. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. August, 1897 THK CJLUJLIDJL IvUMBERMAK 13 Rteel, and lined with tile. It was in these diges- bj gravitation, doing away with all acid pumps, Mors that the finest sulphite pulp ever produced which are very expensive to keep in repair in a on this continent was cooked in twelve hours. sulphite mill. Starting at the top of the upper They were built from drawings by Mr. T. R. Alii- floor, the lime is slacked in an iron tank, then son, the chief engineer of constructi
. Canadian forest industries 1897-1899. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. August, 1897 THK CJLUJLIDJL IvUMBERMAK 13 Rteel, and lined with tile. It was in these diges- bj gravitation, doing away with all acid pumps, Mors that the finest sulphite pulp ever produced which are very expensive to keep in repair in a on this continent was cooked in twelve hours. sulphite mill. Starting at the top of the upper They were built from drawings by Mr. T. R. Alii- floor, the lime is slacked in an iron tank, then son, the chief engineer of construction. Above run into two mixing tanks, where water is added to â these digestors is a large chip bin for holding the bring it to the proper gravity,'and it is ready to p)ant) ^ith the object of cultivating an export trade with chips when prepared for the digestors. Large enter the acid absorbing tanks, of which there Great Britain. It is reported that an order for the ma- "hoppers extend from the chip bin floor to within 3 are three in each system (there being two sys- ^iner>- has been placed with American manufacturers, ft. of the neck of the digestors, so that when filling a terns.) When the lime and water is let into the disgestor a light wooden shute is pushed in be tween the hopper and the neck of the digestor, a flow into the second and third ones, then flows slide drawn, and the chips fall from the bin into the settling tanks and from these into the above and fill the digestor in a remarkably quick storage tanks, where it is ready for use. From time. One of these digestors can be blown off, these storage tanks it is drawn off as required in re-filled with chips and acid, and started cooking the digestor room, all flowing by gravitation. aeain in the short time of thirty minutes. During the flow of the lime and water through the at the LonS Tal1 Point docks °f the Pu'p W°°d SupTP'y df> . t J . , T ... f , ⢠. u 1 1 Company, near Green Bay, Wis., in a
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