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Motor Driven Circular Saw 



The accompanying illustration shows a remarkably serviceable combina- 

 tion of woodworking machine made by the Parks Ball Bearing Machine 

 Company ot Cincinnati, Ohio, This machine is driven by a 3-horsepower, 

 60-cycIe, 220-voIt alternating-current Wcstinghouse induction motor. 



This machine may be used as a circular saw, and also as a boring 

 machine by means o( an attachment. It is made in two sizes, light and 

 heavy, the former suitable for driving a :i-inch belt, and the latter for a 

 4-inch belt, the lielt in each case running over a o-inch pulley and a saw 

 14 inches in diameter on ripping hard lumber. 



The frame is made of heavy angle steel, strongly braced, with over- 

 lapping corners securely bolted together. A long substantial wooden base, 

 one on each side, greatly increases the steadiness of the machine, giving 

 more foundation and distributing the strain over more floor space. Angle 

 steel clips are provided on the timbers for the machine to the floor. 



The saw table is made of angle and channel steel ground to a 

 uniformly level and true surface. The angle steel side table aCfords a 

 substantial support, on which to bolt wood extensions of any width or 

 length for work. The table is hinged at the back end so as to permit its 

 being lowered or raised. It is provided with an adjustable depth cut 

 having an opening for a 14-inch saw that will cut 5 inches deep. 



The hard wood strip side of the saw is removable so that a 3%-inch 

 cutter-head can be used on a saw mandrel. The table is ot sufficient 

 width to permit the addition of a 3 or 6-inch pointer. 



The machine, as alxive stated, can also be supplied with a boring 

 attachment which can be used for routing, mortising and turning rosettes. 



A WESTIXGHOUSE MOTOR IX SERVICE 



This consists of an adjustable sliding support to hold the material being 

 bored and a check attached to the end of the saw mandrel. Holes are 

 provided in the frame for this attachment which can be easily added 

 after the saw has been installed. 



The machines are designed for electric drive by motors of from 3 to 4 

 horsepower capacity. The motor is mounted on the floor and belted to 

 the pulley on the shaft which is mounted on the base timbers. 



The motor shown in the illustration herewith, as previously stated is 

 of the alterjiating-current type with what is known as a squirrel cage 

 rotor or revolving part. This type is particularly adapted to use in 

 woodworking plants because of the absence of any moving contacts and 

 the entire elimination of any danger of Are from sparking. 



The motor requires absolutely no attendance, beyond an occasional 

 oiling, and may be started or stopped from any point that is convenient 

 to the operator. 



Meeting of the Cincinnati Lumbermen's Clut) 

 The regular monthly meeting of the Lumbermen's Club was held at 

 the Business Men's Club, Jan. 7, 1913. The usual course dinner was 

 served promptly at 6 :30 p. m., following which President Shiels called 

 the meeting to order. After the reading of the minutes the business of 

 the evening was taken up in regular order. 



B. P. Dulweber, reporting for the committee appointed to assist in the 

 prevention of increases in freight rates on lumber from southern points, 

 stated that Traffic Manager G. M. Freer of that branch of the Chamber 

 of Commerce, after protesting against the increases, had secured the sus- 

 pension of the advances being put into effect. Mr. Dulwel>er advocated 

 the gathering of statistics that would in his opinion have considerable 



weight in preventing the rates from being advanced when the time for 

 a hearing comes. Mr. Freer reported that he had made the trip to St. 

 Louis at the request of the executive board of the club and the result of 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing at that place early in 

 Ueceniber on the question of Increased rates to Canadian points after 

 the railroad side of the question had been presented was a postponement 

 of the meeting until Jan. 24 at Cincinnati, at which time the shippers 

 will be heard. 



The matter of taking some part in the convention of the Ilardwuod 

 Manufacturers' Association, to be held here early in February, was taken 

 up, and the entertainment committee, consisting of J. A. Holser. chair- 

 man : Emil Thoman, W. E. De Laney, Harry R. Browne and Charles 

 McCall; were authorized to open up a "Lumbermen's Club headquarters " 

 at the Sinton hotel, and to be on hand during the convention to take care 

 of the visitors and to have plenty of cigars and other things on hand 

 at all times. 



