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07:47 Feb 20, 2006 |
Romanian to English translations [PRO] Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.) / preparare masa glazura | |||||||
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5 +2 | pug mill |
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pug mill Explanation: The clay and shale are dumped into a bin and fed by Robert Norris into a machine where it is crushed, through screens, to a fine powder. Buckets escalators carry it to be screened again, dumped into a conveyor and fed into the "pug mill". The machinery was idle when we visited, but the men obligingly started the mill so we could see a tile in the making. In the pug mill, which was run by Herschel Kelly, water is added to the fine dust. Electric knives cut and mix the two into a thick mud. This mixture is forced through the dye and comes out in a long continuous tile. An electic cutting wheel, with slender wires like piano strings, cuts the tile into foot lengths. The machine cuts thirty tiles per minute. Reference: http://www.rootsweb.com/~inmartin/Kiln.htm |
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