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Parks Victoria - Andersons Mill
Machine - Screen
Sifter, part of machine.Rectangular in shape, made from wood. Six large rectangular spaces covered with a finely perforated zinc sheet. Two smaller spaces are made with a third piece of wood dividing the bottom horizontally. -
Parks Victoria - Andersons Mill
Tool - Hose
Attaches to a tap, used in the milling process. (some taps are still intact in the mill building.)Long cylindrical metal hose which gets narrower near the tip. attached to a long canvass hose. -
Parks Victoria - Andersons Mill
Machine - Grinding Stone
Appears to be a millstone that would have been used with another stone to grind wheat.Large circular stone wheel with ridges carved into its outer side. It has a hole through the middle with a metal fixture in it. -
Parks Victoria - Andersons Mill
Sign - Stencil
This stencil was used on bags and possibly other packaging containing grain processed and packed at Anderson's Mill. The stencil would have indicated the destination of, or origin of the grain.Large stencil, metal (tin?). 3 corners of stencil chipped off at angle. Large piece of corner missing from top left.Cut out of stencil depicts cockerel & the words "SUNVALLEY FLAKED WHEATMEAL" -
Parks Victoria - Andersons Mill
Vehicle - Trolley, bag
This is a bag trolley that was used to transport large bags of grain or other items at the mill.Wooden frame of trolley, with vertical handles with three stabilising cross bars. Base of trolley has a curved metal part. This mounted on two small metal wheels. -
Parks Victoria - Andersons Mill
Machine - Shaft, drive
Used to drive the belt for machines.A long shaft with five wheels of varying height attached to it. The largest wheel has six spokes, the second to last in size has five curved spokes. One wheel is made of hard rubber. The shaft extends beyond the largest wheel, where it has a big bolt. The shaft extends an inch or two beyond the wheel at the other end. All wheels are bolted on. -
Federation University Historical Collection
Unknown - Object, Allan Mine Cage Safety Brake, c1873
A mining safety cage was used in a mine lift. It was fitted with mechanisms to prevent the cage from dropping if the lifting rope broke. In the 1870s in Victoria, deaths and injuries from falling cages in vertical shafts of gold mines were a major problem. The inventor of this safety cage was Robert Allan, a machinery maker of Creswick Rd, Ballarat. He said his cage featured a ‘dissolving’ fulcrum. Others called it an eccentric (off centre) system. Note the pair of clutch levers designed to grab the side guides if tension ceases in the suspending rope from the poppet head pulley. Also, the hinged ‘lids’; designed to protect miners trapped in a braked cage from falling rope, and to enable rescue of the miners. This model was presented to The Ballarat School of Mines Council in November 1876. This model was shown at the Smeaton Show in November 1874, Ballarat School of Mines Museum from 1876, and examined by the 1879 Victorian Board of Inquiry (Pg 15 of FedUni Catalogue 3437) From the Argus of 13 November 1874: At Smeaton Show, Robert Allan of Ballarat won 1st prize for a Model of a Mining Cage, a Butter working machine, a Cheese press and a Curd Mill. By 1878 an Allan Safety-Cage was in operation in the Number 6 shaft of the Band and Albion Consols mine in Ballarat. This cage was judged the best inspected by the Victorian Board of Inquiry by 1879, p. 39.Mining was a big industry in Ballarat in the late 1800s and a lot of deaths were recorded because of mining accidents, the development of the mining safety cage brake limited the deaths and injuries from falling cages in vertical shafts. The model also has links to the Ballarat School of Mines, being presented to the council in 1876. Ballarat School of Mines is the oldest Technical School in Australia and is a predecessor of Federation University. The model is significant to Ballarat's mining history.Model of a mine safety cafe. A grey painted wooden frame with metal model of cage and safety brake system. When tension ceases in rope a pair of crutch levers grab strongly onto the wooden guide strips which run down the sides of a vertical shaft. This safety cage was discussed in "Safety Mining Cages. Report of the Board of Enquiry on Safety Cages 1878-9; together with proceedings of the Board and Appendices".safety cage, mine cage safety brake, robert allan, model, safety cage model, machine maker, millwright, mining, gold mining, tools, equipment, victorian board of inquiry -
Clunes Museum
Photograph
PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN 1880. THE WINDMILL ON CORNER OF PADDOCK STREET AND SMEATON ROAD OPERATED A FLOUR MILL FROM 1870 TO ABOUT 1883 BY JOSEPH WHYTE.A FADED BLACK & WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF PORTION OF CLUNES SCHOOL NO. 1552, WINDMILL AND DWELLING ON SCHOOL HILL.local history, photography, photographs, schools -1552, flour mill -
Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute (BMI Ballarat)
Film - Photograph by Herb Richmond. ca 1971, Smeaton- Bridge over the Bullarook Creek (Birch Creek) leading to the old Flour Mill
Ballarat History35mm B&W Kodak Plus X Pan Film.ballarat, ballaraat, smeaton, bridge, bullarook, birch, creek -
Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute (BMI Ballarat)
Film - Photograph by Herb Richmond. ca 1971, Smeaton - Bridge over the Bullarook Creek (Birch Creek) leading to the old Flour Mill
Ballarat History35mm B&W Kodak Plus X Pan Film.ballarat, ballaraat, smeaton, bridge, bullarook, birch, creek