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THE SUG R MILL ROLLER
Bv R. I .
G E O K G E mu _I M. REXI)
Introduction
When one takes a visitor through a sugar mill for the first lime,
that visitor always seerns rnost iinpressed by the sugar mill rollers them-
selves and their artion in squeezing t11e juice from the
cane.
The object
of
this paper is to bring together a few notes ancl observations on
sugzar
Inill rollers it does not profess
to
be a treatise on inill design and. only
touches lightly on t he various coilteritiol~s points in connection with
crushing generally.
Fig. I T h e drawings for
sm ll
t p roller.
lllc largest rollers used
in
the xvorld appear
to
be 84 jn .
long
and
92 to
44
in. in diameter. Messrs. hlirrlecs 1Ya.tsun many Fears ago
manufactured mill with rollers
BB
in.
l o ~ g
xlt
i t seerns
to
be
generally
agreed tlrat the cconorr~ic imit
is 8 n.
I n the Ql~eensk~udndus4.r~he
srnallcst rollers are fount1 at Rocky Point, and are 24 in . in diarneter
ancl 8 in. loi~gwith jourllals 9 in. in diameter and 12 in. long. The
largest rollers found here are in t l ~ e
in.
nlills, and their diameter is
approsirnately 8 in., while tlie journals are I9 in. in diarneter ancl.
26 in. long. Fhe weight
of
a top roller. \wit11 pinion for Rocky Point
is a.ppl-oxixnately 44 tons, and the weight of
a.n W
in.
roller with Ranges
and
pinion is ayproxir~~alely0 tons. Figure
I
shows a. Rocky h i n t
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roller
F i p r c
2
a n
84
in. roller,
whilst
Figure 3 shows photograph
of an 8 in. X 3H in. top roller complete lv l th pinion and flange.
I n
T a l h l are gil-en typical siz s of
w h a t
arc
regarded
as
standard
rollers.
TABLE
1
The
grooving in t h e
rollers
varies
widelv hut
the
commonest
pitch
is
3 grooves
in 2
in . , the
finest
being
3
grooves
to in and
t h e coarsest
pitch wit
h
which
we have Iiad
expcriencc
i s 4
in.
Longitudinal grooves
are
used to
assist in fwding
and deep juice
pooc es
are common
to
mist
in
ett tin the juice
a w v . A skctch of typical grooving is shown
in
Fig. 4.
Length
in.
Fig. 3 Illustrating
on
84 in. x 3 8 in. top roller.
I n Fic.
5 a
crimplrte
three
roller
tnill with
n. X 38
in. rollers
is il iwtratetl.
Diam eter In.
In the original designs t h e roller
and
Ranges
were cast solid of
cxst
iron
Sugar mill
engineers
wil l be vent
glad
that
th i s
type
of construc
tion died
011t
manv years ago and
one
mould
hate
to t h i n k
of having
to c rush
at modern rates
w i t h
such
equipment.
jaurnal dla. in.
9
10 12 13 15
12 15
15 16 I
8 22
17 IB 20 24
17 18 20 24
18 19
2 6 2 8
48
54
60
66
7
78
84
24 26
26 28
30-32
32 34
3 4 - 3 6
34 37
3 8 4
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The
Shaft
The general construction of sugar mill rollers is well-known to all
mill engineers and standa.rd practice is to fit a cast iron shell to a steel
shaft. In the earlier days all shafts were imported but for a long while
now almost the wllole
of
the shafts have been of ilustr;llian manufacture
and conform to specification R S S 29/1941 2 8 3 2 tons tensile 2w25
per cent. elongation. Consideration has frequently been given to the
use ol a steel of higlrer tensile strength but it has alvraj~sbeen decided
that as well as getting increased strength there were bad disaclvarltages
in other directions and the above specification has come to be accepted
as the best all round one for roller shafts. Roller shafts are forgecl from
cast steel ingots and are among the biggest forgin~surned out
in
quantity
by the Australian forge mqsters. I t is usual for the forge to supply a
plain forging of rough cylinclrica.1 shape and this is machined by the
Fig. 4 Showing typicol grooving.
manufacturer of the roller to the finished size.
