The daily gazette., 1878-03-08
Wilmington Machinery Abroad

nave cause TOT nauOnal pi1ue, IN cOm-
pairing our prog ress with that of other
nations, in estimating the value of the
devices with which we have increased
their paper-makng facilities.
The demands of nine hundred paper
and pulp mills have, in this cou ntry call
ed into existence q large number Of ex-
cellent and promi nent machine shops
like those of Pusey, Jones & Co.. Smith,
Winchester a. Co; and the Gavit Co.;
capable of producing all the details of q
paper mill plant, from the smallest re-
qtiired brass screw to the largest machine
or engine. For any kind OF paper or TO
any extent of power, the paper-maker
has but to express his wants, and such es-
tablishments as these are ready TO sup
ply them. Although the number of
paper mills in Great Britain Is much less
than in the United States, amounting
only to three hundred and twelve, still
there are nine excellent machine shops
ready to provide for them. These shops
also advertise 80 extensively on the Con
tinent, especially in the German Empire,
that we presume they do a good deal
of work among the Continental mills.
Where the best Fourdrinier machine
is made may fairly be called an open
whether there is, or can be, any "best"
Fourdrinier machine. Is there any best
dressed lady at ball? 1t has become
proverb that there is not and cannot be,
because when you have once decided
upon the best dressed fair one, along
comes another belle whose dress is better
Among the superb machines we have
seen, whether at Greeneville, Paterson,
Holyoke or Wilmington the last one we
perfection. So, doubtless, would we, or
any other observer, feel, in examining
the production of the Bertrams or the
Tidcombes, or the Umpherstons, in Great
Britain. There is "a certain uniform
standard which all superior machine
makers reach. and to fan short of which
would be failure.
But In the manufacture of chilled cal
ender rolls our machinists may be truly
said to lead the world. In itself the cal
snder roll is an invention of the first mag
nitude and brilliancy. Without delaying
the progress Of the sheet of paper from
shapeless pulp to the merchantable meas
ureinent Of extension, IL imparts to it
many of its most valuable qualities, such
as lustre, finish, and condensation. No
sheet of white paper can be complete
without 1t, and it adds greatly TO the
value of the papers made from jute and
rope. Hence in supplying to the world
the "Chilled Calender Roll" the Ameri-
art of paper making among the European
public. And in this department of the
machine, there can be best, and in our
opinion that best has been reached in the
castings produced at Wilmington, Del.
James Bertram & Son, Edinburgh,
Scotland, in an elaborate advertisement
in an English journal, accompanied by a
cut of an American grinding machine,
strikingly like the ones used by the Lob
dell Car Wheel Company Works, Will
mington, announce that they are pre-
pared to furnish "American chilled rolls,
| finished in our works on the highly i'm
proved American grinding machine !"
which must be accepted as compliment
| to American enterprise.
Miller Il Herbert, also of Edinburgh,
announce in the same journal American
chilled iron rolls for calendering paper"
Adding tsthese rolls are now superseding
all ethers used for the above purpose,
being infinitely harder, more durable and
of far superior polish" Testimonials
from Swedish and Scotch paper mills
substantiate the truth of their operations.
Another compliment.
Umpherson & Co., Leith, Scotland, al
SO conspicuously advertise "paper calen-
der rolls of American chilled cast iron,"
| which are said to be ground with de-
gree of accuracy never before attainable.
Another compliment. That these rolls
have been so well advertised by English
and Scotch machinists to foreign mills, as
well as by the "Paper Trade Reporter"
and american Paper Trade Directory"
has resulted in large orders bestowed
upon the Wilmington Works, for within
u comparatively recent period Messrs.
Pusey, Jones & Co. have sold to Great
Britain and the Continent over thirty
stacks of chilled rolls and super-calenders
as well as well as four grinding machines,
| while the Lobdell Company Car Works
have sold and sent over still larger
number, as also noble stack of calender
| rolls to Japan. In fact the rolls prepared
by both houses are originally cast by one,
namely the LoDdell Co, and here it may
be well to mention fact which we have
heard from intelligent furnace men, and
which the Lobdells would be too modest
to allude to, but still is a matter of gene
raj knowledge in well informed iron cir
cles, namely that the one OF the Lobdell
firm to whom Is delegated the task of
blending the. different irons necessary to
cast a car-wheel or calender roll for
certain purpose, is the most skilful iron
blender in the country and probably in
the world. As this comes to us as an ad-
mitted fact in the trade and wholly out
oiic VI Ouf Wieh LUZ
dells, we make no scruple of mentioning
1t, recognizing it as one of the causes OF
the excellence of their goods, aud there
fore deserving notice.
Both this firm and Pusey, Jones & Co.
have obtained great credit interpolation
abroad by their superior methods of
grinding rolls. Their methods are open,
and based upon the principle of perfect
horizontal acted on by cutters at exact
right angles. In this mode of art they
disregard and despise the charlatanism
that asserts that there is and can be only
one mode of truly grinding roll, and
that that process is patented. On the
contrary the mechanism involved in
grinding a roll is nearer mathematical
perfection than any other, and yet no
body takes out patents on pure mathe-
mates. The Lobdell Co. are preparing
for the Paris Exposition a single superior
and splendidly finished roll, eight inches
in diameter and one hundred and sixty
inches long, of which one hundred and
twenty-seven inches is polished face. This
glistening shaft will be set up as pillar,
while near it will stand superb stack of
their rolls, of which the bottom one will
be sixteen inches in diameter. They
have produced rolls of twenty-five inches
diameter, than which no larger ones were
ever seen.
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