| Title: | Papermaking |
| Original Title: | Papeterie |
| Volume and Page: | Plates vol. 5 (1765) |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Abigail Wendler Bainbridge [West Dean College]; IML Donaldson [University of Edinburgh and Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, [email protected]] |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Papermaking → ." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge and IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.508>. Trans. of "Papeterie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5 (plates). Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Papermaking → ." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge and IML Donaldson. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.508 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Papeterie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5 (plates) (Paris, 1765). |
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Plate I: Paper Manufacturing, View of the Buildings of the Anglée Manufacture, near Montargis. View of the Wheel of One of the Mills of this Manufacture
Plate I bis: Paper Manufacturing, Cutting
The picture represents the sorting [1] workshop.
Fig. 1 and 2. Sorters. A, B, C, crates.
The bottom of the Plate represents the general layout of the Langlée factory [2]. A, channel that furnishes water from the Montargis canal to the basin. B G, basin. B D, G H, couriers. E F, mill for fraying [the rags]. K L, mill for refining [the rags]. M M M M retting [3] and cutting room. N N N, place where one sizes the paper. P R, spiral staircases to go up to the two higher floors which serve as the drying lofts. The large building is 64 fathoms long and 8 wide. S X, wings 25 fathoms long and 8 wide, in which lies the rag store and the workshop for the sorters. T V, another wing of which the ground floor forms a room. The attics [4] of these wings serve as a supplement to the drying lofts which occupy the entire length of the two floors of the large building. X V, pavilions where there are various lodgings.
Plate II: Paper Manufacturing, Fermentation
Plate III: Paper Manufacturing, Beater Roll
Plate IV: Paper Manufacturing, Hammer Mill
Plate V: Paper Manufacturing, Plan of the Hammer Mill
Plate VI: Paper Manufacturing, Elevation of the Hammer Mill
Plate VII: Paper Manufacturing, Profile View of the Hammer Mill
Plate VIII: Paper Manufacturing, Details of one of the Cylinder Machines
Plate IX: Paper Manufacturing, Maker of the Forms
Plate X: Paper Manufacturing, Details of a Vat of a Mould Machine
Plate XI: Paper Manufacturing, Sizing
Plate XII: Paper Manufacturing, Drying
Plate XIII: Paper Manufacturing, Workshop
Note
1. Délisser –more generally to untangle, but often used specifically for sorting rags for papermaking →
2. The Langlée papermill was run by Léorier Delisle by 1770, who is known as the first to use bark, grasses, and other plant fibers rather than making paper from rags–-although clearly this text precedes those experiments. See Dard Hunter, Papermaking → : the History and Technique of an Ancient Craft (New York: Dover Publications, 1978), 327–328. The contemporary director of the mill, M. Prevost de Langlée, assisted L. J. Goussier in the writing of the main papermaking → article.
3. Pourissoir –see the article under this name
4. Mansards– mansard roofs, style named after the architect François Mansart; they allow for another floor in the building.