The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-09-14
How Paper Collars are Made.

We find the following in an exchange:
"A the end of the first room are piles
of pure white paper, awaiting their turn
10 he guillotined in machine furnished
with twenty-five shear blades. which cut
the paper into the requisite strips for the
collar, on precisely the same principle
gigantic pair of scissors, thus leav-
ing no rough edge. The product oftwo
paper mills is consumed in this factory,
and st the rate of tun to tun and
half per day the average production be
ing about one hundred thousand collars
per dav, which find n ready sale. despite
the numerous limitations with which the
market is Hooded. From the hands of
the attendant who turns out the pure,
even strips of paper. they pass into the
hands of another fair eXecutloner. who
brings the incipient collar nearer its
birth by passing it through another pair
of knives by which II acquires shape in an
instant Still another machine marches
relentlesslv up and down. and as the col
lar leaves its iron embrace the three
button holes are visible, large. clean cut,
firm holding and easily handled
The collar is now placed between two
dies or clamps, passed under a quick,
heavy pressure, and energies again with
renders ii so close an imitation OF its lin
en- brother that the difference can hardly
be distinguished tits stamped also with
the size and corporate mark.
Next comes the crimping machine,
which draws the curved lines on which
the shape of the collar turns and which.
by allowing space for the cravat, insures
a smooth fit. They then pass through
the nimble hands of damsel. who with
deft fingers, flying with lightning like ra-
piditv, turns the collar over as no ma
chine has vet been able to do; from
these hands it passes to the N olding ma
chine, where it Is bent round into perfect
shape
The process is an important one, re-
qures skill in the operator, and strength
in the paper, which must be of the best
to resist the immense strain required to
mold the collar into perfect shape.
The collar is now, as il were, born
shapely, trim and elegant. and ready to
adorn the neck of the most fastidious,
having passed through seven distinct
processes of manufacture 1t is at once
taken in hand by women and packed in
to boxes hy the hundred, or in the we'll
known little round boxes of ten each,
which are so convenient to toss into a va
liSe when off for week in the country
or elsewhere. For the item of boxes the
company eXpend over $50, ,0oo per an
mum. The first machine turned out the
collar entire, performing the whole work
at once, but slowly and imperfectly; but
the genius of the inventor, quickened by
the rapidly increasing demand for the
article, added Improvement, by one ma
1 chine after another, until the manufacto-
ry is now capable of turning out five mil
/ lion of collars per month
The American Nodded Collar Com
| pany employ in this manufacture seven
! ty neatly dressed, intelligent looking
| American women, most of whom are
/ young. These women earn dollar pei
! day. and their work is clean, healthy and
not very lahorious. Mr.. G ray, who first
! commenced to manufacture in the spring
/ of 1868, has now eight patents on collar
and machine. having previously secured
/ them in Europe; three of the directors
! of the Company went there this summer
with skilled mechanics and American
machinery, to take measures to establish
/ the manufacture in England. France and
! Belgium, where they will probably soon
attain that popularity which the Ameri-
can nodded collar has achieved in this
/ country.