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MATCH COMPOSITION.
No Drawing.
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\Vadsworth, in the county of Medina and aqueous content of the latex, being bound
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State of Ohio, have invented a certain new together by the rubber of the evaporated
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organic solvent. The use. of such a. solvent liquid to the system of aqueous liquid in
in preparing rubber as a binder for match rubber and eventually upon complete evap~
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I have discovered that it is possible to ob nearly perfectly moisture-proof, since rub 100
tain all of the desirable results incident to ber will greatl resist moisture.
Another met 0d of bringing about the de
the substitution of rubber for glue binder
without resorting to the use of the ordinary sired coalescence of the rubber particles of
organic solvents, by employing rubber latex the latex in a match head composition, con
and mixing with it the other ingredients sists in passing such a match head through
requisite to the production of a suitable a reagent, or exposing it to the vapor of a
reagent, which has the property of coagulate
match material.
The present invention, therefore, employs ing rubber- in a latex. Acetic acid is a suit
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rubber latex.
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nitible ingredients compoundedwith ru bcr
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Emulsions of rubber in aqueous liquids are tion taking place upon exposure to a suit
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able reagent.
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pheric temperature, there being su?icient pounded with rubber latex, said composition
sulphur present to react with such materials adapted to be vulcanized upon exposure toa
for this'purpose. ()r the match heads may .suitable atmosphere.
be passed through any suitable solution, for In-testimony whereofI have hereunto set
example, of an ammonium polysulphide, my hand this 12th day of Jany., A. D. 1924.
which will serve to effect the vulcanization
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of the rubber.
Witnesses:
D; E. SwAn'rz,
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A. D. Gnarm.