The parent channel's bench: chemists, tank men, and the testing laboratory

1943–1954 · CLASS 2 · MISHAWAKA RESIDENTS ON THE PARENT'S PAPER

The chemists: Beside the sponge bench, the parent channel carried a Mishawaka chemistry staff whose subjects are the synthetic-rubber age itself. Ernest G. Bargmeyer of Mishawaka — who stands first on the works' own rubber-adhesive grant with Kenneth L. Keene, No. 2,370,044, of 20 February 1945 — took two grants to the parent in one week of February 1949: No. 2,461,953, "Compounding copolymers of butadiene and styrene," and No. 2,461,954, "Manufacture of butadiene-styrene copolymer cements," the GR-S synthetic the war had made the industry's staple. Lawrence E. Daly of Mishawaka: No. 2,439,202, an acrylonitrile-copolymer composition, of 6 April 1948; with Schott, No. 2,452,999, "Making cellular thermoplastic receptacles," of 2 November 1948, Daly there printed of Osceola, the county's own town, the residence printed both ways across his grants as the lists print them; No. 2,498,652, "Laminar structure," of 28 February 1950; a blends grant of February 1951 whose number the volume's text leaves at the edge of its column, carried below; and with R. W. Pooley of South Bend, No. 2,570,182, "Making cellular material," of October 1951. Curtis E. Huff and J. H. Clynch of Mishawaka, No. 2,442,085, "Drying oil-neoprene resins," and No. 2,442,086, "Drying oil-(butadiene-styrene) resins," both of 25 May 1948; Huff with G. A. Zimmerman, No. 2,499,503, on tripolyphosphate stabilizers for vinyl resins, of 7 March 1950. Walter R. Hoover — Clayton's sponge partner of 1943 — with R. M. Paulsen of Mishawaka and S. V. Landgraf of Elkhart, No. 2,429,060, on controlling the polymerization of dihydric-alcohol esters, of 14 October 1947. Robert M. Paulsen alone, No. 2,528,168, "Method of making resin impregnated fabrics," of 31 October 1950. James R. Wells of Mishawaka, No. 2,667,430, "Synthetic resin impregnated glass fabric and making same," of 26 January 1954 — the fiberglass age arriving on the same bench. Gustave M. Michiels of Mishawaka, No. 2,670,501, "Method of forming plastic material," of 2 March 1954.

The tank and product men: Walter R. Hoover alone, No. 2,429,688, "Fuel tank," of 28 October 1947, and Robert E. Bailey of Mishawaka, No. 2,558,807, "Making flexible fuel tanks," of 3 July 1951 — the self-sealing and flexible fuel-tank line, war work that the banked AM General and war files meet from the vehicle side, here met from the patent side: the tanks' rubber was compounded and patented by Mishawaka residents. Thomas F. Plant of Mishawaka, No. 2,319,085, "Raincoat," of 11 May 1943. Chris A. Ostby, Jr., of Mishawaka, No. 2,478,126, "Diver's suit," of 2 August 1949 — the diving-suit line the parent sold to the Navy, patented from the city. James T. Royer of Mishawaka, No. 2,378,159, "Storage tank," of 12 June 1945. Everett A. Eakins of Mishawaka, No. 2,458,152, "Plastic rivet and making same," of 4 January 1949 — the same Eakins whose sponge grant to the Mishawaka company followed one week later, the two channels in one man's fortnight. Samuel S. Miner of Mishawaka, No. 2,484,419, "Vulcanizing mechanism," of 11 October 1949. Benjamin H. Scott of Mishawaka, No. 2,560,783, "Molding apparatus," of 17 July 1951. And the laboratory's own instrument: Glen A. Lovell of Mishawaka, No. 2,318,506, "Friction and flexure testing device," of 4 May 1943, to the parent — a testing-machine patent from the plant's own test floor, the Lovell name standing in both channels across the decade, Glen A. in 1943 and Dale E. in 1943 and 1952, the record printing both and this section merging neither.

Sources:

1. Index of Patents Issued, 1943, 1945, 1947–1951, and 1954 — the parent-channel grants as itemized, residences as printed.
2. PubChem patent records for U.S. 2,370,044, 2,667,430 (title as printed there), and 2,670,501 — Bargmeyer's full name, Ernest G., and the Michiels title.