US3620909A - Method for reclaiming pulp from waste papers - Google Patents

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US3620909A
US3620909A US3620909DA US3620909A US 3620909 A US3620909 A US 3620909A US 3620909D A US3620909D A US 3620909DA US 3620909 A US3620909 A US 3620909A
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    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21CPRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • D21C5/00Other processes for obtaining cellulose, e.g. cooking cotton linters ; Processes characterised by the choice of cellulose-containing starting materials
    • D21C5/02Working-up waste paper
    • D21C5/025De-inking
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    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02WCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO WASTEWATER TREATMENT OR WASTE MANAGEMENT
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  • This invention relates to the reclamation of purified and reusable pulp from paper which may be in the form of claycoated paper, printed paper, or paperboard, envelopes, magazines and trade papers and bond .and ledger papers, printed, embossed or lined with various types of colored printing inks, magazine cover sheets, book paper, binders and the like.
  • EXAMPLE I A definite weight of printed magazines, etc. to be recovered, from cover to cover with no pages removed or without removal of any of its inserts, is chopped or shredded while the waste paper is preferably dry. If certain large equipment is available, the magazines can be run in their entirety without cutting or without shredding.
  • the cut-up paper is weighed, as to volume to be processed, and then introduced into tanks for boiling with water, preferably in the ratio of 2 gallons of water per l pound of paper, with four different chemicals added to the water. Boiling with agitation is carried out for at least 10 minutes per hatch.
  • the chemicals are believed to react synergistically in solution to form sodium borocarbonate as a reactive compound.
  • the boiled paper is pulped with cold water in a conventional Hydropulper, Holland or Jordan, or a heater until it reaches a pulp stage and is again cold-water washed and screened.
  • the washed pulp is drained and then taken up with hot water at a temperature within the range of l l0-l 40 F. and a conventional chlorine-type bleach, such as sodium hypochlorite 5.25 active ingredient and 94.75 inert, is added in the amount up to 95 gallons per ton by weight of original cook. After bleaching for from 2 to 5 minutes, the pulp is again washed in cold water for removal of the chlorine bleach solution. Thereafter the pulp is ready. to form into wet laps or briquetted for use in equipment for the manufacture of paper or paperboard stock, etc.
  • a conventional chlorine-type bleach such as sodium hypochlorite 5.25 active ingredient and 94.75 inert
  • the wet laps can be shipped to nearby paper mills without the necessity for drying or excessive rehydrolyzing thereby to save time while avoiding overheating or deterioration of the pulp fibers or shortening of the pulp fibers.
  • the briquettes can be quickly rebeaten for pulp formation.
  • the fiber that is recovered is entirely free of inks, clay coatings, adhesives, fillers and sizing of the type originally present in the waste paper stock and is thoroughly antiseptic and free of slimicides and fungicides. Also, germs and bacteria are killed in the chemical boiling and treatment so that the end product is relatively pure and safe for further reuse.
  • the pulp fibers can be used along or in combination with other pulps or with rag or cotton containing pulp for use in the manufacture of fine white papers or bonds or ledgers. Kraft paper can be reclaimed from bags, envelopes, printing papers, paperboard, carton stock or the like in high yields.
  • the pulp can be used in controlled mixtures and percentages that can be standardized to meet uniform specifications. Recovery of bonds and ledgers and bleached Kraft are most desirous and give high yields of percent and some percent yield and offer greater demand and profit.
  • EXAMPLE 2 Cancelled and used bank checks and stock certificates, usually printed on yellow, green or blue safety paper in any proportion can be substituted for other high-grade papers and processed, as in Example 1.
  • the reclaimed pulp is pure white with better than 80 percent recovery.
  • EXAMPLE 3 25-50 percent rag or cotton content paper in the form of bond paper with engraved letterheads was processed in accordance with example l. Pads formed by filtering the reclaimed fiber showed highest recovery yields of the rag and cellulose fiber without noticeable deterioration in the fiber. White bond waste carries a premium and thus limits the available supply, but using all colored or all mixed, greatly increases the tonnage available for reclamation in accordance with example 1. These papers offer no problems when processed as in example 1.
  • EXAMPLE 4 Large heavy envelopes of Kraft paper, with variously colored tags pasted on the surface and with cancelled postage stamps left on were processed in various amounts. Some were unbleached and left as natural Kraft and some were bleached to different stages on up to real white. The paper was treated as in example 1, but with the original vigorous boiling cook lasting for to minutes and use was made of slightly longer bleaching.
  • a Kraft pulp was reclaimed having a slight yellowish tinge with a recovery yield of more than 80 percent of the fiber originally present in the envelopes. When processed a little longer in bleach, the yield was the same but the pulp was very white.
  • the sodium hydroxide in the chemical bath, in which the disintegrated paper is cooked, can be substituted in whole or in part in example 1 by other alkali metal hydroxides, such as potassium hydroxide.
  • the sodium phosphate can be substituted by ammonium phosphate or other alkali metal phosphates such as potassium phosphate.
  • the amount of chemical solids per pound of paper can vary within the range of 1 part by weight of chemical solids per 5 to parts by weight of paper, the best results being secured in the ratio employed in example 1 of 1 part by weight chemical solids per 10 :parts by weight of paper.
  • the solution can be formulated to contain the described amounts of chemicals in solution in the ratio of 20 gallons solution per 0.5 to 2 pounds of chemicals and preferably in the ratio of 20 gallons solution per 0.8 to 1.2 pounds by weight of chemicals.
  • the paper can be boiled in the chemical solution at pressures above atmospheric pressure with corresponding higher temperatures but it is undesirable to make use of such higher temperatures as might cause deterioration of the fibers. It is preferred to process the paper at atmospheric pressure at a temperature of about boiling point temperature for the solution for about 10 to 15 minutes and for longer periods of time at lower temperature but it is not desirable to make use of a cooking temperature of less than about 180 F. and preferably not less than 200 F.
  • the chlorine bleach can be carried out at temperatures up to 140 F. to below the 110 F. of example 1 but it is undesirable to make use of a temperature for bleaching much below 100 F., otherwise the desired bleach will take an excessively long period of time, or in additional stages, with the danger of subjecting the pulp fibers to deterioration and increased costs.

