STAVES.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, 28 September 1844, Page 2

STAVES.

We have met with the following instructions for splitting staves, in a recent number of the Sydney Herald. As the black birch has been proved to be well' adapted for the purpose, we hope some one will make the experiment. We showed a few weeks since that a certain market might be found in the* neighbouring colonies for any quantity we^ could manufacture : —

"As it is of importance to the colony, I send you Messrs. Taylor and Wilmot's patent process of making staves. The patent does not extend to the colonies, therefore may be employed. - " A block of wood is submitted to steam, as ship-builders do, for three-quarters of an hour or an hour, the block resting on a support of slips or beams of wood an inch from the bottom. This process extracts every impregnation, destroying also fungi, animalculse, their seeds and eggs. The wood may then be chopped in a perpendicular direction, as easy as slicing butter, and with perfect accuracy, leaving neither chips nor waste of any kind."