water in the reductor to fill to the upper level of the zinc. The hot filtrate from the barium sulphate determination is now introduced: about 100 ec. of water being drawn from the reductor into the original beaker to bring the solution to about the upper level of the zinc. The water thus removed will not contain any titanium if the operation has been con ducted as described, but it serves as a safeguard and is also convenient to acidify this water with 10 cc. sulphuric acid and reserve it on the hot plate to be used as an acid wash after the reduction of the sample solution. The titanium solution is allowed to remain in the reductor for 10 minutes. Whik- the solution is being reduced, the receiving flask is vniiiirrtrd to the reductor and the air completely displaced hy rarhini dioxide* conveniently drawn from a cylinder of the liquefied gas, \\ hen the reduction is complete the receiving flask is con nected with the suction pump, and whilr still continuing the flow ol carbon dioxide, the reduced solution is drawn out, followed by the reserved acid wash and then three or four JIM) ec. washes with Ixit water. The displacement of the sample solution and washing oi the zinc is so regulated by means of the stop-cock that the reductor it always fi'lcd with solution or water to the upper level of the zinc. When the washing is complete, gradually release the suc tion to pri-vent air bring drawn back into the receiving flask. Disconnect the flask, add :> cc. of potassium thiocyanate solution as indicator and titrate immediately with standard ferric ammonium sulphate solution, adding the solution rap idly until a brownish color is produced which will remain (or at least one minute. The brown color developed at the end point indicates that an excess of ferric ammonium sulphate has been added and the depth of color is roughly proportional to such excess. Ordinarily the excess ferric ammonium sulphate amounts to about .OS cc. which is deducted from the burette reading before calculating the titanium, thus increasing the accuracy of the result. . It is desirable (or each operator to establish for him self, by running a few blanks, the proper amount to drduct front the burette reading as a correction. As the composition of titanox is kept constantly very close to 25 per cent titanic oxide and 73 per cent barium sulphate, the percentage of titanox can be calculated with sufficient ac curacy for all pratical purposes by multiplying the titanic oxide by four. Gravimetric Method (or Determination of Titanic Oxide Notwithstanding the convenience of the volumetric method, before given, where frequent determinations of titanium arerequired, many requests have been received for a gravimetric. Cylinders or llaulfled carbon dioxide, ouch aa supplied to ooda foonUlns. are convenient. 90A GLD32416 limpler as icgirdi apparatus and rtaicnli and dtReadable where only an occasional analysis of titanox or determination of titanium is required. The following gravimetric method for determination of ti tanium which has been used for many years for the determi nation of titanium in ferro alloys, has recently been investi gated in the laboratories of the Titanium Pigmt-nt Co., Inc., and adapted to determination of titanium in pigments. The knethod is highly accurate if properly operated but requires a little practice to get best results. It is recommended that method be first tried on samples of known titanium content. Method Decompose the sample and proceed as before described until the filtrate from barium sulphate has been obtained. To the filtrate containing the titanium, add an excess of ammonia, filter and wash precipitate with hot water. Redissolve the precipitate in hydrochloric acid (I to I) and again precipitate with ammonia. Filter and wash with hot water combining filtrate with that from first separation. The precipitate of titanium hydroxide is again dissolved in dilute hydrochloric acid ft to l), receiving the solution in a 600 cc. beaker and keeping volume of solution less than 150 rr. To the solution, while at a temperature of about i0` C. add ammonia gradually while stirring till thr precipitate which at first forms just redissolves. Continue the neutralization by addition of ammonium carbonate finally adding drop by drop while stirring till a slight permanent precipitate forms. Add a drop or two of dilute hydrochloric acid just sufficient to dissolve the precipitate; then add i! ec. hydrochloric acid (1 to 1). The proper neutralization and adjustment oi acidity is very important, ff the solution is too acid a little titanium, is liable to escape subsequent precipitation; if not acid enough the precipitate of titanium is liable to be slightly contami nated by iron or aluminum if present. The neutralization and adjustment of aridity is facilitated by thr presence r.l iron in the solution, and if not present in thr sample it is advisable to add enough to give a little color to the precipitate which is momentarily formed by addition of ammonia and am monium carbonates. Dilute the slightly acid solution to 400 cr. and pass sulphur dioxide* gas until the iron is reduced to the ferrous state and the solution smells strongly of sulphur dioxide: or add liquid sulphurous acid and make up to 4on cc. with water. Heat to boiling and boil till excess sulphur dioxide has been expelled and the solution smells very faintly of SO>. lit this means the iron is reduced to the ferrous state and the titanium pre cipitated. Filter while hot, washing with hot water. Dry and calcine the precipitate for one-half hour at not less than POO* (" Weigh as TiO. Suggestions for the Analysis of Mixed Pigments Containing Titanic Oxide While the foregoing methods are directed particularly to the determination of titanium, it is believed the procedure in decomposition of sample, separation of groups and final sepa ration and determination of titanium will be found service able in thr general analysis of mixed pigments. la case of mixed pigments containing titanic oxide proceed m follows'. Weigh one gram sample into