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Show PAPERMAKIN he papermakers of Holland with their windmills found it di ficult to compete with the mills of Germany where there wa plenty of water power. The ingenious Dutch therefore tried to devise a method of macerating rags that would require less powe xo. 1 An old German paper mill mew,:g the stampers. This equipment, now in the Deutsches Museum, Miinchen, was originall used in paper mill in Haynsburg, mupcu(mn until 1go 1700 and continuin than the stamping-mills and at the same time be more productiv than the ancient method. In the latter part of the seventeenth o carly cighteenth century, a Dutchman, whose name has been los to posterity, conceived the idea of the eylinder beater for reducin rags to fibres suitable for the making of paper. This machine i known to this day as the "Hollander," afier the country of its invention. It consisted of an oblong wooden tub, rounded at bot ends, in which revolved a solid wooden roll made from the trun Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
