Part 6

With those shown in Figs. 2 and 3 we make large or small conical hoppers, of heavy tin, galvanized iron or brass. The feed rig shown in Fig. 3 is called the Bracket Rig. The feed wheel is turned, and all fitted up in same manner as the others, and suits more millers for custom and merchant mills than the other styles. Those however which are most frequently wanted is this bracket rig with the ordinary wooden hopper and frame, after the style shown upon the mill on page 17. If a feed attachment is wanted, with shoe and damsel for feeding corn, mixed feed, &c., we usually send the kind shown on the mill, page 14. In all cases where orders are given for any kind of a feed attachment for mill stones, we must know the size of top of curb, size of opening in it and distance from top of bail or balance iron to top of said curb, size of eye in stone, and when feed plate is wanted, give width of said balance bail, and if there is anything projecting above it, give its size and shape, so that we can fit the feed plate, damsel or what may be ordered, to it.

Proof Staff.

To promptly and satisfactorily fill all orders in this line we keep on hand a complete assortment. The use of this article in a mill of two or more run of stones is not as fully appreciated as it should be; we do not see how a miller can well get along without it.

The kind we furnish we think are the best in the market, exactly true, made of the best shape to retain a true face, provided with a spirit level in the back; for correctness no other can excel it, and the whole is placed in a close fitting, nicely finished box. Three sizes are made, see list.

Red Staffs.

These articles of the various sizes used in flour mills we make of the best entirely dry and seasoned cherry lumber. The stuff is prepared by suitable machinery, every piece carefully fitted, then secured by glue and screws, the latter liberally put in. Both the staff and box are finished in neat style, well varnished, and sold at a price that will not pay for making them at the mill, unless the material was at hand and advantages better than usual.

Mill Picks.

We have under our constant employ pick makers that know their business, and we are having imported for this purpose a brand of English steel made expressly for mill stone picks. We make three sizes with eyes, unless otherwise ordered, as follows: light cracking, heavy cracking and furrowing. (See price list for prices, weight, &c.) If any points should prove defective (as will occasionally happen) do not have any other maker or smith work on them, but return to us and we will make it satisfactory, and send back at once, as we warrant every one. We have ready for shipment several patent picks, some of which we have tested and describe as follows:

Cumming’ Pick.

Description.

Fig. 1 represents the entire Pick ready for use. In Fig. 2 the pick or blade is shown in connection with the clamp-bar. While in Fig. 3 is given a complete sectional view of all parts of the device. In this Fig. C C represents the head or stock, and G the clamp-bar with its wedge-shaped head H. At K is shown the blade with its upper end bent to fit the notches in the clamp-bar. The device is perfect without the set screw F.

In adjusting for use the blade is placed upon the clamp-bar as shown in Fig. 2, and both are inserted within the socket of the pick-head; they are driven firmly into the socket by using. It will be seen that the more powerful the blows upon the stone the more securely is the blade confined within its socket, resulting from the wedge-like form of the clamp-bar. While to remove the blade reverse the pick and strike the opposite end of the clamp-bar on any solid substance, (a small piece of iron placed on the face of the mill stone is most suitable,) when the bar and blade will be instantly released, and another blade can be readily inserted. The blades being of a uniform thickness and temper only require grinding to sharpen. The wearing portion of each blade is 3½ inches; as they are worn by use they can be let down in the ratchet. Ten blades furnished with each.

Crossley’ Pick.

Fig. 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2 a sectional view.

This improvement supplies a want long felt by millers, more especially those who have not the convenience of sending their picks to a good blacksmith who understands tempering steel.

A is a wedge-shaped plate, which is attached to the handle by a screw shank; B is a piece of metal made so as to partly fold about A, as shown, but leaving a space between A and B, in which the steel bit C is held by a lug formed upon it, which fits into a corresponding recess in the plate B, as shown in the section, Fig. 2.

