flour packer

A machine for compactly filling barrels or bags with flour. It is usually a follower or piston which pre es upon the flour, but in some cases the flour as it falls into the barrel is continuously packed by a spiral. flour-sifter, s. A domestic sieve for separating lumps or accidental impurities from the flour of the bin or barrel. flour, v. t. & i. [FLOUR, S.] A. Transitive : *1. To grind and bolt; as, to flour wheat. 2. To cover with flour; to sprinkle flour upon. B. In trans.: To become covered with a floury substance. "With ordinary care in operation, the prepared quicksilver does not sicken or flour through the deleterious influence of arsenides, ."-London Daily Telegraph. floured, a . [Eng. flour , v.; -ed.] Aterm applied to the finely granulated condition of quicksilver, produced to a greater or le extent by its agitation during the amalgamation proce .