The history of papermaking machinery

Paper is one of the four great inventions in ancient China. As early as A.D. 105, Cai Lun summarized the experience of papermaking with hemp fiber since the Western Han Dynasty, improved the papermaking technology, and made paper with bark, hemp head, rags and old fishing nets as raw materials.

Papermaking later spread to Europe. At the beginning of18th century, Dutch beater appeared, which changed the process of mashing into pulp and was an important step towards mechanization in papermaking process. 1798, the Frenchman Robert obtained the patent of the manual endless web paper machine, which was later funded by the Neil brothers in Fu County, England. 1803, British technician Jintang improved it, and made fourdrinier machine which can continuously make paper, and successfully made paper in 1805. 1809 British Dickinson successfully trial-produced the rotary screen paper machine.

1839, Peter in Germany began to cook old cotton cloth in a boiling pot. 1843, Kohler of Germany invented the grinding pulping method of stripping wood fibers, which was successfully improved by Voltaire for ten years. 185 1 year, Burgess in Britain and Watt in America invented caustic soda wood pulping; 1857 sulfite wood pulp technology invented by Tillman in America; 1884, German chemist Dahl invented kraft wood pulping technology. These inventions have opened up the road of making paper with wood as the main raw material. By the beginning of the 20th century, papermaking machinery had become a large-scale and high-yield industrial machinery.