a 400 cc. Pvrex glass beaker, add 10 grams sodium sulphate and 40 cc. concen trated sulphuric acid (93 per cent). Heat on hot plate for one-half hour and then increase the heat, as by placing the beaker directly over the coils of an electric hot plate and boiling for about 10 minutes. The solution should acquire a temperature of about 335* C. Cool, dilute the solution to 300 cc., boil 10 minutes, filter while hot and wash residue and precipitate with 5 per cent sulphuric add. On the filter will be silica and undeeomposed silicates and all the lead and barium as sulphates. This resi due and precipitates can be analyzed by well known methods Liquid sulphur dioxide eaa be obtained In cylinder! from the leadbwr Chemical supply houses. The Virginia Smelting Co. has tsaanRr 'developed a new cylinder for liquid sulphur dioxide, deefirrt for the convenience or laboratories. The cylinders can be skipped by mail or ezpress tor reAllIng and return. if desired. The filtrate will contain the titanium, iron, alum inum, zinc and calcium. To the filtrate while still hot add an excess of ammonia, fitter and wash precipitate with hot water. Re-dissolve pre cipitate in hydrochloric acid (I to 1) and again precipitate with ammonia. Killer and wash with hot water combining filtrate with that front first separation. By this procedure the titan ium, iron and aluminum will have been separated front the zinc and calcium. The use of an excess ol ammonia as described would lend to carry a little aluminum into solution but in the presence of titanium and iron substantially all the aluminum will he found in the precipitate. If desired, the fiftrate can be tested (or presence oi aluminum and then used for determina tion of calcium and zinc. The precipitate of titanium, iron and aluminum hydroxide is again redissolved in dilute hydrochloric acid and the titanium .separated and determined as before described and with all pre cautions given under the head of "Gravimetric Method (or the Determination of Titanic Oxide." The filtrate after separation oi the titanium can be used for determination of iron and aluminum if desired. lit case it is not desired to determine iron and aluminum separately the hydroxides obtained after second separation by ammonia can be calcined and weighed at total oxides of titanium, iron and afuntinunt. "the titanium can he determined by the volumetric method before given and deducted itom total oxides thus giving the iron and aluminum together by difference. TITANIUM BY NORWEGIAN PROCESS. W. H. Washburn, a representative of the Titan Co., of Sogndal. Norway, recently prepared a paper to he read be fore the Paint and Varnish Society ofGreat Britain, which was in part as follows: The material used for the manufacture of titanium pig ments, is the mineral ilmenite, which is a eom|>ound of iron and titanium dioxide, with the approximate chemical formula FeOTiOm. The titanium pigments now,produced are classi fied as; (1) So-called titanium whites, consisting chiefly of titanium dioxide. (3) So-called composite pigments, being chiefly titanium dioxide precipitated on a barium sulphate l>ase. For making titanium dioxide the finely pulverized ilmenite is mixed with ordinary concentrated commercial sul phuric acid. The mass is heated, whereby a violent reaction be tween the acid and the ilmenite takes plaee, thus transforming the titanium and iron contents of the ore into titanium and iron sulphates. The coagulated mass is afterwards dissolved in water and freed from undecomposed minerals through a setting process. The dear solution, containing the titanium and iron sulphates, is afterwards heated to boiling temperature by means 'of indirect stum, which causes the titanium to pre cipitate in the form of titanium hydrates, chiefly meta-tilanir acid--TiOi--with water of combination. The titanium pre cipitate thus obtained is washed until free from iron. Thr precipitate contains small quantities of free sulphuric acid and of acid sulphates of titanium, which arc neutralized hy the addition of barium carbonate. The neutralized precipitate is afterwards calcified to remfive the water of hydration, and further to convert the titanium dioxide so produced into a crypto or micro-crystalline condition. The process for the mannfacture of the composite pigments is broadly as follows: Ilmenite is smelted in an electric furnace with certain fluxes, whereby is produced a titanium concentrate, which is after wards dissolved in sulphuric acid. This forma a solution of titanium sulphate comparatively free from iron, most of the iron having been eliminated from thr concentrate in the smelting process. The titanium sulphate solution is mixed with blanc fixe and the mass boiled by indirect steam, thereby precipitating titanium hydrates upon a base of blanc fixe. By subsequent calcination the amorphous precipitate is con verted into the crypto or micro-crystalline state. After cal cination the pigment is carefully pulverized and air-floated, so as to yield a product of the highest possible fineness and uniformity.' The paper next dealt with the physical properties of the titanium pigments. It. was claimed that they possess a low specific- gravity (less than that of white lead, zinc oxide, tor lithoponc), a micro-crystalline structure, and high refrac tive indices.' They were also rommended for fineness w - - GLD32417 91A VOL. LXVI1--No. 8 CHICAGO, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1919 "Save the Surface and You Save All" HE long heralded and expected "Use More Faint Cam tiun is selected for the key-note of this campaign because its T paign" has at last become an accomplished fact. .The appeal is widest, it reaches direct to cupidity and sense ofdetails are outlined in another column and show a well |Kssession--universal attributes. Beautifying, already well, developed plan carefully worked out. _ sold, readies to a sense of taste and pride of appearance, a The "Slogan" on which the greatest stress is laid by the narrower field. It is the purpose of this campaign to create- advertising