Norwich bulletin., 1922-12-14
NORWICH TOWN

. Clyde N. Beebe, Vtce president o& tho Norwich Town Mems. league, presf6ed over the December meeting Tuesday evening, in the First Congregational chapel
 In his address on Making Paper, the speaker of the evening, Lo~eluck Holm, said: The paper board business as de. yeiOped in America, has no counterpart in any other country in the world. It is distinctly a EmerAEan enterprise and had it's beginning in the first. half of the nineteenth century wHh the inven- tior Of the cylinder paper making ma chine. -.-
 Prior to 1917. paper of all kinds was made in America by hand. The ennaN quantity of paper board required for Sook binding, paste -beard boxes, etc, was made by pasting together hand made sheets of paper. The term paste ! board was derived from this process and has been used ever since by those unfamiliar with the trade, when refer ring to ali grades of paper board. The devefcgprnent of the paper board busi- i ness in America, has been coincfdental with that of the cylinder paper making 1 machine, especially with the multi cyl | finder machine first built in the seven 1 ties of the last century. The first prac- tical paper machine was used in the GilPtn min in. Wilmington, Del, in 1S17,
 to make writing. book and news. pa-
 per. i A cylinder machine was invented hy 1 Dickinson fn England in t1s09 and the
 Fourdrinisr machine had been invented by Robert in France in 1799, but nel. ther of these machines for paper mak. 1 ing were known in America prior tc
 1925. as evidenced by the granting oi
 basic patents to Gilpin for his practica cylinder machine in 1S17. There is nc
 record indicating that the Dickinson l cylinder machine was ever used sue. cessfuI1y in Europe; but great progre.
 was made in developing the Fuurdriniei machine
 To the present day the European pa per and paper board makers have usei the latter type of machines and the!
 have been preferred and adopted fl America for most grades of paper. ex cepting paper board The first Four
 drinier machine was imported in 1s2' and installed in New York state; ant
 the first paper machine of the Four
 dfinier type was manufactured il
 America by Smith and Winchester 0
 South WInd31am. Conn, in 1929 and h ! stalled in the Hubbard mill in Norwich
 Available records indEa$e that the sin gle cylinder paper machine was
 practical use in America for all grade of machine made papers at least te years before the Fb0rdrinier type wa
 introduced here. These first cyfinde machines were all wet machines. tsl paper being loft dried or sun dried an : finished after leaving the machine l Presses, dryers and ca7sntfers wer : soon added and used for finishing th
 paPer on the machine, that is. the ngh ! weAgft pepers.
 There also was devehped a cylinde } wet machine for prodEing uae heavfe } weight paper prgdUcts or paPer boar t George A. ShyFoek, who oPeraked : mill in ChainbeFHburg. Pa, from 1S2
 to 1881, was one of the flrst to use D. l per pulp made from strzw and ts crEt = fted with bstH- the first tO manufa. 7 tnre paper board from Str&w. atthoug E in the early thfTties the TnsnVlfacture f light weight straw paper WIS pron
 itIent industry iS Cofumbia county, -lY
 eE Drriag the period frvra 1ese to Hsi | the payer board budncW grew Slow
 and mills were built west Of a1e Ali l. gAany moantafns and h oA&o, mdiar @ and IHin0ls, where skrHw Wzs paeltn iI and cheap. These nlifis .were eqzfppS e with cylinder W1t machines and the I. woEe many Improvements in the met 1t cd of eeoking or sdlydufnE the raw m
 teriai; as ven ss in dryfnE and caIe + der4ng WHh the boom in husine l. foIfuvsi11E the C4yi1 war, there was q ss c1aed i1Screase ia the dsmzHa for Ysn
 boxes and that business soon re4q4as ,f an Increased surply of paper boar D The maeAs1es nza1EiEg Hg7at weight D y perg being eQuaTDed with press drye
 and czlsnders, eae paper vas nzIlzll d on the macflsne. 10 reQpired yeErs ,n ezlsr r3sneaesag by many rAanufarture
 of both peper NQRxd an1 pasleF machi to By increasing tlse Ba1zsSer of cyii ,n ders 8 RgAeer or tAinAer paper 1g a- was made in e1eh eJ1ladsR, tu prcdu .. given thsc4zness Of board On t se early mR6icy11naer machines V. ,v three of four cy19ni1szs t WIS Asliev ,h that only free paper pub sueA as str ,- could be used, and untn the ninet at there were very few grades If paz
 board made on this kind of mach .. ezcept straw board. It was soon fuul to however. that oEAer than straw bos or waste c1uid be used, especially on n
 cSzenes having five, six and Eeven cyl 5e dora On tsese great variety 5r boards were produced from ail kinds v old papers and oe wood pulp, which 'fd that time had c0nae into general use rt the nsaa1zsscture cf most all grades
 paper.
 The great aAVaAtage oe tlsas kind .I nlzcaEne is the abinty to make on U sheet Of paper e1oafd cumpos4d of no x,w tAaf9AHnisS lsfg,11l