Music Trade Review
Issue: 1914 Vol. 59 N. 4 - Page 61
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
A TRICK OR TWO IN GLUE.
Some Hints in Glue Making and Handling for
the User of Veneers as Set Forth by Dealers.
Given the same conditions, same quality of flour,
why is it that one housewife will produce a qual-
ity of bread fine and distinctly right, another an
article perhaps good, but so different, and a third
will make bread in name only?
There is no question that many ills which glue
users complain of are in a great measure found
between the barrel and the panel, or, in other
words, the result of bad handling. No gluemaker
intends to put out a really poor article to-day, but
no two makes work the same, and it requires much
attention to get the habits of the different grades,
says Dadolus in Veneers.
Most heating tanks are fitted with a hand stirrer
or agitator. When the glue is to be used, a few
turns are given the crank and it's ready. I have
found that glue taken from the bottom of a tank
gives more than double the viscosity of a sample
from the top of the same tank or kettle. The heavy
solution simply gravitates to the bottom; this dis-
covery was worth something. We had been using
from the bottom for years, getting the best first
from every kettle, and when the bottom was ex-
hausted the top half was thin, watery, and no one
knew why.
The lesson learned was this: No man is go-
ing to stand with his belly against a hot glue kettle
and stir the mixture long in hot weather, especial'y
in a temperature of 90 degrees—not yet. Our ma-
chinist put in a light bevel gearing, at a very small
expense, to do this work; it is always ready, always
at work. It keeps the mix even and right—just
common sense.
Most glue houses give explicit orders to soak
ground glue in cold water. We found that in hot
weather the glue would not jelly, but as the tem-
perature rises quickly to 100 degrees the stuff
would melt in the pails and go into solution at
once if stirred.
Discovery No. 2—If glue will go into nice solu-
tion in water at 100 to 110 degrees, if stirred, why
not bring the water in the kettles to this temper-
ature and simply dump in your required amount of
glue and start the agitator—in short, let it do its
own work? Glue users who want to stick to the
old-fashioned methods and are wedded to the idea
that the "world do not move," certainly have my
consent, but after testing this method in all Rea-
sonable ways, will simply say it does our folks, and
saves much of the dirt and washing and time and
worry incidental to the work.
It obviates the danger from overheating and
makes it easy to keep things clean. Glue left at
night should be drawn off into pails and set in a
cooling tank; machines and kettles slushed out with
water, which can be drawn off in the morning
while things are heating up. Heat the pails con-
taining the glue under the steam jet. The con-
tents will slip out into the kettles good as new,
sometimes, I think, a little better.
DEATH OF WILLIAM SEIBERT.
President of the Central Veneer Co., Hunting-
ton, W. Va., Passes Away After an Illness
Extending Over Several Months.
The death is announced of William Seibert,
president and treasurer of the Central Veneer Co.,
Huntington, W. Va., which occurred on July 12
after an illness etending over several months. The
passing of Mr. Seibert is universally regretted
not only by his associates in the company, but by
a wide circle of friends in his home town and
throughout the country.
SELLS VENEER MACHINES IN SPAIN.
An American manufacturer has just secured an
order from a Valencia firm fo.r about $2,500 worth
of veneer machinery, consisting of a two-meter
cutting lathe, shaping machine and sundry tools.
The contract was secured in spite of European
competition. In fact, European manufacturers
were negotiating for the business some days be-
fore the American firm, whose representative was
nevertheless able to convince the customer not only
of the more substantial construction and greater
efficiency of its equipment, but also named a lower
price. This is the first instance o,f the sale of
heavy American machinery in the Valencia district.
In view of the peculiar conditions surrounding the
veneer manufacturing industry here, it is likely to
result in further business.
MR. DEALER,
MR. TUNER,
MR. REPAIRMAN
YOU SHOULD HAVE OUR NEW
price list of Piano Repair Materials;
an abridged list, conveniently ar-
ranged for quick reference.
61
BR0WN-S1NRAMM CO. EXPANDS.
New Press Added to the Already Modern Equip-
ment of This Progressive Decalcomania
House—Improved Method of Manufacture
Increases Output—Business Is Excellent.
