TEA MACHINERY AND TEA FACTORIES.
A Descriptive Treatise on the Mechanical Appliances required in the Cultivation of the Tea Plant and the Preparation of Tea for the Market. By A. J. Wallis-Tayler, A.M. Inst. C.E. Medium 8vo, 468 pp. With 218 Illustrations.
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Summary of Contents:—Mechanical Cultivation or Tillage of the Soil.—Plucking or Gathering the Leaf.—Tea Factories.—The Dressing, Manufacture or Preparation of Tea by Mechanical Means.—Artificial Withering of the Leaf.—Machines for Rolling or Curling the Leaf.—Fermenting Process.—Machines for the Automatic Drying or Firing of the Leaf.—Machines for Non-Automatic Drying or Firing of the Leaf.—Drying or Firing Machines.—Breaking or Cutting, and Sorting Machines.—Packing the Tea.—Means of Transport on Tea Plantations.—Miscellaneous Machinery and Apparatus.—Final Treatment of the Tea.—Tables and Memoranda.
“The subject of tea machinery is now one of the first interest to a large class of people, to whom we strongly commend the volume.”—Chamber of Commerce Journal.
“When tea planting was first introduced into the British possessions little, if any, machinery was employed, but now its use is almost universal. This volume contains a very full account of the machinery necessary for the proper outfit of a factory, and also a description of the processes best carried out by this machinery.”—Journal Society of Arts.