pugmill

A pugmill is a most useful machine for mixing wet clay ready for moulding.

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This mix, after wetting can be either used for making hand moulded bricks or can be extruded by a pugmill for making wire cut bricks.

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An animal powered pugmill of a type often used in brickworks is shown at fig. 24-4.

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The kneading table is mainly for bodies with low plasticity, like porcelain bodies, but is little used today. pugmill: The pugmill has replaced the kneading table in modern ceramics plants.

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Industries with a large output can make use of a simple vertical pugmill.

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Prolonged storage will improve the plasticity of the clay and give it a stiffer consistency. kneading: After storage, the clay should be kneaded again, either manually or in a pugmill.

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In this machine, which is similar to a horizontal pugmill, the clay is impelled by an Archimedean screw.

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The pugmill section alone could be used to prepare clays for hand-moulding.

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It has a horizontal pugmill followed by a set of cams which force moist clay through the side of the containing barrel into a quartet of iron-clad wooden moulds (see Figure V. 5).

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He went carelessly too near the still revolving machinery, and his coat-flap was caught and wound into the helix of the pugmill.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878