Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 163
156 KNEADING. ing it to fall back into the hopper, a shoot, or the band of a creeper, (not shown in the drawing,) iabrought under the roller i, which conducts it to the required place. A very little experience in thtworking of this apparatus enables a person so to regulate its operations as to… … damp grain by a single passage through it; such as varying the velocity of the air-forcer, the quantityof fuel in the stove, the supply of air through the ash-pit, the speed of the endless cloth, &c, the meansof doing which are so well understood by mechanics as to render a description of them…
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