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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



February 10, 1917 



PERKINS 



GLUE 

 COMPANY 



SOLE MANUFACTURERS 

 AND SELLING AGENTS 



PERKINS 

 Vegetable Veneer Glue 



(PATENTED JCI-Y 2, 1912) 



805 J. M. S. BUILDING 

 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 



Letters from a Panel User 



MONBOK, Mich., January 25: I was very mueli pleased to observe 

 the editors of Hardwood Record are devoting a section of tlieir 

 journal for discussions of problems appliealile to veneer and panel 

 work. A lot of material has been published in times past, liut tliorc 

 is room for more. 



Veneering has become an interesting topic among manufacturcr.s 

 workmen, dealers and the buying public. There was a time when the 

 eonsiuner thought veneered work inferior to solid. To be sure, this 

 was before the public became acquainted with the merits of veneered 

 work properly done. 



With the development of this line of business we note a decided 

 tendency to specialize along several well defined lines. For instance, 

 a certain manufacturer may manufacture panels, another may special- 

 ize in parts for furniture and pianos. The average veneer manufac- 

 turer has studied the problems of veneering, but the best of them 

 sometimes has work go wrong regardless of his wonderful efficiency 

 and so-called expert crew of workmen. It appears to me that an 

 article of this kind may be appreciated. Again, if the information is 

 applied there is no doubt but that most of your veneer room troubles 

 will be eliminated. 



One of your problems is the warping and twisting of veneered stock. 

 I recently visited a panel factory and fomid that most of the panels 

 they had veneered were warping. The manager was very much dis- 

 couraged. Yes, the equipment was ideal, but they overlooked certain 

 factors. What was their trouble? They were in too much of a hurry 

 to move the stock after veneer was laid. Their quarters were small 

 and they felt they could not allow the usual time for drying, taking a 

 cliance which proved very expensive. If results arc to be obtained 

 and you want straight stock, it is absolutely necessary that you keep 

 the stock straight until it is thoroughly dry — it matters not whether 

 tliis may take two weeks or one month. That is not all. In order to 

 prevent distortion you must keep the stock straight from the time it 

 leaves the press until all moisture has been extracted. If the stock 

 is pUed in such shape that it cannot twist, there will be no chance for 

 warps and twists because with the drying of the wood there has also 

 been a drying and hardening of the glue which makes the parts rigid. 



Knowing the tendency of veneers to absorb moisture while in the 

 bvdk in the storeroom, both in fancy veneers as well as crossbanding 

 rotary cut stock, great care should be taken to see that the stock is 

 carefully redried before it is glued up into the finished product. 



Do not be afraid to have your veneer good and dry. There is no 

 danger of its being too dry. It may be easier to handle when it is 

 moist, soft and pliable, liut to lay it in that condition means no end 

 of trouble in the future. Every veneer man knows or should know 

 that a perfectly dried core, with a perfectly dried veneer and good 

 glue, with ideal manufacturing conditions and common horse sense in 

 laying, should produce perfect veneered work, work that will never 

 give trouble. Very truly yours, 



AxEX T. Deinzer, The Deinzer Furniturre Company. 



Dry Room for Panels 



A manufacturer of panels, who for years has turned out a product 

 that can almost be considered as a standard in his line, recently de- 

 scribed a very simple operation which he maintains at practically no 

 cost, whereby the quality of his panels when shipped is api>rcciably 

 increased. He has partitioned off a space at one end of one of the 

 floors — it isn 't necessary to have an especially large room — and has laid 

 tliis out so that panels can be racked in plenty of air space an<l in a way 

 to faeUitate economic handling, and to eliminate an extra transfer- 

 ring from one truck to another. 



The space selected is, as stated, merely one end of a regular floor 

 and, as with the rest of that particular floor, lias steam coils for 

 heating at one end. At the other end he has installed an exhaust fan 

 which during cold weather is kept running. Thus an active circula- 

 tion of warm air passes through, over and between the panels and in 

 twenty-four hours' time they are conditioned perfectly. 



This system is not only very inexpensive, but is easily handled ami 

 is very effective. 



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