'23i 



Pub. Paget Sound Biol Sta. 



Vol. 2, No. 47 



In cutting the gauze care should be taken so as not to cut it on the 

 bias. In order to avoid this many smaller Chapters draw the thread and 

 cut by hand. This^ however, is slow and tedious when pads are called 

 for by the hundred thousands. 



(a) A gauze cutting table 



If a considerable quantity of cutting is required, either of gauze or 

 zorbik,'"' it is best to have a special table Avhich should be marked with 

 parallel longitudinal lines, the two outside ones spaced the width of the 

 gauze ; while between these should be lines parallel to them along which 

 the gauze is to be cut. Cross lines are drawn where the cross cuts are to 

 be made. The two end guides are placed half the space from two selected 

 cross lines, as the gauze is doubled at the ends. They are usually about 

 8 feet (2.44 m.) apart and. fastened to the table with wing nuts. The 



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A gauze-cutting table with an overiiead spreading and foldin device. 



straight edges, which are each one-eighth of an inch (3.2 mm.) thick, three 

 inches (7.62 cm.) wide, and 31/^ feet (1.1 m.) long, holds the folds up to 

 the end guides. 



« Zor1)ik or Scot tissue is a very thin -wood-pulp paper used to envelop the sphagnum and pre- 

 vent it from sifting out. 



