Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-08-28
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Paper frsu Da0oso anl case.
Our issue Of this day u printed upon
paper nads fsUm Bamboo b]The Fiber
Disintegrating Company, under the pro-
cess for which patent Wa granted some
years ago to Mr. A. s. Lyman, = native Of
Massachusetts,.
The Bamboo, which is imported by the
company from Jamaica, is put into steam
cylindess or guns; steAm at high press
uls h let in for few minutes, and then
valve Mt the mouth Of the gun - liberated
by q trigger. and the steam. in the gun
rushes out, carrying with it the Bamboo,
which, on being projected into the air,
bursts and becomes partially disintegrated
The heat Of the steam changes the nature
of the gnns holding the fibers together
20 that they can be easily washed out The
Isilex Is dissolved, or softened and shatter-
ed, and blown from the fiber.
The blown Bamboo is then boiled or
simmered in an open vessel, in waste or
spent alkali liquor tthc refuse Of subse
quent process, beaten up and washed.
1t is now pretty clean filter of golden
color, and is ready TO be boiled under
pressure in alkali in a pulping boiler &C
cording to the ordinary mode OF reducing
material to paper pulp. But, as the BAN.
hoo has been already reduced to fiber and
has been diycsted Of most Of the extrane-
Gus and worthless matter, it does not re-
auire to be treated with very strong chem
cals, nor does it require steam ut very
high pressure and boiling for an hour or
two is sufficient After the pulping pro
cess. the pulp is bleached and made into
white paper in the usual way, or the bleach
ing Is omitted and packing paper is made
instead.
The Fiber Disintcgrating Company is
incorporated by q special charter of the
State Of New Jersey. The company have
large works at Red Hook, South Booklyn,
q factory at Elizabethport, New jersey
(whcre it was intended to conduct the
principal part Of the blowing process },
and works are being established at Caron
delet, suburb of st. Louis Missouri. At
the latter place, the company intend to
make paper stock from Cane, which
abounds on the banks Of the Mississippi
also from Hemp Stalks-blowing the en-
tire plant, Invested of leaves.
Cane is also to be brought up from
North Carolina to the works vi LllzAbcth
port and Brooklyn.
1t is SAID that Cane paper, made by the
blowing process will be cheaper than
Rye Straw paper and very superior in quail
itv-thc Cane paper being soft, IKE that
made from Cotton rags The bamboo pa
per, however, is regarded as superior to
the Cane paper, SO much so as to warrant
the importation of bamboo from Jamaica
at a cost nearly double that Of Cane.
The Bamboo grows abundantly in ia
maica, in various places very near 70 ports
accessible by sailing vessels of ordinary
SIC.
We understand that the company refer
red to own the patent for the whol. of the
United States, and that they expect TO
make arrangements for the establishment |
of works in several parts of the Sout b and |
West and on the Pacific, for the supply Of |
paper mills with an abundance OF paper |
stock" for the manufacture of all kinds of
paper, News. Book and Letter, as we'll as
pa1k king paper, at so cheap rate
AS to cause discontinuance of the impor-
tation of rags into the United States. This
is result very much to be desired, as in
tections diseases are often spread by rags !
We are now importing rags from China,
and from parts OF Europe where plague |
and cholera prevail We shall he very
glad to fnd American ingenuity and enter
prise enabling US to close our ports against
a trade so dangerous to the health of the |
The proposed scale of operations at st.
Louis appears to be of considerable mag
nitude. Not less than one hundred tuns
per day OF cane are to be blown and rough |
iy broken down, to be sent to papcrlnlls. |
The cost Of the Cane, delivered at Caron-
uclet, is estimated to be less than s. per
tun, undricd. in which condition it is |
blown The cost of blowing. is said, will
be under one dollar tun. and the yield
about one tun Of paper to five of the I'm
dried Cane The subsequent processes, al
though simple and cheap, are of course
more expensive than the blowing. There |
is coal mine within two or three miles of
the works The Cane, after being cut
down, in the cane brakes. is to be piled up
at suitable places cn the river bank, whence
it will be taken and put on barges, to DE
towed up to Carondelet.
The company DO not confne their oper-
atoms to the manufacture of paper stock.
They propoes to make papier mache on
large scale for mcnldings, furniture. &c,
and also to blow refuse flax straw (Which
is now usually got rid of by being burned
to make cottonized flax, to be used with
wool for carpets, coarse cloth, &c.-New
York Tribune Aug 81.