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Hardwood Record — Veneer fie Panel Section 



July 10 1917 



FIGURED 



RED GUM 



FINISH 



We believe vy^ith one of 

 our best customers, whose 

 line prominently features 



Figured Red Gum, that the 

 preferred finish for this rich, 

 characteristically American, 

 brown wood is a natural finish, 

 calculated to bring out the full 

 beauty of the wood and not 

 cover it up with heavy discol- 

 oring stains. 



We have for free distribution, colored 

 illustrations of Figured Red Gum furni- 

 ture showing natural finish. Eventually 

 you will use it. Why not become better 

 acquainted now? 



THE LOUISVILLE 

 VENEER MILLS 



Member 

 Gum Lumber Manufacturers Association 



LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 



All Three of U« WUI B« Benefited U 



hydraulic press and accumulator. The accumulator may 

 be placed in the engine room along with the pump, where 

 it may be looked after by the engineer. When it is re- 

 leased it acts immediately and saves the time required for 

 a pump to elevate the press bed. 



The ways of laying up and bolting up the stock are 

 many. For fast work and a minimum of labor 1 prefer 

 the press bed set flush with the floor, openings at the 

 sides of the press and the openings set in line with the 

 rolls as nearly as possible and as close to it as will be 

 convenient. 



The stock is laid up on one of the portable platforms, 

 built with legs or blocks under the corners instead of the 

 rail of 2- by 6-inch that is generally used on edge under 

 the platforms. If the stock is of uniform size or within a 

 certain range the platform may be used as the bottom 

 caul, and the bottom retainers laid in place on the press 

 bed before the platform is hauled into the press. If the 

 stock varies greatly in size, the proper sized retainers 

 and cauls may be placed in position on top of the plat- 

 form. In either case the truck is used to haul the plat- 

 fcrm into the press so that two of the legs rest on the 

 floor on each side of the press. The distance between 

 the legs fore and aft of the platform is of course a little 

 greater than the width of the press bed, so that the legs 

 straddle it. The top retainers are put in place and when 

 the power is applied the platform and all that is on it 

 rises with the press bed, the pile is bolted up, the press 

 released and the truck hauls the platform with the stock 

 on it to where it can remain until time to be broken 

 down. When the stock is to be broken down, the plat- 

 form is hauled to place at the equalizing saw, after the 

 top caul and retainers have been removed. 



Equalizing Saws 



The panels are sawed both ways on this machine 

 which has three saws on the mandril, two of which are 

 on collars v^hich may be removed along the mandrill, 

 in order to get both length and width of the panel, the 

 middle saw making a cut for each dimension. 



1 have tried many kinds of retainers and have found 

 the simplest to be the best. I use a road with a head and 

 cast washer on the bottom end and 1 2 inches of thread 

 with a washer and the thumbnut on the other end. 



The horizontals are made of two pieces of channel 

 iron bolted or riveted together back to back with a washer 

 between of a thickness a little greater than the diameter 

 of the rod. The bolts or rivets are nine inches or a foot 

 from the ends so that the backs of the two channels form 

 a slot for the rods. With these simple rods I have used 

 the 6 by 6-inch birch and maple blocks with the end 

 slots sawed in them for the horizontals with good suc- 

 cess. In breaking down with this arrangement the rods 

 may be knocked out. I have found that the turnbuckle 

 rods, wedge rods, etc., give more or less trouble in differ- 

 ent ways. However, many of them are in use and appear 

 to give satisfaction. 



Of the drying of the panels after they are glued and 

 either before or after they are sized the same is true as 

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