pug mill

For example, the clay was always trodden by foot and not mixed in a pug mill.

It housed a horse-powered pug mill, which was used to prepare clay for brickmaking.

The myth of the seventeenth-century pug mill.

The former pug mill at the rear of Stockwell Court, London Road, Burgess Hill.

Qwilleran asked intelligent questions about the blunger, pug mill, and filter press, meanwhile keeping an eye on Koko and a firm hand on the leash.

The clay body is mixed, from Devonshire ball clays and local silica sand, in a dough mixer and then passed through a de-airing pug mill.

What they do: Operate production machines such as pug mill, jigger machine, or potter's wheel to process clay in the manufacture of ceramic, pottery, and stoneware products.

The clay was then driven through a pug mill, which compresses it and extrudes long plugs of finished clay that is thrown into pots on a wheel.

In 1994 the centre invested in a variety of new equipment such as a mixer, filter press and pug mill which has reduced the preparation time from weeks to days.

A pugmill or pug mill is a machine in which clay or other materials are mixed into a plastic state or a similar machine for the trituration of ore.

KELVIN Pearson with a pug mill which drives air bubbles from the filter, pugs clay and kneads it to make it malleable.

It was prepared in a pug mill (like a giant cake mixer) into which clay was loaded along with smaller proportions of white china clay and crushed felspar, and plentiful water.

In addition to learning how to build pots, small groups of six or eight students learn how to mix clay in a pug mill, prepare glazes, load and fire kilns and construct studio equipment.

OENJ's approach, developed after a year of testing, is to mix the dredge material with binders such as Portland cement and lime kiln dust in a large cylindrical tank called a pug mill which is located at the site.

According to the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, a clay pug mill typically consists of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay body is placed.

Then its stored in a tank under the floor and eventually formed into big pancakes on the filter press over there . . . after which its chewed up by the pug mill and formed into loaves, which are stored in those big bins.