Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — New Use for Blotting Paper. [ARTICLE]

New Use for Blotting Paper.

In Germany blotting paper is used to clean machinery. Tow, woolen re* fuse, sponge cloths and jute waste ara the materials usually employed for tha cleaning of machines and parts of engines which are soiled by dust and lubricating substances. The better varieties of cotton waste are very good for scouring purposes, but the cheaper grades are charged with dust, and in using them a sponge cloth, specially manufactured for the purpose, is employed. In using blotting paper for scouring purposes the use of cotton waste is decreased and the sponge cloths are entirely dispensed with. On the average the German workman received under the former system 250 grams of cotton waste, one new sponge Cloth and one es two renovated ones every week. Now he is supplied with 150 grams of cotton waste, and about eight or ten sheets of blotting paper, at a cost of 2% cents, or one-third the cost of the cotton waste. The paper is not only cheaper, says Harper’s Weekly, but it does not soil the machinery, with fibers and dust, as do the woolen refuse and the sponge cloths. It is also less combustible than other cleaning materials, and if it should be caught in the machinery while engines in motion are being cleaned it tears easily, and the workmen run no risk of having their hands drawn into the machinery.