The manufacture of starch from potatoes and cassava . ipes d loses a great part ofits moisture, so that it is asdry as possible on reachingthe heating coils <(-<i. The different platforms orshelves on which the starch successively falls are shown at shelf is easily reached by doors, the hinges of which are shownat f-f-f, so that the starch can be easily raked and made to fallthrough the spaces between the slats of the shelves, as shown in thefigure. The bottom shelf is a solid floor, so that the dried starchcan be finally delivered into the troughs l-b, which extend along th
The manufacture of starch from potatoes and cassava . ipes d loses a great part ofits moisture, so that it is asdry as possible on reachingthe heating coils <(-<i. The different platforms orshelves on which the starch successively falls are shown at shelf is easily reached by doors, the hinges of which are shownat f-f-f, so that the starch can be easily raked and made to fallthrough the spaces between the slats of the shelves, as shown in thefigure. The bottom shelf is a solid floor, so that the dried starchcan be finally delivered into the troughs l-b, which extend along thefull length of the drying kiln. Fig. 12 shows an end and side view of the drying apparatus, thedetails of which have been sufficiently indicated in the description ofthe preceding figure. Fig. 13 shows the top floor of a kiln heated by direct fire, the chim-ney of the furnace appearing near the back of the engraving. Thisillustration is drawn directly from a photograph. Fig. 14 shows the top floor of a steam drying kiln, drawn from a3632—No. 58 2. Fig. 10.—Starch washer (interior view). 18 photograph taken soon after the operation of placing the blocks ofstarch upon the floor was commenced. Another form of top floor isshown in fig. 15, in which not only is the floor itself covered with theblocks of wet starch, but in order to increase the drying space, shelvesare erected on which additional quantities of wet starch can be illustration is also drawn from a photograph. All of the illus-trations above mentioned were obtained from photographs of the fac-tories in Aroostook Countv, Me.
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