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Hardwood Record — ^Veneer & Panel Section 



March 10, !922 



VENEERS 



UNDERWOOD QUALITY 



PROMPT DELIVERIES 

 ATTRACTIVE PRICES 



PANELS 



During the past twenty-five years our constant aim has been 

 to make Veneers and Panels especially adapted to the needs of 

 our customers and our ever-widening field of trade has been built 

 up on this principle. 



We carry a large stock of both logs and seasoned Veneer at 

 all times. Our shipping facilities are excellent and orders are 

 promptly filled. 



Send us your inquiries. We carry a large stock of Three and 

 Five-ply Panels on hand at all times — Write for list of sizes. 



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UNDERWOOD VENEER CO 



WAUSAU, WISCONSIN 



Eificient Layout for Medium Sized Furniture Factory 



is only half a story high. This was done in order to work the 

 shipping room in as shown at D. The part of the case goods as- 

 sembly room with the low ceiling is used for packing trucks. 



The floor indicated at B is used as a trimming and packing room. 

 The floor at C is used for upholstering. As upholstering is usually 

 about the final operation the chairs are passed from here down to 

 the packing floor and then when the goods have been packed they 

 are slid down the chute to the shipping room, which is on a level 

 with the railroad cars on the siding. In cold weather the shipping 

 door is closed while the crated goods are slid down. Then the doors 

 at the top of the chute are closed and the cold breezes are not al- 

 lowed to penetrate to the departments where the men are working 

 without the heavy clothing which the shippers wear. 



The Shipping Arrangement 



This is a very convenient arrangement. The goods to be 

 trimmed and upholstered is brought from the finishing room, or the 

 storage room on one of the upper floors, on the elevator. A, in the 

 sectional drawing represents the case room, E the shipping platform 

 and F a box car on the siding. Another innovation in the shipping 

 room is worth passing notice. It is divided into sections by 

 signs on the structural columns and each section indicates where the 

 shipments for a certain part of the country are to be stored. In this 

 w^ay the shipper can see at a glance just when he has a carload for 

 any part of the country, and he can act accordingly. 



It will be noticed that the facilities outside of the plant are also 

 very convenient. For instance, the coal bunker at the side of the 

 boiler room is handy to the railway siding for the unloading of the 

 coal as it is shipped in. 



The facilities for handling lumber are also quite efficient. Tracks 

 through the yard permit the piling of lumber in any part of the 

 yard with equal facility. One of the yard tracks parallels the rail- 



way siding so that several cars of lumber may be unloaded at the 

 same time if necessary, onto yard cars. There is a small part of the 

 yard which is not served by a track, that is the portion right at the 

 end of the case goods assembly department, and this space is nearly 

 always kept clear of piles because if they are allowed to reach any 

 height they block the light from the windows. 



A filing and grinding room for keeping all knives and saws in 

 proper shape is provided at one end of the machine room and is 

 shown here on the plan. This room is also equipped with an iron 

 shaper, lathe and drill press and is in charge of a competent machin- 

 ist who attends to all repairs, except very large ones which may 

 have to be sent out to a local machine shop. 



A machine shop is one of the greatest conveniences that can 

 possibly be added to the equipment of a furniture factory. Very 

 often when new^ lines or new designs are introduced slight altera- 

 tions can be made in existing machines to make them much more 

 efficient for the work, or extra attachments can be designed and 

 carried out in the factory instead of sending them out to a machine 

 shop. It is a well known fact that a man v^ho has the idea of what 

 he wants right in his head can make up the appliance much quicker 

 than the outsider who has to have the idea explained to him. Any 

 furniture factory that does not possess a machine shop with a 

 competent man in charge should look into the matter, as it is a 

 good investment. The machinist in charge should preferably be of 

 an experimental turn of mind, instead of one accustomed to straight 

 production w^ork. 



Price Sells Out to White Company 



The Price Veneer & Lumber Company, Columbia, Miss., has 

 recently sold out its plant and other properties to the H. L. White 

 Lumber Company, of the same city, according to W. M. White, 

 who was a recent visitor to New Orleans. The Price Veneer 

 & Lumber Company manufactured large quantities of both lumber 

 and rotary cut veneer stocks. 



