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How Paper is Wade. jiFor writing, and fiuer kinds of printing paper, rags alone arc used, and upon the quality, texture and color of theno, in a great degree, depend upon the character and appearance of the product. For bank note paper, silk and linen rags are taken; and for most of the finer kinds of note and letter paper, the priucipal article is linen rags, though it will not Jo to use all liner, In order to make the best article known as linen paper, a portion of cotton is necessarily used. For printing-and w-apping papers* various articles have been used, and with various degiees of success. The priucipal among these are rags, straw, and the inner bark of trees, beet-root and bass-wood. For strength, however, nothing has yet been found e-qual to -ags.In describing the process of manufacturing paper, we shall confine ourselves to rags, as the material, premising in the main that other articles ucd for I ho purpose are subjected to a very similar process, except the sorting, cleansing, etc.— After bemg carried to ihe mill, the rags are spread lu a lott, whcu the fi-bt opeia-tiou to which they aro subjected, is that 1 [ of sorting. The different qualities aro put | in their proper places, and thu colored I ■; ones sepamted from the white. They are then sub ected to the cutter, in which they undergo an operation something like chopping sausage meat. Passing out in a “mutilated” conditio’), they are put into the duster, where, being thoroughly beaten, the dust is so loosened that the sieve over which they next pass sifts out nil the dust, and leaves them in a comparatively clean state. After having under gone this cleansing process, they are put into a revolving boiler, in which they are steamed for several hours, by which they are made so tender aa to render their decomposition easy, and also bleached.-Next they go into a pulling machine, where, in some six or eight hours, thev are ieduced from their original form, and converted into h thin, watery muss, that runs into a vat, from whence it is pumped as required for use. From this vat it is taken, and passing through clear water, runs over a fine wire cloth, upon which it settles in a thin layer. As the cloth upon which it is thus deposited passes on, the water is pressed out ly revolving cylinders covered with- a finely-woven wire doth, and the pulp thus parted from the water, begins to assume the form of paper. After this it is carried forward by woolen blankets, which constantly passing over heated cylinders, it soon becomes dry. It then continues on its course, and passes betweou other rollers which j^reaa it smooth and give it a gloss aniT finish.-*-Thus the paper is made, but it is not in shape for use. It is taken up and wound upon layge wooden .-cylinders or reels, and these are do Inched from from the paper-making machine, and transferred to the cutting machine, where the long baud of paper w cut dnto the sized sheets desired.It is thon counted into reams—tied up, and ready for market. The whole time consumed for the completion of tbcae van. ous processes, which transfer rags into paper, is lawtbri twenty-four hours.toto*—i % ■ »ofSOI
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North Western Times
Viroqua, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Feb 16, 1859
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