handsheet

Noun

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