. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. Fig-L are softened and separated in a remarkable mannerby it; they are then put into a machine called thewashing-machine (fig. 1), which washes out dirt PAPER. and everything but the piire vegetable fibre. Thismachine (rigs. 1, 2, and 3) is a large cast-iion vessel,usually about 10 feet in length, 4.| feet in width,and 2^ feet in depth. In the midtUe, occupyingabout two-thirds of its length, is a partition,always cast with it, called the mid-feather, a(figs. 1 and 2), to support the axle or driving-shaft, b. Fig. 2.

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. Chambers's encyclopedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people. Fig-L are softened and separated in a remarkable mannerby it; they are then put into a machine called thewashing-machine (fig. 1), which washes out dirt PAPER. and everything but the piire vegetable fibre. Thismachine (rigs. 1, 2, and 3) is a large cast-iion vessel,usually about 10 feet in length, 4.| feet in width,and 2^ feet in depth. In the midtUe, occupyingabout two-thirds of its length, is a partition,always cast with it, called the mid-feather, a(figs. 1 and 2), to support the axle or driving-shaft, b. Fig. 2. (figs. 1 and 2). This turns the cjdinder c (fig. 1),which has a large number of teeth or ridges runningacross it, which grip and tear the rags, or othermaterials, as they are drawai under it by the currentformed by its revolutions. In order to facilitatethis, a peculiar form is given to the bottom of thepart in which the cylinder works, as seen in fig. rise, a (tig. 3), is called the back-fall, and the

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