Feet of the plansifters on the top floor of the Saint Gabriel Flour Mill. Invented by a Hungarian miller at the end of the nineteenth century, plansifters have improved the sifting of flour. Set up in the mill in 1930, these large wooden cabinets animated by a circular movement contain a succession of sieves, wooden frames covered with cloth, crossed by a flour of finer and finer.

Feet of the plansifters on the top floor of the Saint Gabriel Flour Mill.

Feet of the plansifters on the top floor of the Saint Gabriel Flour Mill. Invented by a Hungarian miller at the end of the nineteenth century, plansifters have improved the sifting of flour. Set up in the mill in 1930, these large wooden cabinets animated by a circular movement contain a succession of sieves, wooden frames covered with cloth, crossed by a flour of finer and finer.

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