Shaler 5 minute vilcanizer

[Shelbylex]

Found this thing at a yard sale. Looked like a clamp, but vulcanizer made me thing about the process we used to fix tubes in the old style bike tires back in the old days (jeesh, that makes me feel old - I bet no kids patch their tires our days...).

Decided to get it as it looked interesting! $1

Do not know what to do with this yet, but will keep as an interesting oddity for now.

Enjoy an old advertisement online as well.

P.S.
Found a video online - pretty cool process with a lot of heat. We used electric ones, never saw this one... Watch at your own risk - sarcasm and profanity included.

 

[bonneyman]

For $1 that would have been hard to leave behind.

I'm not old enough to remember hot patch tube repair. Though I do remember the old rubber plug and glue jobs the service stations used to do on car tires.

Do they even still make the hot patches?

 

[Richard Cranium]

I have one of those out in my garage, and I remember using them to patch bike tubes.

 

[d42jeep]

If you have a vulcanizer, you need a hot patch to go with it. I don’t plan on ever using either of them!
-Don

 

[Shelbylex]

Nice!
I wonder if this would work on modern tires without the inner tube?

 

[1930artdeco]

Do they even still make the hot patches?

I think they still make them-in Mexico. You can't import them via the mail into the US. But I think you can drive them in with you. I would like to get some to repair the tubes in the A.

Mike

 

[GreyOwl]

My Dad gave me his many years ago and he also had a hose and connector that fit in a spark plug hole to air the tire back up after you patched the tube on the side of the road. No idea what ever became of them especially after two moves.

 

[four.cycle]

Shaler / C.A. Shaler Co., 2104 4th St., Waupun, WI / tire repair tools, "Rislone" oil additive / https://www.industrialsealpro.com/index.htm / est. 1904 / vulcanizer / patent 785633 Mar 21 1905 James Millard Padgett & 845272 Feb 26 1907 & 955479 Apr 19 1910 Clarence A. Shaler & 1970698 Aug 21 1934 Harold H. Hanson / http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/141527.html?1274144941 / http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/118802/141527.html?1274120833 / https://www.industrialsealpro.com/history.htm /


1924 Popular Science Shaler Vulcanizer ad May 1924 pp 120


1925 C.A. Shaler advertisement


1928 Popular Science Shaler Vulcanizer ad Jun 1928 pp 111


Shaler 5-minute vulcanizer (photo: ebay)


Shaler tire bead clamp (patent 845272 955479) (photo: ebay)


Shaler Vulcanizer Set (photo: jay mtfca 01)

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edited for brevity:

On Dec 23, 2022, at 11:37 AM, four.cycle wrote:
The device which resembles a “C-clamp” is the gizmo that is puzzling me. I cannot seem to find a patent for THAT unit.
It appears to have been part of a larger kit – shown in both the advertising illustrations as well as the photos
from the member of the Model T collectors club.

From: datamp.org
To: four.cycle
Subject: Shaler Co. / tire repair/vulcanizer
Date: Monday, December 26, 2022 11:01 AM

It's quite possible that no patent was ever issued for the actual C-clamp
part of the kit. Without a patent date it would, I suspect, be a fool's errand to search for one because there are so many work holding / clamp (USPTO class code 269/ ) patents out there.

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Shaler patents

785633 Mar 21 1905 James Millard Padgett - vulcanizer

845272 Feb 26 1907 Clarence A. Shaler - vulcanizer

955479 Apr 19 1910 "

286232 Oct 9 1883 Clarence A. Shaler - rotary engine

351218 Oct 19 1886 " - wheel plow

630415 Aug 8 1899 " - umbrella cover

977972 Dec 6 1910 " - vulcanizer

1044269 Nov 12 1912 " - electric heating unit

1077372 Nov 4 1913 " - electric sad iron

1169576 Jan 25 1916 " - vulcanizer

1312364 Aug 5 1919 " - vulcanizing apparatus

1558510 Oct 27 1925 " - burner

1666998 Apr 24 1928 Merle E. Faber - assignor to The Shaler Co. of Wilmington, DE - repair vulcanizer apparatus

 

[Shelbylex]

Thank you, Four.Cycle. This is great!!!
I wish we stil used them now - would be nice to do once in a blue moon!

