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Title: Canadian forest industries 1905-1906
Identifier: canadianforest190506donm (find matches)
Year: 1906 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The Alexe Cylindrical Barrel. ways. The Alexe barrel is a straight-stave barrel, with wire bands, and its great ad- vantage lies in the fact that it may be shipped knocked down and crated in small space, is easily put together, and when filled for ship- ment, will occupy less space than a bulge type barrel of the same capacity. "The improved barrel is the invention of Frank Alexe, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who has carried his idea far beyond the experimental stage. The device is patented in the United States and Canada and in twenty-five foreign countries. "Mr. Alexe states that his barrel is not only cheaper and more convenient, but that it is far stronger. The timber is kiln-dried and is not weakened by the bending process. As the staves are flat, they may be worked into shape from the raw material with less work and by less expert help than is required for the old- style barrel. Practically every step in the con- struction may be done by machinery. The staves and heads are packed in bales and ship in much more compact form than the old- style barrel. The bulge of the old barrel was necessary in order to drive the hoops tight. With the Alexe barrel, the hoops are of wire drawn perfectly tight and held in place by staples. The patents cover also a forming machine for setting up the finished package, an operation so simple that it may be done by ordinary labor. The finished barrel is tight and does not re- quire lining to prevent leaking. The bulge of the old barrel prevented close packing in shipping and caused damage from loosened cargoes, but the new cylindrical barrel will pack tight and close. "A heavily capitalized company will begin manufacturing these barrels. Six factories will be established, two in Canada and the others in the United States." A THRIVING VANCOUVER INDUSTRY. One of the neatest and most up-to-date little planing mills' on the Pacific Coast is that of H. J. Fortin on Ninth Avenue, Vancouver. Mr. Fostin, began business four years ago with an outfit worth hardly more than one hundred dollars, but since then he has been steadily in- creasing his plant. Recently he has erected a large building adjoining the old one at the rear but in size much larger. He has now a floor area of 7,500 square feet. The building is so situated that the rise of the hill at the rear and the high street level in front makes it possible to have a level entrance right into the mill on either the ground floor or the second floor. The ground, or first floor, is used mainly for finishing purposes and as an assembly room. It is equipped with a sandpaper machine, mitre machine and other tools used in the finishing process. The second floor contains made by the Canadian General Electric Com- pany. One is a 10 h.p. two-phase 250 volt alternating current machine and the other an 8 h.p. 2-phase, 500 volt direct current. Mr. Fortin manufactures sash, doors, windows, mouldings, trimmings and general interior house finish. IMPROVED VARIETY SAW. An improved variety saw with boring attachment, M 197, as manufactured by Cowan & Company of Gait, Limited, Gait, Ont.,is represented by the accompany- ing illustration. This machine is capable of doing a great variety of work in the very best manner, and is particularly suited for jobbing shops. The frame is in box form, cast in one piece, with broad flange base and rigid slide ways for the table bracket or yoke. The table is of iron, raises and lowers 5" on gibbed ways by means of screw and hand wheel, tilts to angle of 45 degrees, and has adjustable mitre gauge which may be used on either side of the saw. Jointing, dadoing, rabbeting or grooving heads may be used by means of a large detachable throat plate surrounding the saw. The table surface is 36"x44." and material 20" wide may be slit ; an 8" saw projects 1 %" above the table, and 15" saws may be used.
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Improved Variety Saw Manufactured by Cowan & Company, Galt, Ont. the most of the machinery. The equipment includes band saw, rip, and cutoff saws, mortiser, tenoner, stickers, two planers and two lathes. The third floor is used for getting out the material, ripping, dressing, etc. Two planers, a surfacer, a rip saw and a cut off saw are part of this floor's equipment. Power is obtained from two electric motors The boring attachment consists of heavy slideways rigidly secured to the frame upon which a strongly braced table bracket is gibbed ; the table slide is gib- bed in turn to ways on top of the bracket with pro- vision on both sides for taking up wear. A wood table and bar as shown in the illustration are usually supplied, but iron table can be substituted if desired. All the fitting is first class and the parts adjusted very exact so that fine jointing may be done

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