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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Motor 



Speed Method 

 No. Maehliip H.r. K.P.M. of drive 



1 Small double emery wheel 



2 Greenlee 16-in. self-feed 



rip Kaws 10 " 



1 Black Bros, broom Sander. 10 

 1 liaud rip and comb. saw. 10 

 1 American 4S-inch 3-roll 



sander 15 



1 Baxter D. Whitney 30-in. 



double surfacer 20 S40 



1 S. A. Wopds 10-in. No. 



129 outside moulder. . .20 " " 



1 S. A. Woods 12-in. No. 



107 moulder 30 " coupled 



1 S. A. Woods 12-ln. No. 



110 moulder 30 



1 S. A. Woods 12-in. No. 



107 moulder 40 



1 S. A. Woods 15-in. No. 



107 moulder 40 " " 



1 Sinsle 00-in. blower 40 " belted 



1 Double PO-in. blower 50 



By thp system employed in this yard it is 

 possible to unload 22.5,000 feet of lumber 

 per day when discharging from two schoon- 

 ers at 0!iee, a schooner being located at 

 each side of the basin and the timber from 

 both being handled by one pull-out motor. 

 To take 100,000 feet per day from one 

 schooner is considered an easy task. There 

 is a set of live rolls on either side of the 

 basin extending about 500 feet up into the - 

 yard. Each of these conveyors ^s driven 

 from a point near the center by a 15-horse- 

 power Westinghouse type "CCL" motor. A 

 small to^er contains the driving gear and 

 also the control levers for throwing the tim- 

 ber oft' the conveyor at various predeter- 

 mined points. The operator of the conveyor 

 from his position in the tower is able to see 

 the timber as it comes up the conveyor from 

 the discharging platform. By means of 

 switches along the conveyor, the timber is 

 thrown off without stopping the rolls. The 

 steel derricks then take hold of the timber 

 and swing it into its place on the piles, 

 where it lemains until it is located on trucks 

 for delivery or sent to the mill for dressing. 

 Perhaps the most unique application of 



electric power in the plant is to the electric 

 hoists which take the timber from the rolls 

 and place it in position on the stacks. There 

 are three of these hoists installed. They 

 were manufactured by the Maine Electric 

 Hoist Company of Portland, Me. They are 

 placed in a row between the live rolls and 

 set on 100-foot centers, although the boom 

 on each is 65 feet long. In the operating 

 house, which is located so that a good view 

 of the boom and timber is always obtained, 

 there is a 20-horsepower Westinghouse type 

 "F" motor that operates the entire hoist. 

 There are three motions obtained, namely, 

 the hoiST., the travel on the boom, and the 

 swing, but these are obtained from the one 

 motor by means of clutches and gearing. 

 The hoist has a rated capacity of lifting 

 fi,000 pounds at 20 feet per minute. Power 

 for the motor is taken into the tower by 

 collector rings at the base, so that there are 

 no overhead wires to become entangled with 

 tlie timber. 



A large number of men and horses are re- 

 quired around the yards to bring stock to 

 the planing mill, to sort and stack flooring, 

 etc., and a great number of teams are also 

 employed to deliver lumber throughout 

 Brooklyn and New York. For the opera- 

 tion of the whole plant about four hundred 

 men and one hundred and fifty horses are 

 required. 



In connection with the electrical equip- 

 ment, it is of interest to note that although 

 there arc eighty-five motors, with an aggre- 

 gate capacity of 1,483 horsepower, only 650 

 K. V. A. generator was installed; but actual 

 load averages only about 375 K. W., one- 

 third of which is probably chargeable to 

 the blowers. It is quite evident here what 

 a low average load is obtained by individual 

 motor drives on woodworking machines. 



VENEERS 



VENEERED INTERIOR PANELING 

 From time to time one reads in the de- 

 scriptions of various famous structures that 

 such a room was or is to be finished in such 

 a variety of wood, and going still further he 

 finds that veneer is to be used throughout. 

