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Suction Paper Mold
For making paper that atttaches to surfaces using sweet suction action. | |
Paper can be dissolved in waters, vapors or fluids, and/ore perhaps other solvents, but not to the extent that the solution is substantially changed as that would ruin the process.
Inserting a piece of paper into this mold changes the structure of the paper in such a way that the form is permanently
altered upon evaporation of the sluicing medium's content.
After the trial and error process the concave/convex sheet can be adhered via suction to nonporous surfaces.
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[The_Saint, Nov 12 2009]
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Is the idea to emboss little suction cups onto paper? I'm not
sure that paper is the right stuff to make a suction cup from
- too porous, and not compliant enough to accommodate any
surface unevennessnesses. |
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Pertinent/possibly not pertinent: |
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I built a prototype page turning device using a suction cup to pick up the page. The deformation of the page even at low vacuums was suffient to deform and capture the second page beneath the target page. |
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Yes, but was the suction applied continuously? If so, I would
warrant that the first page was sufficiently porous to allow
the vacuum to seep through (so to speak) and grab the
second page. |
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Yes, it was continuous. I'm not sure that I can grant you that level of porosity. How would I test that in some crude yet verifiable manner? Dust? |
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Easy. Apply the vacuum to one page only, then bring the
second page into contact with the back of the first one. |
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If the second page is then held, it's due to porosity. |
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[norm], when I worked in a print shop, some of the machines used a row of suction cups to pick up each sheet in turn. Worked very well even on the thinnest paper. |
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This has sort of been done already. I think the term is baked. See link. |
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Paper already does this when applied to a sheet of glass. I thought it could be enhanced slightly. |
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This was the byproduct of my brainstorm on how to quickly make a lot of papers that suck. |
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The papermaking process includes a step known as "calendaring", where the paper web is drawn through rollers to be pressed. Hard and glossy surfaced paper is formed with fillers and a lot of pressure. |
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Before the invention of the continuous papermaking process, individual sheets were hammer- or press-formed. Such a process could easily produce papers in non-flat shapes ideal for your intent. |
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//how to quickly make a lot of papers that suck.// |
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Oh, you mean legislation? |
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