. Journal of electricity . The electrically equipped Shredded Wheat factory, Oakland, California. Westinghouse make. Inaddition to its electricalequipment the factoryhas a special adjoiningboiler house, where twoB & W boileis generatesteam for cooking andheating. The sacks of wheatare not carried into thefactory, but emptied di-rect from the car into ahopper, and conveyedfrom there by an elec-trically-driven screw con-veyor to the weighingroom. From the auto-matical scale the wheatis electrically elevated toto the header room in thetop story of the building, and delivered to anotherlong screw
. Journal of electricity . The electrically equipped Shredded Wheat factory, Oakland, California. Westinghouse make. Inaddition to its electricalequipment the factoryhas a special adjoiningboiler house, where twoB & W boileis generatesteam for cooking andheating. The sacks of wheatare not carried into thefactory, but emptied di-rect from the car into ahopper, and conveyedfrom there by an elec-trically-driven screw con-veyor to the weighingroom. From the auto-matical scale the wheatis electrically elevated toto the header room in thetop story of the building, and delivered to anotherlong screw conveyor which diops it into huge storagetanks. Two 10-hp. motors operate this second con-veyor system. Cleaning and CookingA motor-operated belt-and-bucket type of con-veyor feeds the wheat from the storage tanks intothe cleaning machines where it passes through fivedifferent processes. The various machines, diivenby a 40-hp. motor, shake and sift it, separating allwaste material such as dust, chaff, seeds and One of the motor-driven separating machines where the wheat is shakenfree of dust and other foreign matter before being cooked. Power is supplied by the Pacific Gas & ElectricCompany at 4400 volts and stepped down by the fac-torys transformers to 110 volts. All the motors aie T 1 a 122^ 1^ ^■^^^^far^^Sgg^i^S MUCQH^ ^BBBP^ ^ IS^K 1 SI 1 The electrical cutting macliine wliere the shredded wheat is cibiscuits and dropped on trays in rows ready for the oven. Industrial growth means not only an increased industrial load for the power company but also an increased home demand. FORWARD WESTERN INDUSTRY! 264 JOURNAL OF ELECTRICITY [Vol. 45—No. 6
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