agents is "Save the Surface and You Save AH" this habit of thought--namely, tliat of regarding the surfaces of which the proposers say: of the things vve own as the points where deterioration and' "It is fundamental in sense--tying up with the broad view loss begin: therefore, where preservation, which is prevention point of the campaign. It is comprehensive--applying to any of loss, must be applied." thing that needs surface protection. It is impartial--laying no There is a certain compelling logic about this statement emphasis either on paint or varnish or any of their specific which indicates careful study on the part of the men who are applications. It is rational, avoiding obvious cleverness. It is to handle die details and augurs well for the results. alliterative, easily taken into the mind. It is adaptable, fitting Another interesting feature of the campaign is that two naturally into sentences of copy belonging to this campaign weekly publications with a circulation approaching two mil Or belonging to the campaigns of subscribing members. _ It lions will carry the bulk of the advertising for the first year escapes the detriment of selfishness, the render's mind being with the slight addition of ads in the "patent insides" of a turned not to your products but to his property." list of country papers. This may be the easiest way of plac All these statements may be true but "Use More Paint" ing advertising, possibly even the cheapest, per raUfion of really seems to meet the needs of the case quite as well with readers but we cannot agree with the advertising agents that the one exception that it must be taken to include varnish it has the greatest compelling power because the avenge which it does in the minds of the public generally and "Use American is a man of tastes and prejudices and he is influ More Paint" would take no explanation as to its meaning enced more by his "favorite" paper than by any other and only which "Save the Surface" will. On the other hand "Save by increasing the number of mediums can you increase the the Surface" may arouse curiosity and set the public think number of favorite papers of many classes and descrip ing and that is z most desirable condition. tions. However, be that as it may wc - recognise the "Rust and decay, wear and disintegration begin at the Sur good constructive work that has been done on this campaign face. Preservation begins at the surface. To quote again many and the wise foresight and liberality with which it ia being' motives now exist which lead people to coat surfaces. Chief, supported by the trade and predict a great increase in general* vnong them are--preservation and beautifying. Preserva- sales of paint as a result. MILWAUKEE R. R. HOLDS SPRAY MACHINE TEST. ' The introduction of labor and time saving machinery by the railroads and other large users of paints and varnishes in an industrial way is becoming more general as the scarcity of competent and experienced help increases. At the request of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R. R. a comparative' test of various makes of spraying machines was made at Milwaukee last week. The test was in charge of J. L. Green who represented the general manager. Demonstrations were made by three spray machine manufacturers on bridge paint ing, box car painting, stenciling, building painting,, etc. The audience included representatives of various departments from the entire Milwaukee system. All were well impressed with the practicability of the spray machine and the extension of. its use to take the place of maintenance labor that is so hard' to get at this time. The companies represented and speakers demonstrating the equipment were as follows: De Yilbiss Mfg. Co.. Toledo, Ohio. \V. J. Miskella, Chicago manager; Paasche Air Brush Co.. Chicago, Mr. Bartling; Spray Engineering Co., Boston) Mr. Stokes,. KENTUCKY COLOR AND CHEMICAL CO. BEGINS PRODUCTION UNDER MOST FAVORABLE AUSPICES. Mr. Sevier Bonnie, Vice-President of the Kentucky Color & Chemical Co., Inc., states that their fine new plant at 34lli ami Tyler streets, Ixxtisville, is at la turning out an excep tional quality of colors.- He says "Our results with the first Ixitelies of dry color exceed expectations. The colors are remarkably strong and dean." The fact that the company have installed the very latest word in modern machinery, filters, mills and mixers, and that they include in their man agement expert color makers of long experience and recog nised standing would account for these verv gratifying re sults. The personnel of the company officials consists of Arthur W. Clark, President, who was well knmvn during his connection with the Heath & Milligan Mfg. Co. of this city as head of their dry color department. Dr. Geo. A. Goodcll, Secretary, who was in charge of the Sherwin-Williams Co.'s Kensington dry color plant. Sevier Bonnie.'Yicc Presi dent, and Robert Bonnie, Treasurer. The Bonnie brothers are widely known and -successful business men of Louisville. They will be a welcome addition to the ranks of paint ma terial producers. F. A. Stresen-Reuter, President of Stresen-Reuter & Han cock, Inc., has gone to Macatawa, Michigan, for a two weeks ;outing and a much needed rest. Mr. Stresen-Reuter has re cently completed a new bungalow at Macatawa, where he ex pects to spend the summer with his family NEW VARNISH COMPANY FORMED. HE John A. Steen Varnish Company of Chicago has T been organized with an authorized, capital stock of 850,000. '. The incorporators are John A. Steen, Sid ney Adler and R. Aronson. Mr. Steen is well known in Chicago paint circles, having represented the Standard Varnish Company in this section for twenty-one years and having had an experience of over thirty yeara in the varnish business. It has been impossible ih the short time before going to press to locate Mr. Steen, but through other sources we learn that the company have leased the plant of the old La Salle Varnish Company on Shields Avenue and will manufacture two lines of varnish only at present, grinders' and architectural. TRIGG PRESIDENT PHILADELPHIA CLUB. At the regular quarterly meeting of the Paint Manufactur ers' Club of Philadelphia, held on June 18th, Mr. Ernest T. Trigg was unanimously elected President, succeeding Mr. Wil liam Waterall, who had declined re-election at the annual meeting, hut whom the Club had since been endeavoring to induce to withdraw his declination. Mr. Waterall was elected Honorary President of the Gub and an honorary member of the Executive Committee. 