The manufacture of paper: being a description of the various processes for the fabrication, coloring, and finishing of every kind of paper (1886)
Davis, Charles Thomas · Philadelphia, H. C. Baird & Co.; London, S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington · leaf 323
313 WASHING RAGS. The rags or other material to be washed should not be introduced into the trough of the engine in such quantities Fig. 113. … as to be so thick that difficulty will be experienced in turning it. When the engine is started the stirring stick should be used directly above the sand-trap, and around the sides and back-fall of the engine. The object in thus using the stir- ring stick is to prevent 44 lodgers," or pieces of rag…
Papermaking
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