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[Hurricane Katrina] New Orleans, LA., 10/18/2005 -- 9th Ward resident, Dana Shepherd returns to her mother in laws home for the first time since Hurricane Katrina. FEMA photo/Andrea Booher

Michael DeLeon, age 11, Fort Eustis Boys Scouts Troop

Steelworker 2nd Class Rejuny Caswell, assigned to Navy

PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 13, 2021) – U.S. Navy Aviation

A man standing on top of a metal pole. Man workers work.

U.S. Navy Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Alvis Sanchez,

Senior Airman John Ruffner III, 87th Logistics Readiness

Miscellaneous lot of photographs by Barbara Wright, e.g. University of Virginia, Franconia, New Hampshire, Maine. Finnish descent farm youth helping repairs and upkeep. New England house and farm, Livermore, Maine. Washburn homestead

Photograph of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom Preparing for Testing in the Centrifuge

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Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubber, reclaimed by dissolving and washing out the fibrous materials in old casings, goes through the first refining process in a big Midwest plant. The cleaned, plasticized scrap passes through rolls which carry off dirt and foreign particles at the sides. The refined rubber is then gathered in sheets for further steps in the xylos process. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber sheets from scrap tires. Reclaimed rubber, with all traces of metal and fiber removed, is passed through a series of mill rolls and taken off in sheets form the final roll. This rubber, reclaimed by the xylos process, is now ready for processing into thousands of mechanical rubber products vital to the war production effort. It is also put to many uses in which reclaimed stock is more desirable than new rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Recovering rubber from old tires. In the central wash tanks of a large Midwest plant employing the xylos process, agitated water removes dirt, treated fiber and excess fiber solvent. This operation follows removal of bead portions from scrap casings, breaking of casings into small pieces and dissolving of fiber in caustic soda. The resultant phases of rubber are then pumped to dewatering sources. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber harvest from scrapped tires. Reclaimed, dried scrap rubber is plasticized on the eighty-four-inch mill roll of a xylos process plant in the Midwest. Pigments are added to give the properties desired in the finished product. As it comes off the mill rolls, the reclaimed substance has regained the appearance of new rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Recovering rubber from old tires. In the central wash tanks of a large Midwest plant employing the xylos process, agitated water removes dirt, treated fiber and excess fiber solvent. This operation follows removal of bead portions from scrap casings, breaking of casings into small pieces and dissolving of fiber in caustic soda. The resultant phases of rubber are then pumped to dewatering sources. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Reclaiming rubber from scrap tires. An attendant at a large Midwest xylos process plant checks temperature on a continuous belt dryer which removes every trace of water. Recovery of rubber from old casings is based on dissolving and washing away all tire fibers and processing the resultant rubber material. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber sheets from scrap tires. Reclaimed rubber, with all traces of metal and fiber removed, is passed through a series of mill rolls and taken off in sheets form the final roll. This rubber, reclaimed by the xylos process, is now ready for processing into thousands of mechanical rubber products vital to the war production effort. It is also put to many uses in which reclaimed stock is more desirable than new rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Rubber harvest from scrapped tires. Reclaimed, dried scrap rubber is plasticized on the eighty-four-inch mill roll of a xylos process plant in the Midwest. Pigments are added to give the properties desired in the finished product. As it comes off the mill rolls, the reclaimed substance has regained the appearance of new rubber. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Reclaiming rubber from scrap tires. An attendant at a large Midwest xylos process plant checks temperature on a continuous belt dryer which removes every trace of water. Recovery of rubber from old casings is based on dissolving and washing away all tire fibers and processing the resultant rubber material. Firestone

Rubber reclamation. Harvesting rubber from discarded tires. Scrap rubber, reclaimed by dissolving and washing out the fibrous materials in old casings, goes through the first refining process in a big Midwest plant. The cleaned, plasticized scrap passes through rolls which carry off dirt and foreign particles at the sides. The refined rubber is then gathered in sheets for further steps in the xylos process. Firestone

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Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).

Caption card lists some of the printing history of image.

Title and other information from caption card.

Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.

More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

Film copy on SIS roll 30, frame 2472.

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ohio summit county akron safety film negatives lot 2055 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo rubber scrap rubber rubber reclamation xylos process scrap process midwest plant office of war information farm security administration united states history workers library of congress
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01/01/1941
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label_outline Explore Scrap Rubber, Xylos Process, Lot 2055

Three-inch A.A. cartridge cases. Cartridge cases for three-inch antiaircraft shells are produced by a series of operations that transform a flat brass disc into a case ready for loading with propelling charge and shell. Between each operation there is careful washing to remove all scale and adhesion and to leave surfaces clean for later processing. The big Midwest plant doing the work is well equipped to handle it in stride

Production. Jeep engines. This grinding machine in a Midwest plant is doing yeoman service in the production of jeep engines for the Army. Continental Motors, Michigan

Headed for last cleanup. Six giant truck tires, of the non-directional type are being wheeled in for cleaning and painting. This pattern, developed for the U.S. Army in 1941 is used for field equipment....gives excellent traction in forward or reverse because of the horizontal cleats, yet rides well on the highway on the continuous center rib. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

Wrapping the finished tire. Seeing is not necessarily believing. Even when you see the tire-wrapping machine in operation, it is difficult to understand how it works....spinning a strand of paper around a tire as fast as the operator can feed them in. All the operator need do is place the tire in position; the machine does the rest. Firestone (General) Tires, Akron, Ohio

American Red Cross - Soliciting Funds - Entertainments - Rubber Conservation Campaign, Chicago, Ill. Elephant does hit bit in getting tires for the Red Cross Junk Tire Pole

Balloons - R - Type R, Army Kite Balloon. Four of this type in the air at the Flying Field, Akron, Ohio. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co

Lunch hour for the workmen in a big Midwest plant where old tires are transformed

Spc. Mason Young (right), assigned to the Ohio National

Weapons from waste. Everytime street railway tracks are ripped out to make way for a bus line, it means additional tons of steel for the defense of democracy. Unused trolley and railroad and railway equipment and rails will provide much of the scrap steel needed for defense production

Aerial view of B-52 Stratofortress bombers at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, commonly known as the "Boneyard". Hundreds of B-52s were destroyed as part of the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and sold for scrap at 12 cents a pound. Exact Date Shot Unknown Published in AIRMAN Magazine May 1977

Photograph of the Nose of the USS Akron being Attached, ca. 1933

Conversion. Beverage containers to aviation oxygen cylinders. The first step in the manufacture of high-altitude-flying shatterproof oxygen cylinders in the metal department of a large rubber factory is the forming or stamping of the shell. Stainless steel sheets are blanked or cut into discs(left foreground). Before stamping, these discs are drawn through rolls where a drawing compound is added to both sides to facilitate the forming of the shell. The 750-ton toggle press, shown above, forms a half cylinder in one powerful stroke. Once the half cylinder is formed, it is trimmed and the value-fitting hole is punched into the spherical dome. A cleaning operation later removes the drawing compound. The cylinder halves are now ready for the various welding operations. Firestone, Akron, Ohio

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ohio summit county akron safety film negatives lot 2055 alfred t palmer united states office for emergency management photo rubber scrap rubber rubber reclamation xylos process scrap process midwest plant office of war information farm security administration united states history workers library of congress