, 1884-12-18
MAKING WALL PAPER.
HOW 1T IS PRINTED IN so MANY
COMPLICATED PATTERNs.
signing Itoom-rutting the Design
ON the Misunderstanding the
Paper in Color

Wallpaper factory, beginning bis tour OF in
~Testigation in the basement, yFhene twenty
five mon were found mixing the colors in bar
rels- All were wnter colors, and all were
also chained as harmless by the superintend-
emit All tints were represented in them, the
most lively being the fayorites, ~as-warIn,
lively colors YIN be the fashionable thing IN
wal papers this fall. An ideaaf the extent
Of this color-mixing business may be guessed
when it Is known that the establishment uses
nearly ten tons OF paint a day.
II RocEss OF %BJorcHING.
The 'fbiotchihg machines" on tho fourth
lour ot tho building are the ones which first
troat the paper which Is going 10 be con
verted into the much ornamental article
secn ON the walls OF 20 many town houses.
A web OF black paper Is set in n reel behind
one OF these machines. The free end Of the
paper on the web Is pulled forward and
placed between two cylinders which drug II
into the machine, whero n roller, part of
which Is working in a color pam filled with
thin paint, is working. This roller puts a
large quantity of color upon the paper and a
set OF fiat brushes, say half a dozen in num-
Dor, called jiggers work rapidly Jack and
forward at right angles with the course Of
the paper, working this coioring matter in
and spreading IL evenly over tho surface OF
the paper, 20 that when the cylinders OF the
rear end OF the machine drug it out IL Is
thoroughly painted In water color on one
side.
As it issues from tho blotchine machine a
workman takes the free end OF the paper and
wraps 1t around q stick, which Is carried up
an incline by two parallel endless chains
After eighteen feet OF the paper have run
out these chains pick up another stick which
hes across them and bears a paper upon it
This last stick chases tho first one up and
gains on Il TIL only u foot behind, when 1t
stops gaining and both travol along main
tanning that relative distance, with the pa
pcr between them looped down till it nenrly
touches the floor, yet not in any danger Of
being squeezed together 10 that tho paint on
il shall touch n part other than 1t Is in
tended for. A hundred other sticks do pre-
cisely aa tho second one did, and the result Is
that there hre soon n hundred loops Of paper,
each loop containing eighteon feet The ole
waited railway Of parallel chains on which
the sticks from which tho pape is looped
are travelling turns corners Of tho building at
will, and soon the blotching machine has ruin
the whole web out, and it Is hanging in loops
over a system of stoam pipes, which dry 1t 80
fast, as It moves along, that IL Is perfectly
dry before it reaches tho further end of the
chain railway. whsre a boy with q reel
winds 1t back into web form again.
IN II DESIGNING ROOM.
The designs are first sketched out on paper
and then Transferred by an culinary process
on the fnces Of rollers made 10 suit, the size
required-an eighteen inch design, for In
stance, requiring n roller SIX inches in
diameter. May be the design requires print
ing in twelve colors that is tho highest num-
Dor ordinarily runJ TO do this twelve rollers
would be prepared, each having the design
upon it and zach Of a size exactly equal TO
that Of the othorA- When the rollers are all
prepared the artist will direct skilled work.
men who are with him TO fix one up to take
tho brown, another red. another yellow, and
so on with all the other colors. Lot the
brown color serve as IN example for all.
The workman takes IL 10 his bench, where
there Is n wise and hammers and files hnd-
piles of brass made into thick ribbons and
rods. Here he sets tho roller In tho grasp Of
the vise and goes to work on it. Every bit
Of the design which Is TO be In brown is traced
out for him and he reproducos It In relief on
the roller with his bronze wires and rods and
ribbons which he drives into the hard wood
50 solidly that they stick thoys as II they had
grown Tho brass wiro can be given any
ordinary shape necessary by drawing IL by
machinery through a hole Of corresponding
shape In a stool bar. This Is tho way that
the roller, which will print in brown. is first
fitted up. When IL is finished It bears on It's
face, In raised brass, fragments of loavos
and parts Of birds and ears OF wheat and lit.
tie and apparently unnecessary and unshaped
points Of metal, all OF which at tho proper
place and time viii put the brown c~oloring
and Shading In exactly tho place where the
designer wants 1t to go.
THE RAPIDLY WORKING PRESS.
When the roller has had all its share Of the
design hammered into It It is taken away
10 a turning lAthO, when the face OF all tho
brass work Is struck on one side by pumice
stone and on the other by a file and gradu-
ally brought down 70 perfect smoothness and
evennoss and the exact sizo needed. All the
other rollers are treated In the way indi-
Gated, zach getting Its share OF the design
hammered into It's face In brass work and
each afterward boing reduced to smoothness
and the proper aiEs by the file and pumice
stone. 1t sometimes costa 81 900 10 get up a
set Of rollers in this fashion. and they,
maybe, tAko three or four weeks in prepara-
ton.
When the rollers are prepared they are
takon to a press which consists of n very
large cylinder OF the width OF ordinary wah
paper. Around the bottom and sides of this
cylinder are grooves into which the rods on
the ends OF the rollers at, the faces OF the
rollers just touching the cylinder when they
are in position To each OF the rollers comes
FROM below 1t an endless cloth band, which
works up ward from a color pan in which the
coloring matter 70 be used on the particular
parts OF the design carried on the roller In
question is lying In the shape OF a thin IL
quid. Each Of the rollers Is registered, that
Is, turned 30 that tho portion of the design
upon It will exactly strike in tho spot
necessitated by tho relative position
OF the other rollers When all is thus ar
ranged and the paper which has Previously
passed through tho hlotcher, is conducted
between the cylinder aud the first roller, the
machine Is started; cylinder and rollers re-
volve at once each. Of the latter printing 10.
color just whera IL was intended, and a stsel
scraper called a doctor, lying ut each OF thu
endless cloth bands spoked OF, seeing TO II
that not too much liquid from the color pans
gets en- tho rollers. The press works very
rapidly, throwing of ton rolls OF the paper q
inmate, and each roll contains sixteen yards
This means 100 yards Of paper a minute for
each press, and there are twelve presses in
this establishment OF course all are not
working constantly at tho speed mentioned.
but, taking all the year round, the establish
ment turns out close upon 5000, 900, 900 rolls
q year. w
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