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WORM FEED [4 records]

Record 1 2015-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
CONT

The [washer, stoner and whizzer] is in two sections, the washing and stoning tank and the whizzer. Water is contained in the washing and stoning tank... and the wheat is fed through a spout... into a through containing a worm conveyor, or wheat worm... The spout discharges the wheat through a troughed feed hopper into the rising side of the wheat worm, which keeps the wheat suspended in the water and conveys it towards the whizzer...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
OBS

vis de lavage : Le document d'accompagnement est tiré de la section 1 d'une publication de la société Buhler-Miag, Vzwil, Suisse.

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-09-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glass Industry
  • Glass Manufacturing
DEF

A mechanical device for continuously feeding batch into the furnace via a large screw thread.

OBS

screw charger; worm feed : terms and definition standardized by the International Organization for Standardization(ISO) in 1992.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie du verre
  • Fabrication du verre
DEF

Machine pour enfournement continu de composition dans un four par une vis à large pas.

OBS

enfourneuse à vis : terme et définition normalisés par l'Organisation internationale de normalisation (ISO) en 1992.

Spanish

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Record 3 1978-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
CONT

The [washer, stoner and whizzer] is in two sections, the washing and stoning tank and the whizzer. Water is contained in the washing and stoning tank(...), and the wheat is fed through a spout(...) into a trough containing a worm conveyor, or wheat worm(...) ;below the wheat worm is the stoning worm(...). The spout discharges the wheat through a troughed feed hopper into the rising side of the wheat worm, which keeps the wheat suspended in the water and conveys it towards the whizzer, while the agitation of the water dissolves and washes away the mud balls and surface dirt; stones and metal particles sink into the stoning worm, which conveys them in the opposite direction and delivers them to a stone-collecting hopper(...)

OBS

washing and stoning tank

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
CONT

Les cuviers épierreurs lavent le blé à grande eau et séparent par flottaison les fragments de pierre, plus lourds, et aussi les corps moins lourds que le blé. Les grains sont ensuite séchés par passage dans des essoreuses.

Spanish

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Record 4 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
  • Farm Animals
CONT

[the silkworm] sheds its skin and grows a new one. After the moulting, the silkworm has one last really large feed [the worm then moves to the straw provided and begins to make a cocoon. ]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
  • Animaux de ferme
CONT

l'évolution larvaire du ver à soie est marquée par une série de changements de peau, ou mue larvaire; puis survient le filage du cocon

Spanish

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