Top roller shafts have a
square at the pinion end for driving and all shafts have a pinion seating
outside the driving end journal. I n a number of cases a pirltle is
providecl at the other end of the shaft for driving the carrier or other
seconclary machinery. The sizes of typical journals are given in Table
I
and it is n~clst mportant to have a generous radius a t the fillet of the
journal. This radius must depend to some extent on the relation between
the diameters of the journal and the body of the shaft but a good size
fillet for a 7 2 in. roller would be in. and for an .84 in. roller in.
This will be referred to later in connection with shaft failures. The finish
on the journals is turned only and ground surfacxs have not been founcl
necessary. The body of the shaft contains the sllell seatings and these
consist of either two or thrcc seatings in the smaller size rollers and of
three seatings in the
7 8
and 84 in. rollers.
U p till recently it was
sta.ndard practice to key the roller to the shaft but the number of keys
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stcatlily ~lecrcased
~tntil
he
latest
practice
is
to
shrink
t h e
shcll
t o
the shaft
ancl to rlisprnsc with keysaltnyrthcr.
In these kcyl~ss
nllers
tlir shell IS dcsi~nerl r it on thrcc continuous steppd
scatings
ant
tlir
mannfacturers
aim
at
l
lit
the
ft1I1
length
of
the
n)llrr shell.
Pro-
v i r l i n ~ lre workmanship is first class keylrss rollcn
s l ~ o ~ ~ l c l
re quite
wtiqfartory, l ~ t t t s cssctitial for tlie fit Iwtivren shell and shaft
to
he
really
good.
I t
is \,cry
rlifficnlt
to
se l
t h ~
e ~val;s r)rolwrly ant
thew
Ii;11-c alwn .s lwcn W P ; ~ p n ~ t s
l ~
e~a rrls E~centry of jzrice
h r t w r v n
t h c shaft
a nd shcll.
Fig.
5 lllustmting
a
comp'lete
three
rol ler
mill
with
84
in.
x
38
in.
rollers
n
all
the older
d e s i q s the shaft
was Stteil at
thr
end of
th
shell
with a pair of split retitfninr: rings ccn ered a ful l ring, and these
were
desimed t o prevent r n t l \ r i s~movement
O
thc ~ i ~ e l ln the slraft.
For many -cars
this Company
has rccornmendetl the abolition of re ta ining
r i t i p anti has
turner1
out a large
urnh h r
of shells
\vitho~lt
rings
a largr?
number
of
rollerr;
have also h e m
rnnvertcd
to the ringless t 'pc. Again
providing the
workmanship is
g~lod here shoulrl l-lc n o tso~rhle.and
w i t h tkc very
large number in
service
i t
can
safely he claimed that
r ~ t a i n i n g
inqs
a r c a h s o l ~ ~ t e l ynnecessary ~nstr ia~
s
cntlwi rr
location
q concrrned.
In one dcsign a solid ring is shnink on
t t h r
shaf t , hut:
tl-liq is rised
for
attxrhtng thr j~ricering
and has
nntlling to
do
with
c~ldrvise
locat
inn.
The Shell.
Thc
she11
i s of c st iron and
metaIlurgicaEly must
he
of
an open
testztre
giving t h e masimum mip
on
the
canc and
t h e minimum
of
surface polish in^ in servirc. X11 roller rnanufactt ircrs have tthrtr otvn
rt
formulae,
but in practire
t
lvonld
be
safe
to
state
that
all
reputable
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rnakem turn
out shells of good quality in
this
regard.
Tt is
deqirahle
tn s tr ike a haIance h c t t v e ~ n h e oppn t e s tu rc fo r ~ o o d ecdiny and a t
t 1 1 ~ i~n~ci mr
to retain
sa f ic i rn t
t
rengtti to prrvrnt r r ~ ~ n l h l i r r q~ f hr
i ron .
Th? method
of
casting
shells
varies
in
different
foundr ies and
s i n r ~ he shell IS
a
largc hravy-section
cas t ing , it
i 4 most i rnpnrtant t r l
e n s u m good fcctiing
in
order to prcvcnt undtlc porosity ancl t h e
inrmatinn
of
s l i r i ~ ~ k a ~ eavities.
lf
the shell
i
t o l* keyed it is g~n cr ;? l ly r~rel l
out ovcrsire Ix twccn seating5 and t h i 5
facilitates borinr.
