handsheet

plural handsheets

1. A small sheet of manufactured material created in a laboratory for testing purposes.

   The handsheets from unbeaten pulps had greater stretch if press dried than thos from beaten pulps.

   1977, Vance C. Setterholm, Roy E. Benson, Variables in Press Drying Pulps from Sweetgum and Red Oak, page 5

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   The improved sheet formation of foam-laid paper is shown visually in Fig. 2 where softwood kraft handsheets, water-laid and foam-laid are shown for comparison.

   1974, Paper Technology - Volume 15, page 347

   With this fiber, we then formed a series of air-laid and water-laid handsheets varying the temperature of the forming or rewetting water, the forming substrate, and, because press-dry effectiveness has been shown to vary with sheet weight, the grammage.

   1990, The Environmental Challenge of the 1990s, page 300