92A GLD32418 TWO PAINT CONCERNS CONSOLIDATE. On Wednesday, January 5th, the well-known paint manu facturing concern of Benjamin Moore & Co. purchased the control of the Bccker-Moore l'aint Co.. St. Louis, Mo. This was brought al>out by the belief that it would be to the advantage of both the company and its customers, as it gives to both additional advantages, among others being that The Bccker-Moore faint C>. will have the advantage of latxiratorics and all other equipment of the larger and older concern. A varnish factory, which is now in operation, has been added to the works in St. Ij>uis, and in addition, adequate facilities for the manufacture of wall finishes. The manage ment of The Becker-Moorc faint Co. will continue as here tofore and there will he no change made in' their brands, trade marks or labels. The high standard of the goods will be maintained and the same courteous treatment as hereto fore will lie given to the trade. The Becker-Moorc Company, which already has a plant occupying virtually a block on South Second", Carroll and Soulard streets, is to be enlarged greatly and new plants arc to be constructed. Under the consolidation, Benjamin Moore, president of Benjamin Moore & Co., becomes presi dent, and Kichard Moore, former president of the concern and a brother of Renjaniin Miiore, hecoines vice-president and general manager. I'. S. Skeen retains his position as secretary and C. A. Becker will continue as treasurer. Benjamin Moore & Co., is a $3,000,000 corporation and manufactures extensive lines of paint and calcimine. ___ The only change among the St. I-otiis officers of the com-" pany is the abolishment of three vice-presidencies. They are K. C. Becker, who is retiring owing to his advanced age and fortune; L. f. Teuscher and IV. H. Scott. Therewill he no change in the departmental managers. Am TO.--ImJ.Fn c - Am ZZ--Dakr 5% Lsnisd. Am Z--(-11% LmM Ato Zinc Oxide* are more than ordi narily worth while, and the prompt service we offer U unexcelled. AMERICAN ZINC, LEAD * SMELTING CO. Pitre* Bldg., SI. Ltais, Me. EqaiuM* Bldg., N*w York NEW INCORPORATIONS. The C. Mssck Glue Company. Cleveland. Ohio. Capital $75,000. Incorporators: Charles Masck. Barbara Masck. , Charles Masek, Jr., Albert H. Gyssler, Anna Gyssler. -The F. P. Collins Pai.nt Co., Syracuse, N. Y. Capital (00,000. Deal in paints, oils, lead, varnishes, glass and all painters' supplies. Incorporators: Frank P. Collins, Wm. K. Collins, John E. Collins, Syracuse. The Crescent Color & Chemical Works. Inc., New York. Capital (100,000; manufacturers of pulp colors, aniline dyes, paints, etc. Incorporators: \V. J. and A. Alexander, 450 West End avenue. New York. PICHER, A GREAT NEW ZINC CAMP. -The Picher Lead Company seems likely to become one of the world's biggest zinc and lead operators, if the extensive development work and large mineral holdings of that com- . -pany are an indication in that direction. For years the Picher Lead Company has conducted the greatest lead works in the southwest and within the past few ypars these works have bden much enlarged Until they have grown to be one of the .biggest in America. , Now the Picher company has gone into the production of zinc on the same gigantif scale and has already expended about (250,000 in securing mineral lands and leases and de veloping them in Oklahoma. The magnitude of this company's holdings and the importance of its Interests in that locality; have resulted in the establishment of a new and prosperous.'. A COMMENT ON THE "FORMULA FOR SCIEN-; TIFIC REDUCTION OF PAINTS, ETC." In the Paik t , Oil ak o Llxuc Review of < May Sth, the Chemist's. Forum contained a "Formula for Scientific Reduction of Paints." the use of which unquestionably eliminates waste from "over weight." 1 wonder, however, whether Mr. Tate is really' serious when, in speaking nf "discovering the law of scientific reduction," he says: "1 find the following formula will give the exact amount' of liquid to add in order .to reduce a paint from any weight to any desired weight, uf/er Making severs! IhimtaHd ejr/erimeiUs" (s-e) b Mr. Tale's formula is: x ------------- c--d where "a" is weight per gallon in batrh "b" is number of gallons in batch "c" is resired weight per gallon "d" i> weight per gallon of thinner and Y is number of gallons of "d" required to reduce "a" to' . A simple operation in algebra yields the following results: The weight of the batch, a. .b, plus ah + xd = c(b -f *) weight of thinner added, x. d., equals. the final total weight, e(b -j- x) (a -- c),h which simplifies to x ----------------- ;--------- c --d This is identical with Mr. Tate's formula. Why. then, perform "several thousand experiments" to ohtain a formula an easily de duced beiorehand by common algebra? . Albert B. Bingham. . Long Island City, X. Y. The Black Eagle Manufacturing Co., Birmingham, Ala., to manufacture, sell and deal in paints, oil, lubricants, etc. Capital (4,000. Officer*: A. A. Carlin, president; Byron Tram mell, vice-president, and R. J. McGavock, secretary-treasurer. The Buckeye Oil & Paint Co., Geveland. Capital (10,000. Incorporators: Mark A. Copeland, Jas. E. Walsh, C. A. Mowcry, O. E. Schulz and C. Verbsky. TO IMPART pure Raw Linseed Oil with dry ing qualities, without using chemicals or other wise distorting the oil in the process of manu facture, was a long cherished dream of the paint manufacturer as well as of the painter. This is natural: the painter knows that all his application and skill will be lost if the materials he is using will spoil his efforts. The