Fourdrinier
(fuːəˈdrɪnɪeɪ, fuːdrɪˈnɪə(r))
The name of Henry (1766–1854) and Sealy (d. 1847) Fourdrinier, British printers, used attrib. († or in the possessive) to denote esp. the paper-making machine invented by them, and also the wire cloth used for draining the pulp in the machine.
| [1825 J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 369 The machines which are now almost universally employed..the invention of Messrs. Fourdrinier.] 1837 Rep. Sel. Comm. Fourdrinier's Pat. 9 in Parl. Papers XX. 35 Do you understand the working of the machine which is called Fourdrinier's Patent Machine for making paper? 1839 Ure Dict. Arts II. 930 One of the Fourdrinier machines made at London by Mr. Donkin. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 766 Fourdrinier's machine.—This was the first successful attempt at supplying machinery to perform the duties of the deckle or mould. 1874 Art of Paper-Making 164 They certainly well deserve to be immortalised in the name of the present Fourdrinier. Ibid. 182 It is this shaking movement, though it is very trifling (about 1/4 inch), which makes the Fourdrinier paper superior to that made on a cylinder-machine. a 1877 Knight Dict. Mech. I. 912/1 Fourdrinier-machine, a paper-making machine, the first to make a continuous web. 1964 Gloss. Paper Terms (B.S.I.) 16 Fourdrinier machine, a machine for the production of a continuous sheet of paper or board which is formed by drainage on an endless wire cloth unit known as the ‘Fourdrinier wire part’. 1966 H. Williamson Methods Bk. Design (ed. 2) xviii. 295 Almost any Fourdrinier is huge; the biggest is colossal. Ibid. 298 It is the drying cylinders which extend the Fourdrinier machine to its enormous size. |