Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Glue factory dry house

The dry house for a glue factory functioned differently depending on the type of glue being manufactured.  In no case did it make the glue solution totally dry, but rather it removed most of the moisture created when the glue stock was boiled in the boiler house.  The resulting "dried" glue ranged from a thick liquid to glue gelatin and many solutions in between.   Modern glue manufacturing is somewhat different but my factory operates in 1939 and uses processes developed years earlier.


Above is my version of a glue dry house which is located to the right of the coal storage and supply facility.  The base is a hydrocal masonry stone style floor which contains the furnace that supplies heat the the floors above to support the drying process. The primary drying process occurs on the second floor and the resulting product is moved along the outside balcony to the storage and shipping facility which will be located to the right of this structure.  The third floor contains the control machinery for the interior barrel hoist for moving the glue from the basement where it enters the building after leaving the boiler house.  It also houses office space for the glue factory.


Above is a 1927 photo showing a wire frame glue drying device.   In this case they were creating glue gelatin.

I may later add more details to this structure.

Today I used a lawn sweeper to remove leaves from my lawn.  This is basically a large wheeled bag with a wide rotating brush that sweeps grass, leaves or whatever from the lawn into a bag and is pulled by my lawn tractor.  It sure beats raking leaves but it filled up with leaves quickly requiring frequent dumping.  I have just short of 2 acres surrounded by trees, and with trees also in the yard.  That is a lot of leaves.



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