painter has confidence in pure Raw Linseed Oil. but experience has shown him that some of the so-called Boiled Oils have been robbed of all the fine qualities of the original product. This probably explains the tremendous success of Kellogg's Improved Boiled Linseed Oil. THE FACT thst Kellogg's Improved Boiled Linseed Oil has about the same color as Raw Linseed Oil instead of the cherry red given to it by a crude process of manufacture; the tact that it has about the same body as Raw Linseed Oil: that it is 100% pure without rosin or rosinates. and analyzes the same as the highest type of purr Rsw Linseed Oil: is sufficient proof of perfect final results. That the phenomena) success of Improved Boiled is justified, can easily he proven by a comparative test with other products. Kellogg's Improved Boiled is guaranteed to consist of 99.0% finest quality Linseed Oil pint 01% lead and manganese scientifically incor|wv rated. The Tetl Will Tell Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc. General Of/ieen Buffalo, N.Y. Chicago Office: 1351 North Branch Street Branch Office* and Stock* in All Large Cities GLD32419 93A PRICE COMPARISON. It teems ipptopritte in view of the unusual conditions in the paint and vamith industry to five a few compari sons in prices, both as a matter of information and record, so they ean be looked back upon and future generations in the paint trade may read the history ol the strenuous times their ancestors experienced. It is interesting to note that at present white lead, both dry and in oil. is selling at the highest price ever recorded except during June, 1915, when the basis was about the same, except that linseed oil last June was on a much lower plane, while dry white lead then was a fraction higher tlian at present. A comparison in cost of a few of the leading articles in quantities during June, 1915, and March, J916, are as follows: June, 1915 Pig lead. ]>er cwt.................................. $7.15 Dry carbonate white lead, per III....... 07)f Selected oxide of zinc, per lb..................... 07->4 White Seal oxide of zinc, per 11)............... 26 Lithopone. per II)........................................ 05 Harytes, per ton.................................. 16.00 Linseed oil, per gal............................ .56 China wood oil. per lit........................ -OGJi Mar., 1916 $7.30 srt'A .09% .25 .15 20.00 .78 M'A Soya bean oil, per lb....................... -- ' M'/i 09 A No effort has been made here to take up anything but the materials which affect flic basic cost of paints. Reds, hlues, chrome green and chrome yellow have all advanced to unheard-of prices. Knough is shown here to indicate that the present prices of mixed paints are not onty justi fied. but higher prices arc warranted and are more than likely to occur at any time. At present paint manufac turers are absorbing, to their own loss, a good' propor tion of the increase in cost of manufacture. Dealers should keep themselves fully posted.and watch their percentage' of cost and profits or they will be losing money instead of making it. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. < However we may have differed from him, and per haps at times disapproved of his actions, no patriotic, .loyal American can fail to feel a sense of loss at the taking away of Theodore Roosevelt nor to admit that one of the greatest of our leaders has gone to his reward. NEW SEATTLE PAINT FACTORY. Making the third move in the last twelve years to larger quarters, the Seattle Paint Company hps let a contract lor the construction of a modern paint and varnish manufac tory to be erected on a site 60x277 feet at 1046 Dearborn Street. The warehouses and offices of the company will remain at the present location, Third Avenue and Jackson Street. The business of the company has made qecessary the plans for the new factory, which will comprise a threestory brick and concrete structure to house the paint factory and a smaller structure to house the varnish factory. Up to the present time the company has been engaged in mak ing paint only, but is now preparing to launch into the varnish-making business also. The estimated cost of- the new factory, including build ings and machinery, is about $40,000. The buildings will be completed by February 1. F. S. Roddie is president and general manager of the concern. A. V. CRARY NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF COOK PAINT AND VARNISH CO. The lure of the paint manufacturing game and the phe nomenal opportunities it presents to the wide-awake business man has succeeded in enticing from Chicago trade circles one of its most widely known and representative members in the jierspn of Arthur V. Crary,- district sale* manager of the American Can Company, who on March 1st becomes assn ciatctl with the Cook 1 `aim and Varnish Company of KamaCity. Mo., in the capneitv of vice president. Mr. Crary, a native Chicagoan, hardly needs an introduc lion to our readers as his activities as head of the larges) division of the largest can manufacturing concent in tin country coupled with his prominence in dull affairs together with his instantaneously pleasing personality lias made hiacquaintance among the trade nation wide. WM. ZINSSER ft CO.. INC., EXPANDING. Win. Zinsser & Co.. Inc., New York, are breaking ground for a $7.i.(k>ii additional unit to their .Yew York City |>lant. U|xm completion of this building, the plant will occupy eight city plots. The rapid growth of the business in recent years, necessitates increasing its manufacturing space, particularly in the white shellac dc|iarimeiit. The new vacuum process for white shellac seems to have proven p decided success.. At the same time, it is planned to move the'present down town warehouse up to their factory', centralizing production and shipping facilities, and to give over their entire build ing at 195 William Street to office and sales purposes exclu sively. Vol. LXIX--No. 26 CHICAGO. