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shops, furniture factories, etc. ; ttie Porter liand 

 jointer or buzz planer in varying sizes, a ma- 

 cliine whicti is essential in any woodworli- 

 ing factory, as it is an especially handy tool 

 for jointing or fitting, and is also adapted for 

 special work, such as rabbeting, grooving, cham- 

 pering, squaring, heading, gaining, etc. : cabinet 

 and pattern makers' wood turning lathes, swing 

 cut-off saws, columns and frame shapers as 

 well as several different carving machines, in- 

 cluding rounders, carvers and sanders. 



The Porter factory also turns out some very 

 effective and valuable attachments and fittings, 

 such as the well-known Solid Round Safety 

 Cylinder, a protection for the hands and fingers 

 of machine operatives ; the Jointer Guard, a 

 simple and practical device that would save fac- 

 tories a great deal of time and money through 

 the accident avoided, and Bennett's Reliable 

 Saw Guard, a positive safeguard for hands and 

 lingers, preventing stock from fiying back, keep- 

 ing sawdust from the operator's eyes, and avoid- 

 ing contact between the saw and the operator. 



An illustrated booklet descriptive of these 

 tools will be sent on request to the Porter Ma- 

 chinery Company at Grand Rapids, Mich. 



.Just this — that stock was piled down on tlie 

 Hoor after one operation ; then replied on a truck 

 and moved to the next operation. After finish- 

 ing that operation the process was repeated. 

 The stock was handled three times where it 



The Economic 'Value of Factory Trucks 

 Employers of labor in mills, factories or shops 

 — everywhere in fact — are taking account as 

 never before of the relation between the money 

 they pay for labor and the results they get on 

 their investment or outlay, call it what you will. 

 The average man who has studied the ques- 

 tion has found that on a basis of one hundred 

 per cent efficiency he received fifty per cent or 

 less. Some men on learning this have jumped 

 to the conclusion that their men were "soldier- 



STEEL FRAME FACTORY TRUCK NO. 2 



should have been handled but once, and there 

 were not enough trucks to handle it properly at 

 that. The remedy? Enough trucks to permit 

 of handling the stock from kiln to finished 

 product without piling it on the floor at all. 

 And to insure the handling of loads of maximum 

 size — trucks having roller-bearing axles, cutting 

 the draft down one-half and doubling the size of 

 the loads. The result? The substitution of 

 profits for loss, of satisfaction for annoyance. 

 Instances like the above cannot be found in 



ROLLER BEARING APPLIED TO METAL 

 WHEELS 



ing" and have tried to drive them harder, only 

 to find that the average laborer is growing more 

 and more averse to being driven, and the driving 

 has failed in consequence. Other men have 

 looked deeper into the situation and have found 

 the low efliciency of labor in their mills and 

 factories due to causes with which the men were 

 not connected. 



Take, by way of illustration, the case of a 

 certain flooring plant. Equipped with the best 

 machinery it is possible to buy. this factory was 

 operating under difficulties. Day after day stock 

 accumulated on the floor, interfering seriously 

 with the work. Night after night the plant was 

 operated overtime to clean up the factory for 

 the next day's business. What was the trouble? 



DRY KILN TRUCK 



every mill or factory, but they may be found in 

 any line of business — in any place where raw 

 material is sent on its way to become a finished 

 product — in mill, factory or warehouse. And 

 the remedy is always the same — enough vehicles 

 suited to the particular needs of the place, to 

 permit of handling the stock without waste of 

 labor : vehicles so built as to make it certain 

 that they will stand up tor years under the most 

 severe service ; and lastly, vehicles having roller- 

 bearing axles, thus enabling the worker to use 

 his strength in moving loads, not in overcoming 

 friction. With equipment of that sort the labor 

 cost of handling material can be reduced to 

 from twenty to fifty per cent without adding to 

 the burdens of the man who does the work. 



The accompanying cuts show a few of the 

 many labor-saving vehicles manufactured by the 

 Gillette Roller Bearing Company of Grand Rap- 

 ids, Mich. These vehicles are known to those 

 who use them as "the light running, long lasting 

 kind." This company will be glad to send full 

 information on request. 



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A Splendid Line of Special Flooring 

 Machines 



The W. S. Sherman Company of Milwaukee, 

 manufacturers of special flooring machines, turn 

 out a number of tools that should be of great 

 interest to flooring manufacturers. This com- 

 pany's line includes side face boring machines, 

 top face boring machines, flooring end matchers 

 and flooring butters. 



The most striking machines made by the com- 

 pany are the twin end matchers, which have 

 made a record of twenty-six cuts per minute 

 for each machine. These twins being placed 

 one on either side of a conveyor with a strip 

 shoot over the conveyor and between the twins 

 .Tdmit of the strip of stock being end matched 

 without turning, and as the conveyor carries 

 ail lengths of strips to and from the hands 

 of the machine operators there is no loss of time 

 and a surprising amount of work is accom- 

 plished. The machines can handle any width 

 of strip up to 5% inch face; any thickness up 

 to 1% inch and lengths up to 16 feet. 



The Sherman company also makes an end 

 matcher designed especially for small flooring 

 factories which is a combination of the twins 

 above mentioned, has all the latest improve- 

 ments of the twins, the only difference being 

 that not so much work can be accomplished with 

 this machine. 



The Sherman flooring boring machines have 

 long been recognized as tools of exceptional 

 merit and constant efforts are put forth by the 

 company toward improving them. The com- 

 pany's style B face boring machine will bore 

 flooring as fast as it can be fed through the 

 flooring machine. It is a particularly valuable 

 tool, as with it lower grades of flooring stock 

 can be made marketable as jointed flooring by 

 face boring on this machine. 



The W. S, Sherman Company is located at 

 495 Clinton St.. Milwaukee, Wis., and anyone 

 interested can obtain further information and 

 literature in regard to the Sherman machines 

 by writing to the company. 



The Grand Eapids Crescent Machines 



No line of woodworking machinery enjoys 

 a more favorable reputation throughout the 

 trade than that made by the Crescent Machine 

 Works of Grand Rapids, Mich. This company 

 is constantly looking for ways and means of 

 improving its machines so that they are known 

 universally as efficient, easy running and up-to- 

 date tools. 



one of the most notable products in the 

 Crescent line is the Universal double sawing 

 machine which embodies every known Improve- 

 ment of consequence employed in such machines, 

 as well as a number which are the result of the 

 company's many years of observation and ex- 

 perience in building this class of tools. 



Another splendid tool is the Variety Single 

 sawing machine, which is designed to meet the 

 demand for a heavy and finely constructed sin- 

 gle saw, such as Is required In the modern 

 cabinet shop. Other tools made by the Crescent 

 people include the "D" variety saw -bench, one 

 of the strongest and heaviest benches on the 

 market, including even those which sell at 

 much higher prices ; various styles of dowel 

 machines, double and single head ; the Auto- 

 matic chair seat router, a lock mortising ma- 

 chine, twist moulding machine, rope moulding 

 machine, bead moulding machine, and veneer 

 presses. 



Whatever bears the name Grand Rapids Crescent 



