He decided to use the abandoned Diamond Match Company facility in Akron for his new rubber products factory.
The Diamond Rubber Company was located in the southwestern part of Akron, adjacent to the Ohio and Erie Canal, on the southwest side of Falor Street.
Instead, it is the Diamond Rubber Company that first appears in the 1894 Akron city directory, which also includes the information that it was incorporated in March of that year.
[2] Walter Sherbondy was granted U.S. patent 499,600 in 1893 for his design of a self-healing pneumatic tire.
In 1904, Diamond and B.F. Goodrich entered into a rubber recycling joint venture, incorporated as the Alkali Rubber Company, and a new plant was constructed adjacent to the existing Diamond and B.F. Goodrich plants in Akron.