Machines that prepare clay for the potter or the factory, including the pugmill that mixes clay and pushes it out in a smooth column and the filter press that squeezes water out of slurry to turn it back into plastic clay. A tool belongs here when its cited source describes it as a machine for processing clay. It excludes the wheels and hand tools used to shape clay and the kilns used to fire it. Both machines turn raw or wet material into clay that is ready to throw or cast, and small studios as well as factories use them.
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Dictionary.com: Pug Mill definition
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grinding and mixing materials, as clay
Dictionary.com: Blunger definition
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esp clay and water
Pugmill (Digitalfire Glossary)
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Pugmills have a main chamber with rotating shaft having angled blades.
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Pugmills have a main chamber with rotating shaft having angled blades.
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The filter press is one of the most important, and least glamorous, machines in the modern ceramics industry.
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