The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1900-11-08
The Greatest Mailing House in
the World.
RENOVATED WORKS SOON TO OPEN.
Improvements Made By the Big ManitO.
woo Concern,
A NEW ENGINE WILL RUN MACHINERY.
Reinhardt Rahr Gives Description of What
Has Been Accomplished During the
Past Six Months.

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William Rahr Sons Co, work upon
which was begun in the early spring, is
now nearing completion. The plant
when finished will be a model of its
Kind and as perfect us any malt house
in the Uniied States. 1t can be said it
is the largest pneumatic malt house i'll
the world, having a capacity of ], ,25O, 600
bushels. The remodeled plant, upon
which $3.50, 900 has been spent will be in
operation about Nov. 90 In an inter
view with Reinhardt Rahr he gave a
description of the plant as follows:
In arranging the new buildings of
the plant the management had con
stantly in aim the one view of econo-
MIXING labor i'll every way. With that
end in view the river elevator was
moved to the vacant lot adjoining and
next to their large elevator "P". A
large addition was built to it and this
small elevator will now be used exclu
sively as a taking in and cleaning
one and the same time at three different
points. On one side it can be taken in
from the local dealers On another
side it can be taken in independently
from the farmers, and on the third side
| facing the track, cars can be unloaded.
The facilities for unloading cars
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falling down into Il pit directly und-
erneath the car, from which it is
carried up by means of an Is elevator
into large hopper above, from which
it is again distributed over the different
cleaning and grading machines, (of
which there are four after which it
passes into the storage elevator as
cleaned Il graded barley. All of this
is done with a single handling.
Everything that goes into the plant
or passes through the plant is subject
TO double system of weighing so as to
rectify mistakes, if any should occur.
The cleaned and graded barley then
passes over head into the sleeping watts
and from thence by means of dipes it is
fushel into the big pneumatic com
partments, each having a capacity Of
$500 bushels. The system adopted by
The William Rahr Sons Go. is the so
called Saladin system. The stepped
barley is placed in large compartments
having perforated bottoms from which
the air is exhausted by means of large
air channels, during the process Of ger
mination, passing out into the open air.
This is done by means of a large II it.
fan which requires forty horse power
engine to drive it. The compartments
are supplied with fresh air which has
first passed through the attemperating
room and there undergo Il thorough
process of publication. The cold air as
it is taken from the atmosphere in win
ter passes through coils of steam pipes,
where il is warmed to the proper tenn
perature 1t then passes through a
large chamber where the proper amount
of moisture is given to it by means of a
very ingenius device. From this room
it passes through the filtering chamber,
where all the impurities are removed
mechanically. The purified and attem-
perated air then passes through and
over the malt
After the proper termination the
green malt passes through the kilns,
where it is dried, On the kilns there is
also large and ingenius machinery
which keeps stirring the malt constantly
while it is being dried.
Another economic device has been
adopted in the plant of The William
Rahr Sons Co. By system of pipes
the entire exhaust steam from all of the
pumps and engines of the entire plant
passes through large radiators and this
heat here given off which had always
heretofore been loss, is thus reclaimed
and made use of III drying the matt.
From the kiln the malt again passes
in the cleaning house where it is pro
perly cleaned and weighed and then by
means of elevators passes into their
slate elevator p" ready to be
shipped.