Studies on the Mucilaginous Material in Manufacture of Machine Made Japanese Paper

Suspensions in cylinder machine essentially adapted for providing more uniform webs are formed by adding 0.10 to 1.88 weight percent of a water soluble acrylamide polymer having, molecular in excess of 3, 000, 000 and a percent hydrolysis not in excess of 30 percent to an aqueous suspension containing cellulose fiber.