The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-09-08
FIND new WAY
TO MAKE PAPER
Process Takes Raw Peat
and Reduces 1t
to Pulp

LONDON.--A new process, which
gives promise of revolutionizing the
paper-making industry, has been dis
covered here, for reducing raw peat
to pulp for the manufacturing OF
paper, by A. l.. Burlin, a prominent
British inventor.
The process has been successfully
demonstrated before a number OF
paper experts at the Manchester Col
lege of Technology recently, and in
terest in the paper trade has been
aroused in the invention to a white
heat. The concensus of opinion OF
the. British trade is that successful
solution to the. wood-pulp problem
has at last been found and that day
light is ahead out Of. the crisis Of the
white paper shortage. CHI
II can obtain sufficient support
for the promoting of my invention. .
Mr.. Burlin said, II am sure that
shortage will be minimized very
soon.
"The details of the process are
completed, and am now engaged in
working out the costs, which give
promise of being very low. They
will be ready at an early date.
my process depends on fresh-cut
peat, which contains. rs per cent
moisture. The available peat fields
are almost unlimited. The peat used
in my demonstration to the paper
trade delegation was from English
boys, but a better result may be OBJ
tanned from Irish peat. Welsh peat
makes excellent brown paper.
Cheshire peat is nice and fibrous, but
I think that the Irish variety is the
best; however, altho one kind may
be more suitable than another, any
kind may be used as far as my pro-
cess is concerned
Comparing it with. wood, there is,
similarly, no waste in pulping. Peat
contains varying proportions of
stalks, which may be made into ex-
cellent brushes. In addition, the
resinous matter extracted in pulping
has very large agricultural use. AS
for carriage difficulties, they cannot
arise, for the pulping will be done on
the peat fields themselves; if neces-
sary the paper making can be done
at the same place. Alternatively, the
pulp can be compressed into sheets
and carried as wood pulp is at pres
ent; 1t can afterward be repulped, or
kept in storage for an indefinite
period"
Mr.. Burlin was then asked If he
had tried mixing wood and peat
pulps, and he said that he had not.
Peat" he continued, Consists of
foliage-heather, bracken, trees and
sometimes grass, which have already
been decomposed into pulp by ma
ture. If this material is then sub
jected to chemicals the work of ma
ture is destroyed. 1t was obvious
that only simple process was re-
quired. My process does not work
against, but is supplementary to ma
lures. A new plant is required for
the pulping and for bleaching and
but the machinery is not
elaborate and will not require speci-
ally trained workmen. The fuel cost
Is very low, as small quantity of
gas for heating is all that is neces-
sary.
lin the earlier trials the paper
produced had some small black
specks in it, but this difficulty has
been overcome by the modification of
the machinery. AS for the actual
papermaking machinery, no altera-
ton will be required, but there will
be some saving in the beaters as re-
CARDS time. The peat-pulp will, how
ever, require no more attention on
he part Of the workmen than the
wood-pulp.
1.-THE new paper has been found
10 take aniline colors remarkably
we'll So far, then, the various kinds
If paper produced are white paper,
packing paper, various colored kinds,
sugar bags, wall papers, bookbinders'
10th paper, artificial leather and
'ream paper" he concluded. |
A prominent London paper manu-
acturer, in commenting on the pos
utilities of the new process, said If
he paper could stand the rapid run
ling machinery thru which news
PAPER is passed 1t will be very well
Ome invention. The most difficult
'roblem the inventor has to face is
transportation, as many peat fields
lave been exhausted in four or five
ears, and it would not be profitable
o build a plant at every peat field.