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 478
sheet-iron. Motion is generally communicated to the upper wheel by bands from some driving-shaft. Each of the two wheels is enclosed by a wooden case, the lower one by the case dd, and theupper disk by the case ee. The interstices or channels//and gg are so arranged, that in the formerthe band with… … The corn or flour pours into the lower case by the channel h, and the influx can be regulated, or, iirequired, entirely stopped, by the shutter or slide i. In the rear of the same case is the shutter k, forthe clearing of the case and removal of obstructions. At the bottom of the upper case is the…
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