St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-07-26
How Paper Pals are Made.

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At a paperware factory in SYRACUSE
intknded to turn out five hundred paper
paiSs day, the process OF making is
thus described:
Hays ana paper waste are steamed
in Svats for a few hours. and then
thrSwn into beating troughs partly
filiSi with water. The beating" is
dorSe by a revolving cylinder with fifty
knS SET at different angles. The
knEes reduce the rags to dirty purple
pub, and change the newspaper wrap
PERI to a. soft mass. About four hum
dreA pounds of material arc put under
eacSl beater. When paper and rags are
each reduced to pulp, the opening OF a
trak lets it run into the stuff chest in
theNcellar. One part of rag pulp to
thrse of paper is run into the chest.
Wien pumped from the stuff chest into
the trough of the winding machine,
the; future pail looks like thin water
grrel. A hollow cylinder covered with
braas wire splashes around in the
tro gh, and the pulp clings fast to the
wirR After The cylinder has performed
F~If revolution it comes in contact
VITA another cylinder, covered with
felf that takes off the pulp. AS the
large cylinder goes down on the return
trilS and Just before dipping into the
troSgh again, all little particles of pulp
STICKING to the wire are washed off by
STREAMS of water from a sieve. On the
theAinside of the cylinder is a fan pump
tina. discharges the waste liquid.
From the felt covered cylinder the
! +: 80 iy1pr rJylInInF
SO called. 1t is about the shape of the
paper cone caps worn by bakers and
cooks, but made of solid wood and COW
cred with zinc, with the small end or
bottom part of the pail toward the
workman. The forming roll drops au-
tomaticallE when pulp Of the required
thickness is wound around it. From
here the new promising pail is put IN
4 the pressing machine, which looks
something like silk hat block, in six
sections, with perforated brass wire up
per faces. The sections move from and
to a common center, and the frame is
the exact Size OF the pail wanted. The
workman arops his damp skeleto OF
nail into tie frame, touches lever, and
| the sectors move to their center and
squeeze thu moisture out of the pail.
The pail lis still little damp, and
spends few hours in the drying room
at a temperature of about one hundred
/ and tifty. The sections of the pressing
machine mark the bands which are
seen on thu finished pail. After it is
dry the pail is ironed, or calendered, as
it is called The pail is drawn. like
glove, oveE steel forming roll, which
IJspTaI hu another
revolving calender, with steam thrown
on the pail to keep it moist as If 1t
were SHIFT bosom. The pail, or rather
its frame, is pared at each end,
punched with four holes to fasten on
the handle, and corrugated, OF chan
neled, for the putting on OF the iron
hoops. Aswouden plate large enough
to spring the pail SO that the bottom
can be put in, is inserted and the paper
bottom he'd under weight which drops
and knocks the bottom where 1t be-
longs. TIE factory has a machine or
, its own intention for the bending OF the
hoop into shape.
, After it aas been cut to the proper
, length and width, the straight strip OF
iron is runs over q semi-circular edge OF
, steel, on which it is held, and drops on
| the floor a. round hoop with a fold in
the middlesto catch the top and bottom
edges of tie pail. After q waterproof
composition is put on, the pail is baked
in a kiln fer about forty-eight hours at
q temperature between 200 and 300
DEGREES. 1t is dried after its first coat
of paint, and sandpapered, and then
takes two anore coats Of paint, with a
driving between. and coat of yarnish
which is Saked on, before-with its
wooden handle and brass clamps-the
pail is ready for the hand of the dairy
/ maid, hostier, or cook. Syracuse On.
" Herald.