Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 427
oesthrough the process of grinding. The corn- and feed-stones are what are known as open stock,while the wheat-stones are close. After the corn comes from the stones it is put into bags and isready for market; or if fine corn meal is required, a sieve is used, and at times a bolting-chest. Thewheat… … is claimed to have many advantages, the first being that one run of stones may be stopped withoutthe others, by simply slacking the tightener-pulley. A small conveyer is shown on this plan and onFig. 3026, which is a large-bladed screw that moves the flour from where it falls from the stones tothe…
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