THE KANSAS CITY ST. KANSAS CITIANS DISCOVER are slabs of thical up in the young teriorate even when not in use. men's laboratory.hat are as limp as col easily with rubber, for A NEW RUBBER SUBSTITUTE an inner tube and only slightly matter. and the amount of coarser in textw. There are other mixed with rubber determine slabs remindful linoleum and still resistance of the combination other pieces, taen whole from the dation, Dr Patrick says. Str And the Standard Oil Company Is Backing Them While They test tube so tht they retain that enough. perfect vulcanizati shape, are as fin and hard as bake- mixtures of rubber and thioc Perfect It and Has Contracted to Manufacture lite or the hard rubber used for pipe be effected without use of from "Thiocol" Has the Physical Properties of Natural Rubber stems phur As is know in the chemical If for no other reason tha but a Different Chemical Straucture-Fo Many Uses It Is world, pure ruber from the trees mixes with rubber with Declared to Be Superior and Resists Both Acids and Oils. is impractical fr use. lacking rigidity beneficial effect. thiocol wordbox and strength When properly vulca. extremely valuable, the Can Be Made From Sulphur and the Waste Gas From an nized with siphur the necessary chemists point out. Oil Refinery. firmness is obtined. So in that re- Resists Acida Oils spect Dr Patrik and Mnookin com- bine sulphur wih carbon and hydro- Will thiocol resist acids? An gen just as de the rubber factories is the solvent action of oils T HE thing that couldn't hap they decided to make the first over- to get variousproducts. But where vastating to rubber? Tests pen happened, and that is tures letting the outside world-not the rubber roduct is expensive made. Since molecular why, in smelly chemical thiocol far heaper ture different to that laboratory at 909 Wyandotte the public, but the manufacturing world -know that they had something No claim nade. yet by Dr. Pat- and rubber compounds. street two Kansas City young men rick and Mnocin that their product be different in its chemical Dr. Joseph Patrick and Nathan M that would "pan out" commercially will work up into complete tire Any Thiocol una fected by alm Mnookin. have produced a substance There were still hundreds of tests to variety of thbcol they have so strong acids and all weak ac which looks like rubber. acts like rub produced woud likely not be quite in insoluble in the common make, varieties of thiocol to perfect ber. is said be more durable than and these tests took equipment and elastic enoughto make an inner tube Ivents and unaffected rubber and can be used for most pur- money. Kansas possibly th side wall of balloon oils. It stable -extremely The City experi- tire Dr. Patrik explains. But be. under almost all circumstand poses rubber used for and others menters needed the assistance besides In addition the cost of the of thiocol ould used extensive- order to commercially staff of highly trained chemists and ly tire treats, where slightly stif utility because of these pro new substance said to be less than better equipment and facilities than they could command themselves So fer texture will do. and where re- Dr. Patrick and Mnookin half that of rubber even at the pres- silience and resistance to blows and their product to large user ent lowered prices. they went to Standard Oil official Standard Oil Company of abrasion is demanded. ber gaskets used to seal sect The In- in Chicago and told him enough Thiocol in his natural state is white oil tanks together The gask be pliable enough to seal th against oil leakage. and als resist the solvent action of to which the rubber gaskets succumb far too readily T showed thiocol sealed the ta withstood the disintegrative the oil indefinitely To the commercial world the need of rubber that is reactive essential. this w special interest This will need for which hatura rubb suited This, they point out give them non-competiti: These and numerous oth aimed determining the and fitness of thiocol the have performed and are forming in their research dep The partnership hunt aft ficial rubber started between and Mnookin 1923 when working in the laborator A PIECE OF THE NEW RUBBER PRODUCT. THIOCOL. BEING FLEXED AND THE TWC KANBAS CITY HAVE AND ARE DEVELOPING IT. AT THE LEFT 18 DR. JOSEPH C. PATRICK AND AT THE RIGHT CHEMISTS WHO NATHAN M MNOOKIN, diana has contracted for the manu- facture of the product and has paid about their process to cause him to Hard thiocol resembles while tile very the young men salary and expenses institute thorough investigation closely, and is seen by the investigat- for more than year to perfect and Made of Waste Gas and Sulphur. ors ideal for bathroom wainscot- test their discovery. number Several Standard chemists came to ing, tub and other fixtures, and patents are pending now, both in the Kansas City and devoted month for the various uses to which United States and other countries. thorough check up on the either bakelite or celluloid could be Rubber-like tion given them. At the end of that put if only they could be produced the phrase. For the Kansas City test period the Standard Oil Com cheaply For the pliant form innum- young men, who believe they have the pany entered into contract erable with seen. The hard forms proof of the pudding that the chem- Patrick and Mnookin to assist in the take aniline dyes and ac- ical world has been trying to syn- investigation of the product and to cordingly can be made any shade thesize these many years. explain that produce it as scon as was color. ready The more pliant forms they do not have artificial rubber, exploitation, the dis- colored with the pigme used in synthetic rubber, in the exact sense rubber coverers to the and receive royalty on linoleums. Both varieties They haven't substance that has unufactured of products thiocol This electrica the same kind of struc- tract entered into in May, 1927 qualities to a markable degree. and tura rubber. as the case with and remains in effect today are less inflan imable than rubber synthetic rubber product To make thiocol. two ingredients The years of work have resulted does what the red_both-plentHul enough dozens