It results from this arrangement that blows upon the bit C, in dressing a stone, more firmly clamp and hold the parts together, while to loosen them, all that is necessary is to tap the plate B on the end opposite the cutting point or edge, which unwedges the two plates and releases the bit.

Two recesses are provided in the plate B, so that when the bit is worn down it can be set further out from between the plates A and B. When one end of the bit becomes so worn as to be no longer available, the bit is reversed, and the other end applied to dressing the stone. Thus the bit may be used until it is almost entirely worn away. It is retained firmly, and yet is instantly detached for sharpening or for adjustment.

The head is made of Malleable Iron, and the blades of the _very best quality hammered cast steel_, tempered the whole length, and do not require blacksmithing, but only to be ground when dull.

The price places these Picks within the reach of every miller.

Twelve 6 inch double blades sent with each head.

Hoisting Screw, Wrench, Bails and Pins.

We are well prepared for making the above articles and have all ordinary sizes on hands ready for use. The outfit is of the very best material; the wrench, screw, &c., is of wrought iron, and together with all the parts is in fine proportion and of great strength.

Damsels.

These we generally make to order, but we keep at all times a few of such as are mostly called for.

Those with from three to five beaters, with staff, and all wrought iron, are mostly ordered for merchant and sometimes custom mills. We have a variety of patterns for cast iron damsels with oval beating part. We turn and polish both kinds so as to make a neat and useful article. In ordering these some needed dimensions are necessary to enable us to meet expectations.

ELEVATORS.

This engraving represents the head and part of the trunk of an Elevator, or what is termed an elevator head; Fig. 2 (on next page) represents the elevator foot. An elevator head and foot as furnished by us includes Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 with turned iron pulleys in them, the necessary shafting, and an outside bevel or spur gear wheel or turned pulley to receive power for driving the Elevator.

NOTE.--The iron spider as represented leaning against the Elevator head (Fig. 1) has no connection with any part of it except to show the shape of our patterns in that line.

Elevator Cups (IMPROVED.)

Of all the sizes required for any kind of an elevator we make in our establishment. Having long employed a workman on this work with special machinery of our own, and as we buy the stock in large quantities, we are as well equipped as it is possible to be for making this useful appendage of a flour mill. Their advantages are: durability and economy, the different sizes are perfectly uniform, of the smaller and medium sizes the body is made of heavy tin, and all having an iron band neatly and skilfully secured around the upper edge. It makes a thoroughly strong, smooth, at the same time a light cup, and offering the least resistance in passing through the grain of any cup now offered.

They are less liable to catch on the sides of the Elevator trunking, and no breaking and tearing as is common to the cheap wired or rough iron cups secured to the belt in the ordinary manner. Cheap cups made in the usual style, wired tops, for old mills and repair jobs, constantly on hand.

Our Improved Fastening.

This is of special advantage, has been used since 1869, and all who use and see it pronounce it vastly superior. It is a copper clasp nicely contrived to firmly clamp the bucket to the belt. It perforates the belt and cup through two or three slotted openings. The cup can be easily removed from the belt; it does not cut the belt so as to weaken it; it prevents the cups from tipping as they pass down. The expense is some more than screws, but those having put up common warehouse elevators with this fastening, think it the cheapest article in use.

Bag Trucks.

The frequent calls for this useful article has induced us to prepare for and make them in large quantities, until we find ourselves supplying the leading retail and jobbing houses of the west cheaper than they have been heretofore supplied by eastern makers. It is a better constructed and more desirable tool than will generally be found. We make a box truck also, similar in style.

Conveyor Flights.

Of all sizes required, made of sugar or maple lumber. They are smooth, uniform and of desirable shape. In ordering, give dimensions of face or front of flight and size of hole you intend driving the tenon into; also, the size and kind of wood the shaft is made of.

BUCKWHEAT BOLTS.

