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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



May 25, 1921 



LONG-KNIGHT 



LUMBER COMPANY 



WALNUT- HARDWOODS 



Veneers 



Mahogany, American Walnut, Quartered White Oak 

 Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



Indianapolis, Indiana 



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erated by the straps G which are attached to the semi-circular 

 blocks F. It will be seen that this raises the series of boards on 

 the top side of the plates and lowers the bottom series simultane- 

 ously, the semi-circular blocks being attached to the shaft on the 

 floor. H is bolted to F in order to get a good "bite" on the 

 shaft. L is the pipe that feeds live steam into the plates and 

 M is the drain. This is the arrangement as nearly as my friend 

 could remember it but if some of your mechanical geniuses find 

 something to criticise please remember that 1 am not publish- 

 ing this with a view to starting a controversy but merely as a 

 suggestion to some fellow who may require something of the 

 kind. If you think you know a better way go to it, or better 

 still, pass it along so we can have a look at it. 



To use this drier slip your veneers in on the plates A and 

 then bring the boards B into contact by means of the lever K,. Now 

 you will probably notice that the difference between the rig and a 

 real drier is that you only have a hot plate on one side of your 

 veneer, with a cold board on the other, whereas with the standard 

 plate redrier you have a heated plate on both sides of the veneer. 

 Then, of course, there is the matter of capacity so you w^ill see 

 why my friend emphasized the fact that it was a substitute. 



Nevertheless, for a plant with a minimum amount of redrying 

 to do this machine should fill the bill nicely. There is one more 

 point I would like to discuss and that is the one that led up to 

 the machinery man's remark about the funeral. What kind of 

 metal should be used for the hot plates? One suggestion was 

 boiler plate but I think boiler plate would be absolutely unneces- 

 sary. It is not as if there would be any great pressure of steam 

 for a drier; no more in fact than on a glue boiler and these are 

 mode of cast iron. 1 think it would be perfectly all right to have 

 patterns made and have the plates cast at the foundry, then 

 have the necessary machine work done so that the two halves 

 would fit together closely. This is just a point that came up in my 



mind and I would advise any person interested in a drier of this 

 kind to look into the matter unless they are competent to decide 

 offhand for themselves. 



Pleas of Not Guilty Entered 



Charles E. Morrice. of Peru. Ind., former sales manager of the 

 IXL Furniture Company, of Goshen, Ind.» and Willis D. Widner, 

 of Auburn, Ind., formerly production manager of the company, 

 who are charged with conspiracy to violate the revenue act of 

 1918 in Federal court here, entered pleas May 7 of not guilty. 

 Benjamin F. Deahl, president of the company, indicted on the same 

 charge, entered a demurrer to the indictment. Deahl was repre- 

 sented in court by Samuel Ralston, former governor of Indiana and 

 one of the most prominent attorneys of the state. The Federal 

 case arose out of testimony in criminal cases tried in the state 

 courts some time ago in which Charles E. Morris was acquitted on 

 charges of en\bezzlement and larceny connected with the funds of 

 the plant. 



Furniture Man Dies from Injuries 



Orange Ives, assistant superintendent of the Tindall-Wagner 

 Furniture Company, Shelbyville, Ind., died at his home recently 

 from injuries he received in an automobile accident which occurred 

 May I 5 at a culvert three miles north of that city. Mr. Ives did 

 not regain consciousness followring the accident, his death being 

 caused directly from a fracture at the base of his skull. The auto- 

 mobile in which Mr. Ives was a passenger was crowded ofl the 

 road by another car going north toward Indianapolis. 



The S. S. Cox Showcase Company, North Manchester, has filed 

 papers with the secretary of state extending the period of its cor- 

 porate existence for forty years. 



