by
Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK
This new roller mill was reviewed in The Miller (December 7th, 1891) after their reporter had been invited with others to the opening ceremony and tour. The 20 sacks-per-hour plant, fitted out by Robinsons, was started up at by James Lownds, Chairman of the Star Corn Millers’ Society.
The original Star Mill was erected in 1869 and had done good work for several years. It was remodelled and enlarged with a new plant fitted in one portion of the building when the entire mill was destroyed by fire towards the end of 1889. Early in March the following year, the directors resolved to rebuild the mill on a more extensive scale along with a special maize plant.
The new mill was a handsome structure; its most prominent architectural feature was the square tower fitted with its large tank for the automatic sprinklers now installed. Mr Spencer the mill manager conducted the tour, highlighting the millwright's excellent work, such as the shafts; the second and third motion shafts were fitted with Mr Breton's automatic oil feeders.
The grain silo building, on the westerly side of the site, featured a strong substantial brick wall dividing off the silo bins (shown as the honeycombed section in the plan). They were six storeys high, including basement and attic, with a floor space of 90x40 feet. 46 large wheat silo bins for the storing and blending of the wheat occupied the centre part for the four floors. Each silo was eight-feet in diameter by 50-feet deep, divided from its neighbour by a nine-inch brick wall of pressed bricks. The whole silo could hold around 2,300 tons of wheat, ready to be discharged automatically. In the basement were the appliances for mixing the wheat, a series of spiral conveying worms, three for moving the dirty wheat, three for blending purposes.
The wheat cleaning was done on several floors with two horizontal brush machines, 16 barley and cockle cylinders and two horizontal wheat scourers. On the first floor were five elevator bottoms, a wheat washer, a whizzer and the lower portion of the dryer and cooler.
Read more HERE.
This new roller mill was reviewed in The Miller (December 7th, 1891) after their reporter had been invited with others to the opening ceremony and tour. The 20 sacks-per-hour plant, fitted out by Robinsons, was started up at by James Lownds, Chairman of the Star Corn Millers’ Society.
The original Star Mill was erected in 1869 and had done good work for several years. It was remodelled and enlarged with a new plant fitted in one portion of the building when the entire mill was destroyed by fire towards the end of 1889. Early in March the following year, the directors resolved to rebuild the mill on a more extensive scale along with a special maize plant.
The new mill was a handsome structure; its most prominent architectural feature was the square tower fitted with its large tank for the automatic sprinklers now installed. Mr Spencer the mill manager conducted the tour, highlighting the millwright's excellent work, such as the shafts; the second and third motion shafts were fitted with Mr Breton's automatic oil feeders.
The grain silo building, on the westerly side of the site, featured a strong substantial brick wall dividing off the silo bins (shown as the honeycombed section in the plan). They were six storeys high, including basement and attic, with a floor space of 90x40 feet. 46 large wheat silo bins for the storing and blending of the wheat occupied the centre part for the four floors. Each silo was eight-feet in diameter by 50-feet deep, divided from its neighbour by a nine-inch brick wall of pressed bricks. The whole silo could hold around 2,300 tons of wheat, ready to be discharged automatically. In the basement were the appliances for mixing the wheat, a series of spiral conveying worms, three for moving the dirty wheat, three for blending purposes.
The wheat cleaning was done on several floors with two horizontal brush machines, 16 barley and cockle cylinders and two horizontal wheat scourers. On the first floor were five elevator bottoms, a wheat washer, a whizzer and the lower portion of the dryer and cooler.
Read more HERE.
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