h, h are movable rollers for stretching the wire, or brass carriages for keeping the rollers g, g in a proper position.
C is the second press, or dry press, to expel the water in a cold state.
K, K, &c., in the view of the lower line, are the steam cylinders for drying the endless sheet.
i, i are rollers to convey the paper.
j, j are rollers to conduct the felt; which serves to support the paper, and prevent it wrinkling or becoming cockled.
D, D are the hexagonal expanding reels for the steam-dried paper web, one only being used at a time, and made to suit different sizes of sheets. l is their swing fulcrum.
F, F, F, F, is the frame of the machine.
The deckle straps are worthy of particular notice in this beautiful machine. They are composed of many layers of cotton tape, each one inch broad, and together one half-inch thick, cemented with caoutchouc, so as to be at once perfectly flexible and water-tight.
The upper end of each of the two carriages of the roller L is of a forked shape, and the pivots of the roller are made to turn in the cleft of the forked carriages in such a manner, that the roller may be prevented from having any lateral motion, while it possesses a free vibratory motion upwards and downwards; the whole weight of the roller L being borne by the endless web of woven wire.