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OBITUARIES

OBITUARIES

Siding Detoils ond Dots

A new. full-color folder describing the complete line of Armstrong Hardboard Siding and other hardboard products has been prepared by the Building Products Division of the Armstrong Cork Company.

Called "Armstrong Siding," the folder ofrers full details on performance ratings, cost savings, and application data on the company's horizontal lap siding, vertical grooved and vertical plain siding panels, and Armstrong Utility Board. Color photographs of homes built with the various siding products iIlustrate the folder. Armstrong Siding LD-5-65T is available free of charge.

WRITE: Armstrong Cork Company, Department PI, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Steel Wool Cotolog

The Williams Company has just issued a catalog on its full line of steel wool products for home, business, and industry.

The 4-page catalog lists the quantities, sizes, and grades of steel wool available in a variety of packages to suit the craftsman, custodian, or housewife.

Product groupings illustrated include the new 12-pack carton of "Jex" brand household pads, as well as the 16-pad breakapart Twin Fack, 1-lb. tubes of bulk or roped wool, 6-pad assorted grade package,6lb. and 20-lb. rolls, 55-lb. reels, cartons of floor machine woolers, and 5lb. rolls of roll-your-own floor pads, all sold under the "Sun Ray" label.

Catalog 64-4 also describes the major features of "Sun Rayt' and "Jextt products, with emphasis on wool quality, pad construction, and sales-oriented package design. Free copies are available.

WRITE: Customer Services Dept., The Williams Co., London, Ohio.

Ponel Fol'der

For easy comparison, the nine Royalcote woodgrained hardboard panels are shown as segments of circles in a new color brochure available from the manufacturer, Masonite Corporation.

Appearing as partial room settings are pecan, elm and oak; teak, natural cherry and honeytone cherry; and the three shades of walnut-glacier, sable and tawny. In addition, two full room settings are reproduced. This handy folder, good for rgferen@, as a mailer or direct selling, lists the line of Royalcote accessories including Putty Stik. color-matched nails and matching moldings.

WRITE: Masonite Home Serwice Bureau, 29 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, Ill. 60606.

Beoms ond Arches

A new full-color catalog of laininated wood products by Weyerhaeuser for its 1965 Rilco line is now available.

Twenty-page catalog shows uses and details of Rilco members for churches, schools, commercial ,and industrial buildings and homes. fhe catalog provides basic design data, specification guide, products information and engineering services. Also included is data on solid timber d e c k i n g, vertically laminated beams and laminated decking. Copies are free.

WRITE: Weyerhaeuser CompanV, Box B 270, Tacoma, Wash. 98401.

Sound Control Boqrd

Installation procedures and properties of a new sound-dead- ening construction board, designated Silent-Cor, are the subject of a new booklet published by Monsanto Company.

The illustrated brochure describes in detail methods for using the polystyrene foam,/ paper laminate in wall, ceiling and flooring applications.

Entitled "Silent-Cor for Sound, Control" the booklet is available on request from Department 804.

WRITE: Monsanto Company, building products department, St. Louis, Missouri 63166.

lmproved Wood Decking

Now, laminated wood decking is ofrered with the exposed (ceiling) surface machine-sanded for better appearance and greater smoothness than possible with a planed surface. The product is of kiln - dried and machine stress-rated lumber. Full-color catalog is available free. Catalog includes types, sizes (t'o 3-1/L6 x 5-75/32" net in lengths to 20,) and grades (architectural, premium and industrial), installation details, and cost comparisons.

WRITE: Weyerhaeuser Co., Box 242, Tacorna, Wash. 98401.

Protecting Gym Floors

An inexpensive, quick method of protecting gymnasium floors so they may be used for roller skating, banquets and exhibitions is described in a technical bulletin, A-278, issued by Mas onite Corporation. "The Immediate and Removable Temporary Floor Covering" describes how to lay 4'x 8' or 4'xt}' panels of 7+" Tempered Presdwood for special occasions and how to take them up for Iater re-use. Complete instructions in narrative and drawings are included free..

WRITE: Masonite Service Buleau, Box B, Chicago, Ill.

Hordboords in Co'lor

A six-page, letter-size colol i folder illustrates Masonite Corp- I oration's 10 Royalcote woodgrain hardboards and colors for' home and commercial interiors.

Newcomers Alpine Oak and Fireside Birch are singled out for special attention in two attractive four-color reproductions of room settings. AIso shown al'e accessories, including new Royalcote Panel Adhesive, matching metal and wood moldings, nails and putty stick. Copies are free.

WRITE: Masonite Corporation, Box B, Chicago, I11. 60690.

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