Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 330
he elevator V; being subjected, in its passage through this spout, tothe action of a blast from the fan T, by which the remaining portion of the sand and dust that escapeswith the grain is carried off by a passage leading to the exterior of the house. The grain, after beingthus cleansed, is caught… … The elevator consists of a long endless chain of small buckets formed of tin-plate and mounted, atregular distances, upon a leather band passing over two pulleys inclosed within the cast-iron framesV V. The uppermost of these pulleys is driven at a moderate velocity by a belt, and the…
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