Identifier: millermillwright00grim (find matches)
Title: The miller, millwright and millfurnisher
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Grimshaw, Robert, 1850- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Flour mills
Publisher: New York, H. Lockwood
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig. 312. Grain Elevator—End View. The belt is hung on a pulley 13^ feet diameter and 48-inch face, and is setin motion by a pulley 8 feet diameter by 48-inch face on the engine shaft,/,below, and is tightened by a 48-inch tightener. These eleven receiving elevators, d, discharge in the attic into elevenscale hoppers, /?, where the grain can be weighed and then spouted into
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www II pfT(!ff(T^^^9^!l Fifi. 3«3—GRAIN ELE\ATOR SINKS, SPOUTING. 463 the various bins below. If it is desired to work the grain over or ship iteither by boat, car or wagon, it is spouted into the six sinks /, in whichstand the iron boots of six elevators g, by which the grain is again elevatedto the attic and thrown into the hoppers, k, from which it is dropped intothe six scale hoppers, /, where it is weighed and thence spouted out intothe shipping bins m, which are only twenty-seven feet high, and thence,by the shipping spouts ?i, put outside of the building, either into boats,cars or wagons; or if it is only being aired, it is spouted from these bins backinto the receiving elevators and again taken to the storage bins. The motionto all this machinery is imparted by an automatic cut-off condensing engineof 250 horse-power. The construction of the bins is very simple, they beingbuilt up of two-inch plank, ten inches wide at the bottom and reducing inwidth as they go up to eight i

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