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US3766001A (en) * 1971-08-17 1973-10-16 World Wide Paper Reclamation I Reclaiming pulp from waste papers by treating with a solution of sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, sodium or ammonium bicarbonate, and sodium borate
US3767524A (en) * 1970-05-01 1973-10-23 World Wide Paper Reclamation I Composition for reclaiming pulp from waste papers
US3873411A (en) * 1973-06-29 1975-03-25 Johnson & Johnson Methods of recovering reusable fibers
US3884750A (en) * 1972-09-25 1975-05-20 Little Inc A Method of recovering separate fiber fractions from corrugated board
US4278471A (en) * 1979-10-05 1981-07-14 Carl Eugene Dedlow Process for extracting sugar from cellulose and cellulosic materials
US6001218A (en) * 1994-06-29 1999-12-14 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Production of soft paper products from old newspaper
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US6074527A (en) * 1994-06-29 2000-06-13 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Production of soft paper products from coarse cellulosic fibers
US6296736B1 (en) 1997-10-30 2001-10-02 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Process for modifying pulp from recycled newspapers
US6387210B1 (en) 1998-09-30 2002-05-14 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Method of making sanitary paper product from coarse fibers
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US3767524A (en) * 1970-05-01 1973-10-23 World Wide Paper Reclamation I Composition for reclaiming pulp from waste papers
US3766001A (en) * 1971-08-17 1973-10-16 World Wide Paper Reclamation I Reclaiming pulp from waste papers by treating with a solution of sodium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, sodium or ammonium bicarbonate, and sodium borate
US3884750A (en) * 1972-09-25 1975-05-20 Little Inc A Method of recovering separate fiber fractions from corrugated board
US3873411A (en) * 1973-06-29 1975-03-25 Johnson & Johnson Methods of recovering reusable fibers
US4278471A (en) * 1979-10-05 1981-07-14 Carl Eugene Dedlow Process for extracting sugar from cellulose and cellulosic materials
US6001218A (en) * 1994-06-29 1999-12-14 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Production of soft paper products from old newspaper
US6027610A (en) * 1994-06-29 2000-02-22 Kimberly-Clark Corporation Production of soft paper products from old newspaper
US6074527A (en) * 1994-06-29 2000-06-13 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Production of soft paper products from coarse cellulosic fibers
US6296736B1 (en) 1997-10-30 2001-10-02 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Process for modifying pulp from recycled newspapers
US6387210B1 (en) 1998-09-30 2002-05-14 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Method of making sanitary paper product from coarse fibers
WO2003057985A1 (en) * 2001-12-31 2003-07-17 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Process for manufacturing a cellulosic paper product exhibiting reduced malodor
US20030131961A1 (en) * 2001-12-31 2003-07-17 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Process for manufacturing a cellulosic paper product exhibiting reduced malodor
US6716310B2 (en) 2001-12-31 2004-04-06 Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. Process for manufacturing a cellulosic paper product exhibiting reduced malodor
CN102535225A (zh) * 2011-12-31 2012-07-04 广东轻工职业技术学院 一种包装纸容器的再制浆方法及其应用
CN109112872A (zh) * 2018-10-25 2019-01-01 泉州市大创机械制造有限公司 一种多功能的制浆机
CN109112872B (zh) * 2018-10-25 2023-12-05 厦门中乾机械有限公司 一种多功能的制浆机

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