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Excelsior (sometimes called wood wool, especially in Europe or when referring to finer grades) is a wood product made of fibers (often from the aspen tree), used in packaging, cushioning, stuffing of stuffed animals, and for the cooling pads in home evaporative cooling systems known as swamp coolers.
Excelsior, dyed green, makes an annual appearance as the "grass" in Easter baskets, or did in earlier decades before the prevalence of plastics.
Traditionally used in stuffing Teddy bears, it is still used in stuffing the muzzles of some collectible bears.
In North America the term excelsior is sometimes used more generally, for any clean, loose material for shipment-packing of boxes or crates, such as styrofoam packing peanuts.
Excelsior is also used, banded into bale form, as archery backstops, comparable to how a straw bale would be used. If protected from the elements, it can last for many years. As locations wear, through repeated targetting, the bale can be dampened, such as from a running hose, and soaking it liberally. It expands and holds the water, just like a dry sponge would.
External links
- Excelsior manufacture – Original report dated May 1948 – Reveiwed and reaffirmed 1961, Forest Products Laboratory, US Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service
References
- "Packing materials". Department Bulletin (1385). United States Dept. of Agriculture: 46. May 1926.
- Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919). Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use. J. Wiley. p. 425.
- Roger E. Simmons (1912). Wood-using Industries of New Hampshire. I. C. Evans co. p. 53.
- E. F. Lindsley (July 1984). "Solar air conditioners – the hotter it gets, the better they work". Popular Science. Times Mirror Magazines: 64–66. ISSN 0161-7370.
- David Daniel (2005). The Marble Kite. Macmillan. p. 35. ISBN 9780312323516.
- "The Tradition of the excelsior stuffing". HERMANN-Spielwaren GmbH. Retrieved 24 July 2006.
- Larry Wise (1992). Bow and Arrow: The Comprehensive Guide to Equipment, Technique, and Competition. Stackpole Books. p. 912. ISBN 9780811724111.
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