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 30, 1920 ea Subscription $3.00 The Future of the Naval Stores Industry IKE many of our American industries which have L grown up in the midst of an abundance that was looked upon as limitless,' the naval stores industry nize this condition and expert to eliminate waste, profitably use up the wood and stumps on what is now waste land and then sell it for cotton and other crops. The plan is a far has gone on in a career of wasteful extravagance so fasrigashted one and includes the education of the American the destruction of our forests is concerned, paralleled by the public to the use of wood turpentine which may perhaps be dumber, wood pulp and other similarly destructive agencies. made more available as the y ears go on by the- attention of Reforestation has not been carried on to any extent and the skilled chemists, and will at all events supply a consider pulling and burning of stumps has been counted as too ex able element of stability to what has proved of late an ex pensive to make reclamation by this method worth while. ceedingly excitable market. There are a large number of ' Now the far-sighted men who are watching the industry other by-products and it is believed that wood palp may ialso realize that without some great change in policy the days of prove to be one of the large salvage factors of the new old fashioned methods are numbered. High wages, a short modern systems. Present owners of stilts and forest lands working season, and old fashioned, primitive, slow, unorgan in the south should watch this development with particular ized methods of producing and handling all tend against the care in order to keep up with the timis and northern con prolongation of the business in its present condition when sumers may have to revise their attitude toward products of pine timber gets, perceptibly scarcer. wood distillation. They cannot well afford to do otherwise Some of the big interests who have recently purchased it the difference in cost between wood and gum turpentine large southern chemical distillation plants evidently recog continues to widen. v GLD32420 94A Big Linteed which in ordinary life seem to le white revealed all colors Merger of the rainliow when exposed to the ultra violet rays. 'One of the white pigments became radiant, just as do ill'', merger uf two of the largest linseed crushing To>m|>anir.s in the country is announced by diskettes ns we go to press. Rumors which had been current the so-called radium dials on a watch. Mr. Breyer said that the destruction of the ordinary paint on the outside of a building was largely due to the jmLoiinensneetdelotdhrfoartsPceertvohsederuatilcAntdsrwceehreCekrots-h.D,ewabnenoriacethmlsceooCnfAofi.rrmcMahenienddrn-eDtbhayaepnotihleMiselsi,d-alMahnnaindddo unaelacignfgefdeeh nct.ttr.uobSfbToehtmrheeearoruetiflfctlerlteahcse-tvioihtonhaleerdttoseplnietgihnahegkteaurwnltahdritacttr-hhivbeiuoisslteehptdorreltitsgolehifntteht ibosinyf sun tires same pig land lii, The new company will control about 35 per cent of the total linseed oil production of the United States and will have tangible assets of $15.000,000, it is said. ments is therefore a very valuable quality, and those which ward off the rays the most are therefore desirable for use both in paints and in rubber goods. Their average annual net sales for the past six years are stated to he upwards of $40,000,000 and their average profits, $1,350.000. The new company will have two mills each in Minne apolis, Buffalo and F.dgewater, N'. J. and one mill each in Chicago and Toledo, O.. and it is believed that CHEAP ANTI-RUST PAINT Coal tar is melted with about 24 per cent of gas tar and about 5 per cent powdered sulphur is added. The mixture ia then heated to about ISO to 160 degrees C. for about $ tq 3 hours, until all of the aulphur has been dissolved. The cooled mssi is diluted with just so much benzol a* will enable it to ".substantial economies" will follow the consolidation. flow from the brush. Various pigments may be added as well. The Prohibition of I mi. OBITUARY. HE attempted prohibition of lead in paint manu William Whittier. Tfacture Geneva methods awst aimsthielaarpIpntaoterertnnhatolytsioenaeanml iplnalsobtyaoenrdcecboynofefsriemhnoicllaedr-uasptini:satMthewrOrrao.nyuWegrhoehocfituetthitneetlrCypwiaoaalntifseoHersnerosimmaoeefta,ttirhmeneeeaSmraaongLuooFrsnrinainAtnegncrgiesefscoltoeersdp,WaaininnildtltihacmeomlaoonlndWyy ffhpirriaiemtttnaiednords.f labor interests in this country. The reports which have Whitlier-Fuller Paint Co., and more recently in Whittier- continued to come in from that meeting have been colored Coburn Co., of San Francisco, which company was taken over by the varying attitudes of the authors. One disreputable a couple of years ago by the Glidden interests. sheet in this country, which has long been recognised as a blackmailing excrescence on the industry, suggests that CALIFORNIA INK CO. TO SELL COLORS TO THE the prohibition should be extended to Uncle Sam's do TRADE. main--but there is little danger of any such outcome. . The California Ink Co., of San Francisco, whoso factory The general use of lead in paint manufacture is too is at Berkeley, Cal., ijre just completing a new $100,000 unit important to the industry and a suitable substitute too of their plant. It will he utilized solely, for the manufac difficult to find to make the very slight danger to the average workmen a sufficient reason for prohibition. All the modem data on the subject tend to show that the toxic properties can be entirely obviated by a little judi cious care and cleanliness, and that at worst they do not begin to be as dangerous as many other substances of common use to which no objections are raised. turing of yellows, blues and greens. The old plant will be used for the manufacture of their red toners and lakes. A good portion of the colors produced will be used by them selves in manufacturing ink, although they will solicit out side business and they have already quite an established busi ness among the paint grinders. Fifty thousand dollars addi tional has also been expended