New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-04
CuEApEK PAPER.

We give place to-day to several notices OF
now materials and processes for manufacturing paper
The most prominent OF these is that patented by Cou-
pier Melier and practically applied in this country
by Mr.. Nixon, at Manayunk, Penn, where the paper
ueed by The Phiiao eiph0 Ledger is made. This pro-
is described at length by Mr. Beaumont the agent
of the patentee who also furnishes interesting
particulars to the countless previous attempts to
gain the snme result 1t that the conversion OF
vegetable fiber into pulp for paper is no novelty but
that Melliers process is the first that has proved su
fcicn,ly economical for practical IL has gener-
ally been spoken of hitherto this country in its up
pcation to straw, but by It's Inc ans au oak ora poplar
board or any other brOuS substance be converted
into pulp as we'll and the only for using straw
exclus yey is that it is the most convenient aud
econou zeal form in which vegetable fbers founl
Mr. Beaumont states that from good straw 10 per
cent Of fiber OF pulp may be obtained, and he gives
the quantities Of chemicals and the apparatus requi
site, that any manufacturer calculate for HIM
self the expense of making paper BY the process We
understand the inventor to affirm that while the
factuTe costs something than with rags the
material is much chesper-only about oneffth the
cost of rag paper-that the former can be sold at
handsome profit for less than the cost of prOduc
ing the latter.
Some beautiful specimens of white and yellow paper
have been exhibited to u.s. as made by the process of
Mr.. Drayton Of South Brooklyn whose invention is
described far il possible in the same columns
with tie others We examined at the same time some
specimens Of straw fiber cleaned BY his process and
found them TO be of surprising strength Indeed quite
like hemp or flax 1t is DR.. Drsytons experience, as
We are inioI med, that when the non. fbrOus sub
stances removed from straw which he can DO in
very short time, and the fber remaining dried il ex
hitits greater strength than hemp. This pro-
Of cleaning he represents not expensiye and
when accomplished, the further transformation into
paper ls easy and simple. Mr.. Drayton is conf len
OF reyouIonizng the paper business aud he will GER
tarly do it. if he can produce pulp of the best quail
it! for $50 to SO tun as he contends. At that rate
he can far outstrip NJ. Mellier in cheapness 1t must
not be forgotten. however. that his process has not
yet been tried large scale and that inventor. are
sabgune. hellieEs process, on the other hand has
Lad very extensive trials and the results may be yer-
fed by ANY one who desires
we also publish letter that accompanied soma
specimens Which we have received from Philadelphia
OF paper made of wood, by process invented by
Mr. julius A. Roth, who has been for years engaged
in researches on this subject. 1t is stiff and firm
paper though rather hard, owing we are told to the
mPerfecton OF the machinery This paper, it is said
can be produced at about onethird the cost of the
binary article. We trust this will prove to be the
case
Another correspondent suggests the use of willow
bark a. a material ard have no doubt that very
good r u iehi e msoo from that substance In.
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