Show How now Cork Stoppers Are Made Cork is stripped from the cork cork- oak trees and after seasoning for a afew afew few days the sheets are boiled in vats to remove the tannic acid and to soften them so that the hard outer covering can be removed At Atthe Atthe Atthe I the seaport the bark is pressed into bales and loaded on vessels and at atthe atthe atthe the factory the slabs are softened by steaming sliced into strips by circular steel knives and from these strips the corks for bottles are cut by by other machines |