Fronk E. Jones Mochinery Corp. Instolls llodern $8O,OOO Finger-Jointing ftlochine of ftloulding Service, Los Angeles

The latest, and most modern, Finger-Jointing Machine to be placed in operation in the Southland was installed last month in the plant of Moulding Service, 13028 South Avalon Blvd., Los Angeles, by the Frank E. Jones Machinery Corporation, pioneer rvoodlvorking and special production machinery company of Southern California. Manufactured by the Industrial Woodrvorking Machine Co., Inc., the nerv outfit is a complete ripping, cutting and finger- jointing assembly, all conveyorized.

Photos here illustrate the operation where the ripping of material, cutting the defects from the lumber and automatically sorting clears from shorts is accomplished with a minimum number of operational employes. Sam Jackson, vice-president in charge of production, is shown (left in top center photo) with the ultra modern, automatic $80,000 unit.

XIoulding Service was established seven years ago to offer specialty products to contractors, sash and door concerns and some retail lumber dealers. According to Paul Reiner, president of the firm, the plant expansion to house the new unit included a $25.@0 addition to the mill and r,r'arehouse facility to store the finished materials.

The Frank ll. Jones Machinery Corporation has been servicing woodrvorking' concerns, lumber yards and lumber mills for over 50 years in the California, Nevada, Arizona and Nerv Mexico territorv.

Nowl Automatic high-speed machines for accurate production of finger or scarf jointed lumber and mouldings. Here is finger jointing equipment that enables you to salvage thousands of feet of scrap lumber per day, or to upgrzrde lumber-at very low cost per finger joint. Complete unit continuously and automatically scarfs stock up to 2" thick, lengths from 6" up, widths to 6", 8" or 12". Completely assembles short stock and cuts the glued up material to any given length up to 24'. All equipment quality and precision made for years of high-profit waste utilization.

A New Way To Turn Short Lengths Into Long Profits

Installed now in many leading wooil. working plants across the country. Vrite, utire, phone today lor ilescrip' tiue literature and priees'

More than 50 convey. orized finger jointing plants like this are in production. (Photo of scale model)

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Decrler Fences In Profits From Fir Plywood Scrops

Converting prer.iouslv u.asted fir plyu'oocl scrups into picket iencc se cticrns has turned the lorvly scrao bin into a protit maker ior the Cornrvells J{eights-1-lrr. C.,., C.,rnrvells lleiglrts. Pa.

Owner Morris Shore explains: "Regardless of their length, the scraps can be shaped into picket fence sections. Our average fence runs f.rorr, 72,, to 30" high in 8'sections. We are also making four foot sections 6" high. These fence sections are placed around garden plots, used as decorations, put into yards and other sites. We sell them almost as quickly as we can make them."

The vard accur-nulates al1 its extcrior-tr-pc (l-aterproof) fir plyl'ood leftrx'ers in tr separate sh,,p bin. During the flrll or lag periocls, thc sl'ropmen kcep busy by shal>ing 1;ickets :rnrl str.rrirrg thenr up. \\,'hen crrough hlrt-e bccn accur.nlated, they st:rrt to r.nake the pickct fence.

The sanre length ancl thickness of picl<ets arc bundled together so that thcv are rcaclv u'hen tl.rc fence section is to lre maclc. The Pickets:rre easill'an<l cluicklr- nrade bv using a forn-r. The form hlrs been marle up f()r severzrl dill-erent sizes anrl tl-re lcrrgth of lrlyn'ood most closely fitting that size is placed in the form.

-I'he form itself is a rearl1. maclc stalie u'ith lr tlrpered tip (lthor.e). The flat encl oi the fr>rm an<l one of its sicles are etrcloserl so thlrt Ar.r urrcut lrict'c oi plvu'ood c:rn ltc fitterl into it. The iorm is then r.. n against the shaper' u'hich cuts it to u'i<lth ancl taoers thc tio. '\iter one sicic is done, it is turnecl (rver un(l ihe otlrer is conrpletc<i.

A special jig has lrcen marle to conrplete the fence sections. Thc jig is a sct of runrrcrs on:r table u'here the tn-o stringerrs of arr 8' fcrrce sectir)11 cAn be set into place. Framirrg is set rrp at rcgular intervals so that the shapecl picket scctior.rs c;rn be laicl across arrrd simplv nailecl into the stringers.

"Even the most inexperienced shopman can make

8-foot sections sell quickly these fence sections," explains Shore, "because once the pickets are cut to size and shape, they just drop them into the jig across the two main members. This jig is adaptable to any picket size. During periods of inactivity around our shop, this manufacturing operation keeps our men busy."

An unpainted 8-foot section 18" high rctails for $2..19 and the 30" scctions sell for $2.9ii. Somc sections are paintc<1 ar-rcl these sell for aitPr<tximatelr' 25 percent r-nore. The shorter fences scll for alrout half thc rrrice oi the 8' sec t ir.ril s.

"llan1- cust()mers leave their orders in aclr.ance if thev intencl to buy a large nurnltcr of sections. cither painted or unpairrtecl." explains Shorc. "Bv jrrst displltying them :trouncl our viLrrl ancl in ot.Lr shorvroom, they practicallv sell br- themselr.es. Actuall-v, the onlv real ir.n-estment that r.e h:rve ilr the picliet fences is the cross members Irnd. in ntan1. instance., cve,r these are scr:rp lutnber. The rest is just labor. Once the pickets are shapecl, an S-foot section can be nailed together ir-r about 20 minutes."

Scraps of interior-type fir plywood are, of course, not waterproof so only exterior-type scraps should be used to build the fence sections.

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