Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
MAKING WALL PAPER,
The Interesting Process Briefly and
InstructfveIy Described.
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| III" interesting Process Briefly and
| InstructfveIy Described.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Inc manufacture of wall paper is singu-
| larry interesting. First, a web of blank
paper is set in a reel behind a blotching
| machine; two cylinders bring the free end
OF the paper into the machine. where a
roller working in a color pan puts a large
quantity of color upon the paper in blotch-
es. Then set of fiat brushes, called Jig
gers, brush quickly back and forth, thus
| spreading the coloring matter evenly over
| the surface of the paper
AS the paper comes from the blotching
machine a workman takes one end of it,
wraps 1t around a stick and places the stick
across two parallel endless chains and the
paper is thus carried up an incline. When
eighteen feet of it has run out, the chains
take up another stick that lies across them
and carry it UP as they did the first stick;
third stick soon follows the second, and
thus the work continues until the entire
WEB of paper has been run out of the
blotching machine.
The chains, in their working hang the
paper in loops over system of steampipes
ana 1t is thus thoroughly dried before it
reaches the end of the chain work where it
is again wound into web form.
wall paper designs are first sketched on
paper, and then transferred to rollers of the
size required. 1t is necessary to prepare as
many rollers as there are colors in the de-
sign; thus, If the design requires printing in
eight colors, eight rollers must be prepared.
When all of the rollers are ready the ar
fist directs his workmen and each one is
given color. A workman to whom that
color has been given takes roller to his
bench, sets 1t firmly in the grasp of a wise,
and, with hammers, files, brass ribbons
and brass rods, goes to work Every bit
or the design that Is to be in green is traced
out for him and he carefully reproduces IL
in relief on the roller.
When his work is finished, the roller
pears on Its face, in raised brass green
stems, leaves, etc, and at the proper time
and place will put the green coloring and
shading just where the designer intended
1t should be. In like manner the other roll
lers are made ready for use, and they are
then taken to press that has large CYL
inder of the width of ordinary wall paper
There are grooves around the sides and
the bottom of this cylinder, into which are
fitted the rods on the ends of the rollers
and when in position, the faces of the roll
lers just touch the cylinder. An endless
cloth band comes to each of the rollers
from below, each band works in a color
pan which contains, in liquid form, the
coloring matter to be carried on the roller
to which the band belongs.
Each roller is placed in such position that
the part of the design upon it will strike
exactly in the spot necessitated by the rela-
tive position of the other rollers.
When all is ready the paper that has
passed through the blotching machine is
placed between the cylinder and the first
roller, the cylinder and the rollers revolve
rapidly, and soon the paper is beautifully
printed. At each of the endless cloth bands
there is a steel scraper called a doctor, and
it Is the doctors duty to prevent too much
liquid from the other pans from getting on
the rollers.
The wall paper press throws off ten rolls
Of paper a minute, and each roll contains
sixteen yards. 1t is said that stamped pa
per for walls was first manufactured in
Holland about the year 1855 Some of the
very costly wall paper in use nowadays is
beautifully embossed and hand-painted.