Title: Canadian forest industries July-December 1915
Identifier: canadianforjuldec1915donm (find matches)
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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50 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER November 1, 1915 One of Ottawa's Important Industries The Woodworking Plant of Estate James Davidson—Modern Equipment of Large Capacity With a Sawmill to Furnish Raw Material
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Door Department—Estate James Davidson, Ottawa, Ont. The Estate James Davidson, Ottawa, Ont., operate an important and extensive plant for the manufacture of sash, doors, mouldings, boxes, box shooks, portable houses, interior trim, etc. The plant as it stands to-day was completed in 1905. It has never been taxed to its capacity, but could easily turn out, in the door department, 500 doors per day; in the sash department, 500 pairs of sash per day; in the box department a car load of box shooks and possibly 1,700 to 2,000 finished boxes; also matched lumber, such as flooring and clipped boards, at the rate of 80,000 feet per day. In the same pro- portion the plant could turn out frames and general house trim. Four acres of ground are occupied by the factory and warehouse buildings, including lumber and stock sheds. The plant faces the tracks of the Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk Railways, giving ample opportuni- ties for unloading and loading of cars. The mill is 300 x 200 feet, with an "L" 75 x 20 feet. The dry- houses are 75 x 100 feet. One of the lumber sheds is 22 x 400 feet, and the moulding building is a double shed 80 x 200 feet. The dry kiln has a capacity of 100,000 feet, installed by Sheldons, Limited, Gait, Ont. The doors of the kiln open directly into the factory. From the kiln the lumber passes through a No. 90 new Berlin fast-feed double surfacing machine. From this machine the stock passes on to other machines, including planers, rip saws, resaws, cut-off saws, etc. Main Corridor—Estate James Davidson, Ottawa, Ont. The furnaces providing power for the plant are fed with the saw- dust waste produced in the plant. This is conveyed by a blower sys- tem which was installed at a cost of $7,500 by the B. F. Sturtevant Company, of Boston. In the "L" on the main floor are located the heating and glue rooms, which are equipped in the most modern manner for success- ful glue work. The equipment of the planing mill consists of one No. 90 Berlin fast-feed planer and matcher, with complete equipment of profiling at- tachments, one special hardwood flooring machine, one self-operat- ing cross cut saw and one matcher, one large Mershon resaw, one S. A. Woods double surfacer, one McGregor, Gourlay gang rip saw, two Berlin stickers, one dowelling machine and two power feed rip saws. In the door department the lumber, after it comes from the kiln, passes through a dry shed to the main building, and to the door de- partment, without having been handled again. The stock is then planed on a Berlin No. 186 double surfacer. From this it passes through rip-saws and on to self-operating cut-off saws. The equip- ment for manufacturing doors consists of two complete sets, one of dowel door machinery, and the other for all other classes of doors. These machines are so placed that the material passes from one to

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