We make these of various sizes. Some are wanted to make flour rapidly for some particular markets, and require to be of large size, with medium fine cloth. Those in most common demand are for custom mills and of two sizes: one with 8 feet, and one with 10 feet reels in complete chests with conveyor and necessary cut-offs for changing grade of flour; a shaft with coupling, and outside pulley or pair of bevel gear wheels is furnished, so that it can be driven from either end. Every thing is done to facilitate the convenience of setting up and attaching power. The cloth is made up of “Dufour & Co.’s best Dutch Anchor,” to fit the reel, and of proper numbers for the work required. When a bolt is wanted for this purpose we should know the capacity required of it, &c.

Meal Bolts.

These are made in chests with conveyor, cut-offs, &c., as described under head of “Buckwheat Bolts.” Cloth adapted to requirements, either of wire or silk. These are of two sizes, 5½ and 8 feet reels.

Belting.

“A good belt is what I want,” is the remark often made, and to supply our already large trade in this line, we have made the necessary arrangements to ship on call what may be wanted at the lowest rates. In ordering, it is well to state the purpose for which it is wanted. For elevators, we recommend leather belting; when something cheaper is wanted, we furnish three-ply cotton duck. It is not so durable, but is firm, and strong as any gum belt, and answers a good purpose for a cheap warehouse, meal or feed elevator.

Perforated Zinc, Tin, Iron or Steel Plates.

Of most all sizes and shapes of holes for zig-zags. Riddles, malt-kiln floors, corn screen, and smut mill jackets furnished at low rates.

Screen Wire.

For wheat screen, meal bolts, &c., from number 2 to 24 meshes to the inch, most all widths, in any quantity desired. Wire is even and good size to form a strong fabric.

Duster Wire.

English and American wire for bran-dusters, 9 inches wide. The kinds mostly in demand we keep in stock.

NOTE.--In ordering perforated plates or woven wire, it is best to give us as much time as possible, as it is impossible to keep made up and in stock all the kinds wanted.

PRICES, TERMS AND WEIGHTS.

From our price list, although full and explanatory, it is difficult for some to get a clear understanding, especially when a complete outfit is wanted, including every iron, belt, &c., to attach power; therefore, write us stating clearly as possible your wants, when we will make a proposal of cost. We will send our printed weight and price list, when required.

As a rule when our customer is ready to order, or on our commencing the work and making it ready for shipment, we require a payment of from one-eighth to one-half of the whole amount, and settlement on or before delivery, which is when a shipping receipt is taken, as the work then passes into the ownership of the purchaser. By special arrangement we often ship to the care of some satisfactory person or firm who will receive and make settlement for the supplies. This person may reside at or near to the point of destination. Do not think us exacting; all we want is an equivalent for our products and some reasonably safe means of getting it.

TESTIMONIALS.

Under this head we have a few voluntary letters, answers and extracts from those who are using our Mills, &c. Manufacturing the outfits of grinding mills being our special business, it has been our custom to keep regularly informed by correspondence as to any objections or defects there could be in our work, and the results are numerous answers, which we have endeavored to print worded the same as they appear in the letters. In some cases, of course, the ideas are somewhat disconnected, as they were not written for the special purpose of publishing, but it is the facts that we are after, and they unquestionably show that our efforts to make the BEST MILL NOW OFFERED are a success, besides imparting much valuable information, some of the writers having spent half a lifetime in the milling business. All of these letters may be seen on file at our office, and the mills in their respective places in constant use.

Two 36 Inch Geared Mills.

