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pressure. Then a large brown Kata sheet is spread out on a 

 wooden slab, and a sheet of the moistened paper is laid over it, 

 and then another Kata, and another sheet of the wet paper till 

 they lie ten and more, closing with a sheet of Kata. In this 

 arrangement of layers, the single sheets must lie even with 

 the separating sheets, and thus have their edges parallel, or 

 inclined to those of the larger Katas. When the pile is made 

 up in this way, it is laid on the cylinder b c, and the whole is 



Fig. 14. — APPARATUS FOR THE PREPARATION OF CRAPE PAPER. 



rolled tightly around it, making it some 10 to 12 centimeters 

 in diameter. The cylinder is then diagonally and fixedly wound 

 around with a strip of hemp canvas, about 30 cm. wide, and 2 or 3 

 meters long. In doing this the workman generally uses his feet. He 

 then places the cylinder on the press, fixing one end on c, and put- 

 ting the other through the hole of the lever. He presses the lever 

 at <^ with all his might, by jerks, from six to ten times down on the 

 roll, which is by this means considerably compressed in the direction 

 of its axis. It is now taken out of the press, the workman removes 

 the canvas band and the cylinder, unrolls it, takes the strongly 



