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John Stevens (December 4, 1840 – August 5, 1920) was a miller and inventor who lived in Neenah, Wisconsin.His inventions in flour milling revolutionized the process, leading to large-scale shifts in wheat-growing regions, and to the predominance of particular milling companies and mill-equipment manufacturers.
Flour dressers open showing reels for separation and cleaning brushes, Easton Roller Mill, West Virginia, U.S. A flour dresser in the Pakenham Windmill, 2010. A flour dresser is a mechanical device used in grain mills for bolting or flour extraction, which is the process of separating the finished flour from the other grain components by sifting following milling.
Milling machine, a machine tool that performs milling (machining) Mortar and pestle; Pin mill, a mill for achieving very fine particle sizes; Planetary mill; Roller mill, a mill using rollers to grind or pulverize grain and other raw materials using cylinders; Rolling mill, for rolling (metalworking) Strip mill, a type of rolling mill
A mill is a device, often a structure, machine or kitchen appliance, that breaks solid materials into smaller pieces by grinding, crushing, or cutting. Such comminution is an important unit operation in many processes .
Prior to the industrial revolution, milling was primarily done by attrition or grinding the material between two surfaces. [1] Attrition milling continues to be the dominant milling class, particularly in the milling of agricultural products (i.e. grain into flour). Roller mills and stone mills are two examples of attrition (grinding) mills.
Six-roller mills have three sets of rollers. In this type of mill, the first set of rollers crush the whole kernel, and its output is divided three ways: Flour immediately is sent out the mill, grits without a husk proceed to the last roller, and husk, possibly still containing parts of the seed, go to the second set of rollers.
Wye Mill c.1682 The oldest continuously operating grist mill in the United States. Supplied flour to George Washington's Continental Army. One of the first grist mills to be automated by Oliver Evans. The Oliver Evans process equipment is still in use at the Wye Mill. Massachusetts. Dexter Grist Mill, Sandwich, built in 1654, fully restored in 1961
The original class of machine tools for milling was the milling machine (often called a mill). After the advent of computer numerical control (CNC) in the 1960s, milling machines evolved into machining centers : milling machines augmented by automatic tool changers, tool magazines or carousels, CNC capability, coolant systems, and enclosures.