The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-04

the Great Demand for q and HSw u
u Made.

IL Made.
A talk with a paper maker who caters
largely - the publishing and printing
trade disclosed the interesting fact thai,
commercial catalogues these days Use
much more paper than all the other kinds
IT hooks put together These are the
books that tell Of the new styles in auto
mobiles and various industries; the
catalogues II the big mail order houses,
which are put out in enormous editions Of
m lions 81 copies
Concerns like the Sears-ROebuck
Company and Montgomery Ward of
Chicago he said. and Mays and ths
Segel Cooper store and tho National
Cloak Company here think nothing u
putting out four or five million copies Of
a catalogue which weighs three. four
or even five pounds That means a
vast a uantity ~ paper is used, II IL paper
Of a good q uality tor sometimes a very
/ fine q uality.
The second big branch 81 paper manu-
featured j. that which goes IN the pub
fishers of books novels books Of refer
ence. dictionaries. all sorts ~ books.
The average novel l. printed IN
bulking paper. for the average publisher
wants n get ou' good. big book
inch In thickness sav ~ the more
book there Is TIE thinner paper he can
use. hut II there Is loss material for him
. print and he still wants his big book
without having - paw excess paper bills
on accoun. ~ weight he wants a paper
that will conform all around This has
brought about tho art II making a thick
paper without extra weight We strive
{, give thesa fellows iRhtneas In weight.
for they buy paper hy the pound, and a
thickness which will make their smaller
books uniform IN size with the larger
Uniformity IN price of books makes
this necessary for the publisher 4
lengthy he Morgan and an abbreviated
Robert ". Chambers sell for about the
sane, ~ the ordinary lOs novel h
printed on soft finished bulky paper
which Is almost entirely wood A very
small percentage q rag stock Is us,d
nowadays
briefly the process - making paper for
the book trade. Before the discovery 81
wood pulp rag and some rope were used
almost entirely IN paper manufacture.
but now. with the exception Of some very
fine and special grades, wood IS used. and
In two general processes
In the first the wood u ground up.
mixed with water aud made into a pulp.
This product u used largely m newspapers.
The second " a chemical process. which
can he made elaborate ~ dehcite a.
one wishes
The wood 10 carefully stripped u H.
n, "A -rs IA also the cpse 10 the first and
mechanical process end the knots re-
moved II ~ then chiDped into bits about
- lsrRe az the thumb mil, treated with
sulDhuric acid. bolled. steamed and put
under heavy pressure Tor long while
This eliminates the rnsln leaving the pure.
long cellulose fibre the pressure leaves the
fbre long. After the fibre j. washed out
n = hlaached by the Use II soda OF u caus-
nc which gives another form ~ pulp.
Snr,lca and popllr are the woods most
often used and though ordinary piper
in m ordinary novel NAV sonnet mes no
found to contain rag the Instances are
The hlaached nulp is then beaten up
and miyed in large quantity II water
~ thru the fhrpS NAV he held IN suspen-
sion The result - a milky sort of compo-
sition which ia ready 20 h. pumped on IN"
paner machine. The machine - essen
tally an endless web n Tine wire screen
like belt handed IN each side With heavy
rubber 80 as 20 keep the fud from wash
ing "a These margin hands may he
shifted. making the huid covered space
wide or narrow
A. the fluid runs over u - shaken side :
wise - we'll a. forward the water runs
through the wire screen. the surplus he /
tnR taken 40 by suction rolls. and ~ the /
7hrea q ~ shak ken together thew interweave ,
and are Felted together A. the one end q |
the screen u has gone IN q hbrish huid I
NJ the other II emerRes a soft, nulpy wet |
mas. interlaced bat not yet - a consist
ency IN support its own weight. NJ y /
rms on the screen onto an endless felt i
blanket which supports II through a Sic
cs.sion ~ heated cylinders. Thus the |
feItinR and COMMISSION are accomplished I
and the finished product results.
The text naPes ~ he average novel are ]
II soft finished snruCe But tho iilustra- i
I ions made bV the hniftnre process re- (
nuirp a smooth surface for printing. the |
soft finish will not take the small lines 7
Therefore the paper an ordinary sheet
- enamelled with a clay coating, mixture !
~ chnIkish clay Or white earth and glue
The mi 1ture made adhesive bv the glue. /
u brushed on the paper dried and bur
nAhed. The quality ~ enamelled paper |
varies with the care taken 10 coating.
Quality 81 most paper varies with care
in production. Very little rag paper h
used in this country sometimes IN special
library editions. Even then old rags have 7
10 ~ imported from Europe for the manu- /
Gacture. A. Americans do not save their
rags. There il a wide variety ~ grades
in hst ween the all RAG and the no rag. dif- |
ferent percentages 81 rag being used 10 I
soften the pulp. The rags must be sorted, |
steamed cooked and bealen up.
The waternaFk which u 10 he seen IN |
I he paper ~ some of tho finer hook edi- I
I ions h woven IN the wire. pFesaed In by
a long cylinder called the dandy roll while (
tho pulp is scft. Just before u leaves the I
screen n tho paper machine.
When the manufacturer waE asked hpW /
The hand made paper was made he
laughed.
There is vsrv little paper In thin c0un- I
Try made by hand he said except the }
hands that w0Vk the paper machine Real /
hand made paper such as Ia made abroad I
IL made hv a Man ua7drT~ and firuu-a