Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 686
Fig. 3377 represents a five-roller sugar-mill built by Nellius in Fiance for the French colonies.The mills used for grinding the cane are generally placed ten to twelve feet from the ground, in ordeito give sufficient fall for the juice to flow into the juice-boxes, and from them into the kettles. … Tlie thictness of the shell of the rollers in those mills constructed by Leeds & Co., Kew Orleansrepresented in Fig. 3378, varies from 2^ to 3 inclies, according to size; the depth of the eye of theroller is 12 inches in aU these mills. The shafts are of wrought-iron. The journals vary in…
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