Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874 · London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green · leaf 187
difficulty of obtaining sufficiently large masses of the Frenchstone, it is usual to construct the millstones in segments, whichare cemented together, and the whole firmly bound by ironhoops passing round the circumference. The lower stone is, inthe first instance, carefully dressed into a… … distance from the central aperture, so as to allow the grain to befreely admitted between the stones. Being thus prepared, the circumference of the stone isFig. 278. divided into 11 equal parts, fig. 278 ; lines are drawn fromeach division to the centre;these radii determine the limitsof the…
Mills and mill-work · Machinery
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