The Manufacture of Paper, Maine (1912)
We first see the delivery of the logs to the mill after their journey of eighty miles down the river. They are stacked in enormous piles, a three months' supply looking as though it would furnish paper for years to come. One by one they are taken into the mill where they start on their trip which is to be an eventful one. First, with huge circular saws they are cut into lengths convenient to handle, then a machine shaves off the bark, after which a beak-like device cuts them into small clocks. Again they are cut up, this time into ships, these traveling into huge "digesters'' where they are cooked for eighteen hours under steam pressure and with acid, to separate the fiber and remove the rosin, thus the fluid pulp is formed. This is carried onto cylinders, coming off in large sheets. Split into smaller sheets this is stored in piles and the first part of the operation is completed. The sheets of pulp go into the beater room where they are beaten up with water until it becomes like mush. This substance, again thinned with water, is run onto the paper machine, after which it passes through forty-two hot cylinders to dry. Now it is finished paper and is rolled into enormous rolls, some of them weighing 4,000 pounds. The real manufacturing operation being over we visit the store room, the shipping room, the laboratory, where pulp specimens are tested and are finally shown a very beautiful view of the mill itself on the water front.
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