The Brown-Sinramm Co., whose executive of-
fices are at 1133 Broadway, New York, recently
made a great improvement in its equipment by the
addition of a new press in its already extensive
plant in Brooklyn. The company has had con-
siderable success making decalcomania transfers
and transparent window signs, not all for the
piano trade, but other lines of business. Owing to
the facilities in its factory the company is making
the quickest deliveries of any company no.w mak-
ing transfers, and has been able to compete with
great success with foreign competition. Especially
in the piano trade, where transfers are required
within a short space of time, owing to depleted
stock or for some other reaso.n, the company is
very well equipped to give the quick service de-
sired and at the same time deliver transfers of the
highest grade.
R. A. R. Brown, head of the company, stated
last week that business has been very good during
the last few months and that prospects for the fall
season are very promising.
HARDWOODS IN PHILIPPINES.
Report Shows There Are 60,000 Square Mi!es
of Forest and Many Rare Woods.
According to a report on the lumbering indus-
tries of the Philippines, just issued by the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, there are
some 60,000 square miles of timber in the Philip-
pines, of which two-thirds is virgin forest. It is
shown that the commercial output of lumber has
been increasing steadily. It practically quadrupled
in the last seven years, and amounted to more
than 112,000,000 board feet in 1913.
Although the hardwood products of the Philip-
pine forests rank with the best in the world for
pianos, cabinet work construction and various uses
in which durability is an essential factor, little of
the yearly output has reached the outside world,
as the home demand is more than sufficient to
absorb the whole present supply. The industry
is capable of great expansion, according to those
now engaged in the business.
The Directory of Forestry estimated the amount
of timber that could be removed annually with-
out diminishing the productivity of the forests at
ten times the present output. Capital is the prin-
cipal factor necessary to develop the industry.
If you desire a man for any department of
your service, either for your factory or for your
selling department, forward your advertisement
to us and it will be inserted free of charge.
ALBERT A. McCARTY
Manufacturer of
PIANO BASS 3 6 STRINGS
BEACH STREET
DUPLICATING
A SPECIALTY
BOSTON, MASS.
ASK FOR CIRCULAR NO. 3190
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & GO.
PIANO MATERIALS AND TOOLS
Richardson Piano Case Co.
Manufacturers of
Upright—
Cases
NEW YORK SINCE 1848
4th Ave. and 13th St.
EttabUthed 1891
LEOMINSTER
::
:: MASS.
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
A TRICK OR TWO IN GLUE.
Some Hints in Glue Making and Handling for
the User of Veneers as Set Forth by Dealers.
Given the same conditions, same quality of flour,
why is it that one housewife will produce a qual-
ity of bread fine and distinctly right, another an
article perhaps good, but so different, and a third
will make bread in name only?
There is no question that many ills which glue
users complain of are in a great measure found
between the barrel and the panel, or, in other
words, the result of bad handling. No gluemaker
intends to put out a really poor article to-day, but
no two makes work the same, and it requires much
attention to get the habits of the different grades,
says Dadolus in Veneers.
Most heating tanks are fitted with a hand stirrer
or agitator. When the glue is to be used, a few
turns are given the crank and it's ready. I have
found that glue taken from the bottom of a tank
gives more than double the viscosity of a sample
from the top of the same tank or kettle. The heavy
solution simply gravitates to the bottom; this dis-
covery was worth something. We had been using
from the bottom for years, getting the best first
from every kettle, and when the bottom was ex-
hausted the top half was thin, watery, and no one
knew why.
The lesson learned was this: No man is go-
ing to stand with his belly against a hot glue kettle
and stir the mixture long in hot weather, especial'y
in a temperature of 90 degrees—not yet. Our ma-
chinist put in a light bevel gearing, at a very small
expense, to do this work; it is always ready, always
at work. It keeps the mix even and right—just
common sense.
Most glue houses give explicit orders to soak
ground glue in cold water. We found that in hot
weather the glue would not jelly, but as the tem-
perature rises quickly to 100 degrees the stuff
would melt in the pails and go into solution at
once if stirred.
Discovery No. 2—If glue will go into nice solu-
tion in water at 100 to 110 degrees, if stirred, why
not bring the water in the kettles to this temper-
ature and simply dump in your required amount of
glue and start the agitator—in short, let it do its
own work? Glue users who want to stick to the
old-fashioned methods and are wedded to the idea
that the "world do not move," certainly have my
consent, but after testing this method in all Rea-
sonable ways, will simply say it does our folks, and
saves much of the dirt and washing and time and
worry incidental to the work.
