John Dickinson (inventor)

John Dickinson ( * March 29, 1782; † January 11, 1869 ) was the inventor of a cylinder mold machine, which enabled a continuous mechanical papermaking. He also founded the paper mills in Apsley and Nash Mills in England, which was later to John Dickinson Stationery Limited ( en: John Dickinson Stationery ) developed. He built and lived in Abbots Hill, Nash Mills, on a hill, from which he could look at his mills in the valley.

Curriculum vitae

John Dickinson was the eldest son of Captain Thomas Dickinson, who was in the Royal Navy, and his wife Frances. Thomas Dickinson was head of the ordnance transports at Woolwich. Frances Dickinson was the daughter of a French silk weaver in Spitalfields.

At the age of 15 John Dickinson began a seven-year training as a stationer, together with Messrs. Harrison and Richardson in London. He got his license in 1804 and began working in a stationery shop in London.

He had already proved when he invented a new paper for gun cartridges Its inventor nature. It scorched not after the gun had been fired. This was previously a common cause of accidental explosions in the artillery been. His invention was adopted by the army and to have been in the battles against Napoleon of great value.

In an era of technological innovations, attempts have already been made ​​to build a machine that could produce continuous paper to replace the existing manual techniques, especially the Fourdrinier Henry Fourdrinier of the Frenchman and his brother Sealy.

Dickinson had patented his own design in 1809. In the same year he found financial support for the financier George Longman. He was so able, a former grain mill in Apsley, Hertfordshire to buy, which had been already rebuilt by the previous owner, a man named John Stafford for paper production. The seller was one of Dickinson's suppliers. Dickinson built his own machine in the mill.

After these beginnings, his company one of the largest stationery manufacturers in the world, the John Dickinson Stationery was.

The manufacturing processes to Dickinson

The machine consists of a perforated metal cylinder with a tight-fitting screen of fine wire mesh, which rotates in a vat of wood pulp. The water from the tub is drained through the axis of the cylinder, and the fibers of the wood pulp to remain on the surface of the wire stick. An endless web passes through the felt Gautschenrolle lying on the cylinders, and moves from the location of fiber fabric, which is, after drying on paper.