Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-26
IRONTON, MO-, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1883.

speed, by which the grain is split, wheI
it is elevated to scalping reel covered
with wire cloth, and in passing through
it all the dirt remaining in the crease
of the grain is removed. It then il
spouted down between
| THE SECOND ROLLS
of the same set, which have smaller
corrugations and make what is known
as the "second break" from which
after being again elevated, some fou,
is removed by a second and fnel
clothed scalping reel. The grain con.
tinues through a second double set OF
rolls and scalping reels, similar to the
first but finer, by which the grain, In
stead of being rapidly pulverized and
forced through burrs, which cut the
bran aud SO mix it with the flour that
it cannot be entirely removed, is grad
ually reduced to flour, all the bran
loosened and flour made in each opera
ton being carefully removed, so that
no -four is subjected to any grinding
after it is made. This constitutes the
chief advantage over the old, or burr,
system of grinding, as every mill
er and person who handles flour is
aware of the fact that the two most
common faults in flour are bran specks
and overgrindiEg. AS in
THE ROLLER SYSTEM
of grinding the rollers do not come
together, the flour cannot be heat
ed in. the process. The other sets of
rolls are for reducing middlings and
cleaning bran. The middlings are sep
arated into two grades and ground OH
two burrs adjusted to the respective
grades, making the finest flour.
Beside the machinery on the grind
ing flour already mentioned, there is q
packer, hopper scale and trucks,
scales for weighing flour, &C.; and in
front of the row of rolls, extending
nearly through the middle of the build
ing, lengthwise, is row of elevators,
seventeen in number, which are re-
quired to carry the grain and -four up
in the continuous processes.
THE SECOND FLOOR
is devoted exclusively to tlour-dressing
machinery and a few bins. In the
center of the building stands the bolt
ing chest, with six reels, which extends
into the third story, and large double
purifier of the Geo. T. Smith pattern,
made at Jackson, Michigan, by which
the middlings, instead of being almost
a waste product, as in the old Touring
methods, is freed from the small bran
and other impurities, and yields, on re-,
grinding, the finest and best flour.
We do not intend to give anything
of the mill, and as the details of the
working of the boiling apparatus are
so complicated that books might be
written on the subject, we pass to de-
scription of
THE THIRD FLOOR.
Here we find aperplexing labarynth
of passages around the elevators, bolts
and cleaning machinery, with barely
room for a person to crowd his way
through. On this floor, beside the bolt
above referred to, is four-reel scalp
ing chest, and in the corner are two of
the newly invented and improved CEN
trifugal fiour-dressing machlnes-onel
built by Holcomb & Heins, of Silver
Creek, New York; the other from the
factory of Williford & Northway, of
Minn. These reels are
for separating and finishing
flour from the last grinding. In an
other corner are shutter and separa- |
tor and wheat brush, made by Halte-
man & Co., for cleaning wheat. And |
the last available corner is occupied by |
a bran duster made by the Hughes
Co., of Dayton, Ohio.
Beside the machinery on the vari-
>us floors, there are the usual dust
.ooms, and -four and grain bins, and
n the whole building every available
DOT of space is utilized.
In this mill the chief merit is the
system, which is as near perfection as
modern inventive genius will permit,
md the extreme accuracy with which
very detail is carried out. The entire
mill is
IAsTERPIECE OF MECHANICAL SKILL
nd ingenuity and careful, accurate
the best possible evil
ence of the ability of the superinten-
ent of the work, Mr.. n. J. Campbell,
5hose constant and watchfu1 atten-
ion not only secured the faithful COM
letion of every requiremento of the con- ,
-act, but compelled an excellence Of
finish which pleasantly .
the proprietors.
II may also be added, in passing, that :
Ir. Campbell made many friends here i
y his constant courtesy to all who
isited the mill while in process of ;,
uilding, and his clear explanations of