 To the lay mind this means but little; the 

 average man has been used to seeing a solid 

 looking face on all interior work where looks 

 and durability were essential and has always 

 associated with veneer a certain cheapness, a 

 superficiality and the lack of that stability 

 and strength which, he imagines, is secured 

 only by the use of solid stock. Ho has not 

 been educated up to the fact that veneered 

 furniture, veneered doors and the veneered 

 interior trim, as panels, have come to occupy 

 the important position that they now occupy 

 in up-to-date building construction, not mere- 

 ly from a standpoint of economy, but because 

 the most rigid tests have proven that a ven- 

 eered article, when well and scientifically con- 

 structed, will insure a greater surety of form 

 and position, will afford to the manufacturer 



far greater scope for working out a figure 

 scheme in the wood employed and in addition 

 will offer many physical advantages, such as 

 non-conductivity of heat or noise that tlie 

 solid door or interior panel cannot. 



Veneer has come to stay and shows an in- 

 creasing popularity in all lines, but it is in the 

 manufacture of panels that the most remark- 

 able progress can be noted. So rapid has its 

 adoption there been that the consumption of 

 veneer for interior work is now probably 

 four times as great as it was in 1907. Panel- 

 ing as a commonly accepted type of archi- 

 tecture is of more or less recent origin. It 

 is true that the old private dwellings of forty 

 or fifty years back often contained solid 

 panel construction to a certain extent, as in 

 wainscoting and under stair stringers, but 

 that was practically the limit, and since that 

 time many entirely new ideas have been 

 worked out in interior design that wouldn't 

 have been possible with the old-fashioned 

 methods. By the use of the more modern 

 idea the coldness and bareness of the old lesi 



deuces of the aristocracy are eliminated and 

 we find in their place a certain cheerfulness 

 and liospitality and yet a richness of design 

 and appearance never dreamed of before. 

 There is no doubt but that the panel in 

 modern construction has come to stay, and 

 the rapidity with which it is adopted depends 

 to a great extent upon the encouragement re- 

 ceived from the manufacturers. 



Besides its adaptability to those phases of 

 house construction where solid stock has al- 

 ways been employed, the veneered panel is 

 creating a new place for itself for such uses 

 as in the construction of solid work, balusters 

 in place of the regulation open baluster with 

 a rail, for the ordinary wainscoting at wall 

 bases and for ceiling and wall designs for 

 which its use is increasing remarkably. The 

 scope seems almost unlimited. 



There seems to be no argument lacking in 

 favor of the use of panel construction wlier- 

 ever possible. By employing veneer, as stated, 

 a far superior figure is obtainable from the 

 grain of the wood. In fact rotary cutting of 

 oak gives it a peculiar attractiveness that is 

 not obtainable in any other way.. Then, 

 again, there is the argument for cleanliness; 

 everybody knows that it is next to impossible 

 to keep the old-fashioned wainscoting or in- 

 tricately turned balusters half way free from 

 dust and now if they are replaced by panels 

 that difficulty and unsightliness will be total- 

 ly eliminated. 



But the strongest argument in its favor 

 probably is that of the beauty of design made 

 possible by the use of panel construction. 

 The crudeness and lack of individuality so 

 evident in many places could be replaced by 

 installing a panel design reaching well up 

 to the plate rail. An endless variety of 

 schemes could be worked out and for the top 

 border the possibility of working out almost 

 any design, floral or otherwise, by using in- 

 laid work in contrasting woods, is always 

 present. The feasibility of this method and 

 its efiSciency has been well demonstrated in 

 flush veneered door construction, in which the 

 most intricate patterns have been success- 

 fully attempted. 



Kg attempt will be made here to go into 

 the innumerable styles that can be obtained; 

 this will be worked out by the architects as 

 panel construction gains in favor, as it is 

 bound to do. It is perfectly safe to say, 

 however, that no type of decoration ever of- ■ 

 fered to them the chance for such an expres- 

 sion of original and individual design, and 

 that while it now may be a fad, its efficiency 

 will soon give it a recognized place in archi- 

 tectural circles. 



Maley & Wertz, well-known sawmill opera- 

 tors of EvansviUe, Ind., recently purchased a 

 veneer mill at Edinburg, Ind., and are now 

 operating the plant on full time. Things look 

 pretty bright for the veneer business in that 

 section and the firm contemplates keeping the 

 mill going full time for the rest of the year. 



