An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 SUPPLEMENT. 1281 the water wheel; which, multiplied by 7, the
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 SUPPLEMENT. 1281 the water wheel; which, multiplied by 7, the medium revolutions of the water wheel per minute, will give 344'4 revolutions of the drum per minute ; as the diameter of the drum is three feet, the circumference will be 9'42 feet, which, multiplied by 344-4, will give 3244 feet, the velocity of the beaters or switchers on the drum per minute. By following the same rule The shakers will be found to make The feeding rollers, quick motion slow motion The upper stone of the flour mill - The chaff-cutting machine - The bone mill - - The operative part of erecting the machine was done by a Mr. George Millar, now residing near Bagshot. 2551a. A Jlour mill for a parish workhouse, upon a new and improved principle, (figs. 1142. and 1143.) has lately been erected at the Islington parish workhouse, by 5-42'] 10-7 revolutions 7-1 for one of 26-6 the water- 36-4 wheel. •52 j Weir, Oxford street; and as it is admirably calculated for the purpose in view, and may be adopted in many similar cases, we have deemed it well worth a place in this Supple- ment. It consists of two pairs of stones ; one pair of which can be worked separately by six men, or both together by twelve men. The moving power is a crank (fig. 1143.), on the spindle of which is a large fly wheel; and beyond which is a pinion, working into a spur wheel on an upright shaft: this last wheel works into the pinions on the spindles that set the stones in motion. Either of
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