HARDWOOD RECORD 



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The plauks were oak, twelve inches thick, 

 twenty-four inches wide and thirty feet in 

 length. There were thiry-two of them, and to 

 fill the order required thirty-two trees, each fouc 

 and a half feet in diameter at the stump and 

 nearly two and a half feet in diameter at the 

 top, each tree producing but one of the big 

 timbers. 



The singular thing about it is that nearly all 

 of these trees grew within four miles of Fort 

 Wayne, and none of them came from a distance 

 greater than six miles from the courthouse. 

 This shows that despite the heavy demands upon 

 the timber supply in this region, there is still 

 some big timber to be found in the vicinity of 

 Fort Wayne. 



Hardwood Tim'beT Deal. 



The Crocker Chair Company of Sheboygan, 

 Wis., has purchased from D. F. Sanborn & Co. 

 of Ashland, Wig., 6,103 acres of hardwood lands 

 in Houghton and Baraga counties for §86,- 

 569.56. The lands are adjacent to Sidnaw and 

 the timber will be cut at that place and then 

 shipped to Sheboygan to be worked Into the 

 finished product. 



The Crocker Chair Company has a large plant 

 at Sheboygan, and is on the lookout for more 

 hardwood lands farther north. 



New Heavy Hardwood Moulder. 



That veteran and high-class woodworking ma- 

 chinery house, the H. B. Smith Machine Com- 

 pany of Smithville, N. J., has just turned out 

 a new and improved type of heavy moulder. It 

 is known as Xo. 133, a heavy 7 inch moulding 

 machine, and is especially adapted for working 

 hardwoods, and Is shown in the accompanying 

 lialftone engravings. It is called the "Singer 

 Moulder" because it was especially designed for 

 an important concern of that name, and large 

 numbers of them are in use working up the 

 materials for hardwood sewing machine cases. 

 The machine is strictly up-to-date in all re- 

 spects and as compared with other moulders is 

 more convenient to set up and adjust, is much 

 more strongly driven and has a very powerful 

 and positive feed. It may be described as fol- 

 lows : 



The frame Is cast whole, and Is 28% inches 

 wide by 8 feet long, which gives ample room 

 for long and wide belts. The design is of strong- 

 est possible form and admits of easy access to 

 the inside vertical head ; and It also supports 

 the table close to the under head. 



The table is extra heavy, adjustably gibbed to 

 the frame and adjusts up and down by a single 

 screw which rests on ball bearings and is ad- 

 justed by a winch from the front. For deep 

 work it will drop as low as 9 'A inches, or by 

 removing the outside head-stock, as low as ISV-i 

 inches. When the table is adjusted to position 

 It is then clamped firmly to the frame by two 

 clamp-bolts, one bolt through the outside sup- 



port to upper head and the other near the 

 under head. 



The cutter-spindles are all made of high car- 

 bon steel, carefully turned and ground to fit 

 the bearings. They are 1% inches in the bear- 

 ings, and the upper and under spindles are 1% 

 inches where the heads go, while the side spindles 

 are 1 H Inches for the heads. The under spindle, 

 like top mandrel, is provided with three bear- 

 ings and the head is remevable without disturb- 

 ing the spindle. 



The bearings to the upper and lower cutter- 

 spindles are of our patent clamp self-oiling style 

 which can be adjusted to the one thousandth 

 part of an inch, and they are thoroughly com- 

 pensating. The upper spindle is provided with 

 an outside bearing 4V> inches long, and the other 

 two bearings are 6i/. inches long each. The out- 

 side bearing to the under spindle is readily re- 

 movable so as to take off the under head. The 

 vertical spindles have self-oiling compensating 

 cap-bearings and are also provided with step- 

 bearings, the pull of the belts being against the 

 boxes. The countershaft bearings are compen- 

 sating and self-lubricating. 



The head-stocks of the upper and under heads 

 have longitudinal adjustment, and the vertical 

 heads or spindles have vertical, lateral and angu- 

 lar adjustments. The angular adjustment to the 

 outside head is 17 degrees and to the inside head 

 S degrees, and these angles are not disturbed 

 when adjusted laterally or vertically. The inside 

 vertical head-stock is attached to the table and, 

 with the outside head, goes up and down with it. 

 The feed mechanism is composed of two upper 

 feed rolls, one 4 inches and the other 2% Inches 

 diameter and one 4-inch roll in the table, all 

 driven and expansively geared so as to drive in 

 any position of the table. The two upper rolls 

 are given pressure by a combination of two Inter- 

 vening springs, all placed within the framing. 

