The Arizona sentinel., 1886-10-02
PAPER FAILS.

I,tsrestinp Description of the Various
 Processes Employed in Their Manufac-
 ture.
 Rags and paper waste are steamed ln vats for few hours, and then thrown into beating troughs partly filled With water The "beating'' is done by re- volving cylinder with fifty knives set at different angles. The knives reduce the rags to dirty purple pulp, and change the newspaper wrappers to soft mass. About four hundred pounds of material are put under each beater. When pa- per and rags are each reduced to pulp, the opening of a trap lets it run into the stuff chest in the cellar. One part of rag pulp to three of paper is run into the chest When pumped from the stuff chest into the trough of the wind ing machine, the future pail looks like thin water gruel. A hollow cylinder covered with brass wire spashes around m the trough, and the pulp clings fast to the wire. After the cylinder has per formed a half revolution it comes in contact with another cylinder, covered with felt, that takes off the pulp. As the large cylinder goes down on the re- turn trip, and just before dipping into the trough again, the little particles ot pulp sticking to the wire are washed of bv streams of water from sieve. On 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. It is about the shape of the paper cone caps worn by bakers and cooks, but made of solid wood and covered with zinc, with the small end or bottom part of the pail toward the workman. The forming roll drops automatically when pulp of the required thickness is wound around it. From here the now promis- ing pail is put in the pressing machine, which looks something like silk hat block, in six sections, with perforated brass wire upper faces. The sections move from and to common center, and the frame is the slze of the pail wanted.
 The workman drops his damp skele- 1 ton of a pail into the frame, touches a | 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 temperature of one hundred and fifty degrees. The sections of the pressing machine mark the bands which are seen on the finished pail. After it is dry, 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 was shirt bosom. The pail, or rather it's frame, is pared at each end, punched with four holes to fasten on the handle, and corrugated, or channeled, for the outings 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 belongs. The factory has a machine of its own invention for the bending of the hoop into shape.
 After it has been cut to the proper length and width, the straight strip of iron is run over semicircular edge of steel, on which It is held, and drops on the floor a 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 temperature of two hundred and three hundred degrees. It is dried, after its first coat of paint, sandpapered, and then takes two more coats of paint, with drying between, and coat of var nisn which is baked on, before-with its wooden handle and brass clamps pail is ready for the hand of the dairy maid, hostler or cook.-Syracuse (M. X.) Standard.