{"id":2313,"date":"2003-11-12T12:09:11","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T17:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2003-11-12T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2003-11-12T17:09:11","slug":"new-minter-sonic-sealer-delivered-to-conservation-november-12-13-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2003\/11\/12\/new-minter-sonic-sealer-delivered-to-conservation-november-12-13-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"New Minter Sonic Sealer Delivered to Conservation, November 12-13, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Minter has delivered and installed a new  Ultrasonic Welder for polyester encapsulation at the University of Iowa  Conservation department. His visit was remarkable. He had previously installed  one of the earliest welders here in 1984 and he mentioned that it was unusual to  be describing features of a new machine in terms of differences from the  previous one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2314\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/minter2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2314\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/minter2.jpg\" alt=\"Bill offers an in-depth history of Mylar.\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill offers an in-depth history of Mylar.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The current OT-D4, #1147 at Iowa is the most recent of more than 160  installedmachines world wide. Bill provided many details of the history of his  development of the Ultrasonic Welder and credited Sid Huttner, Head of Special  Collections here at the University of Iowa, for his early encouragement. Of  course, another prompt for Bill&#8217;s reminiscences was his work with Bill Anthony.  Bill Minter was Bill Anthony&#8217;s first apprentice finishing his term in the late  1970s.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2315\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/minter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2315\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/minter1.jpg\" alt=\"Bill demonstrates the Ultra-sonic welder\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill demonstrates the Ultra-sonic welder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bill Anthony subsequently came to the University  of Iowa as its first Conservator, founding the Conservation lab here in  1984.During his stay here, Bill Minter attended and addressed the University of  Iowa Bibliofiles and attended Lynn Amlie&#8217;s lecture on the production of the  Oakdale papers used to underlay the Charters at the National Archives &amp;  Record Service. He also exchanged research findings on naturally aged paper  stocks with another UI expert on the topic, Tim Barrett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Minter has delivered and installed a new Ultrasonic Welder for polyester encapsulation at the University of Iowa Conservation department. His visit was remarkable. He had previously installed one of the earliest welders here in 1984 and he mentioned that it was unusual to be describing features of a new machine in terms of differences<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2003\/11\/12\/new-minter-sonic-sealer-delivered-to-conservation-november-12-13-2003\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;New Minter Sonic Sealer Delivered to Conservation, November 12-13, 2003&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}