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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



September 10, 1917 



The Dean - Spicker Co. 



Manufacturers of 



Oak —Mahogany —Walnut 



AND 



LUMBER 



22nd St. and So. Crawford Ave. 

 CHICAGO 



PERKINS 



GLUE 

 COMPANY 



SOLE MANUFACTURERS 

 AND SELLING AGENTS 



PERKINS 

 Vegetable Veneer Glue 



(PATENTED JULY 2, 1912) 



805 J. M. S. BUILDING 

 SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 



It is evident that the thinner the veneer the greater the 



number of superficial feet that may be cut from a given 



quantity of logs, and sliced or rotary stock will yield more 



than if the stock is savored, because in making the sawed 



stock the dust is wasted, and in the sliced there is no dust. 

 According to government statistics, the proportion of 



rotary cut veneers per annum runs in about as follows: 



Thickness Feet Log 



in Inches Measure 



Five-sixteenths ... 26, 1 50,000 



Thirteen- forty- 

 seconds 200,000 



Nine-thirty-seconds. 3,597,000 



One-fourth 52,044,000 



Seven-thirty- 

 seconds 1,313,000 



One-fifth 13,563,000 



Three-sixteenths ..95,402,000 



One-sixth 12,163,000 



Five-thirty-seconds.. 7,255,000 



Two-thirteenths .. 155,000 



One-seventh 9,842.000 



One-eighth 58,000,000 



One-ninth 10,294,000 



One-tenth 10,590,000 



Three-thirty- 

 seconds 618,000 



One-eleventh 225,000 



The total, log measure, required to make the veneers 

 one-tenth of an inch thick or more, is 290,468,000 feet; 

 the logs cut into thinner veneers total 145,413,000 feet. 



A New Veneer Plant 



The factory under construction by the Inman Veneer & Panel 

 Company at Louisville, Ky., will be ready for occupancy about 

 October I. It will employ one hundred men and anticipates no 

 trouble in securing that number. 



The Inman company recently purchased the Portsmouth, O., 

 Veneer & Lumber Company, and most of the machinery of the 

 Portsmouth concern already has been shipped to Louisville to be 

 installed in the plant. The manager and a number of department 

 heads of the Portsmouth plant, with some of the workmen, have 

 gone to Louisville to be associated with the Inman company. 



A Question of Strength 



The claim is made that rotary cut veneer is the strongest form 

 in which wood can be prepared. It is said to surpass in that respect 

 sawed lumber or veneer of the same thickness, or sliced veneer. 

 The greater strength of stock cut so as to follow the annual rings 

 of growth round the log is supposed to be due to the structure of 

 the wood. It is well known that one of the most natural lines of 

 cleavage in wood follows the joining of one growth ring to an- 

 other. These lines are few in rotary veneer where the knife cuts 

 across few rings. 



The barrel made of slack staves of thick, rotary veneer is 

 stronger than when made of any other kind of staves of equal 

 thickness. Numerous kinds and sizes of shipping boxes are made 

 of that kind of veneer, and tests have shown the surprising strength 

 of such boxes. When panels are built up of rotary stock, the com- 

 bined sheets add the strength of each. The greatly increased de- 

 mend in recent years for rotary veneers has no tbeen due solely to 

 cheapness, but to strength and service as well. More than eight 

 feet of rotary cut veneer are produced in the United States to one 

 foot of sliced and sawed. 



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