Wooden wire

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Wooden wire is a thin, long-shaped, flexible piece of wood with a circular cross-section. The wire, which is around two millimeters thick, was machined using special planes and processed into wooden fabrics, toothpicks and matches . A similar product is wood wool .

history

At the beginning of the 19th century, wooden wire was planed by hand. In the Bohemian Forest , the wooden wire slicers belonged to the so-called Holzbitzler who did this work as seasonal workers .

In 1893, wood wire machines were reported that could produce the raw material for six million round matches in a ten-hour working day. They were pushed out of the market by the progressive and angular “Swedish matches”. At the beginning of the 20th century, wooden wire was still produced with wooden wire planing machines and shortened to the desired length using wooden wire cutting machines. Peeling machines were previously used.

At the Attersee and in the Salzkammergut there were up to four wooden wire producers between 1920 and 1976 who planed wires with mechanical assistance and whose quality was superior to the goods from the Bohemian Forest. It was delivered to France. A manufacturer processed around 50–60 solid cubic meters of logs into an average of around 6 million wooden wires per year.

Manufacturing

Equipment for the production of wooden wire, Zwiesel Forest Museum

The wooden wires were made from watered, knot-free spruce wood in lengths of one to two meters. Instead of planing with a single cutting edge, there were special planes that carried several funnel-like, sharp-edged tubes under their sole. These cut the wire out of the wood. Other planes took off a chip as usual, which was then cut into the same number of wooden wires by eight oval knives.

use

In Paris, the German-born engineer Hermann Ballauff had developed processes to weave wooden wire on looms into roller blinds and blinds. In addition, mats were made from wooden wire for Camembert production. His company, which was founded in 1872, still produces wood fabrics using the processes he developed ( French bois-tissé ; as of March 2020).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Falkenhorst : On the history of the match. In: The Gazebo . Booklet 51, Leipzig 1893. p. 870.
  2. ^ Karl Heinz Eckert: Holzdrahthobler and Holzbitzler . In Merian's monthly journal . No. 6, 1963. pp. 35ff.
  3. ↑ Hans Blücher: Information book for the chemical industry . Siemenroth, Berlin 1911. pp. 1358f.
  4. ↑ atterwiki.at: wooden wire . (accessed on March 18, 2020)
  5. ↑ ballauff.fr: On the history of the company (French, accessed on March 13, 2020)