April 10, 1917 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



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which may cause trouble by rising afterward. This, however, 

 would take place on solid wood as well as on the veneered tace, 

 and with varnish finish as well as with paint. Any woodwork to 

 be finished with either varnish or paint should have the face of 

 the wood itself put in proper condition to receive the finish. And 

 what is proper treatment for solid wood is also proper for ve- 

 neered work. When the proper treatment has been accorded, 

 built-up or veneered panels should take the same finish in the 

 same manner as solid work, whether it be varnish, plain paint or 

 special enamels, or whether it be brushed, sprayed, or dipped. 



Complete Plans for Rebuilding Factory 



The Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Company, Mount Gilead, 

 O., which among a variegated line of other articles manufactures 

 hydraulic veneer presses, announces that detailed plans are com- 

 pleted for the rebuilding of the burned portion of the plant. Two 

 additional buildings are to be added at the same time, thus giving 

 much expanded facilities. These two new buildings, with the two 

 v/hich will be replaced, will house the machine shop, a three-story 

 stock room, new power plant and structural and forge shop. The 

 highest type of construction will be used throughout. 



In the new machine shop new equipment will include an electric 

 traveling crane of twenty tons' capacity, and two smaller cranes 

 of two tons' capacity, operating in each side wing of the building 

 There will also be new boring mills, milling machines, lathes, 

 planers, etc. 



The storeroom will be equipped with modern electric elevators 

 and other labor-saving devices, while the new power plant will 

 havr a 300 H. P. Corliss engine and a 300 f-1. P. water tube boiler 

 with automatic stoker. 



The new structural and forge shop will be of large proportions, 

 thoroughly equipped in every particular. Ground is already 

 broken for the new power plant and it is planned to have the old 

 and new works completed and in operation by July 1. 



A Definite Means of Improving Veneer Crating 



The Forest Service, through its Madison, Wis., laboratory, re- 

 cently completed extensive and illuminating experiments in the 

 proper manufacture of boxes. It demonstrated that by a shifting 

 of the nailing arrangement and the addition of a few nails in each 

 box, a cheaper box of immensely greater strength could be manu- 

 factured by anybody. 



The handling of veneers in crates necessitates a crate of real 

 strength and rigid character. The findings of the Forest Service 

 in its investigation of box manufacture should be suggestive at 

 least to those who ship out veneers in crates. It was demonstrated 

 in the experiment that the arrangement of the nails had more to 

 do with the efficiency than does the number as the increase in the 

 number in each box was so small as to make it not worthy of 

 consideration. 



Fire broke out in the plant of the Maryland Veneer and Basket 

 Company's plant at Westport, Md., just outside Baltimore, on 

 April 3, but caused only slight damage. 



At Brooklyn, N. Y., the Standard Veneer and Panel Company, 

 manufacturer and exporter of veneered panels, has been organized 

 with offices in the Bush Terminal building. 



The Austin Veneer and Lumber Company, Chicago, is now 

 known as the S. J. Austin Veneer Company. 



The Martin Veneer Company, Pascagoula, Miss., recently suf- 

 fered a loss by fire. 



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