of other revela also thetic rubber previously made in the product much cheaper than The tests show thiocol rebists sun- oratories haven't done It looks rubber One material is "high-line and atmospheric oxidation. the acts and wears like rubber, but the waste that comes enemies of rubber, and the rea- the same time has consti crude oil when it is heated to tires nd inner tubes de- tution entirely different from rubber gasoline Gasoline is liquid "Stumbled Upon" residue of the "cracking" process It is fairly well known, even out. coke is the solid, and the ADV (CEMENT. side of the laboratories. that the In some cases thetic rubber has been made fuel "crack All Who Suffer Germans made during the World but most high-line gas War and used some to case their And enough of marine batteries. But the rubber From Backache hundreds of thou- made did not develop into of tons of thiocol annually You can't know the joy of health cial practicality It too expen. the Sugar Creek plant near pep and vitality you Get Up sive, and not nearly "rubbery" City, should thiocol plant Nights, suffer Bladder Weakness enough Other laboratories. have be built there. would be brought produced substances with the molecu. sul- Burning or Itching sensations Leg phur. the other ingredient. It can be Pains, Backache and Rheumatic lar form of rubber (C5 H8)2. While obtained from huge sulphur deposits Pains If you suffer. why not try chemically this substance was rubber in Texas and Louisiana the largest the Cystex 48-Hour Test? physically it wasn't It didn't bend or stretch like rubber or have the deposits in the world. and compara- The World's largest drug stores tively close to Kansas City com- have recommended and guaranteed tough resiliency to blows and abra- sion, and worst of all. highly pared to Indiana and the sites of nearly a million packages with re- other big Standard Oil plants. markable results. No narcotics or perishable; much more so than nat- habit forming drugs List of safe ural rubber Not Yet Perfected to Make Tires. ingredients in every package True, the chemists went per- The varieties of thiocol may be de- Ask any drug store for Cystex fecting. making artificial rubber out scribed by their firmness The Make 48-Hour Test to quickly of corn starch bases and what not hardness of the product is fixed by alleviate pains, enable you to sleep and eventually they did produce the proportion of sulphur that well, feel like new and full of pep. stances that stretched, were tough used with the high-line gas, con- Only 60c if completely satisfactory and stood blows and abuse as does taining carbon and hydrogen of the otherwise your money back imme- true rubber But even the magic ratio approximately C2H4. There diately on request. sap from tropical tree easily cheated For the synthetic rubber, cost far more than the real rubber which is pro- ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT. duced only after the trees are about 20 years old Dr. Patrick and Mr Mnookin who Doctor Found Women have owned and operated the Indus- trial Testing Laboratory for five years after they left college laboratories. and Children Sick and had worked side by side in other Kansas City laboratories, say they have not produced synthetic rubber More Often than Men It's different from rubber entirely so far as chemistry is concerned. To them it "thiocol." the name they As family doctor at Monticello have chosen, solid which isn't rub Illinois, the whole human body, not find the secret is physically Cald- to stumble upon it, in sense as well's practice. More than half his things are usually found- -they got "calls' were on women children and away from the old method of trying babies They are the ones most often to make rubber by creating a sub- sick But their illnesses were usually stance with rubber molecule They minor fevers head- found that the thing that couldn't aches, biliousness- -and all of them happen, according to the chemistry required first thorough evacuation books, did happen. One day, about They were constipated five years ago, while experin In the course of Dr Caldwell's 47 with the gases obtained "crack- years' practice, he found good deal ing petroleum oils. Dr Patrick noted of success in such cases with pre- reaction he had never heard men- scription of his simple tioned before laxative herbs with pepsin. In 1892 The big quest was on he decided to use this formula in the Told Standard on Official of It. manufacture of Dr Caldwell's Syrup To see what the experts thought Pepsin, and placed it on the market it Mr. Mnookin went back to the The preparation immediately had university where he studied as great public it pre- you take such sub- viously had in Dr. Caldwe private Caldwill MD stance. he asked, "and practice Now the third generation AT AGE 83 in such-and-such way into or using it Mothers giving it to ganic solution. will you get such-and- their children who were given it by such reaction? their mothers Every second of the like and take it willingly. Every "It can't be done. It doesn't hap- working day drug sells Dr. Caldwell' Syrup pen that way, they said. going into drug store to buy it Pepsin this coupon brings a bottle Dr. Patrick and Mnookin began There are tousands of homes in this for free trial quietly seeking patents for their country that never without a process. They knew they bottle of Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pep- ting that and they had and have many hundreds of FREE BOTTLE heard of it in from grateful people telling us before Neither had the patent office helped when everything else failed Mail "SYRUP PEPSIN, at Washington, proved with While women, children and elderly numerous tomes on the chemistry of Please people are especially benefited by Dr Dr Caldwell's artificial rubber, and the patents of Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. its mild. Sy FREE hundreds of other chemists proc. gentle action promptly effective on esses airned the g goal. No. the robust constitution and in body had patented process the most obstinate cases. Containing St leading such reaction neither The time came, two years when safe for the tiniest baby Children