I never had a chance to use one. One of my friends brothers had an electric one decades ago - and it was a big rarity...

 

[Sumboodie]

For $1 that would have been hard to leave behind.

Why?

Unless you are building a museum, it's just more junk someone's going to haul to haul away at some point.

 

[bonneyman]

Why?

Unless you are building a museum, it's just more junk someone's going to haul to haul away at some point.

You could repurpose it, turn it into a conversation piece, find another and make a pair of bookends, polish it up and make a paperweight for the pile o forms on my desk. The potential is endless.
Heck, my brother does steampunk - I'd bet he'd have fun using it!

Here's a pair of cluster bomb bookends, fire extinguisher "grenades" on display, and an old crystal light bulb turned into an aftershave decanter.

What happens to these things after I'm gone doesn't matter. I'm sure most of my things will get grabbed by somebody. But if not, they gave me joy while I had them.

 

[nadogail]

Hot Patches; now that takes me back a few years, I did fix my bicycle with one in the late '40s.

I was too young to do much but observe the operation, but was I given the Honor of lighting the match and touvching it to the fuel and watching it work.

 

[Sumboodie]

You could repurpose it, turn it into a conversation piece, find another and make a pair of bookends, polish it up and make a paperweight for the pile o forms on my desk. The potential is endless.
Heck, my brother does steampunk - I'd bet he'd have fun using it!

Here's a pair of cluster bomb bookends, fire extinguisher "grenades" on display, and an old crystal light bulb turned into an aftershave decanter.

What happens to these things after I'm gone doesn't matter. I'm sure most of my things will get grabbed by somebody. But if not, they gave me joy while I had them.

I actually worked on cluster bombs in the USAF. CBU 87, 89 and 103

 

[bonneyman]

I actually worked on cluster bombs in the USAF. CBU 87, 89 and 103

I loaded munitions on the A-10 when in the service, and - though I didn't actually load any cluster bomb units - I was trained on how to. Nasty type of bomb to be sure.

 

[Sumboodie]

I loaded munitions on the A-10 when in the service, and - though I didn't actually load any cluster bomb units - I was trained on how to. Nasty type of bomb to be sure.

We had them at Mtn Home when I was there early 2000s. I don't remember them flying them, was mostly maintenance work we did.

Had an old empty leaflet bomb from Vietnam that we turned into a BBQer.

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

I am 63 and I can only remember using one of these. One is 110 ponds. Quess witch one.

 

[bonneyman]

We had them at Mtn Home when I was there early 2000s. I don't remember them flying them, was mostly maintenance work we did.

Had an old empty leaflet bomb from Vietnam that we turned into a BBQer.

Idaho on the flight line? Geez, that's making me shiver just thinking about it! IDK how you guys worked outside in temps like that.
(Then again, the flightline in Tucson got so freaking hot you only forgot leaving a tool in the sun once).

 

[Sumboodie]

Idaho on the flight line? Geez, that's making me shiver just thinking about it! IDK how you guys worked outside in temps like that.
(Then again, the flightline in Tucson got so freaking hot you only forgot leaving a tool in the sun once).

Seemed warm to me. Grew up in northern Maine, moved to Alaska, then Idaho, and back to Alaska.

It hit 10* today and almost felt like T shirt weather.

 

[humber2]

Here’s my one that has numerous detail differences.

 

[joecon]

When I was young, they were in every garage and service station. I remember some older mechanics setting the rubber cement you used to set the patches to the tube on fire to simulate a hot patch. The ones you used with that clamp had a metal ring around it. Like most things the quality of the patch is based mostly on the preparation. Today's patches are far superior to any of the old ones.

 

[larry4406]

Never seen those (I’m 62 and born in ‘62!).

We used Monkey Grip patches on our bikes.

Lid of can had the scraper edge to prep for patch.

Thanks for memory lane…

 

[Provincial]

I have used the hot patches on my Model A in the late 1960's.