Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-09-16
PAPER PALS.
Interesting Description of the Various
Processes Employed in Their Manufac-

Processes Employed in Their Manufac-
ture.
Rags and paper waste are steamed in
into beating troughs partly filled with
water The beating is done by a re-
volving cylinder with fifty knives set at
different angles. The knives reduce the
rags to a dirty purple pulp, and change
the newspaper wrappers to soft mass.
About four hundred pounds of material
are put under each beaten. When pa
per and rags are each reduced to pulp,
the opening of 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 Cruel A hollow cylinder
| covered with brass wire spashes around
IN the trough, and the pulp clings fast
to the wire. After the cylinder has per-
contact with another cylinder, covered
the large cylinder goes down on the re-
the trough again, the little particles OF
| pulp sticking to the wire are washed off
| 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 y,
to the forming cylinder, SO called. II
/ 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 hal
block. in six sections, with perforated
brass wire upper faces. The sections
move from and to common center
and the frame is the size of the pal
wanted.
The workman drops his damp skele-
ton of pail into the frame, touches E
lever, and the sections move to theil
center and squeeze the moisture out o
the pail The pail is still a little damp
and spends few hours in the drying
room at temperature of one hundred
and fifty degrees. The sections of thu
pressing machine mark the bands which
are seen on the finished pail After i
is dry, the pail is drawn like glove
over a steel forming roll which
is heated, and is ironed b,
another revolving calender, with steam
thrown on the pail to keep it moist, a
if it was shirt bosom. The pail, o
rather it's frame, is pared at each end
punched with four holes to fasten on tn
handle, and corrugated, or channeled
for the outings on of the iron hoops
A wooden plate large enough to sprin!
the pail so that the bottom can be pu
in, is inserted, and the paper bottom
held under weight which drops ant
knocks the bottom where it belongs
The factory has machine of its owl
invention for the bending of the hoo
into shape.
After it has been cut to the prope
length and width, the straight strip o
iron is run over a semicircular edge o
: steel, on which 1T is held, and drops OF
J the floor round hoop with fold in thu
, middle to catch the top and bottom
edges of the pail. After waterproof
composition is put on, the pail is bake
in a kiln for about forty-eight hours, a
temperature of two hundred an
three hundred degrees. 1t is dried
after its first coat of paint, sandpapered
and then takes two more coats of paint
with drying between, and a coat of var
nisn which is baked on, before-with it
wooden handle and brass clamps-th
pail is ready for the hand of the dairy
maid, hostler or cook. Syracuse (N. z.
. Standard.