The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1922-09-14

are one and half inches apart, allowing
one-half an inch for pressing
Now we have the soap in the cake form.
Also it is in what is called green stage"
meaning fresh, sticky, or not dry. The
cakes or bars are separated and spread
out on large rack; this rack is eighteen
inches wide by six feet long. The cakes
are stood on edge and about one quarter
of an inch apart The racks are in turn
stacked on small car. This Car is six
feet long and four feet wide, and will hold
twenty of these racks, two stacks ten high,
when the car is loaded the racks are tied
together at the top with a pice of wire or
Irvine to keep them steady. Then the car
is run into kiln. This kiln is seven feet
high by seven feet wide and one hundred
feet long, just under the floor and inside
of the wall up to two feet are steam pipes,
they are to dry the soap. The kiln is
closed up and the steam is turned on. The
temperature is kept at from 100 degrees to
10 degrees for about forty eight hours.
When the soap is dry enough to handle it
is brought out and run to the soap wrap
ping room.
The wrapping room is about twenty
five feet wide by one hundred feet long.
There are two soap presses, two soap
tables AID eighteen soap disks to each table
for wrapping the soap. The soap press is
large iron frame having die seat, waist
high, this die seat can be fitted for any
size or shape dies. There is a bottom
die lever coming from the back up to the
die seat with the lower die then there is
another lever coming down in the face
with the upper die. Just below the die seat
and in front is the foot lever and just be-
hind and waist high is lever with
large weight. When the foot lever is
pressed the upper die comes down and
presses the imprint of the soap manu-
facturer's name; the bottom die lowers in
to its form the thickness of the cake of
soap. When the foot is released the
weight pulls back the upper die and raises
the lower die to the surface of the form.
Then the soap can be moved away.
The soap table is very hard to describe;
at the floor and for two foot high it is
four feet wide by the length of the soap
room, the back side is four feet high and
one foot wide on top, from the top on one
side it slopes down to the two foot level.
On the top where it is one foot wide, there
is heavy canvas belt, ten inches wide
and a half inch thick. This belt runs on
top of the table. The eighteen soap disks
are along the lower edge of the table and
are fastened to it. AT each of these disks
there is a lever that the one that wraps
the soap can press with his foot; this
lever is connected with small blade at
the top of the table. This blade is three
inches high by twelve inches long. When
the lever is pressed this blade swings out
and as the soap comes down the belt the
blade guides it off. There is lever and
blade for each disk.
The wrapping disk is small table two
feet wide by eighteen inches deep, having
sides and back. The back about eight
inches high while the sides taper from
eight inches at the back to three inches at
the 'front.' The inside wrappers are on
the left side and the outside wrappers on
the right side. The wrapper has bench
to sit on, it is four feet long. While the
wrapper sits at the disk there is room to
put the soap box on the bench at the right.
Now the partition wall back of the wrap
per has large window at each disk so
that the box when full can be moved and
passed through the window. The sill of
the window has several rollers in its sur
face so the box slides easy. Just outside
of the soap room is large table, it is on
the level with the window sill and four
feet wide and the length of the room.
Now let us go back to the soap.
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