SPOOLS MADE FROM PULP.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 661, 10 February 1909, Page 6

SPOOLS MADE FROM PULP.

Material Now Used In the SSaanteatnr« of the Reels of Larger

The process of making spools from purp has been in course *4 development for the past two years, and many obstacles have had to be overcome before the spool was perfected. It wa* comparatively easy to mold the spool into the proper form, but after it had become dry and hard the difficulty was to grind or turn it into the proper size to hold the required amount of thread. This trouble has now been overcome, reports the Hartford Courant. Pulp will be used only for the large size of spools, as it is not practical to make the smaller spools of that material. , Many of the large spools are nearly four inches in diameter and up to the present time they have been made of wood. When they were first made they were turned from a single piece of wood, but it was discovered that in many cases the pressure of the thread as it was wound on the spool would push the head off the barrel, although it was the same piece of wood. In order to remedy this difficulty, it became necessary to make the large spools from three pieces, the barrel and the v two heads, and when the heads were closely fitted to the barrel and glued, they were found to remain better than when they were one piece of wood.