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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Evolution in HardWood WoodWor%ing J\Iachinert;. 



Up to a ilecacle ago the wonderful develop- 

 ment in American hardwoods was undreamcdf 

 of by even the most far-sighted lumbermen.! 

 In former days the chief hardwoods em-] 

 ployed in doors, interior finish and flooring 

 were black walnut, cherry, oak and ash. 

 These woods, all being of comparatively free 

 milling qualities, the ordinary revolving head 

 machines employed for surfacing, tonguing 

 and grooving white and yellow pine were 

 found to answer the purpose fairly well. 



The first manufacturer of woodworking 

 machinery to realize that higher types, heav- 

 ier weights, and finer adjustments were nec- 

 essary for the accurate manipulation of the 

 infinite variety of American hardwoods was 

 the lloyt & Brother Company of Aurora, 

 m., which some years ago became a part of 

 the great American Woodworking Machinery 

 Company. By the expenditure of infinite 

 pains, much time, and marked mechanical in- 

 telligence, a massive 

 four-side machine of 

 great strength and pos- 

 itive and accurate ad- 

 adjustment was con- 

 structed, which has 

 become famous, nota- 

 bly in the production 

 of flooring from that 

 wood of most difficult 

 and refractory mill- 

 ing qualities — hard 

 maple. This machine 

 was known as Xo. 29. 



The man, to whom 

 the hardwood flooring 

 makers of this coun- 

 try are particularly 

 indebted for the con- 

 struction of this tool, 

 on which most of the 

 many million feet of 

 hard maple flooring 



now i)K ilAlil'Wi 



CORNER OF AURORA PLANT AMERICAN WOODWORKING MACHINERY COMPANY. 



has been made for 

 years, is Irving J. 

 Budlong. Today Mr. 

 Budlong is but thirty- 

 seven years old. As 

 a boy of eighteen he 

 entered the drawing 

 room of the Aurora 

 branch of the Amer- 

 ican AVoodworking 

 Machinery . Company 

 to learu the trade of 

 machinery building. 

 His salary was fifty 

 cents a day. He has 

 been a tireless and in- 

 telligent worker in de- 

 veloping the higher 

 types of hardwood 

 tools, and he is now 

 the manager of this 

 branch house. He has 

 never been satisfied 

 vvitli "good enough," but day by day has 

 striven to Iniihl machinery that should bo 

 lii'tlor and better. 



The latest product of the American Wood- 

 working Machinery Company at Aurora is 

 known as No. 129, baeed on its eminently 

 successful predecessor, No. 29. It embraces 

 all the good jioints of the latter, and has 

 several very important improvements which 

 place it absolutely in the front rank of 

 lourside machines for the making of hard- 

 wood flooring. This new tool is illustrated 

 on pages 40 and 41 of this issue of the 

 Hardwood Eecokd. Among the marked im- 

 jirovcments over its predecessor is a positive 

 ;ind accurate device for raising and lowering 

 Hie side liead spindles without the neces- 

 sity of even stopping the machine. Another 

 iniprovonient is the attachment of radically 

 iiiw and thoroughly approved lock-nut -cx- 

 ]p;iiisioik hcad.s, which are herewith illus- 

 trated. These heads arc self-centering, and 

 (it together with taper joints. The cutter 

 i.KIIofSl.: AWAlTlNc; silll'MKNT. knives, eight in number, are in two parts, 



'ART OF TIIK KKECTIXG FLOOR. 