After the- lively meeting had adjourned, the usual howling parly was 

 formed by some of the enthusiastic bowlers, and the balance of the 

 evening was enjoyed at this sport at a near-by bowling alley. 



A Handsome Calendar 

 The E. E. Wood Lumber Company of lialtimore. Md.. wiiich. in addi- 

 tion to its own poplar, oak, chestnut and other hardwood products, 

 handles also the output of the mills of the Montvale Lumber Company 

 of Fontaua, N. C, is sending its friends as usual a handsome calendar. 

 This year the calendar is an enlarged photograph. si.\teen by twenty 

 inches in size, enclosed in a handsome mat, of one of the splendid 

 poplar trees that grow ^on the company's timber holdings at its Keno, 

 W. Va., plant. This enlargement was e.\ccutcd from a photograph made 

 by the editor of Hardwood Recokd. and is of a six-foot poplar tree. 

 with a bole nearly eighty feet to the first limb. Reside the tree is 

 pictured Clarence Wood, a brother oJ R. E. Wood, standing u-side his 

 saddle horse. The accompanying figures reflect the immense size and 

 character of the R. E. Wood Lumber Company's poplar timber growing in 

 McDowell county, and no better poplar grows anywhere. The picture is 

 fully worthy of a handsome frame, and doubtless will decorate m.dny 

 lumber offices throughout the land. 



J. E. Rhodes Assumes New Duties 

 On Jan. 1, J. E. Rhodes, the new secretary-manager of the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, assumed his duties in connection 

 with that office. Mr. Rhodes is located in the Stock Exchange building 

 at Chicago. For several weeks prior to taking up bis headquarters in this 

 city Mr. Rhodes traveled, visiting the headquarters of the various affi- 

 liated associations making up the National association. Ue is planning to 

 devote the next five or six months to a general tour, getting into what he 

 terms "the high-grass sections" of the country, where he will get in direct 

 touch with representative individual operators and endeavor to prove to 

 them that the National association is not an association that is be.vond 

 I heir reach, but one which is of direct practical benefit to every lumber- 

 mau in the country. The aim of the association under its new administra 

 tion will be to submerge the National association to the interests of the 

 allied associations. The opposite has been the policy heretofore. 



In speaking of his trip to the various associations. Mr. Rhodes stated 

 that he encountered everywhere a decided spirit of optimism. The South, 

 according to the secretary, is in a distinct state of financial, industrial and 

 commercial boom. Prosperity is conspicuous everywhere. 



Secretary Rhodes' opinion of the effect of the Panama Canal upon 

 lumber shipments and markets is that the question will adjust itself 

 with changing conditions, but that be anticipates shipment of consider- 

 able Pacific coast stuff to compete with southern pine. Wliile there is a 

 logical market for the Pacific coast timbers, inasmuch as such stock in the 

 pine forests of the South is becoming comparatively scarce, still, according 

 to Mr. Rhodes, such shipments will involve the shipment in connection 

 with them of a considerable amount of smaller stock to fill out the cargo. 

 Because of the fact that this stock is shipped as a side lint* which can be 

 marketed at comparatively low prices, the effect of such shipments will 

 probably be felt by southern pine manufacturers. Mr, Rhodes is also 

 of the opinion that the opening of the canal will effect a material increast 

 in the market for hardwoods in the Pacific coast states, as it will result 

 undoubtedly in greatly reducing the cost of such shipments. 



Sawmilling in Germany 



A recent consular report from the region of Thuringia states that 

 sawmilling and woodworking in that territory are important inasmuch as 

 it is one of the most thickly forested regions of Germany. The streams 

 there are too small for commercial navigation or logging, but arc of 

 sufficient size to furnish water power for the numerous sawmills on their 

 banks. Large quantities of lumber in fir, pine, beech, birch and spruce, 

 given in the order ot their importance, are cut each season, but the work 

 of logging is carried on scientifically with due regard for the principle 

 of conservation. 



The same report tells of two important piano factories In that district. 

 These plants besides using a great deal of American walnut and mahogany 

 for German piano cases, import many fancy cases and piano parts from 

 the United Statrs. Ot the latter the most extensively imported In that 

 section is Pianola self-playing apparatus. 



