Salt scoop

The salt shovel was a work tool in the salt industry. In the salt works, a distinction was made between the impact scoop , also known as the support scoop, the full pouring scoop and the licking scoop . The shovels were made of oak.

• An impact shovel was a short-handled wooden flat shovel with a square-toed blade. The dimensions were 10 inches long and 7 inches wide. This device was used to remove the salt from the boiling pans in order to fill it into the salt baskets. The Sole remained at this Bucket in the pan.
• The full pouring bucket was 10 inches wide and 14 inches long. Salt was also taken out with full pouring shovels and poured into the baskets.
• The brine that had dripped down was thrown back into the graduation wall with the wooden licking scoop . Economic considerations about the performance with the leakage bucket did not classify it as very effective. About 1½ pounds of brine was carried into the wall with each throw . 16 throws were possible from the Saliner per minute, which resulted in an output of 24 pounds per minute. The basic problem was the height of the throw. The wall was only injected in the lower half. A double-walled rig, 100 feet long, required about 25 men, each shoveling ¼ cubic foot . In the further development of the technology, this blade was replaced by pumps.

literature

• Pierer 's: Universal Lexicon. Volume 14. Altenburg 1862, pp. 828-831.
• Johann Heinrich Moritz Poppe: Encyclopedia of the entire mechanical engineering, or complete instruction in practical mechanics and mechanical engineering. Volume 2, Georg Voss, Leipzig 1804, p. 638.
• Johann Georg Krünitz , Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 135, Verlag Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1824, p. 44.