40 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



May 10, I 92 I 



TAB 



LU 



The Picture Sliozvs the Present Home of 



TRADE MARK 



(Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) 



ITS FIRST COST IS ITS LAST COST 



Process and Product Patents covering Perkins Glue were granted July 2nd and March IVlh, 1912, and 

 have been held valid and infringed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Patents have also 

 been granted in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and other foreign countries. 



PERKINS GLUE COMPANY 



Factory and General Offices: LANSDALE, PA. 



Sales Office: SOUTH BEND, IND. 



A Rapid Moisture Determiner 



A method used by the Forest Products Laboratory for determin- 

 ing the amount of moisture in chips and sample borings from 

 large pieces of wood requires little equipment and only a few 

 minutes* times. The moisture content of pulpwood chips can be 

 found by this method in from 7 to 1 minutes. 



A specified weight of wood chips, usually 100 grams, is im- 

 mersed in kerosene in a flask or retort, and the mixture is heated. 

 The water in the chips changes to steam at 2 I 2 degrees, and goes 

 out through a glass tube in the cork of the flask, is condensed 

 by a water jacket surrounding the tube, and caught in a measuring 

 glass. The boiling point of kerosene being higher than that of 

 water, all the moisture will be driven off the chips before the 

 oil vaporizes to any great extent. The oil that does go off in the 

 form of vapor is condensed and caught in the same graduate with 

 the water. When the evaporation of moisture is complete, the 



oil and water are allowed to remain a few^ minutes until the w^ater 

 has all settled to the bottom of the graduate. The amount of 

 moisture in the wood chips is then found by a direct reading. 



This method has been checked for accuracy w^ith the method 

 of weighing samples before and after oven drying, and the varia- 

 tion found to be less than 1 per cent. 



Furniture factories at Tell City, Ind., Jasper, Ind. and Henderson, 

 Ky., are being operated on part time only as they have been 

 since the first of the year. The manufacturers in those cities are 

 of the opinion that the w^orst of the business depression has 

 passed and that it is only a question of time until trade shows 

 a marked change for the better. 



The Waukesha Manufacturing Company, Waukesha, maker of 

 furniture specialties, has been obliged to increase its working 

 force and w^orking schedules to keep pace with the increase in 

 orders. Every former employe has been invited to return to w^ork, 

 in addition to which numerous new w^orkmen have been taken on. 



Rapid Moisture Content Finder 



Christian Janes has been appointed acting superintendent of the 

 Antigo (Wis.), mill of the Frost Veneer Seating Company, filling 

 the vacancy caused by the death of A. M. Young. Mr. Janes has 

 been connected with the plant for more than twenty years, latterly 

 as general foreman. Louis Lieberman, general superintendent of 

 the Frost Company, with headquarters at Sheboygan, Wis., spent 

 several days at the Antigo mill to supervise the change of operative 

 administration. 



