MOLINO DE GOFIO LA SALUD

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
- Patrimonio Industrial. Molinos -




The first license that corresponds to the Gofio La Salud Mill corresponds to 1943. At this time there were approximately 14 mills in the town of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, many have been lost because the following generations of families decide not to continue with the family business or by the introduction of new products to the market.

Mr. Jos Garc a, known as Pepe, emigrates to Venezuela, is dedicated to working in the Latin American country and manages to save a sum of money that he wants to invest in the purchase of his own business, his options were a cinema or A mill is finally decided by the mill. Don Antonio, brother of Don Jos, begins the work in the family mill, the mill building includes the housing area, so that Don Antonio was staying in it.

After spending the years, 3 or 4 years later, Don Jos Garc returns to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and joins the work with his brother. Don Jos at the time marries Ana Mar and Antonio leaves the house of the mill. The complete work of the mill requires at least 3 people working, so that Ana Mar is incorporated into family work, while Don Jos was responsible for making the distribution on the street, the others were in charge of the premises and their production n.

From Ana Mar and Don Jos Garc, they had 5 children, a woman and 4 boys, 3 of the brothers are the ones who are currently in charge of running the family business. Mois s, son of the family, leaves the militia in 1983, and begins work at the mill, 10 years later, in 1993 ...



Molino de Gofio La Salud

The Molino de Gofio La Salud, is located between Avenida de Venezuela and Calle de Princesa Guacimara.

The building has a simple facade, with wooden windows and with the entrance tiled with brown tiles, just like the entrance floor. The finish of the building is pink paint with a gray color. The main door is made of metal and the old stone of the main mill is displayed next to it, which had been brought from France. Inside, there is first of all the sales space, consisting of the counter, the stores of the product ready to sell and the main mill. Subsequently, there is a corridor that connects all other spaces, such as the living space, the place of work with the second mill and ends at the rear where the other machinery and the grain warehouse are located.



Molino de Gofio La Salud

Regarding the details of the machinery, the mill works by means of a motor that is connected to the pulley (it has a length of 1 meter) is 120 turns per minute, thanks to this pulley the stones with which the mill works turn to grind The grains. The mill works through the friction of two cylinder-shaped stones, these stones are characterized by having grooves in different directions, the upper stone is known as a shuttle, which is responsible for turning, while the Lower stone known as solera is stained to the lower frame called table, in this way the lower one does not rotate, but also has the grooves to grind the grain.

Both stones have iron rings that reinforce it and if it breaks, the rings prevent their detachment. These iron hoops are also given a sweeper, which is responsible for carrying the grain dust that falls to the sides of the stones towards the mouth of the mill.

The external parts of the mill are the hopper, which is the funnel in which the grains are deposited, then there is the dust cover, it is the large cylinder that covers the stones, this is responsible for preventing the already ground grain from being lost, of so that it contains it while the sweeper moves it, then the table is found, which as mentioned above is the lower frame and finally, the mouth that is where the already ground grain is extracted.

The brothers have been in charge of carrying out the work in a more efficient way, so that for the transport of the grain in its different stages now ...



Molino de Gofio La Salud
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