The shell is
shrunk
t o t h c sh;tft anrl
s o m p m ak ers usp a pure s h n l l k n l e t h m l ant1
other makers a cornl~inntion nf shr ink
a n d
h y d r a ~ ~ l i c
ressinq.
Thi.:
Cnll>any
prefers the pure sh r ink method since it g i v ~ s c crta in a m oun t
of i i~ t r r lo rk ln g e twem
t h e m;irhinc marks on
4ir-lI
and shaft and gives
s e c~ i rc n d 1 r . i ~ ~ncation. Thc I\l;lchines~.Hantll>ook
st
atrs
: e s t s
to
drterrninc the diffcrmcr in quality
nf
shrrnkag r mid
l o r r ~
ts
showc(l
t h a t
th e
rtsi4t;tnrc
of
L
chrinkagr
t i t
to
~Iippi1y~
as for an axial pu)l
:<.tit;
t imes
~rcatrr
Iian
tF~;.t
of
I
lnrrc l i t , ;lnd
in
mta t in n
nr
t o r ~ i i ~ ~ i
3.2 t imes grra tcr . I n
car11
cnlnpara t i r c test
thc
dirncnsions anrl aIln\v-
ancrs tverc. t h e samc. I t
r;lru~rlt
k+crlainred, ho\r.cvrr, tha t
t l~erc
h;i<
l ~ c c n
arry ~~ot i i . cx l ) l rmul, le wl~irhco~ilrl
w
trarecl tn t11r tYSrt i~tf trf
f it ting the shc ll . T l ~ c hcll
i
mac-liinetl all o\+crand .
as
statrrl in
tllc
preccdinq p : ~ r n g r a p l ~ .s hclcl t n tlw < ]aft cithrr l>\. thc sIirink n l u n r or
witlr key ; I t s h o ~ i l d $Earn \:P rmplra<ise:l t h a t t h e fit Ix t~ v r en ;h aft
xnrl
~Erlltt the
mds of
tlir
4 1 ~ l l
4 vrr I+1rnport:~nt an d
i t
r lio~tltl nl
w
pnssillle
tl*
i11vrf
t h e
t f ~ i ~ i ~ i e ~ t
eeler
an vw hr rr i~rolinrl he pn(l<
c j f
t l w
.;hrll.
Service
Conditions.
In ~ r r i . i r r ,
I
roller 1s z l i l> j~ s t o ver \* 1 .11nsi~l~i-a l11~t r~ss1111 ln
; t t ~
X4 i r i mill
thc total
hvtlra~tlic nntl
on
t l ~ c
wo
journals is 500 700 on.;.
l llis Io:itl i s oc-r-;~sionrll
;I
rini lormly tfis tril >r ~te t\ rrsl;urc dltr t
n
t hc
I ; I K ; L ~ ~ : r t \ r e n tlw t h r r c rollrrs
anr l
thc rolrrr ran
Ilr:
rccartlcd a<
:L
r r ~ m ~ ~ r~ ~ n r l.r :~r~ir\lnllt.lslilc t lie .;hell ant1
<hilit
conihtnccl. That
1
~ r h y
i t I <
so
1nlpclrl:Lnt
t <
II;L~-r l i t ; t t t t ~ cnrl ; n l
t l ip
~ l ~ e l lp ;~ r t i ru l :~ r l \ .
goor
orw
.:incr
1 f
therr.
is
;rnv
m rn+rm pn t
l c t t v w n
sha f t
1t1111
sI~ t l ,
l i ~
s l rnl t r l r f l ~ r t i o n wilI inr-react ant1 \<?hen tI~c rdlcr turn4 tills ~lctlcct~nn
r n t l k cq
R
t * ~ n t i t i t ~ n ~ l sCVC~L:I I
of
<tre<sc< wllirll tTliLi+ c a s i l ~ .
;111-r
tl11-
fraf. tur?
o l
t11p
s h : ~ l t .
