The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1875-10-02
And all Made by Cincinnati Money
and by Cincinnati Muscle,
i wonder how they are made"


actually for the moment forgot the pain
Of parting with the coveted shinplaster.
"Certainly do. Make 'em myself, or
at least my girls do, and they are good
looking lot too, by the way" was the
reply. SNAKE 'emf Young man, make
over thousand miles Of paper collars
every year."
"What, do you really mean to say that
you, sure enough make paper collars
from the foundation up-build 'em, you
know, with paste and paper and linen
and lining and button-holes and
stamped numbers and linen impression
and sham stitching and turned-over
edges and trumped-up high-toned names,
and all that sort of thingw
II really do"
"Here in this cityr
.Here in this city,"
SNAKE 'emW
SNAKE them"
"And put 'em in little boxesw
'sAnd put them in little boxes"
"And you'll tell me all about it and
let me publish 1t In the STARW
"And Pll tell you all about it and let
you publish it in the STAR, provided you
don't put my name in. don't want any
free advertising; am able to pay for
that"
Fancy long, low room, filled with all
sorts of curious machinery run by pom
derous engine in the basement below.
Fancy dozen or two rolls of paper and
linen passing through oceans of paste
and starch and running thence between
huge iron rollers, which squeeze and
heat and press it until the several
thicknesses become one. Fancy all
sorts of queer and expensive machines
cutting out slips Of paper and cloth and
punching holes and stamping seams and
turning edges and doing a hundred other
things both mysterious and indescrlba-
BILE. Fancy collection ofmerry, bright
eyed, well fed and well paid girls en-
gagged in the various departments, man
aging the machinery, arranging the
bLrAps VI MueLl-hcofolSu pdPoi, ,WatcuiuS
the button hole cutters, paStng on the
extra ''patches" around the button
holes, counting and asserting the col.
lars, packing them in boxes, and attend
ing to the hundred other duties of an
immense paper collar factory, and you
will know something of the difficulties
which the STAR man had to overcome to
get tangible and comprehensive ac-
count of the paper collar manufacture in
Cincinnati.
AS the manufacturer said, his estab.
miles of collars a year; all sorts and
sizes, and qualities, and varieties are
made, and the number annually reaches
MP into the millions. Though the num-
her OF makers in the city are few the
branch of mandatory is in a flourish
ing condition, paper collars are des-
tined to be feature OF Cincinnatps
business as long as the millions wear
them.
The process of manufacturing the pa
per collar. and which is now mostly used
of paper, about two teet wide anu sew
eral hundred yards long, is first taken
and cut by machine into strips, each
measuring some four inches in width.
These strips are then rolled up In sep
crate coils and cut into lengths, as tho
size of the collar requires. The sizes
manufactured are generally from Il 10
16N inches, II inches being an extra
size. These lengths are then packed to-
gether and placed under two different
plunge dies and are cut out in the shape
Ihen taken and placed In machine
pne at a time, and the impression OF
linen and stitches is given to them, after
which the button holes are cut and
pieces OF malslin are pasted on the but
Eon-hole spaces. The latter is done by
hand and costs fifty cents for every
Thousand button holes.
The collars are then bent over between
Two rollers, when they are packed in
boxes ten in number. and are ready for
pse. The above process is equally ap-
with cloth. The manner of uniting the |
paper and cloth is as follws: Large
rolls Of paper and thin cotton cloth as |
khey come from the mills, about eigh- |
teen inches wide, weighing about one |
hundred pounds, are placed OH reels, |
the cloth passing through tank OF |
starch paste, the two passing together |
between two heavy iron rollers heated |
by steam, then slowly over steam drums,
thence between the. calenders, one
running twice the speed OF the other, pro-
linen, the gloss being impaired wholly |
by the starch, SO there is no longer any
danger Of poisoning the neck. Four
years ago Mr.. S. f. Hilton, of PrOvi-
dence, Z. l., obtained patent for an
other improvement, consisting in doub-
hing or folding the edges and ends, thus
giving better imitation OF linen, and
obviating the tendency to turn up al the
points, great trouble In the SINGLE
edged ones. The machines for making
these collars are automatic, and three
can be operated by a single person only
being required to sit by and see that no
poor STOCK goes in, and replace stock
when it runs out.
This machine cuts out a collar COM
plete, and is capable of making sixty per
minute. From this it is carried to the
crimper,a "a simple machine tor creasing the
collar, for folding the center, edges and
ends, thence to the folder, two little CYL
inders projecting u couple of inches
above the table, revolving rapidly in diff
ferent directions, carrying the collar
doubled between them. Then they are
taken by the boxers and packed ready
for the market. At first paper collars
were packed in boxes 100 alta time, but
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