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FLOUR MANUFACTURE: A TREATISE ON MILLING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE

Written by Friedrich Kick, H.H.P. Powles
Published by Crosby Lockwood and Son in 1888

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FLOUR MANUFACTURE: A TREATISE ON MILLING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE
Written by Friedrich Kick, H.H.P. Powles.
Stock no. 1826854
2nd. 1888. Hardback. Almost very good condition.

Translated from the Second Enlarged and Revised Edition with Supplement by H.H.P. Powles also bound in. Illustrated with 24 fold-out plates plus another 4 fold-out plates to supplement. 113 woodcuts plus 54 woodcuts to supplement. Brown cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Text block untrimmed. Spine & board corners rubbed & worn. Cloth joints starting to split from the outside. Inner joints still firm. Text block and page edges a little browned. All plates present. A few finger marks to margins. Some dampstaining to some plates.

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Cover of FLOUR MANUFACTURE: A TREATISE ON MILLING SCIENCE AND PRACTICE by Friedrich Kick; H.H.P. Powles

Contents

  • INTRODUCTION - GRAIN - METHODS OF GRINDING - OLD MILLS - NEW MILLS
  • PART I.
  • ON THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF GRAIN, THEIR STRUCTURE, DISEASES , ENEMIES AND IMPURITIES
  • SECTION I - Varieties of Grain used by Millers - wheat, rye, spelt, barley, oats, maize, millet, buckwheat, rice
  • SECTION II - On the structure of the berry of wheat, rye, barley, oats, rice, millet, maize
  • SECTION III - On the diseases and enemies of cereals, bunt, smut, ergot, weevils, corn worm, moths, viriones
  • SECTION IV - On impurities occurring with grain
  • PART II.
  • ON THE PRESERVATION OF GRAIN
  • Warehouses and Granaries - Granaries with Grain Circulation - Silos
  • PART III.
  • ON THE PREPARATION OF GRAIN FOR GRINDING
  • SECTION I - Cleaning grain by the dry method - grain cleaning machines, scotch grain-cleaning machines, Corroy's, Hornsby's Garrett's Child's, aspirators, Tarar, Haggemacher's grain cleaner, Walworth's Hignette's, stone separator. Machines for separating globular seeds, endless band separators, Trieur or cockle separator.
  • SECTION II - On Washing Grain
  • SECTION III - On Drying Grain
  • SECTION IV - On scouring, husking and ending grain
  • SECTION V - On moistening grain
  • PART IV
  • GRINDING MILLS AND HURSTS
  • Modern Hursts
  • SECTION I - Millstones
  • SECTION II - Details of millstone gear
  • SECTION III - Grouping and Arrangement of millstones
  • PART V
  • ROLLER MILLS
  • SECTION I - Action of Rollers
  • SECTION II - Capacity and Economy of Roller Mills
  • SECTION III - Break and cutting machines
  • PART VI
  • ON BOLTING, SIFTING AND DRESSING THE GROUND PRODUCTS
  • SECTION I - Cooling the meal
  • SECTION II - Bolting arrangements
  • PART VII
  • MIDDLINGS PURIFYING
  • Middligs purifiers with Blast
  • PART VIII
  • THE DIFFERENT METHODS OF MILLING
  • SECTION I - Low milling
  • SECTION II - High milling
  • SECTION III - Rye, Barley and Rice grinding
  • SECTION IV - Intermittent and automatic milling
  • SECTION V - Arrangement of the purifying and dressing machines in Austrian milling
  • SECTION VI - On the alteration in milling caused by the introduction of rolls
  • PART IX
  • FLOUR MIXING, STORING, DRYING AND PACKING
  • SECTION I - Mixing flour, mixing machine
  • SECTION II - Drying flour - Touaillon's flour drying machine
  • SECTION III - Packing flour
  • SECTION IV - Storing flour
  • SECTION V - Enemies of flour
  • SECTION VI - Examination and testing of flour
  • PART X
  • MILLS AS INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS
  • APPENDIX