Identifier: canadianwood22 (find matches)
Title: Canadian wood products industries
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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Subjects: Furniture industry and trade Woodworking industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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myself during the past year. In this wayall have helped to maintain our association as themost progressive and best organized Trade Associa-tion in our Dominion, as it is recognized to be. In conclusion may I bespeak for my successor, thevarious committees to be selected to govern this as-sociation in 1922, and the officiers, the same loyalty,and co-operation you have given the various commit-tees, officials and myself during 1921. The Development of Edge Gluing How Clamp Carriers Cut Costs—Production Report Wood-Mosaic Co., Louisville, Ky.— Continuous-feed Glue Jointer Important Factor—Special Operations by B. MATTHKW BURNS* Probably the most primative method of clampingedge glued stock on a production scale that has per-sisted to the present day is the wedge method. It istrue there are very few factories where one sees thismethod in use, and for his reason a brief descriptionwill be of interest. A heavy ten or twelve foot wood-en beam of 6 or 8 squares cross section is secured
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Clamp carrier in plant of North American Furniture Co.. Limited,Owen Sound, Ont. firmly at both ends just high enough above the floorto allow chair seats, say, to slide on edge easily under-neath. The workman applies glue with a brush tothe jointed edges of the pieces composing the seat andthen, after fitting them together, slides the seat edge-ways under the beam and drives a wooden wedge be-tween the chair seat and beam. This process was replaced with hand clamp on ac-count of its obvious faults, namely, besides being aone-purpose process it was laborious work driving *Jas. L. Taylor Mff. Co., Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and removing the wedges, the workman wastingenergy in alternately stooping over his work andtravelling back and forth to the glue pot, and finallyowing to the percentage of open joints resulting frompressure applied only at the centre of length of seat.The hand clamp while they permitted of wider variet-ies of production and fatigued the operator less, stillretained many of

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