7 11~ S ~ ~ S S -{uirt-.-Fr(vn~ ol)rcr\+;itons of a very
large
n i ~ n ~ l . c rf
rclllers sent in for re-sl~ellirly it
i s sur-prisinq
In how
man\- rasc
thcrc
art=
rlistlnrt c i e n ~ f ingrrw
of
juice fnr snmf
distance Ix-twwn
t l ~ e
hiift
a n d tFie C I I ~of the shrll . I f tIlr shcI1
is
r ~ g h tdown
on
thc 4h;lft t t ir
hard t o
see hnrv t h i s
jr~ir-c :in
g ~ t
n and t h r
fat-t t h a t
juir-r rorrosi t~n
wrnir
SO
pvidmt
wo r~ltl ntlirate th at ther e h;t4
l ~ c c n
l
harl
fit
from tlnw
of m a n i ~ f ; t ~ * t u r r .
11
those d iaf ts t r~hichhat1
Iwcn
forcer1 i n t o t h r s l ~ r l l
the
juice may tend
t n
u*nrlr xFnng thc scorcs
cnt
in
ttir
shaf t . I<cv< ;Lrta
also
a
~veakness in this direction as thc ra i~ lk in y s strir* tly local :inrl
is rlnt r f icct ivc for any
len,@h
or tirnc-.
R y ;E c*oincitIcnrc it
lias
l r r n
O F I T o b s r r ~ a t i n n h a t
t h e 1r-or5t
sign5 of juice
ingress
arc on ro1lcr.q frttrcl
\r,itli
cnd
retaining rinys. Tliis ~ ) r o l ~ a h l ylar 11otZ1ing t o rlo with t l ~ r
ring as
such ,
I ~ u t~t is fclt that t he rnanufar t r~ rc rsmay haire rclicd too
mud1 on thc rlng ancl
keys
and
Ilnl-e no t
hccn
ca re l r~ l nough i v ~ t h
Ilc
tit at the end
of the
shaft. I t has also bcen m o ~ t nt~ceahle hat n largc
n u mb er
of
Incipient
cracks
in rnller
shafts
take
plare
at
th e
retainir~tr
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ring
grooves
and
as
t h i s
is
thc w eakest p i n t
of
t h e
shaft nne could
e s p c t
cracks to s t a r t them. Providing t h e
shell
i t s properlv on th
cntl
scatings
t h e r e does
not
seem to be
a n y
need
for
a
cen t re sc,~tfng. n
other t h a n thc largest rollers and prol>nlllv not
even on
them, since
although
thc
ccntrc
of
the
rollrr
is
certainly
t h e
point
of
grcatcst
strcqs
t l l r
combined roller ant1 shaf t
seem
t o
have
amp l e
strenyth a d casec
nf
rollcrs breakin4
in the
tntticlle
are
very
inf requent .
Tht. RrefiLiny
o
Shnfts. The top roller shaft
is subjec t
to t he
crca tcs t s t rms, since
it
ha s to transmit the
full
torsional load from t l ~ r
rrrgine ant1 also t ake t h e full bentlinz Ioad from t he crushin: action.
Thcrc dors
not
hotvevrr,
scem
to x a n y cuirlcnce of a g r ra t cr n u m l x s
of fractures in t o p shafts than side rollers sliaftr;; this may be clue tn
thc f.rpt that in most mills the qhnfts R e
chanqed
arolrnd
and
when a
shaft
cracks
it
i ;
.cry diflicult to say
just
Flow long it
ha5
lwen
i n
any
pzr ti cu la r ps i t i on . Sometimes mills hnvc broken l rand
IICW
s h a f t s
aar
l
I +
very
I~arcl
o
account for the failure.
T h e sz~bjectnf brnkcn rollcr shaf t s has tc:eivcd
arcat discussion a t
~ r r v i o u s
oniercnccs
without an ;
d e f i n i t ~ cason fnund
for their fRII ures.
t is fel t that with
a
shaft of good drsiqn
under
normal work in^ con
rlitions, failure
takes
p1;lc.e only af tc r
a
rr:aionalsle life, and
faiIurc
must
hc cxpctcd in rlne rourse from such
;L
h i ~ h l y tre.;?erl component.
I ' i-~~bahly o sugar
company
ha s suficientEv acruratc records
of
i t s shaf t s
t o
I I
ahlc
to ind ica te
what
t hc
life
of
a
shnft
should
hr:
an d
i t
is
expected
that th is l i fe coulcl l ~ eelated tu ton-hours i f sufficient information were
;ti.ailaI~lc. I t would posqil~ly c found t h en t h a t after
a
ccr ta in nurnbcr
nf
ton- l ln t~ss
~t
wo~iltl dcsiral,lc
to
scrap the shaf t .
