Flax processing Photo 1: Flax processing; the waste, the locks and the shives or loams, from the turbine, which is placed on the floor, comes through the large funnels on the underneath lure shakers; the lure shakers consist of a lattice about 2 m long between which a large number of pins move quickly back and forth; from the waste the shafts fall through the grate and the locks are shaken out by the moving pins and slowly moved forward; sometimes at the end of the grate there is a set of fallow rigs that leave the machine like a mat; often the shives under the lug shaker end up in a funnel,
Flax processing Photo 1: Flax processing; the waste, the locks and the shives or loams, from the turbine, which is placed on the floor, comes through the large funnels on the underneath lure shakers; the lure shakers consist of a lattice about 2 m long between which a large number of pins move quickly back and forth; from the waste the shafts fall through the grate and the locks are shaken out by the moving pins and slowly moved forward; sometimes at the end of the grate there is a set of fallow rigs that leave the machine like a mat; often the shives under the lug shaker end up in a funnel, from where they are sucked and fed to the boiler house of the hot water rotary plant (8,5x11 cm; unknown) Photo 2: Flax processing; a set-aside machine with such a large number of set-aside is rarely used; it is sometimes used for the vomiting of flax, of which it is not worth winning the ribbon; this flax is then used as a filling material (pile material) (8,5x11,5 cm; unknown) Date: undated Keywords: machines, flax, flax processing, flax industry
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