The Paper-making Machine

The Paper-making Machine: It’s Invention, Evolution and Development covers the history of the paper-making machine and its origin and how it developed. This book is organized into 15 chapters, and starts with the discussion of the origin of the first paper-machine way back from A.D. 105 in China. The subsequent chapter deals with the development of the paper-machine where the British improved the machine and were then widely used by people. This topic is followed by discussions on the progress of paper making in 1830-1835 where an advanced type of Fourdrinier machine was introduced by Matthew Towgood and Leapidge South. Other chapters describe further improvements on the Fourdrinier machines and the paper-makings on the late 1800’s. The last chapter considers the standardization of the paper-making machine during 1870-1890. This book will be of value to machine inventors and those who work in printing presses.

• Inside Front Cover
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1: The First Paper-making Machine
  • Publisher Summary
• Chapter 2: The First British Paper-making Machine Patent
  • Publisher Summary
• Chapter 3: The Paper-making Machine of 1807
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  • THE INTENDED LONDON PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION PAPER MANUFACTURING COMPANY
• Chapter 4: The Fourdriniers’ Struggle for Development
  • Publisher Summary
• Chapter 5: The Chain-mould Paper-making Machine
  • Publisher Summary
• Chapter 6: The Dickinson Cylinder-mould Machine
  • Publisher Summary
• Chapter 7: The Chain-mould and Fourdrinier Machines combined
  • Publisher Summary
• Chapter 8: The Invention of the Dandy-roll or Riding-roller
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• Chapter 9: The Dickinson Suction-roll and other Developments
  • Publisher Summary
• Chapter 10: Progress in Paper-making, 1830–35
  • Publisher Summary
• Chapter 11: Improvements to Fourdrinier Machines
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• Chapter 12: Early Victorian Paper-making Machines: Modifications and Inventions
  • Publisher Summary
• Chapter 13: The Bryan Donkin Company
  • Publisher Summary
  • Specification
  • Notes
• Chapter 14: Paper-making in the 1860’s
  • Publisher Summary
  • REPORT OF JURORS OF 1851 EXHIBITION ON THE PROGRESS OF PAPER-MAKING BY MACHINE
  • Description of working of paper-making machine taken from the Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, 1866 (Fig. 1, No. 130)
• Chapter 15: Standardization of the Paper-making Machine, 1870–90
  • Publisher Summary
• APPENDIXES
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3
  • Appendix 4
  • Appendix 5
  • Appendix 6
• BIOGRAPHIES OF THE PAPER-MACHINE MAKERS
  • Nicolas Louis Robert
  • The Didot Family
  • John Gamble
  • Henry Fourdrinier
  • John Hall, 1764–1836
  • Bryan Donkin
  • John Dickinson, 1782–1869
  • The Ibotson Family
  • The Bertrams
  • George Tidcombe and the Watford Engineering Works
  • Bentley and Jackson
  • Early Pioneers in the United States
  • Escher Wyss of Zürich
  • Johann Voith
  • Index