HARDWOOD RECORD 



into the production of veneer cutting tools, 

 and the other for loading out finished ma- 

 chines. 



In addition to the great and varied line 

 of veneer machinery produced at this plant 



I? 



HANDSOME OFFICE BUILDING, COE MFG. 

 CO. 



is an automatic roller drying apparatus, the 

 patents and patterns of which Mr. Coe 

 bought in 1902. This roller drying system 

 has completely revolutionized that end of 

 the veneer industry. The company will soon 

 commence the erection of another large 

 building to be devoted exclusively to the 

 building of these drying machines, which 

 are now produced in a part of the main 

 building. 



The Coe Manufacturing Company has re- 

 cently issued a handsome hundred-page 

 catalog, which gives information in a clear, 

 concise and logical way, concerning rotary 

 cut veneers and the machines essential to 

 their manufacture. The principal divisions of 

 the book are those devoted to a general de- 

 scription of Coe machinery, Coe rotary cut- 

 lers, clippers, machine foundations and vats, 

 the Coe automatic roller drying machine, 

 Coe automatic knife grinders, veneer saws, 

 Advance butter dish machinery, Giant 

 wringers, hollow die stamping machines, 

 drag saws, veneer knives, veneer mill plants 

 and Coe automatic box board sawing ma- 

 chine. The importance and growth of the 

 veneer industry are especially well handled 

 in the book, and this section will be of in- 

 terest to all engaged in the woodworking in- 

 dustry, for it not only shows the great scope 

 of the business, but gives the use of veneers 



and thin lumber, the range of the market 

 and other valuable information. The work 

 is handsomely printed and sumptuously il- 

 lustrated. It shows types of the entire sixty 

 styles and sizes of machines made by the 

 company, from the smallest ones weighing 

 but S,000 pounds to the monsters which 

 weigh nearly thirty tons and are capable of 

 reducing a twelve-foot log of heavy Pacific 

 coast timber into veneers. A description of 

 automatic roller veneer drying machinery i3 

 given a prominent place in the book, and 

 the entire work illustrates in a most forcible 

 manner the claim presented by the manufac- 

 turers of "from log to market in twenty- 

 four hours." The work is well worth a 

 thorough reading by everyone interested in 

 attaining the best and most profitable re- 

 sults from forest growth. 



An interesting section of the publication 

 is devoted to mill plants, showing mills so 



II. II. COE. FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT COB 

 MFG. CO. 



arranged that a maximum of efficiency is 

 secured at a minimum cost for labor. 



The work can be secured by anyone inter- 

 ested on application, from the Coe Manufac- 

 turing Company, Painesville, (). 



Rotary Cutting of Veneers. 



Frequently it happens that some one who 

 has lately become interested in the ques- 

 tion of veneer manufacturing writes to 

 some one of the lumber papers to know if 

 this wood or that wood can be successfully 

 worked into veneers, and also if that is the 

 best plan for manufacturing the timber in 

 question into a merchantable product. This 

 really involves two questions; first, a purely 

 mechanical one, of what woods can be 

 worked on the veneer machine, and then, 

 a commercial one, as to whether or not it 

 would be advisable to undertake the mar- 

 keting of any certain class of timber by 

 manufacturing it into veneer or into some 

 other lumber product. 



The hist question is a rat her difficult one 

 to answer in a general statement, but the 

 question of what kind of timber can be suc- 

 cessfully worked on the veneer machine 

 from a mechanical standpoint is easily set- 

 tled. Practically the whole list of hard- 

 si Is can be worked successfully, and some 



of the conifers. It was thought for years 

 that yellow pine was out of the running so 

 far as making veneer was concerned, bul 

 ,,t late years doubts on this question have 

 I n dispelled bj the southern crate manu- 

 facturers who have been, and arc to 

 manufacturing enormous quantities of 

 orange bo ol her light pack- 



rial from southern yellow pine on the 



veneer machine. It is likely that the ma- 

 jority of these manufacturers are using a 

 sappy pine that does not contain as much 

 pitch as the regulation longleaf of the south. 

 However, a greal deal of the pine use] by 

 them is decidedly heavy with pitch, but 

 little trouble is caused by the pitch gumming 

 he knives. Fellow pine is undoubtedly 

 more troul to work than the hard- 



woods which .-ire free from pitch, but it has 

 demonstrated that it can be success- 

 fully manufactured on the veneer machine. 

 While ■ ■-. press is not considered in the list 



of veneer w is. practically all the other 



hardwoods are, and many basket manufac- 

 turers who manufacture veneers accept prac- 

 tically any hardwood of sufficient size that 

 can be obtained at reasonable prices. Go 

 among the log yards of basket manufac- 

 turers in the southern portion of the Missis- 

 sippi valley and you will find gum, cotton- 

 wood, elm, poplar, sycamore, beech, hick- 

 ory, ash, willow, persimmon, and in fact, 

 almost everything in the hardwood line. This 

 ability to use practically all varieties of 

 wood has contributed largely to the rapid 

 and extensive growth of veneer manufac- 

 ture, for the veneer man can frequently take 

 a forest that has been cut over by the early 

 sawmill man and find more timber that is 

 valuable for use in his work than the orig- 

 inal sawmill man secured. This condition 

 has been changed somewhat of late for the 

 sawmills of today are striving to make a 

 close clean-up of everything of merchantable 

 size in their stumpage. It was not so long 

 ago that many of the hardwoods were left 

 standing by the mill men. and it is this tim- 

 ber that has furnished the basis for a consid- 

 erable portion of basket and veneer manu- 

 facture. 



In considering the question of what hard- 

 woods will work successfully on the veneer 

 machine, it will be more conducive to a clear 

 understanding to divide vene two 



classes: common veneer for light packs 

 ami for all the various purposes to which 

 common veneer is put and fine made 



from valuable woods, thai for fin- 



i ii. Ii SHI »P » HERE I II IE VENEER CUTTER 

 WAS BORN. 



ishing pui ; he main point with the 



man w ho desires to manufacture bi 



baski il and common ve ;r is to get 



•,v ill sal isfactoi ilj answer the pur- 



ply as possible, con- 



1 the cost of manu- 



