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Show OLD~PAPERMAKIN 4 form is a metallic plate, on the surface of whic are placed two rows of well-polished iron pins i the shape of a quincunx, giving a series of cylinder having all their surfaces on each side in a straigh line, representing two parallel straight lines, wit a distance between them equal to the size of th wire. (Nathan Sellers, the firs maker of moulds in America used a straightening or wire drawing block of his own in| vention. The block was woo of the lignum_-vitae tree and th pins were of brass. This bloc was used in England as late a 1833. mmfifl "He first cuts the wire int suitable and equallengths, tha is the outside distance betwee the short sides of the mould "The worlker then places th stock in front of him in an inclined position "He passes one of the laid wires through th space between the two separated cross wires, an carries it from one end of the frame to the other He fastens the thread by means of the cross wires passing it around one from within out, and th other from without in. He continues thus to bin each of the wires, laying one after another, and b this means makes a true cloth in the same manne Diital image © 2004Marriot Libary, University o Utah. Al righs reerved |