The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-07-04
MODERN FLOUR MAKING.

/ 1he newest neur mill at Minneapolis,
Mimi, which is said to be the largest in
the world, except one at Buda Pesth, in
Hungary, after which it is patterned
is wonder in itself. 1t is 20x150 feet
in area, ITO feet in hight, and cost $780,
600 to build and equip. 1t has capac-
ity of turning out about 1000 barrels of
flour in twenty-four hours, and has on
one occasion, turned out $500 iu the
same time, on test of its capacity. 1t
has actually turned cut for six consecu-
tive night and day, that is, all the time
from Monday morning till Saturday
night, $50 barrels per day. The
water-power running this mill has TWEEN
ty-two feet fall, and is 2,800 horse-pow-
er. AT this ga" mill, when a wheat
train arrives, the cars are drawn to the
mill by chain cable to be unleaded. |
-Four cars at time are thus drawn up,
and the wheat unloaded from them.
Each car contains 600 bushels of wheat,
and two steam shovels can be used in
each car in unloading. This is the only I
e
the hopper bin the wheat is elevated to
the fifth floor and ted inte receiving
bin, the bottom of which extends down
to the fourth floor. Out of this it
empties itself inte conYeyors, consisting
of small buckets travelling upon an end
less belt, and is taken to storage bins
upon the first and second floors, where
it rests until wanted for milling.
tf THE PROCESS g.sg ss
3 Perhaps it might interest your read
els to know just how -four is made in
these great mills of Minneapolis. will |
describe the process. We left the wheat |
in storage bins on the first and second {
floors of the mill. When the time Z
comes for milling, the wheat is convey q
ed up to the top or eighth floor, whence G
it is fed down into the grain separators 1
in the story beneath, which sift out the '
chaff, straw and other foreign matter. s
This done it descends another story up- h
on grading screens, which sort out the s
arger-s'zed grains from tho smaller, t
he latter falling through meshes of the e
screen, after which the selected portion r
irops into the cookies on the floor be. v
feath, and, these escaped, falls still fur v
her into the brush machines. All this I
ime the wheat remains whea the ker- tt
lei is entire. Its next move, however, n
'eglrs its destruction, for now the end h
ng stones are encountered, which break 8,
he germinal point off each grain. This n
ccomplished, the wheat is shot away L
lp to the attic again, and, traversing il
he whole length of the mill, falls into il
n asplratsr on the seventh floor, hav- h
ng passed which, it slides down to the Ii
ecend floor and is sent through the cor et
ugated rollers, These rollers have b
hallow grooves cut spirally upon them, So
With rounded ridges between. The op- -
osing rollers are grooved in an oppo- q,
lite direction, and it is impossible fer OF
rain of wheat to get through without "
eng cracked in two, though the roll a,
RS are not sufficiently near together to B
o more that that The wheat comes of
ut of these rollers cracked and broken. te
nd, pouring into special cenveyors, is
gain elevated to the seventh floor. HI
here the flour dust which has been n,
reduced by this manipulation is bolted w
ut in reels, and all that is lest-nc he
niger wheat-is divided into enid af
lings" and "tailings," ar
GRADING ~,
The tailings consist of the hard seed hr
'se and the refuse part, and go into co
arket as feed" and ''bran," while the n