in the construction of a new boiler plant, and with many smaller alterations to be made, a Everything goes to show that the foreign leaded zinc total of approximately <200.000 will be expended in putting interests are the source from which the propaganda in favor of prohibiting lead arose for they palpably give away their hand in permitting a certain small percentage of lead to be used. their factory into shape. The main, office will be removed from San Francisco to the Berkeley plant, although they will maintain, in the former mentioned city, an office to handle .the' sales end of their business. GERKE LEAVES MARTIN-8ENOUR CO. Testing Paint by Ultra-Violet Raya. The trade will b'c interested in learning of the announce HE sluw process uf testing paint by exposure to ment that W. H. Gerke has resigned from the position of gen Tthe weather has long been a source of annoyance eral manager of the Martin-Senour' Co. Mr. Gerke i* well going to manufacturers, and an investigation of methods for getting a good endurance test in a short time has on .for Minn- time. The results of this investiga known in the paint industry in both the United- State* and bCteheaannnadtah.irtyHiyseacrosn, ndeucrtiionng with the industry dates back more, all this time being connected with the Martin-Senour Co.1 tion were stated in an address by Frank C. Hreyer. the well known research chemist of the New Jersey Zinc Co., lieforc the New York Section of the American HELP THE STARVING CHILDREN^ Chemical Society last week, of which we have only a The cause of the starving children of Europe has been pre brief reixirt.: He said that how long paint would last, sented to this country by all the great philanthropists, headed could now I* determined by the use of tire ultra-violet by Herbert Hoover who has explained that the need is great ray anil other methods including various mechanical processes which have !een clevelojied to represent the -.effect of weather and time so that manufacturers of paint may be able to foretell just how. well their goods will Wear after they have been applied to various surfaces. The use of the ultra-violet light caused the different, pigments used in liotli paint and ruldier to lie identified this year to prevent suffering, degradation and death. Another year the crisis wilt have past and the responsibility removed. Ten dollars will save the life of one child and the paint trade hai-e been asked to do their share. Unfortunately the request came late and the responses up to the present time have been confined to comparatively few. All who contemplate giving"' or who have given will confer a favor by notifying Mr. How ard Elting, 1633 Sewa-d Street, in order that the Chkago pajgt without recourse to chemical analysis. Six pigments trade may be properly credited. GLD32421 95A IMPROVED METHOD OF MANUFACTURING COLD WATER PAINT Proper Combination of Casein and Hide Glue as Binder Give a Hijjh Grade Product Easily Manipulated. By Milton D. Swartz, Parboil Paint Co. Although there is Mill Mime small market both in this country and abroad for water paints in liquid and in paste form, the vast majority of water paints are manufactured and sold as a dry powder. The consumer has only to add water and use. The saving in cost of slack over tight cooperage; the saving in freight in not shipping water; the saving in handling tonnage in not handling water, are all so very large and apparent that even the casual reader quickly appreciates why water paint today is practically all manufactured in dry powder form. To he a successful commercial arti cle - a good cold water paint must quickly and easily mix with cold water, must brush easily, cover well, flow well, not show laps or brush marks, must not settle in the bucket, anil most im portant from the standpoint of the ulti mate consumer, must not rul> off. .The ability 'to not rub off in a cold water paint depends on the binder. That is. oil the adhesive material employed to hold thr pigmenti together and to the surface. The three principal adhe sives usrd as binders in cold water paints are casein, glue and vegetable starches and drxtrius. Some few other binders are usrd. bill the amounts arc small. Casein alone makes the most water proof binder. However, it is not so easily controlled, and has the added ili-advantage that it is not soluble in water alone, without the addition of rhnnicals. High grade hide glue, although not as water proof as casein, is tile next best binding material, having splendid slicking and lasting qualities. High grade glue, however, has the di-advan tage of not being quickly -.tlublc in cob) water. Vegetable adhesives most quickly sol uble in water are weak when compared to animal glue and are the least lasting of any of the three adhesives mentioned. For the. water painti manufacturer who wishes to make a high grade prod uct and who wishes to use casein ami high grade glue, there arises the prob lem of introducing these not easily solu ble binders into the water paint, in sticlt form as to lie quickly and easily solu ble when used by the consumer. Some manufacturers using glue alone are ittemping to solve this problem by .using a very finely ground low test glue, and mixing same thoroughly with the powdered pigments. If the glue is . of tow enough .strength and finely enough ground, and completely enough dispersed, and the water not too cold, it will form a jell, and go sufficiently into solution to act as a binder. It will do the work, but only in a fair manner. The finished 96A _____ product will not he lasting and durable. These low grade glues quickly disintcgrstc in damp weather, and the cold water pattlt soon begins to rub off. Another method at present being em ployed is: 'The glue is first dissolved in hot water and to this solution is added a certain proportion of dry white pigment. This combination is thoroughly mixed to a stiff paste in a steam jacketed mixer. This paste is then dehydrated, dried and ground. The dry ground ixiwdrr is then again mixed with the' balance of the dry pigments to