The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide: In Five Parts ...

Oliver Evans

M. Carey, 1821 - Flour mills - 374 pages

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PART	9

general laws of motion	15

PART IMechanics and Hydraulics PART IV The Art of manufacturing	18

the laws of motion of bodies descending inclined planes and curved	25

general laws of mechanical powers	31

Aperture The opening by which water issues	37

Power decreases as the motion increases	39

The flywheel its use	45

Of matching wheels to make them wear even and well	194

Theories of rollingscreens and fans for cleaning the grain improved ap plication of them	195

Of gudgeons the cause of their heating and getting loose with the reme dies therefor	197

On building milldams	200

Articles Page 87 General account of the new improvements	207

Particular description of the machines	209

Application of the machines in the process of manufacturing flour	213

Of elevating grain from ships	216

Articles Page 4850 Hydrostatic paradox on which is founded a theorem for finding	48

Of maximums or the greatest effect of machines	50

Equilibrio Equilibrium Equipoise or balance of weight	53

Theorem Position of an acknowledged truth	61

theory doubted	64

HYDRAULICS	79

pressure of water on any surface	85

Rule for finding the velocity of spouting water	88

5354 Water applied by gravity the power thereof on the principles of overshotmills equal in theory to the best application possible	90

Friction of the aperture on spouting fluids	94

Pressure of the air the cause of fluids rising in pumps and cyphons c	95

Directions for pumpmakers with a table	97

Tubes for conveying water over hills and under valleys	99

The motion of breast and pitchback wheels They do not run before the gravity of the water on account of the impulse	101

Simple rule for calculating the power of a millseat	104

Theory compared with a table of experiments of 18 mills in practice and found to agree	106

Rules for proportioning the size of millstones to the power with a table of their areas powers required and quantity ground c	110

The surface passed by millstones of different size and motion	115

6465 Of digging canals with their proper fall and size to suit the stones	117

Of airpipes to prevent trunks from bursting	120

Smeatons experiments concerning undershotmills	121

experiments concerning overshotmills	139

experiments concerning windmills	144

Of undershotmills with a table containing the motion of the water and wheels and proportion of the gears suitable to any head from 1 to 25 feet both ...	155

Of tub mills with a table showing the diameter of the wheels to suit any size stone or head of water	160

Of breast and pitchback wheels with a table complete for them	165

Of overshotmills with tables for them	171

Of mills moved by reaction	176

Directions for constructing ing Rooms and venting Smoke	177

Rules for calculating the motion of wheels and number of cogs to pro duce the desired motion	178

Rules for finding the pitch cireles	182

Rules for measuring garners hoppers c	186

Of the different kind of gears and forms of cogs	188

A mill for grinding parcels	217

A gristmill improved	219

Of elevating from ships and storehouses by a horse	221

Of an elevator wrought by a man	222

Construction of the wheat elevator particularly directed	226

96100 Of the meal elevator the meal conveyer the grain conveyer the hopperboy and the drill	233

Of the utility of the machines	242

Bills of materials both of wood and iron c to be prepared for building the machines	246

A mill for hulling and cleaning rice	249

PART IV	251

The principles on which grinding is performed explained	257

Of the draught necessary to be given to the furrows of millstones	260

Directions for furrowing and hanging a	262

Directions for facing new millstones	264

Of hanging millstones	266

Of regulating the feed and water in grinding	268

Rules for judging of good grinding	269

Of dressing and sharpening the stones when dull	270

Of the most proper degree of fineness for flour	271

Of garlic with directions for grinding wheat mixed therewith and for dressing the stones suitable thereto	273

Of grinding over the middlings stuff and bran or shorts if necessary to make the most of them	275

Of the quality of the millstones to suit the quality of the wheat	277

Of boltingreels and cloths with directions for bolting and inspecting flour	280

Directions for keeping the mill and the business of it in good order	283

Peculiar accidents by which mills are subject to catch fire	284

Observations on improving of millseats	285

EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTYFIVE PLATES	291

Of undershot millsdirections for laying	293

Principles and practical experiments to deter	302

Rules for finding the diameter of the pitch circles	308

Directions for constructing undershot wheels	315

do for dressing shafts	322

Rules for discovering new improvements exemplified 1 In Cleaning grain by wind II Distillation of spirits III Inventing smoke from rooms by chim ...	369

Common terms and phrases

16 cubic feet 16 feet head aperture axle bolting bottom buckets bushels central force circumference cog-wheel column cubic foot distance divided double velocity draught effect elevator epicycloid equal experiments falling bodies feet diameter feet long feet of water feet per second feet stone float flour foot friction furrows gate gear give grain gravity greatest grind gudgeons half head of water hoisted hopper impulse inches inches wide inclined plane leading wheels lever maximum meal mean circle mill-stone minute momentum move multiplied nearly non-elastic number of cogs number of revolutions overshot wheel pass penstock perpendicular descent pitch circle plane plate pressure principle produce proportion pulley quantity of water rabbets radius raised ratio resistance revolutions per minute rollers round scale shaft shewn shews shute side square root strikes the wheel suppose surface theorem theory trundle turns undershot wheel velo water-wheel weight wheat whole

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Title	The Young Mill-wright and Miller's Guide: In Five Parts ...
Author	Oliver Evans
Edition	4
Publisher	M. Carey, 1821
Original from	University of Chicago
Digitized	14 Jun 2013
Length	374 pages

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