Pug Mill, that is what you are looking at. If you work with clay you may be familiar. If you did ceramic classes at University, they your certainly are familiar.
For those that are not familiar, the crash course:
"clay" is an earth substance, really a geological rock formation. When this is worked with to create a consistent color, as well as firing temperature (among other things) this is then called "clay body". For short we call it "clay" but there is a recipe to follow. A large mixer, or a pug mill (which is part mixer) is the "kitchen aide" used to make the clay body.
But you can use the mixer to break down dry clay with water or even hardened clay to make it into a softer workable, throwable body. The pug part of the pug mill includes removing the air and pushing out the clay body into these tubes you see below.
This is the process that is used to create the clay that one buys, but the pug mill for Laguna and other places is square not round shape. So... this allows us to have a clay that doesn't have air, and therefore does not really need to be wedged!
Behold the pug mill. It allows us to take the bucket upon bucket of dry clay that needs to be reclaimed.
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