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Show PAVING BLOCK MADE OF RUBBER A new type of rubbor composition paving block has been produced by Wingato & Sutton Victoria street, Westminster, Ixmdon. S W., according accord-ing to a report to tho department of commoreo by Consul Coulter, London, rhlch. It is claimed by the manufacturers, manufac-turers, can be placed on the market at a prlco to compete with the ordinary cre6soted wooden block, when the ad-antages ad-antages of absenco from noise and long life estimated at fifteen years are taken into consideration Two types of bloeks have boen produced pro-duced a number one block, made of the "core" surfaced with a half-Inch I hard vulcanized rubber, and a number num-ber two block, which consists of the "tore" only. The principal ingredients ingred-ients of the core., which hasvbeen pat-snted, pat-snted, are rubber, juto and china clay. These ingredient" enable the whole block to be vulcanized in one piece, and It has been found by experiment that the block should up a solid mass aJe of par&tlH posed pur-Monti. 'U'hpre the ,been bo'. lowed out ami fllled'fl creto or wood to reduce eosjj been fo ind that th.' rubhwj "creeps" and shows wetr Olfl derslde at the place of cotw not on tho surface. n in oxperlmcn! of a woooj upon which a sted plate IB ,as a seat for a rubber lurfaefl found that the heavy trtfM up the steel plates it the Sjl Pan ras Hull way itatlOflH red way under the hotel Isl with a sheet of rubber ot jH half Inch th!-knc? It fl found. It is claimed that lency 'er the rubber ghesjj 1 hat It must be pegfl to time Asi rewM icperlments Mssn. lfS Sutton have decided that tl H solid block proposed Is tlrnljj wooden block used oraM? street paving. and R10fH ': lnrhs by thnjjj L'p to the present tlm l 1 been nosslrile to manufictaifs blocks 'it under three timSH of wood pavlmj hlch l ner - ; ;.anl The G0fl I claimed, can D 4 ce if per pound, snd 'fJA that the price of piTiaf SflH yr.oro than $13.33 per (em square yard. |