Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-08-31
New Flour Elevator.

! We have been making an exploration
Of the Stanley and Tarblc Patent Flour
Elevator and Cooler, lately introduced
at the Overman FIGURING Mill Of this
city, which is run by III. C. Wright &
| Co. This recent invention from the
East has met with great favor, especi-
ally III New York and Vermont where
it is best known; and the proprietors
! for this region of country have met
with good success in introducing it to
our Iowa Mills. They put one in to
the above-named mill few weeks ago;
and it has now been running long
enough to test pretty thoroughly It's
worth.
The operation Is like this the newly
ground flour from two run Of stones
| falls ut once into a small butvery rapid
| fan below. To this fan is attached n
/ long tin tube running up through the
building; and through this tube the
! tlouris driven by the fan-wind, till it
reaches and falls into a reservoir in the
attic, thoroughly ventilated by curtains
of cloth, whence it flows all cooled into
the bolt below. In the present instance,
/ the -four is thus driven through five
/ inch tube over fifty feet long, with over
thirty feet of perpendicular ascent,
along which it passes almost in an in
slant; and the same tube would answer
for three or four run ofstones.
The advantages OF this now mode of
eleyating and cooling the flour are obvi-
GUS at once. The suction of the fan
draws in all the fine -four dust, which
usually settles about the stones, max
ing much Inconvenience and waste
We are struck with this cleanly and
saving feature, so evident to any one
now going into this Touring mill. For
merly this waste (the finest and best Of
the -four accumulated all about to the
depth of half an Inch in q single day /;
NOW there is scarcely any to be seen.--
Moreover, the beating of the newly
ground wheat in the fan, and the driv-
Eingof itsoi violently, as with n wbirl-
wind along the sides of the pipe, thor
oughly rubs and scours the bran parti-
clcs from all the flour attached to them,
causing the bait to- give q greater yield
OF flour. BY these means, the quantity
is found to be increased by 8 per cent.
Moreover, this handling of the -four
by wind, and especially its being thrown
light as smoke into the ventilated reser-
-voir, thoroughly cools it immediately
and it thus goes in the best shape into
the bolt, where 1t is better bolted, with
amuch less boiling surface, than usual.
The quality of the flour, as well az the
quantity, is thus improved, as any one
can SEQ by noticing and handling the
snowy article as it now falls, cool and
sweet, into the capacious binsof Wright
& Co. Our city baker has already no
ticed the superiority of the flour; and
our own home culinary department Is
about making the same trial. a,ss ga
We learn from MFR. Edward Goss, of
Vermont, Agent for the proprietors,
who has been in town again this week,
that they have just sold the Town
Right to Waterloo for 500, and that
another machine is about to be put into
the lower mill here, that run by Ed
ward Brown. We rejoice intheso i'm
provements; because they will raise
still higher the credit of our Cedar Falls
and Black Hawk brands of flour i'm the
eastern markets. Our motto is s'excel-
sior'-onward and upward--in all our
manufacturing operations. yes, we are
getting so up-pish that our best -four
nosy all goes.ulr the spout,n