Cork Paper
What are known as hand cut corks are stoppers which are not exactly round, but of a shape which might be appropriately described as a “square circle.” In the judgment of some, they are better suited for certain purposes than straights or tapers.
Putting Final Touches on Life-Preservers
From the driers all corks are taken to the sorting rooms, where they are subjected to the last of the actual manufacturing processes, and, from many standpoints, the most interesting of all. Here, again, the importance of proper grading is paramount, and when one considers that almost five million corks pour into this department every working day, the magnitude of the task can be partly grasped.
Seine and Gill Corks
When the further fact is known that this enormous output is to be sorted into about twenty regular besides numerous special grades, one can still further appreciate what the problem involves. The work itself calls for such a peculiar combination of faculties that only one out of every five operatives who are given preliminary training in this department is found satisfactory; but so highly skilled do the regular workers become that the sorting of thirty-five thousand corks may be considered an average day’s labor.
