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Deolers'Soles Aid
An illustrated, four-color brochure just published by Weyerhaeuser is available to dealers as an aid in describing uses for new M uralwo od prefinished mill products are included where applicable.
\ilRITE: Red Cedar Shingle & Handsplit Shake Bureau,5510 \trhite Building, Seattle, Washington.
New 'Siqndord' Edition
The 1965 edition of the "Standard for the Use, Maintenance and Operation of Industrial Trucks," containing revisions, has been issued by the National Fire Protection Association.
Widely referred to as a guide to good practice, this technical standard applies to fork trucks, tractors, platform lift trucks, motorized hand trucks and other specialized industrial trucks powered by electric motors or internal combustion engines that are designed for use in hazardous locations.
F- ' handwood paneling in home or tF"l office. g$*r. ' f:iY I'he exact grain patterns and "': color tones of real hardwood are ).' reproduced on durable hard- .i board panels made especially by the company for its muralwood i' paneling.
The brochure describes how muralwood paneling can be used economically to panel almost any room or wall in the houseliving room, family room, kitchen, bedroom, and dressing area. Or, it can be used to provide warmth and elegance in any office. A 12 x 8-foot wall can be paneled for only about g2b, for instance.
Color photos show muralwood paneling in a variety of room settings and in all six wood tones: teak, rosewood, walnut, butternut, cherry and birch.
WRITE: Weyerhaeuser Comqany, Wood Products Group, Tacoma, Wash. 98401.
New Buyer's Guide
A Buyer's Guide, containing information on red cedar shingle and handsplit shake mill products, has been updated and reissued by the Red Cedar Shingle & Handsplit Shake Bureau of Seattle, Wash.
The newer edition contains information on plant facilities and product lines of more than 240 member mills represented by the Bureau in Waihington, Oregon and British Columbia.
Complete data on shake and shingle machine capacity, groov- ing facilities, dry kilns and pal- letizing operations is included in the issue. Brand names of
WRITE: National Fire Protection Association, 60 Batterymarch Street, Boston, Mass.
Descriptive Cotolog
A complete description of joist hangers, post anchors, metal bridging and structural framing connectors is given in a new products catalog issued by Silver Metals Products Company of Hayward, Calif.
T'he catalog contains information on dimensions, applications, architectural and engineering points.
\MRITE: Silver Metal Products Co., 1815 National Avenue. Ifayward, California 94545.
Displcy Informofion
New literature that shows six money-making displays selected by successful dealers as an aid to volume sales of cupolas and weathervanes is available from Stephenson & Co.
The new form shows dealers how to set up attractive, eyecatching displays in their showrooms by using their regular stock, and the attractive, heavyduty shipping carton which eontains a strong selling message.
Most of these displays require only a minimum of 2% square feet of floor space, Copies are free.
\ilRITE: Stephenson & Co., 75752 fndustrial Parkway, Cleveland. Ohio 44136.
Hqndbook Anoiloble
The Armstrong saw filers handbook, first published in 1960, has become a valued reference book in lumber production and care of saws used in the industry. To keep up with new trends in the industry, the handbook has been revised.
Several se ction s coverlng scrag mills, double arbor edges, and inserted tooth trim saws have been revised.
WRITE: Armstrong Manufacturing Company, 2135 N.W. 21st Ave., Portland, Oregon.
CRA Promotion Book
The publication of Redwood fnteriors, a new 12-page color and black-and-white idea booklet, kicks ofr the California Redwood Association's 1966 Interiors campaign.
The booklet features photographs of AID and architect desigaed rooms utilizing redwood for wall paneling, ceilings, window mullions and trim.
The promotion, designed to increage avrarehess of rnedwood as an interior building and deborating material among consum- ers, is timed to break in newspapers and magazines when consumer interest in home dec- slotted, standard-size conclete Soundblox. It includes general information, technical data, tables and graphs on Soundblox sound absorption coefrcients, sound transmission loss values, installntion details, and speciffcations.
WBITE: The Proudfoot Company, fnc., P.O. Box 9, Greenwich, Conn. 06830.
Revised Stondords Bool<
One new standard and revised pages for 13 other standards for the AWPA Book of Standards have been issued recently, according to Harry Dunstan, president of the American WoodPreservers' Association-
The book is a looseleaf binder containing all standards of the Association and is of value to preservative manufacturers, producers and users of treatcd wood, inspectors and chemists.
WRITE: American Wood-Preservers', 839 Seventeenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C.
Kiln Choin Focts
Two improved kiln chainsofferlng higt heat transfer, long service life, and outstanding €collomf-a1s detailed in an illustrated brochure now obtainable from industrial supplies & machinery group of American Chain & Cable Company, Inc.
Designated Circ-o-Lap and Circ-o-R,ing, the all-welded chains provide a high-heat- transfer-surface per foot of chain, along with minimum chain diameter.
The brochure provides tables on heat-transfer surface-area per foot of Circ-o-Lap and rCirco-Ring chain. In addition, data are given for both chains on ring diameter and weight per foot.
\trRITE: Industrial supplies & machinery g'roup, Arnerican Chain & Cable, 464 E. Princess St., York, Penna.
orating is at its peak.
The consumer booklet will be previewed for desigrrers and deeorators in a special kit to be distributed to the members of the American Institute of Interior Designers.
WRITE: California Redwood Ass'n, 617 Montgomery St., San Francisco 94111.
Soundblox Brochure
A four-page brochure describing new Soundblox, sound-absorbing, structural masonry blocks, is offered by the Proudfoot Company, Inc.
The brochure describes the new. concept in sound control involving use of the specially
Booklet Offered
Lifetime white baJced-enamel gutters and downspouts are presented in a new three-eolor booklet available from U. S. Aluminum Corporation.
The folder contains photo illustrations in the form of exploded views of components of the company's 10-, 20- and 32foot long guttering and adjoin- ing rainpipe. The company is the only manufacturer of 32foot length gutters.
A full explanation is given of the per{ormance characteristics of Permlar, an acrylic enamel paint applied to U.S. Aluminum gutters and downspouts.
WRITD: U. S. Aluminum Corp., 11440 W. Addison St., Franklin Park. Ill. 60131.
