Here the rubber, as it comes from the Calender, is cut to proper length, gauged and inspected, then placed in books or pockets ready for the Tire builders.
Un-vulcanized rubber in long sheets is rolled four plies thick – laminated – on poles of burnished steel wrapped with tape and “cured” in big cylinders
A complete machine shop – Boring Mills, Lathes, Milling Machines, Presses, everything needed for making repairs – keeps up the equipment to keep the factory running night and day.
A huge machine for mixing and kneading rubber compounds. Toothed rolls inside the big cylinder stir and mix the “batch.” Used principally for black stocks to keep the light, blick pigment enclosed while mixing.