Speakers
a t
prcvious Confcrenccs
h a w stresscd t h c
dcsirahility of
x
grncnlus
fillet between t h e
journal ancl
t h e
h c l v
of t he shaf t
and
have
fclt that hrcakaye of shaf ts
would be
encnurayed a t t h e
fillet
if
t h i s
hc
lnade
too
small.
t
would
sccrn
hnwcvrr , tha t most I3rcnka:cs
t a k e
plarr at t h e end of t h e
shell
; th i s indicates that t h e t>reakaaes due to
rhvcrloading
of
t h e ro l k r and shaft
assemhly
and
that the 1r:icttire then
t a k e s placr:
at
t h ~vcakcst point
which
is a t the end of t h e shell. I t
II IS ;ll.io
k e n
s u g ~ e s t e dhat
when a
mill jam4 a n d t h e c u ~ i n es
reversed
the
energy af t h c flvwheel
is
dissipated
rreq+ apidly in to the choked
mill
and
t h a t tb.c CICCSS~ I ~P torsinn
causes
the rollcr shaft
to
twist
off.
Again
~t
iq hard t o collect
snflicicnt evidence to
indicate that the
cr~mrnonest
point
of
fai lure is thc r l t i v i n~end
of t h e
top roller
shaft.
as wnultl
be
t h c
cnsc ~f
th is
theory were
t o
Iw
lxlrnc
out
in
practice.
I t
is
n n t ,
however t h e
pnqwqc of
th i s
paper to
discuss t h e m a t t e r of
9ll;tlt failnres
in any
dctail .
RC-sltcllin~.-:It
one t ime
it was consiclcrcrl untlrsimble to re-shell
rollers anti t h e
complete
roller was scrapped as soon
as
the shell
hacl
r v r m down. LJndcr pwsent cond i t~ons .however,
shafts
are P-shelled
a
number of t imes
a n d
no information
is
avai lable as tn t h e n ~ r r n h c rof
tlmec the shaft wirl
stand
re-shelling. In the re-shelling process ccrtain
repalm are usual
and
badly worn ~ o u r n a l s
an be
Guilt up
by
electric
ivclding tn thrir original d~arneter.
This
Companv has t reated
a
large
number of
journals in t is way and there has tmcn no single iwtancc
of
failure
which ran he tracecl to i t . .as much as in . has h e n b u ~ l t
111)
fin
cach side
making
a
total
increasc
in
diameter
of
1
in.
\Ye
also
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frequently fill keyways so that the finished re-shell has only two keys in
hne instead of four keys at right angles as it may have had originally
Observations on
Mill
Practice
Under operating co~~ditionst is usual for mills tn spot the
surfaces of their rollers to increase their gripping powers, hut the practice
in this regard varies very widely; some rnills do not spot a t all while
others spot more than once a week.
The object of sugar mill rollers is of course to extract the ~ n as i rnu n~
of juice from the fibre and the whole of ~niiling ractice depends on this
;
sugar lost in the crushing process cannot be recovered anywhere else in
the factory. I t is of course necessary for mills to co~nprolnise etween
crushing rate and extraction unless the- are fortunate enough
t
have
crushing plant sufficiently large to
be
able to aim at the maximilnl of
c s t r a c t i o ~ ~nd also maintain thcir desired rate . There ~ n us t lso be
a
point beyond which it is not economical tcl carry the extraction and
it is also claimed that
bj.
taking extraction too far, some undesirable
ingredients arc forced into the juice from the fibre.
I t is not the purpose
of th is paper to deal with milling practice
and
brief mention is nlacle
of only few points in connection with it.
The crushing action derives its power from thc engine through the
gearing.
I t
is obvious that the rnore po\\-er cscrted between the rollers
tl~ernsel~.eshe better and inore coniplete the cruslii~~gction will he
I t is not suificiently stressed howex-er th at it is the ~nil lwhich initiates
the loading for the engine ancl thc nt~ject of ~rlilli~igractice slloulrl
therefore be to get sufficient load a t tlic rr?ill to ;~lxo~-i>he full available
horsc po\vrr at the engine end. Tn verj. man - mills th e engi~ies re ~ i o t
working up to anything like their ma~iniuin .H.P., and it ivould seen1
to serve
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object to cnnsidcr reylaci~ig- he engines 1 ~ 1 t harger tnles
ilntil the existing engines are working a:, hard as: they can.
