Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1868-10-01

about four hours and when nearly clean solu,

about four hours, and when nearly clean solui
ton OF chloride oil lime is added to them.
The rugs now go down to the Brainers in the
story below. These are bins surrounded with
brick into which the stock Is thrown saturated
with chloride of lime water and allowed to lay
several days TO bleach. There are eighteen OF
these, some Of them holding stock for 1900 lbs.
OF PAPER. The stock Is taken from here again by
hydraulic holsters to the same room where 1t was
washed, and is taken to the beating engines Here
the wood pulp Is added. and the whole mass Is
reduced to pulp. Externally the beating engines
resemble the washing engines, but their knives,
pulp Is added directly in the sheet, resembling
thick paper, in which It is received from the
Wood Pulp Works At Manayunk, unless II has
been deemed necessary to bleach 1t, when 1t ID
run through the wash engine and sent to the
beating engines arc supplied with clear water
from the basin, and bueing powder Is thrown
In to take away the yellow tnge. H
The pulp now goes down Into large cisterns,
called stuf-tanks, in the story below, from which
it is pumped to the paper machine room. There
are three OF these tanks, each holding sufficient
pulp to manufacture $500 pounds of paper.
We pass now to the paper machine room,
wler, we find three Fourdrinier paper machines
IN full operation. The pulp Is pumped from tho
stuff-tk 70 the pulp dresser, at the head of the
machines, where 1t receives its final cleaning and
Is reduced to about the consistency of thin
Cruel which IL resembles as IL goes from here
nn endless wire cloth. Heavy India rubber endless
bands, revolving around the rollers with the CLOTH
regulate the width of the paper. While on this
cloth the pulp gradually ceases to be pulp, and
becomes wet paper, though the exact moment of
the change it is almost impossible to tell,
the transition being as gradual as that from con-
seriousness to slnmber. The water of course,
pissis through the wire cloth as 1t moves along
passing under roller, which presses the water
nlore from it. 1t reaches the end of the wire
cloth damp paper; II here passes to an endless
woollcn blanket, Oh which 1t passes through two
sets OF pressing rollers, and then to an endless
canvass, on which 1t Is carried around the drying
cylinders, seven Ia number, and heated by steam.
From these 1t passes directly 10 the calenderipg
rollers, which press 1t and give 1t It's final finish.
These rollers vary in number according to the
qualify of the paper, much larger number being
used where tits desired to produce fine finish.
From the calendering rollers the paper Is wound
directly on the reels, and from there IL is cut by
machinery Into sheets of the required size The
paper OF course, comes 10 one endless roll to the
reels and can be putin rolls of any required length
II desired. Most of the newspapers receiving pa
per from this factory however require their PAPER
IN sheets. While we were there one of the ma
chimes was making paper for the New York Led
lhe other for the Saturday Might, of Philadelphia
The paper on which this is printed, came a few
days ago from one of these machines.
When cut the paper is sent to the finishing
icou hnctt u IL couutcu, lOlueu ana packed
ready for shipment
The whole process of manufacture Is very In
teresting, and our thanks are due to the firm for
Their Invitation to examine the mill to Mr.. Luke
fsr his careful explanation of the various process
e. and to Mr.. Lindsey for his cheerfully afforded
information concerning the buildings and ma
chinery.
This mill is probably tho largest and most COM
plcie paper mill IN the country. There are Others
probably of equal capacity, but they are not so |
large nor so completely and conveniently ar
ranged.
Messrs. Jessup q Moore, the proprietors, own |
also the Augustine Mills on the Brandy vine about
two miles above this city. MIR. Jessup owns the |
Codorus Mills at Little York, Pi., and the firm |
sells all the paper manufactured by all these mills
anu also all that fran the celebrated Flint Rock
Mills, owned by Martin Nixon at Manayunk, Pa. |
Their stores At 127 North Sixth street, Phila-
delphi and No. 12S William street, New York |