Paper Pulleys

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about Paper Pulleys, Inc, in Columbia, Tennessee, continues the decades old business of making pulleys and friction wheels from laminated discs of paper and fiber materials. Paper pulleys were invented in 1882 and were soon being mass produced and sold as Rockwood pulleys to satisfy a growing demand for use on industrial and agricultural machinery. Rockwood Company thrived and by 1927 employed 400 workers, making up to 4, 400 pulleys per day. But by 1950 industry was converting to V-belt and/or hydraulic drives, and new farm equipment was designed with a power take off ( PTO ) shaft instead of a belt pulley. Consequently the production of paper pulleys declined. In 1949 assets of Rockwood Company were sold to Browning Manufacturing Company in Maysville, Kentucky. Browning continued to supply paper pulleys and fiber friction