NEW USE FOR PAPER

Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 133, 21 February 1923, Page 7

NEW USE FOR PAPER

Piles for submarine supports are now being made of paper in'California, the chief recommendation of which is the fact that they are not subject.to attack by tho teredo, which rums wooden piles in a short time. On a long wooden cylinder a long, roll of tarrod paper with glued edges is wound and covered with cord. Over this another band of paper, much narower, is wound diagonally like the bandage on a wounded arm. The cylinder is revolved while it is bound with more cord, hot glue being applied continuously. After three layers of paper have boen put in place the wooden cylinder is removed, and the paper cylinder is reinforced with a coarso mesh. A mixture of cement and sand is seuirted all over the. cylinder, and several cylinders are joined end to end with the same cement so as to make a pile GO feet long and from 18 to 30 inches in diameter. A square steel head is fitted over tho top to receive the shocks of the pile driver. A new addition io the long list or exportations from Portland, Oregon, is that of old newspapers which are. to be utilised as lining in house building iii Java. San Francisco has. for sr.me time, bean shipping bales of newspapers to Java for use in building construction. whore they have been declared far more economical than other substitutes as to first cost. In China it is well known that old newspapers are frequently utilised for wrapping lor firecrackers as well as for ordinary wrapping paper, but this is a new departure into the building trades Another use for paper has teen dis covered in the recent, announcement, ot a manufacturing company that it has perfected a waterproof umbrella. This article is composed of two inverted cones mounted on a stick, waterproofed hy a secret process, and built to withstand a twonty-mile-aii-hour wind, or to face a thirty-nnle gale. The inner cone, which is smaller than tho outer one, takes the place of ribs in an ordinary umbrella. The entire article is prcpare<l to retail at 25 '-ents, and although primarily a “one trip” umbrella. will, it is claimed, stand repeated use. Detroit is responsible for rumours calculated to make one believe that the new Fords will be papici mache. Glue, cotton, and formaldehyde are some of the elements iienti<ned as composing this substantial material. The Germans have experimented with this idea for a long time, and have utilised an improved papier inach” in carriage ninkllig. They use an impregnated wood ptlip, owing to their lack of cotton.—’’Paper Industry.”