. The miller, millwright and millfurnisher. o h < ZI < I < o Figs. 10 and ii are made from photographs taken in the Niagara Fallsmill, and show the packers and one line of eleven runs of 4-^-foot finish of the top of hurst frame, the curbs, silent feeders, lighter screws,etc., is first class. 54 MILL PLANS. The Excelsior Mill Minneapolis, Minn.—This mill wasdesigned and built in 1877, by E. P. Allis & Co. for the Hon. D. Morrison,of Minneapolis, who leased it to C. A. Pillsbury & Co., by whom it is now. < run. It had originally thirteen runs of 48-inch violet millstones,
. The miller, millwright and millfurnisher. o h < ZI < I < o Figs. 10 and ii are made from photographs taken in the Niagara Fallsmill, and show the packers and one line of eleven runs of 4-^-foot finish of the top of hurst frame, the curbs, silent feeders, lighter screws,etc., is first class. 54 MILL PLANS. The Excelsior Mill Minneapolis, Minn.—This mill wasdesigned and built in 1877, by E. P. Allis & Co. for the Hon. D. Morrison,of Minneapolis, who leased it to C. A. Pillsbury & Co., by whom it is now. < run. It had originally thirteen runs of 48-inch violet millstones, set on aniron hurst frame and driven by. a quarter-turn belt from the main line shaft was driven direct from the water-wheel by a large bevel mortise THE EXCELSIOR MILL. 55 wheel and pinion. A large belt from the main line shaft drives a line ofshafting in the fifth story of the mill, and from this all the bolts, elevatorsand purifiers are driven. There were twenty-three reels in the mill and ten D n D D a D ? ?DO O Q D ?? a % a D ? XL D 0 ;n=; G a D X o03 purifiers, the middlings being properly graded on to the latter. In the ac-companying diagrams Fig. 12 shows the plan of the basement, Fig. 13 the 56 MILL PLANS. plan of the bolting floor, Fig. 14 the attic plan, Fig. 15 a sectional side viewand Fig. 16 a sectional end view of this mill. The builders completely remodeled this mill in 1879, taking out 11 runs
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