Fuente: WIPO "rice" 125,062. Rice, G. L. Nov. 8, 1917, [Convention date]. Materials, special, cords of; machines for making.-Relates to the manufacture of twine made from ribbons of paper enveloping a core of fibrous material. In order to produce a twine which will not kink and in which, when in use, the paper covering will not be readily stripped from the fibre, the fibrous material is fed in an untwisted state to the former 40 and the enveloping-ribbon 25, and the enclosed fibres are afterwards twisted up together, a portion of the fibrous material becoming disposed in the longitudinal creases formed in the ribbon during its passage through the former 40. By these means, the paper and the fibre have the same number of twists per .unit length imparted. Fig. 6 shows the twine in the various stages of production, and Fig. 7 shows the finished twine. The former 40 has a concave guide 43, Fig. 4, for the fibre. The arrangement of guide-rollers 26, 27. 28, Fig. 2, is such that the ribbon 25 and the fibrous material may be positively and simultaneously fed through the machine; and the mounting of the top roller 26 is such that the roller may be raised out of contact with the material by raising a handle 33, Fig. 1. The complete apparatus is indicated in Fig. 1, the fibre being shown as being drawn from gill pins 24 and the ribbon as being drawn over a damping-roner 16. A crusher 44 and a nipper 45 for the partlyformed twine are shown in position in Fig. 2.