An old engraving of a clay mill in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The illustration shows the clay being worked by a belt-driven system with cogs and gears. A clay mill, pugmill or pug mill is the machinery in which clay (or other materials) are mixed into a plastic state. Industrial applications include mixing for pottery, bricks and cement. Some mills were driven by horses.


An old engraving of a clay mill in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The illustration shows the clay being worked by a belt-driven system with cogs and gears. A clay mill, pugmill or pug mill is the machinery in which clay (or other materials) are mixed into a plastic state. Industrial applications include mixing for pottery, bricks and cement. Some mills were driven by horses.


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