A Practical Treatise On The Manufacture Of Paper In All Its Branches

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise in the Manufacture of Paper: In All Its Branches The object of this book is to give a scientific and practical explanation of the different processes by which paper is made, to serve as a guide for those who desire to build mills, and to be a helpmate for paper-makers generally. The facts and rules given therein are derived from experience, and especial care has been taken that the working-man may not look in vain for those practical details, which are often of more value to him than the most brilliant scientific explanations. The preparation of pulp from waste paper, as well as from straw, wood, and other vegetable fibres, has received the attention due to its importance. The drawings represent machinery which is in active operation, built by first-class engineers, and of approved construction; they are carefully made in correct proportions, and many of them will serve for working plans in the machine-shop. The consumption of paper, though it has increased enormously of late years, must still grow with the progress of civilization, and will in the future assume proportions, of which we can at the present time form no adequate idea. New raw materials are constantly required to satisfy these demands, and the processes of their transformation, which constitute the principal feature of modern paper-manufacture, cover already too large a field to be thoroughly mastered by one mind, - a fact, of which the author was fully conscious when he undertook this task. But, having acquainted himself with the theory of the art by studying the sciences which form its basis, and having acquired practical experience by the manufacture of fine and coarse papers from rags, waste paper, straw, &c., by the erection and management of four different mills in Germany and America, and by visits to hundreds of other ones in different countries, he determined to make the attempt. As the following lines were gradually penned, their progress was frequently arrested by deficiencies in the author's knowledge, which could only be supplied from the experience of other paper-makers and machinists. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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