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Show 6 worker's back. (The first sheet "couched on the board comes away fro the su with some difficulty, but afier several sheets have been laid dow a foundation the work progresses with less hardship.) The "couching is(\Lu»mplfihcd by placing the front edge of the su lengthwise upon th already formed sheets, and allowing the st to roll slowly over the pile, thu causing Llu- new sheet to adhere in its full breadth to the stack of pap The suis next lifted from the near edge of the pile and drawn away, leavin the filmy sheet squarely upon the pile. The processes of both laying th sheet and removing the empty su are plainly depicted in photographs 3 and g9, in which pictures it will be scen that two slight wooden posts ac as guides in placing the su, thus making a perfectly straight and unifor stack of paper. In photograph 38 it will be noticed that each vat is fitte h a wooden standard in which a narrow roll of paper is placed, contrivance very like the holder for paper tape used in doing up packages In making certain kinds of very frail, delicate paper a strip of this thin narrow, rolled paper is placed along the su, forming a reinforced edge t the paper, cm\hling the worker more easily to separate the shects after the are pressed. It must be understood that each sheet is laid directly upo the other e ml(rlunvmg felts used in the European process o making hzndmzde pape ss rying e paper: At the end of the day's labour cac worker has complc\cd a pile of paper which contains anywhere from tw hundred to five hundred sheets; the stack is called a st The followin day, five or six of these pllu,each suppo in one straight block, and pressure app]lcd by a huge lever upon th end of which heavy stones areS . as shown in photograph 40. Th pressure is increased gradually by i el of e e 10 case should paper be subjected to a severe pressure at the beginning m shio is no doubt derived from denoting a laye or strata, hence a pile of mois R e i iooy S Al rights reserved |