AMERICAN RUBBER PRODUCTS COR history

No fewer than three different inventors claimed to have invented the first true rubber stamp in various parts of the United States in the mid-1860’s.

The American Rubber Company was established by R. D. Evans in 1872.

The Boston business – which produced rubber shoes, boots, coats, and wringer rolls – moved to Cambridge in 1877.

The earliest form of commercial production of rubber was at the beginning of the mid-1880 in Brazil.

In 1886 B.B. Hill patented the self-inking stamp, a revolution in office automation that can still be seen in use today.

Dorman revolutionized the stamp making industry when he patented a steam vulcanizer in 1889 that was designed specifically to produce stamps, replacing the dental vulcanizers previously used by stamp makers.

By 1898 the United States Rubber Company increased its market share from 50 to 75 percent.

By the early 1900's the stamp industry was becoming well established and in the United States saw the formation of the first trade organisation.

In 1905 United States Rubber bought RGM as a means of entering the tire market.

As treasurer of United States Rubber, Charles Flint went to Brussels, Belgium, in 1906 to secure the entire rubber output of the Belgian Congo from King Leopold.

The first recorded use of rubber stamps in art began in pre-revolutionary Russia around 1912 with the Futurists Movement.

The third claimant, L.F. Witherell, of Galesburg, Illinois, claimed in 1916 that he was the inventor of the rubber stamp.

The idea failed to win support from financial institutions and shareholders that were unsatisfied with the industry's performance during the 1920s.

The Du Pont family took control of United States Rubber in 1927.

United States Rubber's manufacturing base was in Detroit, Michigan, and General Motors' nearby location gave United States Rubber half of the carmaker's business in 1931.

In 1966 United States Rubber changed its name to Uniroyal.

By the early 1970's the mechanical or self-inking stamps were being introduced with a built in stamp pad and companies like Trodat in Austria introduced these type of self inking stamps

In 1982, the world’s biggest rubber stamp was designed.

Greenwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983, s.v. "Flint, Charles Ranlett."

In 1986 Uniroyal and Goodrich merged their tire operations to form a jointly owned Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Company (UGTC). The new company would combine Uniroyal's strong supplier business with Goodrich's large replacement business.

In 1987 Dublilier and Clayton bought out Goodrich's holdings in the venture.

The French company Michelin purchased UGTC in 1990.

"Get to Know Us," [cited April 28, 1999] available from the World Wide Web @www.uniroyal.com/knowus_cov.htm/.

Now manufactured in one of the oldest rubber factories in the world based in Slovakia, 2019 see’s the return of United States Rubber Company.