RUBBERLABELSUSA

The Rubber Labels USA's Connecticut heritage starts in 1847 when the Litchfield Rubber Co. moved to Naugatuck, and the name was changed to Goodyear's India Rubber Glove Mfg. Co., as it began to manufacture rubber gloves for telegraph linemen. This is the only company in which Charles Goodyear, inventor of the rubber vulcanization process, is known to have owned stock. By 1892, there were many rubber manufacturing companies in Naugatuck, as well as elsewhere in Connecticut. Nine companies consolidated their operations in Naugatuck to become the United States Rubber Company. The United States Rubber Company was one of the original 12 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and became Uniroyal Inc. in 1961... The From 1892 to 1913, the rubber footwear divisions of U.S. Rubber were manufacturing their products under 30 different brand names, including the Wales-Goodyear Shoe Co. The company consolidated these brands under one name Keds in 1916 and were first mass-marketed as canvas-top..