Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-10


The man who is fortunate enough 10
utilize some waste material, that was
worthless before, because its value was
not understood, not only gives to the
country at large valuable acquisition
that indirectly increases the wealth of all.
but new industry is opened to the work
ing man, thus providing employment as it
increases the wants of civilization, and
puts II value upon what was previously
worthless.
or all such waste material that which
has come oftenest under the eve and is in
reality greater in this section than all
others, is the waste Of lumber, not only in
our saw mills and large lumber manufac-
tories, but in every wood shop in our
land, where shavngs and saw dust, at
least, have had no value.
1t is true that wood has been worked
into paper, but instead of waste wood and
sawdust, it has generally been selected
wood which has been prepared at great
waste for the pulp machine; but now
comes patent machine invented by JEFF
ferson Chase Of Orange, Mass, that takes
wood of any description, from whole trees
10 the finest chips and shavings, even all
grades of saw DUST and converts them
without waste into II pulp, from which he
congresses any implement that can be
made of wood
This same pulp machine can also use
any kind of fibrous waste material. also
chips Of leather, bits of old paper and
straw board, rice straw, common straw,
cane, palmetto, cornstalk or brushwood.
These materials, of whatever nature, go
through the machine with sufficient water
to form pulp, which pulp, without further
preparation, is forced into perforate molds
so as TO strain out the water by hydraulic
pressure, and thus the article of manufac-
ture takes its perfect form. After coming
from the mold it is dried, when it becomes
hard, impervious to water and strong as
the wood from which it is manufactured
was in its native condition. Let the arti-
Gle be barrel, keg, pail, basket, car wheel,
carriage wheel, boat, chair, shovel handle
or molding of any kind, it matters not
what its form, the cast from the mold is
perfect, and much harder, and consequent
ly, will take higher finish than the wood
from which it is made. 1t is much
stronger also, us the article, whatever it is,
is in one solid piece. Window sash OF
doors, made in this way, will not swell or
warp by exposure to the weather, yet are
as strong and durable as when made from
the best of wood. Any articles made from
this pulp can be afterwards turned in
lathes smoothed or polished much better
than wood work can be, as it is entirely
solid, being free from the pores that are
ever in wood in its natural state.
Barrels made by this process will hold
the most penetrating fluids, like acids,
oils, turpGntinc, ETC., without damage,
while they can be made SO cheaply as to
compete even with the flour barrels now
used, and will soon supersede them for
flour packages,
Though this invention is but just per-
fccted there is now an extensive factory
running at Medina, N. Y, making pals,
and company called the Pulp Package
Company, at Great Falls, Gorham, Me-,
start an extensive manufactory there this
week, and another much larger one is in
process of erection ut Hartford, c., by the
New England Pulp Package Company.
Other companies are forming in New
England and the western states; and soon,
yes, very soon, we shall be changing many
unsightlv wood articles about our homes
for the more beautiful, yet stronger and
cheaper ones made by this new process.
And better still, we shall be able to pay
for them in what has previously been
waste material.
But YOU will ask, who is this great in
ventor? To millmen, throughout the
country, he is we'll known; yes, might
say throughout the world, rs his board
mill stood first at the centennial eAhibl-
ton at Philadelphia, and he there took
orders from almost every country. 1t Is
probable that his inventions increased the
rapidly of the lumber manufacturing bus
mess, as far as board saving is concerned,
one-third if not one-half.
In Touring and provender mills his i'm
provements seem likely to change the
manner of grinding and greatly increase
the capacity of mills. A provender mill
he has just completed will grind from fifty
to seventy-fve bushels of corn per hour,
and yet is of very moderate cost and great
durability. He is Vermonter by birth,
having been born in Concord; Massa-
chusetts man by adoption; yet it can well
be said that he is benefactor TO all the
world, rs such inventors ever are. | will
describe his machine for pulp making in
my next letter.
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