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MUSIC
TRADE
REVIEW
ELECTRICALLY HEATED GLUE POTS
LUMBER AFTER THE WAR
Some of the Advantages Possessed by Glue
Pots That Are Heated by Electricity
Mahogany Markets Will Possibly Be Easier,
but Higher Prices Will Prevail in Other
Lines After the Conflict Is Over
The use of electricity has done away with
The close of the war, with its better supply
many of the old style devices used in many a
piano factory when steam was the motive of mahogany lumber, may bring its compensa-
power and gas jets were on every side. Elec- tions, but the users of crating and soft lumber,
tricity to-day lights most of the big factories and some of the native hardwood lumber, may
of the country, and with it has come a minimum look forward to higher prices for that particular
of risk and danger from fire as well as decidedly class of commodity, and the common cabinet
greater conveniences in the manner of handling woods, both native and imported, are likely to
increase in cost in sympathy with all other
tools and equipment.
The electric glue pot is now used in represent- lumber. The lumbermen have shared not at
ative plants everywhere, and because of its all in the "boom" which has come to the manu-
superiority over the pot heated by the ordinary facturers of steel, and steel products, although
methods, steam, coal or kerosene oil, has been they are pretty sure to get what is coming to
generally adopted. Furthermore, it is portable them when the war is over. Funny how we are
and permits of extremely flexible arrangement. constantly looking forward to the close of the
Glue pots are manufactured in two distinct war. But the close of the war will certainly
types, distinguished by their method of heat- bring prosperity to the lumbermen, and that
ing the glue. The jacketless type has no very numerous class of holders of their se-
water jacket and heats the glue by direct ther- curities who have been holding the bag anxious-
mal contact with the walls of the glue pot. It is ly for something more than two years now.
designed for continuous operation. The water- The Timber News of London, England, re-
cently published an interesting article along this
jacketed type has an interposed heating medium
line, and it was evidently based on careful in-
—water—and is particularly adapted for quick-
vestigation. According to that authority, the
intermittent service. The heating elements in
fire-swept area of France has a population of
both types are practically indestructible.
7,000,000, and Belgium's devastated area an-
The electric jacketless glue pot is radically dif- other 7,000,000. In those areas the burning of
ferent from any water jacketed glue pot, however buildings of all kinds has been very great, and
heated, for it eliminates the attention required reconstruction will begin at the close of the
in keeping the jacket filled. It keeps the glue at war, and will be pushed as rapidly as possible.
the proper working temperature without over-
The people will immediately require shelters;
heating and operates on about one-half of the
electric current required by the average elec- temporary industrial, communal, and public
works will be matters of first concern for the
trically-heated water jacketed glue pot.
government
in order to prevent emigration,
The electric water jacketed glue pot employs the
usual water jacket common to other types for start production, and absorb the disbanding
heating the glue, and permits the use of a "high armies. Wood has not been used to a great
starting heat" to cause a rapid melting or the extent in these war-swept areas for building
Stone, brick and cement tiles are
glue, as is often required for sudden, intermit- purposes.
the native materials. Nevertheless, the use of
tent service.
This pot is especially applicable to circuits these materials on a large scale requires time
for their manufacture, and when Belgium and
where extreme voltage fluctuations are liable to
Northern France are rebuilt wood will be used
occur, for the water jacket automatically com-
to a greater extent than ever before, as it is
pensates, by its increased evaporation, for any
the only building material that can be secured
excess current due to voltage variation as well
quickly and in large quantities. Rebuilding on
as to the "high heat."
such an extensive scale would at any time se-
The glue pot is made of spun aluminum and verely tax the resources of the forests of
the water jacket of cast iron.
The unctuous Europe, which do not suffice from year to year
surface of the aluminum prevents the glue stick- in normal times to meet all the maintenance
ing to the sides of the pot and results in a sav- requirements of the continent, but there are
ing of glue. Naturally this type of glue pot also other reasons why after the war European
—because of the indirect application of the heat, forests will not meet all the demands.
and the evaporation from the water jacket—re-
During the war timber outside of Russia has
quires a greater amount of electrical current
been cut and destroyed at an annual rate never
for its operation than the jacketless type.
before known in Europe. The Western battle
Electric glue pots are now widely used in
line is stretched through one of the most pro-
book binderies, and by manufacturers of furni-
ductive forest regions of France, while else-
ture, pianos, wagons, automobile bodies, paper
where in Europe war has obliterated forests.
and wood boxes, novelty goods and by pattern Timber has been cut for war purposes in quan-
shops, carpenters, cabinet makers, printing and tities far exceeding the requirements of peace
publishing houses, where their convenience, times.
safety, cleanliness, freedom from bother, and
France and Belgium will not be the only
high quality of work, make them appreciated.
source of the call for timber. Twice as great
The jacketless glue pot is made of a single
a population is homeless in East Prussia, Poland
aluminum casting. Aluminum is used not only and Hungary as on the Western front. Naked
because of its remarkable qualities as a heat dis- land only remains there. The timber require-
tributor, but also because the unctuous surface ments will be enormous, particularly because it
of the metal keeps the glue from sticking.
is a land where wood has always been a chief
Being designed to operate at a maximum building material and where the instinct of
temperature of 180 deg. F.,' this type of glue pot the population will be to rebuild with wood. It
will maintain an even temperature as long as cannot be expected that the timber for rebuild-
the electric current supply is reasonably con- ing that interior region will come from America.
stant.
It will be mainly supplied from Russia, and
the other Baltic regions and from Austria. The
immense quantity of timber to be required in
that market may decrease the export of Rus-
sian and Scandinavian timber that would other-
CINCINNATI, O.
wise find its way to France and Belgium. The
prospective field is more open to softwoods
Importers and Manufacturers of Figured
Mahogany and Foreign Woods for high-
than to hardwoods, but much of the latter will
grade piano cases and cabinets.
doubtless be c'alled for in various ways.
The Ohio Veneer Co.
'New York Office and Sample Room
irand Central Palace Bldg. I
Lexington Ave. and 46th St.
. H. VAUGHAN. Extern Representative
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REDUCES CAPITALIZATION
The Celluloid Piano Key Co., Ltd., of New
York City, has reduced its capitalization from
$20,000 to $3,000.
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ADVICE?
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the best of material in cellu-
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whatever you want, give
us credit and send your
orders to
C.F. GOEPEL&CO
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NEW
YORK
TALKERS HELP VENEER TRADE
Trade Paper in the Veneer Field Comments on
the Effects of the Talking Machine
Veneers, a progressive trade journal in the
veneer field, in a recent editorial commented as
follows on the effect of the increasing demand
for talking machine cabinets upon the veneer
industry:
"The phonograph and all the brother and
sister instruments, carrying different names, have
long been important users of veneer in the mak-
ing of cabinets or cases. There is, perhaps, not
another line of important veneer using where
there has been more extension during the year
than in this work of making phonograph cabi-
nets. This instrument is being rapidly popu-
larized and is not only being handled by special
dealers in such instruments, but during the year
it has become an extensive and strong feature
with furniture dealers, 'many of the important
furniture stores having put in great lines of
these musical reproducers.
"The manufacturing of the instruments and
cabinets to supply this wider demand not only
means an extensive increase in the volume of
veneer for the cases themselves, but it is carry-
ing with it quite a lot of business in three-ply
panel cases in which these musical instruments
are packed.
"Taking it altogether, the talking machine fur-
nishes a line of veneer using that promises to
o'vershadow the piano business in the matter
of volume and to utilize quite a lot of fine face
veneer that heretofore has gone into piano work
and into the construction of the very highest
grades of furniture."
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