• (n.) A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery.
English paper-makers and inventors. With the assistance of Bryan Donkin, in 1801 the brothers first patented an improved design of a paper-making machine capable...
A papermaking machine with a horizontal continuous wire belt. A slurry of pulp is poured or sprayed onto the wire (forming fabric); the water is then drained off and pressed out; and the paper is dried. 
Four`dri`nier' noun A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an early inventor of improvements in this class of machinery. 
A machine with a copper wire screen that receives the pulp slurry in the paper making process which will become the final paper sheet.
a machine for manufacturing paper.