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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ...2 iron stuff-chests 10" diameter, 6 feet deep, with agitators, pulp-regulator, sand-catchers, brass knotter for brown and white papers. Wire part, including breast roll, 38 copper under tube-rolls, 4 copper rolls, copper dandy roller, brass deckle, apparatus for regulating width of paper and guiding 35 feet of wire, air-pumps and self-acting vacuum-boxes, save-all, pair of coucher or first-pressing rolls, pairs of metal first and second pressing-rolls, regulators for stretching and guiding felt, shake apparatus, with stands, pulleys, wheels, &c Drying-machine, consisting of 10 cylinders 3' 6" diameter, fitted with steam and exhaust pipes, each cylinder to have a lifter to act either way, strong circular framing, cast-iron felt-rollers, copper leading-rollers to lead the paper round the machine. Sizing apparatus, including 2 brass rolls 8" diameter, iron size-box, with fittings, complete. Calenders for smoothing paper, 4 rolls 12" diameter, with all fittings, complete. All shafting, stands, pulleys, fixings for driving paper-machine, complete, with wheels for changing the speed of machine; 1 revolving reel, complete, felts, &c; 1 steam-engine, high-pressure, cylinder 12," stroke 3', for driving paper-machine, with arrangement for using waste steam for drying paper.... 1,900 1 Paper-cutting machine, longitudinal and transverse motions, cast-iron framing, revolving knife, pulleys, &c. 1 Hydraulic press for finishing dry paper, ram 10," including a set of hydraulic pumps with brass barrels, complete. Steam-engines, a pair, high-pressure and condensing combined, 50 horse-power, hot and cold water pumps, vacuum-gauge, governor, fly-wheel, with all connections, &c, plates for bottom of engine foundations, ...
