The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1872-09-07
CREMATION.
II Collars are Made.

NE hundred and fifty million paper
collars, it has been estimated, are yearly
used in the United States; and statistics
show that ever this immense number is
steadily increasing as improvements III
the manufacture multiply.
The collars are made i'll two varieties .:
of paper and cloth combined and of pa
per alone. The best materials are used
in the manufacture of the paper. 1t is
supplied in heavy white sheets, sixteen
ythirty-sixinchesind dimensions weigh
ing 1876 pounds to the ream. On being
received in the mandatory, it is sent
to the enameling room, where each sheet
is covered with a thin layer of enamel
and then placed on racks heated by
steam pipes until thoroughly dry. This
work is performed entirely by hand, and
the enamel mixture applied with an Or
binary brush.
After the sheets have become thor
Oughly dry, they are embossed to imi-
tate cloth. To produce this effect, mus
lin is tightly stretched and pasted on
plates of tin corresponding in size to the
sheets of paper. Between pairs of plates
thus prepared, the paper is laid. about
fourteen sheets at q time being thus az
ranged, making apple of alternate layers
of paper and tin. The whole is then
passed between heavy steel rollers, the
pressure being sufficient to imprint the
threads of the cloth Oh the paper, SO that
a perfect fac SimiIe is thus obtained.
Each sheet is then pOlishedb by passing
it 0yer swiftly revolving brushes, when
it is ready t Obe transformed into collars.
The paper is next sent to the finishing
loft. where, by means of movable dies
made of steel, with edges sharpened so
as to penetrate the material readily, the
collars are cutout. AheapOfsheets,abOu
eighty in number, is arranged under a
press; the die placed upon them, andthe
press setin motion. Asingle stroke cuts
through the paper, and the collars are
shaped. They are now perfectly HAT,
destitute of button holes, and, besides,
must be nodded before they are ready
for packing
At one end of the loft are large rolls
of muslin, the use of which it is at first
difficult to divine. A glance at the next
process through wlIich the collars pass
soon affords an explanation, forthe mus
lin is seen cut up into little elliptical bits
called patches" which are pasted OF
the extremitiesa and middle of the collar.
Their object is to give the button holes
the necessary strength, and to prevent
them from tearing out when soaked by
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puts on these patches, cuts the button
holes, impresses the imitation of stitches
on the borders, folds the collar, and
stamps it's size on it, all in one motion.
The collars, as fast as they are finished
by this machine, are bent or nodded so
as to fit the neck. The molding appa-
ratus accomplisles its work with aston
ishing quickness, although it may be
fairly considered as rivalled in rapidity
of motion by the girls, whopack the col
lars in the boxes. A bundle of a dozenis
made up and twisted into its receptacle
as if by magic, each girl packing some
10000 collars per day. The last process
is to label the boxes, place them in cases,
and the goods are ready for market.
The cloth-lined collars are the more
expensive of the two varieties. They
are made of paper to which muslin,
either white or cOlOred, is firmly pasted,
so that no enclosing is necessary, and
are cut out n dfinishedin the same man
ner as above described. Cuffs and false
shirt bosoms go through the same pro-
cesses, dies being used of the required
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