Processing Various Foodstuffs with Gear Driven Machinery

While  the listing of processes and  machinery used in handling and  preparing  foodstuffs  is not  complete, the examples  indicate  the gear lubricants which  are  suitable for such applications  and the precautions necessary in their use. However, a few  other  illustrations of such equipment  where gears are  the drives follow : cocoa and cocoa  butter are  handled  in gear  driven  mills; gelatin  is sometimes dried  in rotating  heated drums with connections to gear  reducers; spices  are milled in many  cases with the mill  being  gear  driven; yeast may be  concentrated  by centrifuging  with the rotation being  through  gear reducers; and  fish  flour in some  plants  makes use of  gear drives for both pulverizing and drying.