The Fire Underwriter's Companion; A Commonplace Book on All Subjects Appertaining to Fire Insurance Practice
by Donald A Campbell (9781150623288)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Original Publisher: Layton Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: From the time that the wheat leaves the cart till the flour and offal are sacked, there is no manual labour employed, supervision of the machines being the only duty the men have to perform. All the dust-laden air is conveyed by metal pipes to the filters, where the dust is at once removed. The risk of explosion is by this means reduced, and the whole mill is kept remarkably clean. There remains only one other point to be mentioned in connection with the reduction process as carried out in this mill, viz.: -- The elimination of the germ. This is obtained along with the coarsest separation of middlings from the purifiers, which are passed on to a pair of rolls and pressed, so that the germ is flattened out into a small disc, while the brittle semolina is reduced to flour and smaller semolina. The germs pass over the tale of a centrifugal dressing machine, while the flour and semolina go through the meshes of the covering of the reel. It is most important to get rid of this substance, as it not only deteriorates the flour as to its keeping and baking properties, but it is also a valuable cattle food. The power is generated by two coupled high-pressure engines, capable of working up to 2oo-horse power if required; but, as the mill is at present fitted, only a portion of this power is used. The capacity of the mill is between I, too to 1,200 sacks per week. The different floors of the mill are fitted with bells and speaking tubes, communicating with each other and with the engine-house. The mill is also in telephonic connection with the city, and so with the members of the...

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