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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Where Coe Veneer Machinery Is Made. 



Pictured herewith are several exterior and 

 interior views of the great manufacturing 

 plant of the Coe Manufacturing Company of 

 Paine6ville, O., in which is made a full line 



which hundreds of machines and other ap- 

 pliances for the handling of veneers are 

 turned out annually. The original firm of 

 Coe & Anderson save wav to that of Coe & 



ican hardwoods, to illustrate the possibili- 

 ties of large rotary cut panel work. The 

 doors are of built-up stock, faced with hand- 

 some veneers, and even the ceilings of the 



THE MAIX BUILDING OF THE COE MANUFACTURING CO. 



POWER HOUSE, FOUNDRY AND PATTERN HOUSE. 



of machinery for the production and drying 

 of rotary cut veneers. There is also shown 

 the little old-fashioned machine shop in 

 which the Coe rotary cutting veneer machine 

 was born, and also is pictured the father of 

 the rotary veneer industry, H. H. Coe. 



Mr. Coe was not only a mechanic, but an 

 inventor who knew how to put ideas into 

 practical execution. The first idea of a ro- 

 tary cutting machine came to him in con- 

 nection with an order for a machine to cut 

 tooth-pick stock, and liis fertile lir:i in 

 grasped the possibilities of producing 

 veneers and thin lumber for general com- 

 mercial purposes. While the rotary veneer 

 cutting industry is still undeniably in its 

 infancy, yet its great development is mani- 

 fest when it is known that there are more 



than five hundred su ;ssful rotary cutting 



plants in operation within the United States 

 at the present time. 



The little shop where only three or four 

 crude veneer cutting machines were made 

 in a year has grown to a great institution in 



Wilkes late in the sixties, and as early as 

 1901 became the largest manufacturers of 

 veneer machinery in the world. Soon after 

 wards Mr. Coe and his son, Harry 1*. Coe, 

 bought out Mr. Wilkes and commenced the 

 ion of a complete and modern plant for 

 the making of their various machines and 

 appliances. 



The concern was reorganized into a stock 

 company, with II. H. Coe as president, Harry 

 P I oe as vice-president, treasurer and gen- 

 manager, and P. X. Morey as secretary. 

 A machine shop 8ox2, ! 50 feet was built, .end a 

 full equipment of up-to-date tools installed. 

 Other buildings erected at the same time 

 include a large foundry, a detached power 

 house, a pattern storage warehouse, and a 

 handsome office. The buildings are of a 

 modern and approved type, and the main 

 building is one of the finest and best lighted 

 ng shops in the country. 

 The office of the Coe Manufacturing Com 

 pany is an ornate structure, and the interior 

 is finished in great panels of various Amor 



various rooms reflect the work of the Coe 

 rotary cutters. 



After the great plant was built II. II. Coe 

 retired from active participation in the 

 affairs of the company, and since that time 

 they have been handled by Harry P. Coe. 

 The plant in its entirety constitutes one of 

 the finest iron and steel working institutions 

 in the country. The shops are arranged for 

 the rapid and economical handling of mate- 

 rial, and with the equipment of machines 

 and machine tools and the expert machinists 

 employed by the company turn out an un- 

 excelled class of tools made with a maxi- 

 mum of speed and a minimum of cost. The 

 foundry equipment of the institution is also 

 very complete. Molding machines are util- 

 ized and all other modern appliances for the 

 cheap and rapid production of castings. The 

 shipping and receiving facilities of the com- 

 pany are exceptionally good, as the plant is 

 li cated on the main line of the Xickel Plate 

 railroad, with two private sidings, one for 

 the receiving of raw material that enters 



VD3WS ON THE GREAT ERECTING FLOOR OF THE COE MANUFACTURING COMPANY'S .MAIN BUILDING. 



