South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-07-18
GLUE
COMPANY
INCORPORATED
Successor to FRANK G. PERKINS.
Factory and General Offices
LANSDALE. PENNA.
Sales Office
SOUTH BEND. INDIANA

| LANSDALE. PENNA.
Sales Office
SOUTH BEND. INDIANA.
The Perkins Glue Company is
incorporated in Pennsylvania for
S40O,Ooo.oO, with factory and
general offices located at Lans-
dale, Pa, a suburb of Philadel-
lphla, and with sales offices at
South Bend. They manufacture
and sell Perkins Vegetable Glue,
on which they hold patents in the
United States, Canada and Eu-
rope. 1t is especially adapted for
built-up stock and veneer laying,
replacing high grade animal
CLUES. Many of the largest glue
consumers in the country have
used it exclusively for a number of
years, in the manufacture of such
high class products as veneered
doors, sewing machines, the cab
NETS of monographs, office desks
and furniture, all kinds of house
hold furniture and trunkS,-in
fact, every kind of veneered stock
ranging from barrel heads to
pianos. The European and
Canadian concerns who use Per-
kinS Glue would probably not be
interesting here, but the following
list fairly represents the class of
manufacturers who use it in this
country: The r. McMillen Com
pany and Morgan Company, Of
Oshkosh, Wis; the Hardwood
Products Company, of Neenah,
Wis; the Singer Manufacturing
Company'S factories located at
South Bend, Ind, Cairo, ILL.,, Glas-
cow, Scotland, and St. Johns,
Canada; the Indiana Veneer &
Panel Company New Albany,
Ind; the st. Louis Basket and
Box Company, St. Louis, Mo. i
Stout Furniture Company, Salem,
Ind; Wheeler-OSgood Company,
Tacoma, Wash, and the Selden
Cypress Door Company, Palatka,
Florida.
One of the advantages claimed
for it by its users is that it has no
odor and it would seem that this
alone would make it most deSir-
able, for We venture to say that
the only thing that nine out of ten
persons know about ordinary glue
IS that it has a very bad odor.
Another point of more practical
interest to the manufacturer, is
that because Perkins Glue does
not sour by standing and so cause
waste, and on account of its
greater covering capacity, its
users find that they make a saving
of from is to 90 per cent per year
over their former hide glue cost
and at the same time. get more
satisfactory results both as to
strength of the joint and because,
like some other things of general
consumption it improves with
age We are told that some of
the other advantages are that il
requires no heat for its applica-
ton in the glue room and that
after the Joint is made, no amount
lof heat short of burning will sep
arate it. If the glue is properly
applied, this last named quality
absolutely does away with "bIiS-
tiers" which are usually caused on
account of the heat generated by
the friction in finishing" the
panels. The users of Perkins Glue
also find that the product runs alb
Solutely uniform; that they never
know when they go from one
shipment to the next and this is
due to the processes in the Per-
kinS factory and the care in manu-
featuring.
Vegetable Glue was discovered
and invented by Mr.. Frank G.
Perkins, who started in business
in Florida a number of years ago
| 1t is made from the root of casa
va, which is a tropical plant re-
Touring eleven months to mature,
and the Perkins people went TO
Florida in order to be near the
source of raw material. There are
many varieties of cassava, a num-
Der of them not being suitable for
glue and great care has to be tax
en- in this respect. The plant was
grown by farmers, but the COM
pany also went into extensive cul-
tivation and bought several thou
sand acres of land. On account
of the length of time required for
shipments to reach customers, the
factory was moved north several
years ago. This crop was Gull
tivated TO some extent in
Florida and the roots fed to cattle
and hops and an evcpI,ent cattle