The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-14

that is almost eXclusi> Lcs
bent wood products =, sI
Aberdeen and Asheboro eng fl1
been noticing the bent wood ~
that he saw here and there up 0I
down the line he grew intercstc"
the novelty Of them and Wondered !
now they had been made. From tiaIL \
GO Wondering why they We're stll made I
IN Austria instead Of in The ait-d
Statts attracted him further, ana ho !
Enally quit the road to monkey With
bent wood stun. lie found that H.
Austrian processes had boon potent
81 il the United states, and the pa
/ tents expired. But that did nat hep
much for he had no idea OF bgyir.s
expensive machinery to mah" what
he wanted 70 make and he did not
know where any such thinG could be
had if he did want to buy. 50 IT,
| set to work To make machines 20
make bent wood products, and he has
a funny shop that stands alone on
| earth. 1t is filled with ma
chimes that he has designed and built
! himself or had built for hin at shops
from his designs. and his factory is
the creation Of his own ideas from
! front door to shipping room.
Good Sized and Still Growing.
This factory is right good sized
plant now, and growing bigger every
day and destined to grow a good deal
bigger until nobody knows what 1t IS
| going to become. 1t makes all kinds
of bent things. At first the iGea was
to make bent wood chairs. But YOU
can't stop q thing of this kind if YOU
| want to if you have reasonable
amount of sense to get it started, and
the first thing this bent wood factory
knew somebody who wanted to use
some braces, or rings, or arms or
something Of that sort for other
things than chairs asked the bent
wood factory to do the bending. Y ou
see if you have a factory that uses a
few pieces of bent wood in the manu-
facture Of something that takes big
proportion of wood that is not bent
it hardly pays to build a bending out
fit in the factory to bend the little
that is used. So factories that make
furniture and want limited amount
, of bent stuff began to write to Silel
City, and to get their stuff here THAI
, looked good to the Siler City plant
, and it took the hint, and now it i:
, bending all conceivable things for al
= conceivable sorts of factories every
, where, and each day sees the de
, mands from outside the town anC
outside the State growing.
The Siler City factory learned Z
thing or two in the operation Of tho
machines. In making chairs certain
2 lengths of good wood are used. The
] waste from the long lengths leave
: short pieces. The short pieces can b
y cut to use on short bent things Th
factory that uses short pieces Canno
: afford to buy long wood and cut i
/ up into small bits, for it cannot &c
: the money out of its wood that tn
0 long pieces bring. Therefore, it get
: to the point where 2 factory making
d a specially Of bent wood, bending f.
d everything. using the long pieces fo
n more expensive things, the waste 10
the little things, can make price OF
4 bent wood supplies that factor
y working on single things canA0
y meet This is a bent wood shop, an
v anything made Of bent wood can fin
u a. Siler City what it wants. \ fcy
s waste scraps of wood that do not f
# the wants of the bent wood trade ar
II cut into other things and some mis-
d sion furniture is the result. Not
o very big line but a line economical
'e made.
u Featured BY Novelty
l. The feature about this shop : II
e novelty. A man with the ability I
If see the chance tries out his idea. an
1T makes q hit. He finds he must &c
le velop his machinery. his IDEAS HI
1t products his markets. the whol
1t thing but he also nnds that thes
a things develop themselves as he pro
crosses He discovers that he ha
Il opened 4 new road, and that it
If leading steadily along logical line
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