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- 1949-07-27
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
Chip feeder at St. Regis plant, Link Belt Company, Mr. R.W. Johnson. Bark was first removed from logs and moved to the woodroom. From the woodroom chunks of wood were moved to wood chippers where they were broken into fine chips. These went into a hopper in the top of a digester where the chips were broken down by chemicals and the resulting pulp was washed and bleached. This large, funnel-shaped machine handled the fine chipping and delivery to the digester.
St. Regis Paper Co. (Tacoma)--1940-1950; Paper industry--Tacoma--1940-1950; Machinery;