. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. One-Saw Lath and Picket Bolter. pickets. The bottom feed-roll is of steel spurs, making a very strong feed ; the top press-roll is lifted by a foot lever and can be weighed as desired. The arbor is of steel \}i inches in diameter and runs in long self-ad- justing ball-and-socket bearings. A spreading knife, which does not appear in the cut, is placed back of the saw to prevent the bolts from pinching it. This bolter is suited to a wide range of work in getting ou
. Canadian forest industries 1894-1896. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. One-Saw Lath and Picket Bolter. pickets. The bottom feed-roll is of steel spurs, making a very strong feed ; the top press-roll is lifted by a foot lever and can be weighed as desired. The arbor is of steel \}i inches in diameter and runs in long self-ad- justing ball-and-socket bearings. A spreading knife, which does not appear in the cut, is placed back of the saw to prevent the bolts from pinching it. This bolter is suited to a wide range of work in getting out dimen- sion stock, as the guide is so quickly set for different sizes. A guard is attached above the saw to protect the operator. NEW CANADIAN PATENT. Cant Hook. Patentee: Thomas Pink, Pembroke, Ont, 20th May, 1895 ; 6 years. Claim.—A cant-hook having the socket B provided with a tang B', and the ferrule or clasp D, canying the dog covering the end of said tang when surrounding the handle A, as set forth. MODERN MACHINE SHOP PRACTICE. WHILE almost all kinds of mechanical business with- in the past few years have been gradually assum- ing the form of specialties, the machine shop is no exception to this rule, says a writer in the St. Louis Lumberman. If we go back comparatively but a few years the average machine shop might be said to have no regular line of business. The proprietors were ready to contract for anything from a forty horse-power engine down to a straw cutter. The men employed as machinists had no special part of the work to perform, but were ex- pected to perform lathe, planes and vise work as well as to make and dress their own tools, and notwithstanding the low rate of wages that were paid at that time, the average cost of machinery and machine work, when com- pared with the quality of that which is turned out by the modern machine shop, was much greater than at the present time. In modern practice, however, this system of working men promiscuously upon any
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