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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Note how the arrangement of the equipment makes for ease and rapidity of handling Canadian Woodworker and Furniture Manufacturer to keep the work from buckling when the clamps aretightened. In the ease of these narrow cores the pro-duction is four cores per section. Fan Aids Glue Setting The Wood-Mosaic Co. control the humidity oftheir plant and keep it uniformly dry, but during thedamp days in the warm months when the glue does
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The carrier clamp that facilitates gluing operations by the Wood-Mosaic Co. not have a tendency to set so quickly, they operatea big fan which is located in the center of the factory.This fan is piped above and across the battery ofclamp carriers. Between each two machines a pipeleads down to two flaring nozzles. When the fan isoperated the air is blown from one of these nozzlesdirectly on the freshly glued cores of one clamp car-rier and from the other on the cores in the adjacentmachine to help set the glue. In this way, togetherwith high grade animal glue, they can get their workto set satisfactorily in twenty minutes, if necessary. Wood-Mosaic Co. realize that in order to get goodproduction they must pay their men well, and there-fore pay a high enough wage to get good operators.Of course, only good men are allowed to stay on thejob. The week is a 50-hour week and the men arepaid a bonus for all revolutions of the Taylor clampcarrier over fifty-five (55) per week. This is calcu-la

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