The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-01
How Paper Pals are Made.

At a paperware factory in Syracuse.
intended to turn out five hundred paper
pals day, the process OF making Is
thus described:
RAGS and paper waste are steamed
in watts for a few hours. and then
thrown into beating troughs partly
flied with water. The "beating" is
done by a revolving cylinder with fifty
knives set at different angles. The
knives reduce the rags to dirty purple
pulp, and change the newspaper wrap
pers to a soft mass. About four hum
dred pounds of material are put under
each beaten. When paper and rags are
each reduced to pulp, the opening OF
trap lets il run into the stuff chest In
the cellar. One part of rag pull TO
three of paper is run into the chest.
When pumped from the stuff chest into
the trough of the winding machine,
the future pail looks like thin water
cruel. A hollow cylinder covered with
brass wire splashes around in the
trough, and the pulp clings fast to the
wire. After the cylinder has performed
with another cyIlTiuer, --cp,6rO contact
felt. that takes off the pulp. As the
large cylinder goes down on the return
trip, and just before dipping into the
trough again, all little particles OF pulp
sticking TO the wire are washed off by
streams of water from a sieve. On the
the inside of the cylinder is fan pump
that discharges the waste liquid.
From the felt covered cylinder the
pulp is paid on TO the forming cylinder,
SO called. 1t is about the shape of the
paper cone caps worn by bakers and
cooks, but made of solid wood and coy
cred with zine, with the small end OF
bottom part of the pail toward the
workman. The forming roll drops au-
tematically when pulp of the required
thickness Is wound around il. From
here the now promising pail is put in
the pressing machine, which looks
something like silk hat block, in sir
sections, with perforated brass wire up
per faces. The sections move from and
TO common center, and the frame Is
the exact size OF the pail wanted. The
workman drops his damp skeleton of q
pail into the frame, touches lever, and
the sections move to their center and
squeeze the moisture out of the pail.
The pail is still little damp, and
spends few hours in the drying room
at a temperature of about one hundred
and fifty. The sections of the pressing
machine mark the bands which are
seen on the finished pail. After it is
dry the pail is ironed, or calendered, as
it is called. The pail is drawn, like
glove, over a steel forming roll, which
is heated, and is ironed by another
revolving calender, with steam thrown
on the pail to keep it moist as if it
were shirt bosom. The pail, or rather
its frame, is pared at each end,
punched with four holes to fasten on
the handle, and corrugated, or chan
neled, for the putting ON of the iron
hoops A wooden plate large enough
to spring the pail so that the bottom
can be put in, is inserted and the paper
bottom held under weight which drops
and knocks the bottom where it be-
longs. The factory has a machine of
its own invention for the bending of the
hoop into shape.
After it has been cut 20 the proper
length and width, the straight strip of
iron is run over semi-circular edge of
steel, on which it is held, and drops on
the floor round hoop with fold in
the middle TO catch the top and bottom
edges of the pail. After a waterproof
composition is put on. the pail is baked
in kiln for about forty-eight hours at
a temperature between 200 and 800
degrees. 1t is dried after its first coat
of paint, and sandpapered, and then
takes two more coats of paint, with a
drying between. and coat of varnish
which is baked on. before-with its
wooden handle and brass clamps-the
pail is ready for the hand of the dairy
maid, hostler, or cook.-Syracuse IN.
~ Herald.