People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1897 — A Mammoth Paper Machine. [ARTICLE]

A Mammoth Paper Machine.

A 162-inch papermaking machine is tinder construction for the Rumford Falls Paper Company of Rumford Falls, Me., which is undoubtedly the largest in the world, having a 60-foot wire, gun-metal breast-roll, 24-inch gunmetal coucher, 24-inch press-roll, 28 48-inch dryers, besides press and receiving dryers, and a stack of 12 chilled calendar rolls, reel and winding machine, the speed being from 300 to 500 feet per minute.