 The feed shafts are IH Inches with substantial 

 bearings and both upper rolls are driven by a 

 downward pressure of the gears, thereby increas- 

 ing the power of the feed. There are two rates 

 of feed, 25 and 44 feet a minute, which are 

 started and stopped by a lever in front. This 

 lever actuates a friction clutch and the motion 

 from the clutch-shaft is communicated to the 

 train of feed gears by a very fine hardened steel 

 automobile roller bearing chain running on milled 

 sprockets, hence the feeds are very powerful and 

 positive. The feeding mechanism as a whole has 

 a screw adjustment to regulate the draw to the 

 fence side of the machine. By raising a lever to 

 a vertical position it lifts the feed rolls so that 

 the stock can be withdrawn. 



The under head, besides having a horizontal ad- 

 justment and being removable from the spindle, 

 has an adjustment to regulate the amount of 

 cut, and the end of the bed after the head has 

 an adjustment to fit the cut as well as being 

 raised and lowered with the head. Therefore, it 

 Is right for any cut when once set for the cutters 



in use. The end of the table swings down for 

 access to the cutters. 



The cutter-heads furnished with the machine 

 are all four-slotted, lipped and made from high 

 carbon hammered steel, and all are of the same 

 cutting circle, 5 l-b inches, thus allowing aa inter- 

 change of cutters on the different heads. 



The pressure bars and chip-breakers are of 

 latest design and all readily removable for quick 

 access to the cutter-heads. The chip-breaker to 

 the upper head is adjustable to and from the 

 cut and is weighted. There is a pressure foot 

 immediately after the upper cutter, and another 

 over the under-cutter, and these can be connected 

 by a board or reverse moulding so as to make the 

 pressure continuous. These pressure feet are ad- 

 justed by hand wheels. 



The spring posts are held solidly by our im- 

 proved cast steel clamps which do not bruise the 

 post, hold more firmly and are easily repaired in 

 case of wear. 



Each four-side machine is furnished with one 

 four-slotted steel head to each spindle, each head 

 having cutter-head bolts and a pair of plain 

 knives ; a chip-breaker to the outside vertical 

 head, one cap head, and wrenches and guide 

 shown in the foreground of cut. 



For top head belting 14 feet 2 inches long by 



4 inches wide is required : bottom head, 18 feet 2 

 inches long by 3 inches wide ; inside head, 15 feet 



5 inches long by 3 inches wide ; outside head, 14 

 feet long by 3 inches wide ; and for feed 13 feet 

 long by 2% inches wide. 



The machine weighs 2,550 pounds, and requires 

 a floor space of 9 feet by 5 feet 8 inches ; tight 

 ind loose pulleys 12 Inches by 6 inches ; the speed 

 of the countershaft is 900 revolutions per minute, 

 and the machine requires eight to nine horse- 

 power. 



The H. B. Smith Machine Company operates a 

 large branch establishment in Chicago, at 10 and 

 12 Xorth Canal street, under the management of 

 Thomas K. Martin. Mr. Martin will be pleased 

 to exhibit the new type of moulder to anyone in- 

 terested in high-class tools of special value in 

 handling hardwoods. 



:AR view II. B. SMITH MACHINE COMPANY'S NEW HEAVY SEVEN- 

 INCH MOULDER. 

 [For Fbont View op This Machine See Page 51.] 



Annual of FMladelpliia Exchange. 



The Lumbermen's Exchange of Philadelphia 

 held its twenty-second annual meeting in the 

 Crozer Building on April 9. The attendance 

 was unusually large and representative and in- 

 cluded all the prominent Philadelphia lumber- 

 men and not a few out-of-town guests. 



The usual custom of electing a temporary 

 chairman for this occasion was waived, and on 

 motion of George F. Craig the retiring presi- 

 dent, William L. Rice, was elected chairman, 

 an honor which was much appreciated by Mr. 

 Rice. The retiring president then read his an- 

 nual address, which was followed by the annual 

 i-eport of John H. Lank, secretary of the ex- 

 change. These showed the affairs of the or- 

 ganization to be In very satisfactory shape and 

 reflected great credit on the officers. After the 

 reading of the various reports of the commit- 

 tees the election of new oflicers, directors and 

 auditors was In order. 



George F. Craig nominated Frederick S. Un- 

 derhill of Wistar. Underhill & Co. for president. 

 Edward B. Malone nominated Herbert P. Rob- 

 inson of Miller. Robinson & Co. for vice-presi- 

 dent, and Frederick S. Underhill proposed that 

 Charles P. Maule. who has been the popular 

 treasurer of the exchange for a number of years, 

 should continue in office, a move to which, as 

 might be expected, there was no opposition. 

 That the genial and affable John H. Lank should 

 again be elected secretary by the directors was 

 a foregone conclusion, as never has the ex- 

 change been better served in this capacity than 

 by this same John H. Lank. On motion the 

 nominations for the various offices were closed, 

 and the names of the officers, who were elected 

 without a dissenting voice, recorded by the sec- 

 retary. 



A vote of thanks was unanimously voted to 



