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PAPER AND ITS USES
Bible Papers.—Thin printing papers of good quality, opaque and strong. Used for Bibles and other books where a large number of pages is required to occupy a small bulk.
Bill Papers.—Hand or machine-made, all-rag papers, tub-sized, air-dried. Being used for documents such as promissory notes, bills of exchange, etc., the paper must be very durable.
Biscuit Caps.—Thin white M.G. papers, employed for making bags for confectionery and similar trades, in various sizes. The bags are frequently made up at the mill.
Blotting Papers are made from the tenderest of old cotton rags, and are free from loading and sizing. Made in white, pink, buff, green, blue, and silurian, the usual size is demy, and the weight 38 Ib. per ream of 480 sheets, at prices from 4d. to 8d. per Ib. Other stock substances are demy 27, 48, 60, 80, and 100 Ib. Blottings for interleaving diaries and similar works are sometimes made of a mixture of rag and soda wood pulps, or even entirely of wood pulp, in much lighter weights, and in various sizes equivalent to demy 14 Ib., at prices from 2^d. per Ib., according to quality. Enamelled blottings are made by pasting enamelled papers to blottings of the usual substance.
Bond Papers are similar in character to banks, but are heavier in weight. The term is often applied to superior looking engine-sized writings of medium substance, but strength is essential in all papers included in this class.
Bowl Papers, made from the waste from flax spinning mills, unsized, bleached or unbleached, are used for covering the rolls in calendering machines, where there are alternate rolls of compressed paper and chilled iron. The paper is made in sheets, square and circular, in the substance equivalent to 10 Ib. demy.
Box Boards, in various qualities, from the common grey board to the tough glazed board, made from different wastes, well rolled. Used by boxmakers, cut and creased by machinery, folded and fastened by glue or metal fastenings. Boxes for all trades are thus made,
