Radio-Frequency Heating in the Woodworking Industry

Radio-frequency heating is finding wide application in the woodworking industry for such processes as edge-gluing, plywood manufacture, drying, assembly-gluing. The theory of radio-frequency heating is reviewed briefly, and how this type of heat is applied in various applications is described. Several case histories of actual manufacturing problems are taken up. The recent Federal Communications Commission Regulations on the use of radio-frequency power for industrial heating are treated comprehensively.