Picture Story: Albany milling equipment on the move
| The Society will display
these roller mills in the new Mill City Museum
under construction in Minneapolis. The mills were
used nearly 100 years by Albany Roller Mills Inc.
in Albany, Minn. |
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The Albany building that housed the flour-milling equipment was built in the 1880s (shown in 1910 below right). A 70-foot grain elevator was added about 1950. |
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The roller mills were patented in 1887 and 1890. Grain entered the first of five roller mills for the first break, then traveled in a bucket elevator to the plansifter on the second floor. Here contractor Pamela Sunnarborg prepares a roller mill for its move to the Twin Cities. |
| Roger Machin, director of Methods & Materials of Chicago, and Society exhibits production manager Dan Shindelar attach a roller mill to pulleys to lift it from the floor to begin its move ... |
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... to a truck for its trip to the Twin Cities. |
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