Two general methods
of
milling arc in
use
The first is to rut1 the
rollers at
a
high surface speed with a thin nlat of c.anc, ii~iti he second
is to run the rollers at
a
slow surface speerl nitil
a
tliii,k Inat trf c an e
In between these extremes are numerous combinatio~ls. I t i usual to
think in terms of sl~rface peed, kilt in practice U\-erseasa11ti here, surface
speeds vary from
10
to 40 feet per m~nnte.
t is also usual to generalise on gearing ratios anil the t e ~ l d e n ~ yas
keen for gca~~i~igatios to be reduced in the older mills ratios bvcrc
a.;
high as li to 1 while in solne of t hc newer nlills ratioi are as low as
17
to
1
The writers feel tha t gearir~g atio is a sccondar\* niattcr and
that it should be made to suit the op ti mu~n ngine speecl and the crptinlii~n
~nilling peed. 1YitI1 an engine speed of, .;a -,
55
r.p.ln.. and
a
gearing
ratio of PO to 1 th e s~lr face peed of a
38
in. roller is
2 i 3
ieet per minute
ancl that of a 3 in. roller is 23 feet per minute. This shows tha t as a
roller w a r s the engine speed must he increased if it is desirecl to ~na in ta in
the same surface speed throughout the life of the rollers.
I n
the case
stated above it \vould be necessary to increase the engine speed to about
66 r.p.m. in order to maintain a surface speetl of 7 feet per ~ninutc
after the 38 in. roller had worn down to :E n. The hgures sta ted
are
not reconirnendations
a nd
are merely quoted as
an
example. JIills of
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course
wish
t use their rollers do~vr-n o as small a dialneter
as
possible
and the ~llinirnunl ize depe~ lds n the design of tlie roller and o n the
wtting rcquiwd for good c.~pcratiull.
If
there is some surface sl,ecd which
\riIl give i l ~ e est results the ubjec:tive of the origi~laldcsign should
be
t o
lis
the surface
speed
and the engine speed and then provide
a.
gearing
r a t i o
to link those spceds togctller. The modern tendency seer115
to
be
to incrcasc gearing ratios again and therefore reduce roller s~wcds nd
to
\vork on the
slow
speed thick mat methotl. I t seems that this s h o u l d
,:i\.c greatly decreased slip and strould thercforc allow
a
~ l n ~ r hreater
j>rol>ostionof the engine pourer ttr be used bct\vee~l he I-ollcrs, whereas
a
large p~-oportionmay otherwise be wasted in slip. It should
also
~.e.;ult in reduced roller wear and should remo~-e ome of the riei-cssity
for sl~o ttirlg
Conclusion
Kollers
X
i n . in lengtll seeln to 1 e tlic tna si~ll u~ill l
worltl
practicr,
b11t they Itlay l ~ e
2
to
44
in. in tl in~neter nd no do111,t before lung there
u.111 11e c\.cn larger nlills in Xustralix than there arc
a t
present.
he
o\-t~r-sexs endency also seems to he tc~wardsa large ilulrlher of rollers
i n
the train ;lnd where the maj on ty of Queensland mills ha\-c o~ll . twelve
~rollers, ornbinatio~isof up to
22
rollers are quite usual overseas.
There
alrcadj- secrns t o be
a
tendenc ; ht re towards
a
combination of rollers
~rlaliing
15
in the train and the 111i11s 11sing this 1net110d ill sccnl
to
be
X-cr\. )lea.;cd it-it11
the
s e s ~ ~ l t she - are getting.
111 r-o~~clusiont is clcsiretl to repeat the fact tlrat this is not
a
tcchl~iral reatise on roller design or milling, but has
jus t
t ~ e c ~ lritten
1 clra\v attention to that most useful cornponetlt- the s ~ ~ n r
nill rollcv
T11r 1 3 1 f i ~ d z t 1 r ~ g
o ~ ~ u d r ~
o. 1 td
I : I I I I ~ N ~ E Y O .