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PARAFFIN WAX.
DISPUTE OVER AMERICAN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1929.
of temperature change." It thus approved for its constituents. the English method of test. In its official publication, the Society adds the following note to the definition: "The so-called Ameri- can Melting Point is an arbitrary The Puisno Judge (Mr. Justico gure 3 deg. F. higher than the Wood) decided which was the pro-A.S.T.M. Melting Point." per test to use in ascertaining thei
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MELTING POINT.
Mr. A. C. Franklin, an analyst American melting point of paraffin' with long local experience, states wax when he delivered judgment in his evidence that in ascertain- In the Summary Court yesterday ing the "American Melting Point" afternoon, in an action for dam-, it has been his invariable practice ages. The plaintiff was Ip Tak, to test by the English. method and trading under the style of Ip Takadd 3 degrees F. to the result: On the other hand, Mr. E. R. Dovey. And Company, No. 36, Queen's Government Analyst, has used the Road Central. He sued the Yes American. Method only for this Lee Cheung Firm, No. 20, Wing purpose. Mr. H. K. Pressor, em- Lok Street, claiming $1,000 dam-ployed in the sales department of ages for breach of contract for the the Astatle Petroleum Company. Limited, with eight years' local supply of 25 tour of "parin wax experience, has stated that his of which defendants refused to ac-practice has been in comparing cept delivery,
his company's product with an American product to add 3 degrees Mr. E. Davidson was for plaintiff F. to the figures resulting from an |and Mr. H. C. Lee defended. English test to find the equivalent fofa quoted American Melting Giving judgment, his Lordship Point. His sale contracts are said:
made without, "specification"- The plaintiff is the seller and specification being used in the sale of Apiorican wax in which he does the defendant the buyer under a contract for the sale and purchase not deal. His experience is that of paraffin wax. The buyer has the local buyer will make use of rejected the goods and the seller the same calculation at the present
time. Bucs for damages for alleged breach of contract. The buyer submits that he is entitled to re-
A sample of the paraffin wax jeet the goods on the ground that' they are not in Recordance with here considered was submitted by the specification contained in the Mr. Franklin, both to the English American tests. The contraet. The contract is in writ-and tho ing. contains the following figure resulting from the British specification: "A.M.P. 125 deg./127 test was 122.5 degrees F. This, deg." It is agreed that the meua-with the addition of 3 degrees F., ing of this specification is "Ameri- becomes 125.5 degrees F.--a tem- which is within the can Melting Point" between 125 perature
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Two Tests Used.
degrees and 127 degrees Fahren-specification in the contract. The heit." The "melting polat" is the American test (being the average Lemperature at which solid wax of three experiments) gave the re- melts, which temperature is the sult 124 degrees F., which is below same 'na that at which the same the specification. wax, when molten, will solidify.
Methods of Testing.
The question for decision is which in the proper test applicable to decide the "American Melting Point in the present contract.
It appears from oral evidence given, and also from scientific text!
The parties have had a course books (which are accessible to tho Court under Ordinance 2 of 1889, of dealing in paraffin wax extend- s. 26 (4), that the "American ing over 30 years. During this Method" of ascertaining the melt-period the transactions have been ing point of paraffin wax. is to moccasional only. All contracts merse 7/8th of the bulb of a have been "A.M.P." i, e. have had thermometer in a given quantitynn American Melting Point in the of molten wax, and then allowing spesification. No similar question the wax to cool to note, the ten-hns arisen between the parties in perature at which a "spider" ex-respect of any other contract in recent contract lends on the surface of the wax the series. À from the edge of the liquid to the (anbsequent to that here involved). mutually performed. bulb of the thermometer. The has been "American Melting Point" Is the without discussion. result ascertained by this method.
Had this contract been of a date The "English Method" in different prior to 1922, it could not have In this method, the bulb is cun-been contended that the "Ameri pletely immersed, the wax is allow-
can Melting Point" mentioned
ed to coal, and periodical readings therein was anything else than (each nerfed being sixty seconds)the result of the American method are noted. It is known that when exactly pursued; and not any ar- the solidifying point is reached, the wax gives unt heat, which arbitrary figures assumed to be its
equivalent. rusts the fall of the thermometer for a time. At this stage in the the process the readings of thermometer remain constant for a series. The stationary figure is accepted as the melting point.
HUNTLEY & PALMERS QUEEN'S
Onus not Discharged.
lies here upon
the The caus plaintiff to show that this inter- pretation has been recently dis- placed by a novel commercial cus- It is obvious that the English tom in this markel which he con- method will register a later sluge tends to be applicable to his con- in solidification than the American tract. This onus he seems to me method, that it will record a lower not to have discharged. temperature and that it will be
For this reason I hold that the less liable to erro. The differ- ence between the results of the "American Melting Point" of this two methods in not constant. It parafa wax for the purpose of this contract is 124 degrees F., Averages from 2 to 3 degrees,
..which is not in accordance with contract specification, and the plaintiff's claim for damages
Definition Adopted.
In recent times dissatisfaction therefore fails. My judgment is has arisen, in the United States of for the defendant with coste. America with the use of the Ameri ean method. There is in Philadel phia a Society named "The Ameri- can Society for Testing Materials”) (incorporated in 1902). "This So- ciety adopted in 1922 as its aland- ard definition of the melting point of paraffin wax the following: "The temperature at which melted paraffin wax, when allowed to cool under definite prescribed condi- tions, first shows a minimum ratę,
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