Canadian wood products industries . e is also a pneumaticsanding block by the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Com-pany and a mortising and tenoning machine suppliedby the H. W. Petrie Company, Limited, Toronto. The work taken up in the elementary classes in-cludes typical problems in construction and the prin-cipal joints used in carpentry and joinery. In con-nection with the bench work, attention is paid to de-sign, and students may design, construct, assemble,and finish a piece of furniture. They are taught the useand care of tools, kinds of woods and their properties,cutting and seasoning of lumbe
Canadian wood products industries . e is also a pneumaticsanding block by the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Com-pany and a mortising and tenoning machine suppliedby the H. W. Petrie Company, Limited, Toronto. The work taken up in the elementary classes in-cludes typical problems in construction and the prin-cipal joints used in carpentry and joinery. In con-nection with the bench work, attention is paid to de-sign, and students may design, construct, assemble,and finish a piece of furniture. They are taught the useand care of tools, kinds of woods and their properties,cutting and seasoning of lumber, prevention of check-ing and warping, varnishing and waxing. They arealso taught the use of wood-turning lathes and lathetools. The two elementary, or manual training shopsare located next to each other, with a communicatingdoor, and the arrangement of the lathes is shown inFig. 4. All machines are motor-driven by individual mo-tors, with the exception of the lathes in one or twoof the shops, which are arranged in rows. The motor. Fig. 6-Variety Saw in Cabinet Room—Toronto Technical School. is placed on the floor at the end of the row and theline shaft runs along underneath the lathes (|nite closeto the floor. All danger from belts is junior pupils small classes are necessary inorder that the instructor may constantly be in touchwith each one to give instruction and avoid accidents. One point worth emphasizing is that the instructorsin charge of the different shops are all experts in theirparticular line and have been picked from some ofthe leading industrial plants of the country. It isalso gratifying to know that the men in the tradehave not been slow in taking advantage of the instruc-tion offered, although the classes have been verymuch depleted of late, owing to the number of menthat have enlisted. The Shoe Peg Business Shoe pegs are bought and sold by the pint, peek,and bushel, while the narrow ribbons of wood of whichthe pegs are made are bartered in
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