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Heirdwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



July 10 1917 





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AU Three of U* Will Be Benefited if 



of labor and the capacity of the plant was cut down about 

 30 per cent. I have drawn several contracts for this con- 

 cern. Each time they have almost decided to part with 

 the price of a machine, but each time they have been 

 afraid that good business might not continue or that a 

 submarine might blow up the plant, or they have made 

 some excuse to themselves for not putting in the machine 

 that they know they should have and that would soon pay 

 for itself. 



If your output is largely thick stock you are probably 

 using a lumber kiln or tunnel of some kind; piling the 

 stock on trucks, with piling strips between the sheets. 

 Labor-saving Devices 



There are several labor-saving devices which may be 

 employed at this point. The grooved racks, either 

 vertical or horizontal, not only save labor but they retard 

 the drying on the end of the sheet and prevent checking 

 and compel the stock to dry more evenly and more 

 nearly flat. The sheets can be slid into the grooves much 

 more quickly than parting strips can be laid at the ends 

 of the sheets. 



if the sheets are more than 12 or 16 inches on the 

 grain, of course you will need one or more parting strips 

 along the sheet. If two uprights are placed at the back 

 of the truck where the parting strips come, or a channel 

 may be used for this purpose, so that the back end of 

 the strips drop into the channel or between the uprights, 

 the strips may be laid more quickly, and are sure to come 

 in line at the back. After the pile is made the strips may 

 be knocked in line at the front. 



In breaking down the pile the line of parting strips 

 may be drawn very quickly if a nail is driven in each 

 strip at right angles to the strip and parallel to the run 

 of the sheets, so that an upright may be hooked behind 

 this row of nails and the entire row of strips drawn out. 

 With small stock the entire pile of veneers may be drawn 

 at once from the grooves by pushing them out froTn the 

 back. 



The Glue Room 



Whether you use vegetable glue, aninial glue, casein, 

 silicate, or a glue of your own make, your mixers, rolls 

 and the laying up of your panels require about the same 

 labor. Your press, retainers, etc., require a certain num- 

 ber of men to operate them and it would probably be 

 difficult to do away with any of these men. Your saving 

 here must be by an equipment that will increase your 

 output with the crew that you already have. 



I have had considerable experience with curved work 

 and I know that any great saving in this must be worked 

 out in each mill and cannot be worked out in a general 

 way. 



I have also manufactured much flat stock, particularly 

 three-ply box stock. This is the cheapest product in the 

 form of panels and the aim is for quantity rather than 

 quality, and every effort is made to get the greatest pos- 

 sible quantity of stock through the glue room with the 

 ordinary crew. 



My experience has been that this can be done with a 



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