Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, Vol. 82

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Excerpt from Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, Vol. 82: Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures, July-December, 1866At close intervals buckets, in form of quarter cylinders, are secured to this band, which dip up the grain as fast as it is fed to them. This is the simple construction of a steam elevator, but in the more modern built grain warehouses, it is usual to add conveniences for drying, cooling, and cleaning grain. Heretofore, much grain has been dam aged by vessels encountering the sudden and heavy storms of the lakes, but now the perfect appliances of modern mechanical construction will save any cargo, no matter how wet it may be, if the vessel should make port in a reasonable time. Grain sometimes reaches the great entrep6t of Buffalo so mixed with chaff, sand, dust, and such like, the accumulation of hundreds of miles transportation by rail and water, that its value is very much impaired. Of course, an additional charge is made for both cleaning and drying grain thus injured, as its value is increased about twenty-five per cent. All these appliances will be described in connexion with the elevators to which they may be at teched.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.