he used. Superficially this method would seem to solve the problem. The dispersion would seem to he excellent. The result, however, is again only a fair water paint and not a durable, long lasting product. To obtain enough sticking strength to hr real durable, too much glue would have to lie used. An exam ination tinder the microscope hy a chem ist who understands thr colloidal action of glue in the presence of whiting or i lay. quickly reveals the reason why. The writer has given this question a good deal of study and experiment and after tedious work, has found a method of making a binder with a combination of casein and high grade hide glue, and introducing same successfully into a cold water paint. Resulting in a cold water paint of very high type, a prod uct according to the writer's tests and opinion superior to any oilier on the market. HrivHy outlined the mctlmd is as fol lows.' First, the casein is put into solution with a minimum of water by agitation and heat, anil the addition of a small amount oi mild alkali. Second, the very high grade hide glue in put into solution with a minimum of hot water. Third, thr casein and glue solutions are then run together into a steam jack eted container. Fourth, the alkalinity is alino-t neu tralised with a mild organic acid. Fifth, the container is then closed, and thr mixture heated under pressure. Sixth, it is now ready for introduc tion into the dry itnwder watrr painf mixture. All of the dry powder ingredients, in cluding the dry colors are put into a horizontal ribbon type mixer. This dry powder mixture is thru violently agi tated for fifteen minutes. This dry'powder mixer is of metal and holds two tons. It has a tight fit ting top cover. Directly under this cover and over the top of the materials bring mixed, is a jacketed distributor pipe, running the length of the mixer. On this pipe are 'connected 1* fan shaped spray noizles. GLD32422 . After the dry powder haa keen mixed fifteen minutes, the casein and glue solu tion it filled into the jacketed distribut ing pipe under pressure, and it forced, out of the narrow orifices into the mixer over the violently agitated dry powder in a fine spray. This spray condenses on the surface of the violently agitated dry powder in the mixer in minute crystals, and is thoroughly mixed there- ' with. The spray occludes air in cooling and drying, and pi'rsenti a large surface which ntaket it quickly and easily re soluble. After the mixing is completed,''the mixed material is grouud in order to eliminate occluded air (which would leave pin-holes on the surface of the finished paint), and to more thoroughly develop the strength of the tinting colors. After the grinding, the product is bolted, and is then, ready for final packing. Exhaustive coiupcrisons between it product made in this manner, and with every other cold water kalaomine or liaint that the writer has examined, has proven that a product made in this man ner with this class of binder is the most lasting and durable. The control and operation of the ap paratus is simple. The principal points of precaution necessary are; First, the control of alkalinity of the casein solution. It must not be nenlralitrd to the point of precipitation. Scci.ml. all of the apparatus must he welt jacketed and kept hot. Chsufiad Advertisements Rate, tt.Oft, minimum apace eight lines or lest. Each additional line --six words allowed to line-- twenty-five cents. Wanted--Position in a paint factory: 25 years practical experience in the manufacturing of paints and enamels for all purposes; capable of taking full charge of factory; formulating, tinting, testing alt raw materials--chemically :and practically; taking charge of help and getting results; present position eight years as superintendent of small paint concern. Address Box care Paint. Oil & Chemical Review. l-!7-3t LAMPBLACK for GRINDING Samuel Cabot, Inc. Boston, Muss. Trimount Gtrmofitowa in fiockaff'. CELANESE ANNOUNCES p LaV-- ff' Formulating Information Now Available to Manufac turers of Exterior Paints, Primers and Other Finishes for Difficult or Dirty Surfaces. In spite of the acknowledged superiority of PVAc water system paints in moisture-vapor transmission and blister-inhibiting characteristics, the problem of painting over chalky and dirty surfaces lias limited their use in certain exterior applications. Now, through a Celanese research study and development, comes a new formulation that produces a PY'Ae exterior paint with penetration and adhesion characteristics equivalent to, and in some cases, exceeding oil based and alkvd based paints. And this without surface preparation! More important, this modification of formulation docs not destroy the water clean-up properties in PVAc emulsion paints, nor affect their natural resistance to alkali, and to yellowing on exposure. The Celanese research laboratories has prepared an illus trated manual covering in detail this latest PVAc development. You arc invited to send for your copy. Just fill out and return the coupon below. Celanese are producers of the famous PVAc resin emulsions: CL-102 Homopolymer and CL-202 Copolymer, and other resins. Cd*nee Prepared by the Vinyl Reains Labo ratory of Celanese, this manual describes in detail the steps taken in development of a auccessful formu lating method for producing paints with superior adherence to chalky and dirty surfaces. It is fully illus trated with test photographs and practical formulating information. PVAc emulsion paint is tested by a technician at the Summit (N< J.) research laboratories. Pressure sensitive tape, when nulled from a test panel covered with conventional emulsion paint, removes tne paint film. Ih the lest panel at left, the new paint has penetrated the heavily enalked surface and adhere* to the asbestos shingle beneath. Calanate Carparatlaii af Amarka, Flatties Divisian Dapt. 186-1 744 ftraod Hraat, Nawark 2, N. 4. Please send me free manual describing the formulating of paints for chalky surface adhesion. 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