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Great Exhibition had awarded him a prize medal ' for the excellence of his writing 

 papers, and also for the permanent dye of his blue papers for the use of starch manu- 

 facturers,' he disposed of his well-known mills and everything connected with them, 

 to his old friend and competitor, Mr. Joynson, to whom to the last day of his life he 

 continued warmly attached, and by whom he was ever consulted upon the various 

 alterations and inventions which were adopted at St. Mary Cray. 



The circumstances of Mr. Dewdney"s decease formed a painful coincidence at the 

 close of so remarkably energetic and useful a career. He it was who first introduced 

 a steam-engine for paper-manufacture into the county of Devon ; and at the Hele 

 Station, adjoining the Hele mills, almost on the same spot where thirty years previously 

 he reared his engine for manufacture, the engine of the express train from Bristol to 

 Exeter struck him dead. 



Another method of making paper, which was invented by Mr. Dickinson, consists 

 in causing a polished hollow brass cylinder, perforated with holes or slits, and covered 

 with wire-cloth, to revolve over and in contact with the prepared pulp. The cylinder 

 being connected with a vessel from which the air has been exhausted, the film of 

 pulp adheres to the hollow cylinder. It is then turned off continuously upon a solid one 

 covered with felt, upon which it is condensed by the pressure of a third revolving 

 cylinder, and is thence delivered to the drying rollers. This description of machine 

 is not suitable for the manufacture of any paper requiring strength. Indeed, 

 throughout the United Kingdom there are probably not more than a dozen in work, 

 and those chiefly in the manufacture of thin tissue papers. 



Since 1865 our Imports of papers and materials for paper, and our Exports of paper 

 have been as follow : 



1865 



Importations of Paper for Printing or Writing : 

 1869 



1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 

 cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. 

 143,524 159,008 174,429 177,220 169,274 173,616 158,885 205,510 



Importation of Bags and Paper-making materials : 



tons tons tons tons tons tons tons tons 



18,368 24,408 19,201 17,902 17,027 22,394 26,868 22,254 



Importations of Esparto and other materials : 

 52,788 70,586 55,972 96,539 89,156 110,389 154,357 115,157 



Exportations of Paper other than Hangings : 



cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. cwts. 

 145,262 210,892 200,632 186,597 214,933 177,683 228,894 303,293 



The Imports of paper for printing or writing made in 1873 were 195,336 cwts. ; 

 and in 1874, 192,200 cwts. 



PAPER-BOX IKKAXXXTCr MACHINE. Among the most novel pieces of 

 mechanical construction recently brought to public notice must be reckoned the 

 machines invented by Mr. H. B. Heyl, Philadelphia, for making paper-boxes, and for 

 the first time publicly exhibited at a recent monthly meeting of the Franklin Institute. 

 The machines in question are the resnlt of years of patient labour and perseverance, 

 and the inventor is deserving of all praise for having so completely and efficiently 

 triumphed over many difficulties. He has in the past seven years built three machines 

 for making paper-boxes, the last and most perfect of which has just been completed, 

 and is the one referred to as having been placed on exhibition. As to the usefulness of 

 machinery to produce paper-boxes with greater rapidity and economy than by hand 

 labour, little need be said, since a simple enumeration of the various branches of 

 industry in which they are indispensable, affords superabundant evidence of their 

 great utility viz., perfumery, jewellery, hardware, trimmings, matches, and a host of 

 other branches. 



The first machine constructed by Mr. Heyl for this purpose was adapted to the 

 automatic shaping, and fastening by paste, of the usual rectangular box, varying the 

 style according to the materials used. The capacity of this machine is 2,000 boxes in 

 ten hours a capacity which is equivalent to the duty of ten of the most expert work- 

 men employed during the same time. 



The second machine has for its object the production of boxes for various purposes 

 without the use of paste, the fastening of the edges of the paper being accomplished 

 by delicate pieces of iron wire, measured and shaped by the machine into miniature 

 staples, which are pressed throiigh the material and clinched at the proper instant. 

 The primary design of this second machine was the production, at rapid rate and 



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