It obviates the danger from overheating and
makes it easy to keep things clean. Glue left at
night should be drawn off into pails and set in a
cooling tank; machines and kettles slushed out with
water, which can be drawn off in the morning
while things are heating up. Heat the pails con-
taining the glue under the steam jet. The con-
tents will slip out into the kettles good as new,
sometimes, I think, a little better.
DEATH OF WILLIAM SEIBERT.
President of the Central Veneer Co., Hunting-
ton, W. Va., Passes Away After an Illness
Extending Over Several Months.
The death is announced of William Seibert,
president and treasurer of the Central Veneer Co.,
Huntington, W. Va., which occurred on July 12
after an illness etending over several months. The
passing of Mr. Seibert is universally regretted
not only by his associates in the company, but by
a wide circle of friends in his home town and
throughout the country.
SELLS VENEER MACHINES IN SPAIN.
An American manufacturer has just secured an
order from a Valencia firm fo.r about $2,500 worth
of veneer machinery, consisting of a two-meter
cutting lathe, shaping machine and sundry tools.
The contract was secured in spite of European
competition. In fact, European manufacturers
were negotiating for the business some days be-
fore the American firm, whose representative was
nevertheless able to convince the customer not only
of the more substantial construction and greater
efficiency of its equipment, but also named a lower
price. This is the first instance o,f the sale of
heavy American machinery in the Valencia district.
In view of the peculiar conditions surrounding the
veneer manufacturing industry here, it is likely to
result in further business.
MR. DEALER,
MR. TUNER,
MR. REPAIRMAN
YOU SHOULD HAVE OUR NEW
price list of Piano Repair Materials;
an abridged list, conveniently ar-
ranged for quick reference.
61
BR0WN-S1NRAMM CO. EXPANDS.
New Press Added to the Already Modern Equip-
ment of This Progressive Decalcomania
House—Improved Method of Manufacture
Increases Output—Business Is Excellent.
The Brown-Sinramm Co., whose executive of-
fices are at 1133 Broadway, New York, recently
made a great improvement in its equipment by the
addition of a new press in its already extensive
plant in Brooklyn. The company has had con-
siderable success making decalcomania transfers
and transparent window signs, not all for the
piano trade, but other lines of business. Owing to
the facilities in its factory the company is making
the quickest deliveries of any company no.w mak-
ing transfers, and has been able to compete with
great success with foreign competition. Especially
in the piano trade, where transfers are required
within a short space of time, owing to depleted
stock or for some other reaso.n, the company is
very well equipped to give the quick service de-
sired and at the same time deliver transfers of the
highest grade.
R. A. R. Brown, head of the company, stated
last week that business has been very good during
the last few months and that prospects for the fall
season are very promising.
HARDWOODS IN PHILIPPINES.
Report Shows There Are 60,000 Square Mi!es
of Forest and Many Rare Woods.
According to a report on the lumbering indus-
tries of the Philippines, just issued by the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, there are
some 60,000 square miles of timber in the Philip-
pines, of which two-thirds is virgin forest. It is
shown that the commercial output of lumber has
been increasing steadily. It practically quadrupled
in the last seven years, and amounted to more
than 112,000,000 board feet in 1913.
Although the hardwood products of the Philip-
pine forests rank with the best in the world for
pianos, cabinet work construction and various uses
in which durability is an essential factor, little of
the yearly output has reached the outside world,
as the home demand is more than sufficient to
absorb the whole present supply. The industry
is capable of great expansion, according to those
now engaged in the business.
The Directory of Forestry estimated the amount
of timber that could be removed annually with-
out diminishing the productivity of the forests at
ten times the present output. Capital is the prin-
cipal factor necessary to develop the industry.
If you desire a man for any department of
your service, either for your factory or for your
selling department, forward your advertisement
to us and it will be inserted free of charge.
ALBERT A. McCARTY
Manufacturer of
PIANO BASS 3 6 STRINGS
BEACH STREET
DUPLICATING
A SPECIALTY
BOSTON, MASS.
ASK FOR CIRCULAR NO. 3190
HAMMACHER, SCHLEMMER & GO.
PIANO MATERIALS AND TOOLS
Richardson Piano Case Co.
Manufacturers of
Upright—
Cases
NEW YORK SINCE 1848
4th Ave. and 13th St.
EttabUthed 1891
LEOMINSTER
::
:: MASS.
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