CEDAR POINT, Chase Co., Kansas, Dec. 12, 1869. MESSRS. NORDYKE, MARMON & Co:--

Agreeably to your request we write to inform

you how we are getting along with our mill. We started our wheat burrs on the first inst. We had promised our customers we would do this months ago. We run through just enough of our own wheat to fill the mill and get the flour started, and then commenced on grist work. The first was a grist of spring wheat. We took one-sixth toll and made 30 lbs. of flour per bushel, which was pronounced by the owner the best he had ever had in Kansas, and he is an old resident here. We have been grinding regularly since, and in no instance have we heard one word of complaint. On the contrary, we are fast gaining a reputation, and the prospect for lively times with us is most flattering. This and the adjoining counties are full of wheat, and there is a very large scope of new country to be supplied south and west of us. We have already made about one hundred 98 lb. sacks of flour for ourselves, and have sold the most of it. It is evident we are not going to be able to do the work with one run for wheat. We have only run ten days, and our flour has already gone from twenty to sixty miles. We think that you will agree with us that our mill is a perfect success. We set up the burrs ourselves, and got Mr. Britton of Cottonwood Falls Mills to assist us in getting the other machinery in line. What is the least in cash at which you can furnish us a Bolt like the one we have, with Elevators, Gearing, &c., and a Geared 30 inch Corn Mill? Hoping to hear from you soon, we are,

Yours respectfully, O. H. DRINKWATER & Co.

In January, 1871, the above firm ordered a 16 feet double reel bolt, and another mill; they were shipped soon after, and we have another letter dated as follows:

CEDAR POINT, Chase Co., Kansas, April 9, 1872. MESSRS. NORDYKE, MARMON & Co:--

The mill machinery we purchased of you gives first-rate satisfaction. The two run of three feet geared mills we run with a 48 inch Leffel wheel under 7 feet head while at work, and grinding 10 bushels per hour on each mill. The 2½ feet under-runner corn mill we run with a 35 inch Leffel wheel under same head, and grind 15 bushels of corn into fine meal per hour with ease. This same wheel runs both the single and double reel bolts that you sent us, as well as the other machinery of the mill excepting the two wheat stones. Our works are all of your make, and we have been running since the 1st of December, 1869, and are well satisfied with the whole outfit. They have been used almost constantly to do our grinding which is considerable and on the increase. We do as good work as any mill in the State, and any one wanting good works in this line, we would recommend to you.

DRINKWATER & SCHRIVER.

It is the Best Machinery for Custom Work.

ETNA GREEN, Kosciusko Co., Ind., Feb. 3, 1870. NORDYKE, MARMON & Co:--

_Gents_:--Will say in reply to your inquiry, the 36 inch Mill I bought of you in November, 1869, gives entire satisfaction. I can average ten bushels an hour, and the 22 ft. Bolt does the separating of the bran and flour complete; the work is giving general satisfaction. The 26 inch feed Mill is all you recommend them to be. The Smut and Separating Machine is the best, I verily believe, in use. It is sure pop on cheat and rotten wheat; and, in short, all filth. I will say it makes the wheat fit for grinding, complete. I did grind twenty bushels in seventy minutes, by the watch, and did good work, on the 36 inch mill. My mill is driven by a 7¼ inch by 16 inch cylinder engine, and boiler 16 ft. long, 4 feet in diameter with three flues. I can make an average on the two run of 22 bushels per hour. With two cord of wood will grind on the two run over two hundred bushels. I have been engaged in the flour milling business for twelve years, and would say, the above described machinery is the best I have found for custom work; this is my main business.

CHARLES FRIBLEY, Miller and Proprietor.

Pulley Mills--No better in the State of Ohio.

JOHNSVILLE, Montgomery Co., O., Jan. 24, 1870. MESSRS. NORDYKE, MARMON & Co:--

I have two of your mills, with bolt, and smut machine, 36 inch for wheat, upper-runner, and 30 inch under-runner cock-head mill for corn; have been running them constantly since August, 1868. I have taken hold of the mill myself; I can make more flour to the bushel than the miller I had. I have made 40½ pounds of the best of flour out of a bushel of wheat and toll one-eighth. I have had splendid luck in grinding. My miller had run me out of custom, but I am restoring it again. I have got the burrs in better order than they ever were; can grind close and make the best of flour. I can take a bushel of the best Tappahannoc wheat and make 47 pounds of splendid flour. I have made 42 pounds of common red wheat and tolled one-eighth, which would be 5¼ pounds added to 42 pounds, making 47¼ pounds of good flour. I have been awfully humbugged in getting poor millers; have made but little and lost custom. The first time I dressed the wheat burr, I run the corn stone all day-ground buckwheat, and cracked the wheat burr in one day. She then ground splendid and clean at the rate of ten bushels per hour.

