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Caption: Dedication - Ceramic Engineering Dedication
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CERAMIC ENGINEERING, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS Brazil Clay Company, Brazil, Indiana. La Salle Pressed Brick Company, La Salle, Illinois. C. E. Poston, Attica, Indiana. THE LABORATORIES AND THEIR EQUIPMENT The laboratories of the building are provided with outlets for water, gas, compressed air, vacuum, distilled water, and alternating and direct current. The laboratories on the first floor are arranged for the preparation and handling of ceramic materials. In the store room (104) the supplies of ceramic materials are stored in large bins ranging in capacity from two tons to 100 pounds. The ceramic materials laboratory (113) is equipped with laboratory tables and lockers to meet the needs of forty students. Adjoining it is the glaze laboratory (114) with tables and lockers for twenty-four students. The glaze preparation laboratory (115) is provided with machinery for grinding and mixing slips and glazes. This equipment consists of ball mill racks for the accommodation of twenty 1-gallon jars; two double racks for 5-gallon jars; three 12-inch Buhrstone mills; three power mortar mills and eight slip blungers; and a large porcelain lined ball mill; all driven from a line shaft. The pottery laboratory (103) is provided with the necessary equipment for the manufacture of tile and of table ware. It includes a mixing unit consisting of a blunger and agitator, a lawn, and a filter press with a capacity of thirty to forty pounds of clay per charge. A pulldown and jigger with heads and rings suitable Fifteen
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