Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881Various
Science
Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881
Various
Science -- Periodicals
The building is four stories high, including basement, and thirty-two
feet square. It would be some better to have it larger, but it is made
this small to show how small a space a mill of this size can be made to
occupy. No story is less than twelve feet high. The machinery Is very
conveniently arranged, and there is plenty of room all around. The
system is a modification of the gradual reduction system, the middlings
being worked upon millstones. The first break is on one pair of 9 x
18 inch corrugated iron rolls, eight corrugations to the inch, the
corrugations running parallel with the axis of the rolls. The second
break on rolls having twelve corrugations to the inch, the third
sixteen, and the fourth twenty to the inch, while the fifth break, where
the bran is finally cleaned, has twenty-four corrugations to the inch.
The basement contains the line shaft and pulleys for driving rolls,
stones, cockle machine, and separator. The only other machinery in the
basement is the cockle machine. The line shaft runs directly through
the center of the basement, the power being from engine or water wheel
outside the building. The first floor has the roller mills in a line
nearly over the line shaft below, the middlings stones, two in number,
at one side opposite the entrance to the mill, the receiving bin at
one side of the entrance in the corner of the mill, and the two flour
packers for the baker's and patent flour in the other corner. This
arrangement leaves over half of the floor area for receiving and packing
purposes. The bolting chests, one with six reel and the other with three
reel begin on the second floor and reach up into the attic. An upright
shaft from the line shaft in the basement geared to a horizontal shaft
running through the attic parallel with the line shaft below, comprise
about all the shafting there is in the mill. There is a short shaft on
the second floor from which the two purifiers on this floor and the two
in the attic are driven, and another short shaft on the first floor to
drive the packers. There are four purifiers, two on the second floor,
and two more directly over them in the attic. The elevator heads are all
directly upon the attic line shaft, and the bolting chests are driven by
uprights dropped from this shaft. The combined smutter and brush machine
is on the third floor at one end of the bolting chests and directly over
the stock hoppers. This comprises all the machinery in the mill. The
programme is about as follows:
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