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New Strip Oak Fitooring Standard Available

Commercial Standard CS56-60, Strip Oak Flooring, is now on sale by the Superintendent of Documents, IJ. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. fot 10 cents. Developed by manufacturers, distributors, and users in cooperation with the Commodity Standards Division of OTS, this voluntary commercial standard establishes 11 standard grades and 17 standard sizes of oak flooring strips of the tongue-and grooved and square-edged types. The publication describes industry practices for bundling, inspection and measurement. Methods of grade-marking each bundle and certifying each shipment are explained. The appendix lists the latest manufacturers' recommendations for preparing subfloors and laying and surfacing strip flooring.

New Literature

A four-page catalog (No.60) giving technical details, illustrations and suggested list prices on a new line of job-rated portable electrie Thor SpeedTools is available from SpeedWay Division of Thor Power Tool Company, LaGrange Park, Il1.

Revised and brought up to date, Technical Bulletin No. 2, entitled "Studless Metal Lath and Plaster Two-Inch Solid Partitions" is now available free. from the Metal Lath Manufacturers Association, Engineers Building, Cleveland 14, Ohio.

Shown above is a new die-cut display frame desigrred to focus attention on the Adjusta-Bilt fixtures available with the Masonite Panelok wall system. A pressure-sensitized backing makes it easy to attach the frames to the hardboard panels. Printing on the top half of the display frame says: "This is the new Panelok 'Working Wall' by Masonite." Information on Masonite's cherry and walnut grained panels is printed on the white portion of the display. A hand at the lower right side of the display frame directs the viewer's attention to the fixture or bracket in the slotted spline at the center of the die-cut circle. The displays are available from Masonite representatives.

NEvy'STACK-ON PALLET"

Irregular shaped products, once difficult to r-andle, are now tiered, transported in groups or stored easily and flexibly. The unique new product has demountable legs that.are double braced for extra rugged construction and come in varying lengths for stacking at different heights. The legs have no nuts and bolts or any flxtures to fuss with. they are engineered to slip into their pockets quickly and securely. Both sizes, 42"x60" and 42"x48", have a capacity of 4000 lbs. The Stack-On Pallet is not only ideal for handling products that cannot be placed on top of one another, but can be used for all sorts of materials handling and can solve many storage problems with versatility, portability and compactness. Because there is no product like it, the new Johnson-Flaherty Stack-On Pallet has applications that challenge the imagination, claims Johnson-Flaherty, 5801 District Blvd., Los Angeles 22, California.

A counter display box for the Duo-Fast CT-859 Gun Tacker is now available through Duo-F ast sales offices, or write Fastener Corporatlon, Franklin Park' Illlnois.

A free, full-color "Motion Display" specifically designed to sell Derusto rustinhibitive coatings, is being offered by Master Bronze Powder Company, Inc., Calumet City, Illinois. It operates continuously for weeks on two inexpensive flashlight batteries and displays new Derusto MinitFinish protective coatings, regular Derusto, Derusto Spray and galv-a-grip protective coatings in r/2 pint to gallon sizes and 16.2 oz. spray cans. It is ofrered dealers free of charge when purchased with either of two Derusto assortments.

IDENT-O-MATIC NAMEPLATE PRESS

A new compact machine for stamping individual letters and numbers on all types of identification plates and tags is announced by the Identiflcation Systems Company,246 Fifth Avenue, New York 16, N.Y. Other uses include markings on keys, toolroom tags, nameplate badges for personnel, storage bin tags and scores of other identiflcation purposes. A complete catalog explaining this equipment is available together'with a list of suggested uses.

A new, 48-page booklet, "How to Build Profits by Controlling Costs," has just been published by Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. It is written from the point-of-view of the small businessman and deals with one of the most difrcult problems facing businessmen today. cost control, Included are a number of practical aids such as simple directions for computing operating and financial ratios, a five year chart for comparing performance and enabling a businessman to see rapidly the progress arrd direction of his business. Copies may be obtained by writing to P.O. Box 803, Church Street Statlon, New York 8, New York. Prlce: $1.00.

Eight new pieces of modern, labor-saving, cost-cutting, sawmill equipment-one piece of which is q radically difrerent slab saware illustrated and described in a catalog by Cornell Manufacturing Company, Laceyville, Pa. The catalog also lists several trimmer slab saws, log: turners, pallet drills, log cleaners, that have been developed over Cornell's 50 years of experience in the sawmill manufacturing fleld.

New Top and Side Chipblanker by Stetson-Ross Machine Company, Inc., Seattle, Washington, produces revenue-earning, high-quality chips preferued by pulp and paper manufacturers while easing production flow through planer and matcher, and is adaptable to all makes of planer and matchers. Variable speed regulates chip size. Machine cuts extra clean and works equally well on fir, hemlock, spruce or pine. For further information write: Stetson-Ross Machlne Company, Inc., 3200 First Avenue South, Seattle 4, Washlngton.

WE COVER THE FAR CORNERS OF THE woRLD! .

Ihe old specie wilh a million new uses f FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR FINISH FOR STADIUM SEATING . . AND OTHER PURPOSES

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