Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1920-11-18

as the acid room, three story struc-
ture, 35x35, which houses cooler, acid
pumps, gas fan and settling tank, all
furnished by G. D. Jensen.
The next unit is the Digester and
Blow Pit building. The Digestor build
ing is 30x50x110 high to top of moni-
/ tor, with monitor whole length of 80
foot long by 8 foot wide.
/ This building contains two digest
ors, Is feet by 45 feet built by the
Manitowoc Engineering Works. The
blow off valves and digester fittings
were furnished by the Neenah Brass
Works Digester Innings were sup
piled by the Stebbins Engineering and
Manufacturing Company.
The Acid Pump, also located in this
building, to fill digesters with liquor
was built by the A. S. Cameron Steam
Pump Works.
Above the digesters, is the chip bin,
which is large enough to hold 10000
cubic feet of chips, which is sufficient
to run the digesters 80 hours, during
the period when the wood room is not
in operation. These chips are dis
charged by gravity thru a spout into
the top of the digesters.
There is also much steam piping in
this building, together with necessary
regulating and recording devices.
After the chips are cooked suffi-
GENTLY, the resulting pulp is blown
out of the digesters into the blow pits
in the adjoining building. The blow
pit building is 42x75 one story and
houses two 20x22 wood blow pits. Each
pit is provided with vomit pipe for
relieving the steam and pressure, 10
feet in diameter by 60 feet high from
top of tank. The waste liquor is al
lowed to drain off in these pits and the
stock washed, after which it will flow
by gravity through pipes in a concrete
tunnel to the wet machine room,
which is located in connection with
the present plant. The steam and wa
ter required in the acid plant and di-
gester building are also carried thru
this same tunnel, which is large e.
nOugh for a man to walk thru up
right Both this tunnel and the one
from the wood room to digester build
ing, were put thru very rapidly con-
steering the difficulties encountered,
owing to traffic over the lines Of the
tunnel by rail and otherwise. Consid-
cradle excavation had to be done, in
order to complete the work.
The wet. machine and decker rom
is not yet completed, but will be IN
the course of few weeks. However.
the screens and deckers are set up
permanently, but partly under tempo"-
ary structure. However, all material
is on the way and it will only De a
short time when this building will al
so be complete This structure is l56
by 40 and two stories high. A part of
the room will be used for machine
SHOp, dS III Will NC ISICooShIS W 'e"
cate the present machine shop to make
place for an electric sub-staUinn.
The following equipment is now OH
the ground for the screen and wet
machine room:
Two Improved Paper Machine Com
pany Knotters.
Four Improved Paper Machine ON
pany Screens.
Four Improved Paper Machine Com
pany Pneumatic Pulp Thickeners OF
Deckers.
The stock, as it reaches this depart
ment, will be pumped from tank and
screen and then run thru thickeners,
from where it will be delivered tc
tanks and pumped up to beaters III
the present plant. Later, wet ma
chimes will be installed so that a por
ton of the stock can be run into laps
and delivered to the company's other
plants.
There is also new paper machine
room, of two story construction, 369
feet by 54 feet, which houses one of
the largest and fastest machines III
the world.