Page 2 Advertisements Column 3

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 196, 6 December 1876, Page 2

" The American Paper Tradt Joxemal thus describes.a new adaptation" of paper:— " The American Paper Cav Wheel Company, of Hudson, New Yo;.-k, has specimens of 30, 33, and 42-inch wheels of its manufacture. These wheels have steel tires made with an inside fla.nge and a castiron hub. On each side of the hub and tire wrought-iron or steel p. ates 3-16 inch thick are bolted, and the J3pace between the plates is filled with Compressed or, rather, condensed paper. This paper is made of straw boards i thick, pasted together with paste made c f rye-flour, and first made into sections abc,ut thickThese are subjected to a pressure of abont 400 tons for about five hours, and are then dsied w-tyli hqt air.. , These sections are then pasted' together in the same way* so as to get the requisite thickness, about 3£ inches, and are agai'.n pressed and dried. They thus form 2 d; *sc, which is turned -'" ..jd on with a pressure 3f The plates are then Je and outside of the olts. An old wheel is y -. the first paper car *"' it has run under a P\\ _ fe - v 12,000 miles without th e tire'A< vi -&J e &» One of the wheels » shovf v :£ portion of the plates and v away, so as to show the inside sti ; lire . One of the paper discs is also eslCgited, and if a s -.parate tire and hub Vere shown the exhibit would w complete. The wheels are pamtecyp* liantly r 3( j } w hich might be desa ' "*<■*'■'