. The Street railway journal . FIG. VENEER SEATING FACTORY—NEWPORT, VT. and veneers. While in the service of the late firm of Gardner & Com-pany, he put into use the first veneer seating ever used by a publicconveyance. This was in the old steamer Shady Side, a trifle overtwenty years ago. In this test veneer gained public favor and alsobegan for Mr. Seguine a record as a railroad supply man. At the. FIG. 2—CUTTING ROOM—VENEER FACTORY, NEWPORT, VT. one-half inch deep. With a crane they are then swung into the ma-chine illustrated in Fig. 2. The log rotates toward the knife which
. The Street railway journal . FIG. VENEER SEATING FACTORY—NEWPORT, VT. and veneers. While in the service of the late firm of Gardner & Com-pany, he put into use the first veneer seating ever used by a publicconveyance. This was in the old steamer Shady Side, a trifle overtwenty years ago. In this test veneer gained public favor and alsobegan for Mr. Seguine a record as a railroad supply man. At the. FIG. 2—CUTTING ROOM—VENEER FACTORY, NEWPORT, VT. one-half inch deep. With a crane they are then swung into the ma-chine illustrated in Fig. 2. The log rotates toward the knife which is slowly but surely creep-ing up to the log at a rate, which can be gauged by the operator, so asto cut veneer so thin that it will take sixty layers to make an inch, orby giving it a more rapid rate, so thick that it will require only four ofthese sheets to make an inch. In other words, the machine can begauged so as to cut veneer any thickness from one-sixtieth to one-fourth of an inch. After the log is rounded up it is possible to take
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