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Show Itarrels of Paper. After three years of experimental work an English company has succeeded in producing pro-ducing paper barrels, which are able to compete favorably with barrels made of wood. The pajier barrels are used at present pres-ent principally for t he carriage of gunpowder, gunpow-der, mining fiisysfJ"rttit, (lowers, molasses, paint, cement, matches, chemicals, dyes, aslicslos, sugar, size and extract of meat. The materials used in making the barrels are waste paper, cardboard, and, for tho betterqualiiy, old sacks. When cardboard is used it is soaked or boiled for six hours, nnd afterward treated in the same, manner as the other raw material. Thisis carefully II." "I. II' ..-. II..... . ..... , III.-I,-,.IHIIII1J sorted and put into a rag engine or beater, where it is bealen ami torn to pieces by a scries of knives for about an hour mid a half. It is afterward mixed with water until a pulp of uniform consistency in gained. Thisis rolled, joined, shaped and dried, and the barrel is linally covered with hoops. Before the tops and bottoms are put in the barrels are painted w ith a waterproof composition com-position innde of linseed oil and resin, for ordinary purpose barrels, and with a special varnish where they are used for food products. prod-ucts. The standard size is Ki'o inches in diameter by 'JS inches long. The price at which these barrels cue be produced enables en-ables them to compete favorably with wooden barrels; a barrel cost ing thirty-four cent-) in wood can, when made of paper, Im sold for twenty-eight cents. One great feature is th, it there is no waste with t ho pro -ess, all "wasters" being beaten up into pulp again. New York Telegram. |