. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. other smaller equipment. On the second floor of the wood room there are six cones for automatically sorting chips, with carriers for taking chips to fan on firsL floor, to be blown to chip bins on third floor of digester room, six new cones partially built, with necessary Works, Manitowoc, Wis., in 1901; besides pulp wagons, screens, feed water pumps, etc. The second floor contains two circular acid tanks, three water tanks, with valves, piping, etc. The digesters are
. Canadian forest industries 1903. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. other smaller equipment. On the second floor of the wood room there are six cones for automatically sorting chips, with carriers for taking chips to fan on firsL floor, to be blown to chip bins on third floor of digester room, six new cones partially built, with necessary Works, Manitowoc, Wis., in 1901; besides pulp wagons, screens, feed water pumps, etc. The second floor contains two circular acid tanks, three water tanks, with valves, piping, etc. The digesters are filled by opening slides in bottom of ch:p hoppers situated on floor above. On the third floor are eight chip bins or hoppers for the storage of wood chips to be used in the digester immediately underneath. The time taken in cooking averages from 12 to 14 hours. When cooked, the cover of the bottom neck is swung clear, and the pulp washed out into the pit opposite each digester. The filter room is 71x69 feet, and besides the usual equipment contains a Corliss condensing. General View of the Maritime Sulphite Fibre Mill at Chatham, N. B. shafting, pulleys, Bertram turning lathe, cir- cular ripping saw, etc. The digester room is 84x82 feet, the equip- ment on the first floor including four patent brick-lined digesters ot a capacity of three to four tons of dry pulp per clay, built in Duisbury, Germany, also two digesters of a capacity of seven to eight tons dry pulp per cook, built at the Barrowfield Iron Works, Glasgow, and two of similar size built by the Manitowoc Iron. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
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