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THE MUSIC TRADE
JUNE 27, 1925
45
REVIEW
SUPPLY BRANCHES OF THE INDUSTRY
Peerless Exhibit Visited by
National Tuners' Ass'n
Officers and Leading Members Inspect Display
of That Company During Convention Week
his organization, which has done such wonder-
ful work in the West and Middle West. He
declared his company ready to give all possible
assistance to the piano tuners' body in carrying
out their work.
Census of Hardwood
Consumption Progressing
One of the attractive convention exhibits in
Chicago was the display room of the Peerless
Pneumatic Action Co., New York. The action
in the Mehlin grand left a deep impression on Large Amount of Valuable Information Regard-
ing Trade Requirements Being Compiled by
dealers and manufacturers, visiting the exhibit
in the Drake Hotel, on account of the sim- Association
plicity, durability and compactness of the ac-
Many hundred responses to the questionnaire
tion. Tolbert Cheek, president of the Peerless
Pneumatic Action Co., has always been a distributed to wood consumers by the Hard-
worker among player men and tuners and vva^ wood Manufacturers' Institute, of Memphis,
Birdsong was previously identified with the
Estey Piano Co., as traveling representative,
and has been made sales manager of the Peer-
less concern. Mr. Ewart is an electrical engi-
neer and will devote his time at present to ex-
perimental work in the Peerless plant on East
133rd street. Roy P. Cheek, vice-president and
general manager of the company, stated that
the factory is operating on a full-time program
and that there are good prospects that business
will continue strong all through the Summer.
Kiln Devices for Making
Rapid Air Circulation
Results of Experiments Conducted by the For-
est Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis.,
Present Solution for the Problem
In the experimental drying of lumber at the
Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis.,
a number of devices for producing a positive,
rapid, and reversible circulation of the air in
compartment kilns have been tried out Of
these the most effective is a series of disk fans
mounted on a shaft running the full length of
the kiln.
"Fans of this type," says a technical note
prepared by the Forest Products Laboratory,
"are very efficient at the low pressures used.
No long air ducts are necessary, and large
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amounts of air can be moved effectively with
a comparatively small expenditure of power.
The reversal of the direction of circulation can
be accomplished by merely reversing the direc-
tion of rotation of the shaft. This reversal
largely compensates for the normal difference
in the drying rate between the cntering-air
edge of the lumber and the leaving-air edge.
"The internal disk fan design may be adapted
to almost any type of compartment kiln, flat
Peerless Pneumatic Booth Visited by N. A. P. T.
piled or edge stacked, cross piled or end piled;
but it finds its most logical application in edge-
stacked kilns and in flat-stacked, end-piled kilns
in which a cross circulation is used.
"When the direction of air travel is upward
through the central flue, each fan draws air
greatly elated upon being visited by the heads Tenn., has been received in recent weeks, and from the suction box at its left, which is open
of the National Association of Piano Tuners. present indications point to this census being at the sides toward the heating coils, and dis-
Mr. Cheek addressing Charles Deutschmann, the most complete ever compiled. Executives charges it into the distributor at its right. This
national president of the N.A.P.T., and the of the institute are hoping to have the direc- air escapes through the slots in the top of the
other visiting executives, stated that the Peer- tory in shape for distribution not later than distributor, rises in the central flue, passes later-
less Pneumatic Action is heart and soul with July 1. This publication will give a fairly ac- ally outward through the lumber, falls in the
curate idea as to the normal consumption of all passages between the lumber and the side walls,
grades, thicknesses and species of hardwoods. goes over the heating coils, and comes back to
It will be of inestimable aid to the sawmill op- the suction boxes. After the air has been al-
erator as a guide in giving sawing orders as the lowed to circulate in this manner for some
census of consumption can be balanced against time, the direction of rotation of the fans is
stock on hand and the hardwood producer will reversed. The air then follows the same path
then be in a position to determine quicker than as before but in the opposite direction.
"The heating coils may be separated in two
ever before those items for which an antici-
groups,
and each group may be split up into
pated
demand
may
be
expected.
The man who uses Behlen's Varnish
several
units
so that any number of pipes may
Crack Eradicator can afford to figure
be used in accordance with the heat required.
lower, yet makes more profit on a re-
The humidity in the kiln may be increased
finishing job, than the man who does
by means of steam or reduced by ventilation.
not use i t
Steam jets and inlet exhaust flues are provided."
The reason—he saves the time, trouble
Joseph E. Birdsong Becomes Sales Manager of
and expense of scraping off the old var-
New York Concern, While Chas. C. Ewart
Our Grand
nish and shellac and the finished job is
Will Engage in. Experimental Work
Birdsong and Ewart Join
Peerless Pneumatic Co.
just as satisfactory, too—if not more so.
Send for a sample can today and
try it.
Recent additions to the executive staff of the
Peerless Pneumatic Action Co., New York, are
Joseph B. Birdsong and Charles C. Ewart. Mr.
H. BEHLEN & BRO.
PHILIP W. OETTING & SON, Inc.
Anilines
SbalUct
Stains
Filler*
10-12 Christopher St., New York
Near «tb AT*., and 8th I t .
213 East 19th Street, New York
Sole Atfenti for
WEICKERT HAMMER AND DAMPER FELTS
GRAND AND UPRIGHT HAMMERS
Made of Welckert Felt
n
BENCHES
Will Please
the Most
Exacting.
for Catalog.
STYLE Write
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