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A TABLE FOR PROCESSING CORKS AND STORING SUPPORT STANDS H. L. DUNLAP and FRED TATE Ohio University, Athens. Ohio
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tahle shown in the illustration was built to help keep the organic laboratory from being cluttered up with loose support stands and at the same time to help students prepare corks properly for their apparatus. It was made to fit into a space available where the two ends of the tahle were free for the removal of the support stands. It consists of four deck compartments, each deck holdingseven support stands, the holes heing.staggered to allow strips within the deck to separate the support stand tops, thus one end of a deck holds four stands and the other three. This probably could he improved by using half-inch pipes for ,the top guides thus storingfour supportsat hothends of each deck. The four decks store twenty-eight support stands. Each deck is 2 inches high, including the %/*-inch ply board flooring. Each deck extends 1 inch longer a t each end, over the deck below, to permit the bases of the support stands to fit against t,he bases of those in the next lower deck. Six and one-half inch spaces arealloved for each support stand on each of the decks as the bases are G inches wide. The top of the tahle is 20 inches wide and 45 inches long, and made from 3/8inch ply board over 3/4-inch lumber. This top gives ample room for two corkboring machines, one a t each end, with cork rolls and a rack for rat-tail files, chained to prevent displacing. There is room for a box of assorted corks when dispensed in this manner.
