page_title: Flour dresser
hierarchical_section_title: Flour dresser
caption_attribution_description: English: A flour dresser in the Pakenham Watermill. This device improved the quality of the flour by removing some of the bran. The flour entered via a hopper on the right and passes through the rotating drum with a fine wire mesh. This sieved the flour which fell to the floor below.
context_page_description: A flour dresser is a mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting, which is the process of separating the finished flour from the other grain components following milling. The milling of grain into flour has been termed the oldest continuously conducted industry in the world. Flour dressers appear in water-powered mills in the United Kingdom dating to the 17th century and their use continued into the 20th Century in the UK and other countries as the grain milling industry converted from water power to steam and other forms of power to drive mill machinery.
context_section_description: A flour dresser is a mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting, which is the process of separating the finished flour from the other grain components following milling. The milling of grain into flour has been termed the oldest continuously conducted industry in the world. Flour dressers appear in water-powered mills in the United Kingdom dating to the 17th century and their use continued into the 20th Century in the UK and other countries as the grain milling industry converted from water power to steam and other forms of power to drive mill machinery.
caption: A flour dresser in the Pakenham Windmill, 2010
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