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Ven′ti-lating mill-stones.

The system of ventilating mill-stones by vacuum or plenum, by a blast of air in the eye or a suction-fan to the case, seems to have been invented about 1844.

See English patents:Newton, 11,084A. D. 1846.
Gordon, 10,163A. D. 1844.
Belgian patent:Houyet and GendebeinA. D. 1844.
French patents:CabanesMay 29, 1845.
CabanesMay 26, 1846.

Fig. 6957 may be taken as an illustration. The collar is connected to the curb by the elastic annular diaphragm, and its lower edge is received in an annular groove in the top of the stone. The air passes down the central opening in the collar and the eye of the stone, passing between the stones and up through the vertical spout to the fan. The meal has the usual exit.

Ventilated mill-stone.

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