A. CLEMMER.

Under a more recent date we quote from another letter: “I am running the mills yet with better success than ever, making good flour and large yields. On several tests have made 47½ lbs. lately of excellent flour from ordinary red wheat. If you could give me some information about keeping the furrows in the stones in order to grind cool and fast, I would be thankful; as far as keeping in tram and cracking the face, I am doing very well. I grind close and bolt clean. I have taken 60 lbs. of good white wheat and made 50 lbs. of flour. What do you think of this? The farmers say I can beat any mill they have tried. Please answer, and give me all the instruction you can. It may be best for me to get a No. 1 Dresser to work on the furrows some, and I may catch items by it. I have an order from New York for 100 bbls. of flour at this time. I would like to exchange a half dozen of those light picks you sent me for heavy ones, and pay the difference. I like a 2 pound pick the best for light cracking.

Yours truly, ANDREW CLEMMER.”

Three Geared Mills. No Expense for Repairs.

GREEN CAMP, Marion Co., O., March 22, 1870. MESSRS. NORDYKE, MARMON & Co., Richmond, Ind.:--

It gives us pleasure to write that we have used the Mills furnished us by you, since May 28, 1868--two 42 inch Wheat, one 30 inch Corn under-runner. The Wheat Mills have run ever since without one cent repairs, and without any apparent wear--the balance being so perfect, and being put up in so substantial a manner. They give entire satisfaction, always doing their work in the best possible manner. The two 22 feet Bolts are all that we could wish, doing their work well, without one cent’ repair. The Corn Stone, under-runner, 30 inches, will do double the work of 42 inch upper-runner Corn Mills, and do the work _well_. The Smut Machine always does its work well. The work was all put up in so substantial a manner by your James Albertson that we have never made any repairs, only to replace perforated zinc on Smut Machine. Our flour always brings the highest prices.

Yours, respectfully, FOSTER & KANABLE.

Cannot do Better.

WESTFIELD, Hamilton Co., Ind., Jan. 8, 1869. MESSRS. NORDYKE, MARMON & Co.:--

_Gentlemen_:--In answer to your letter of inquiry of Dec. 30. Your mills are doing well, they are giving as good yields and better flour than the large, old style mills. Your 30 inch upper-runner mills for wheat, grind from six to ten bushels of wheat per hour, and your 36 inch mill from eight to twelve bushels of wheat per hour. By crowding a little when the stones are sharp, will grind much more than I have stated. Your bolts and smut machines work well; your mills run light, considering the work to do. A 15 horse power engine, 8 by 16 inch cylinder, will drive two run of your 30 inch mills,--60 pounds of steam,--and will drive them twelve hours with one cord of wood. I think all wanting mill machinery cannot do better than to order from the “Richmond Mill Works.”

Yours, respectfully, DAVID CAREY.

36 Inch Geared Mill, 20 feet Bolt and Smutter.

NEW MAYSVILLE, Putnam Co., Ind., March 1, 1869. MESSRS. NORDYKE, MARMON & Co.:--

_Sirs_:--I must tell you about the mill that I got from you. I am well pleased with it. I can grind from twelve to fifteen bushels per hour, and make first-class flour. I have run twelve hours with a half a cord of wood. I have a good custom and still gaining. I have done the best work with your mill that has been done in this country. There are several mills around me. I have stopped some of them from running; they get nothing to do in the line of custom-work. If I gain in work for the next six months, like I have for the last, I will have to get another mill. I am getting all I can grind now.

Yours, LEWIS W. GEORGE.

Mr. George’ mill is driven by a large sized Portable Engine.

N., M. & Co.