Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-04-24

slices, which we call "cossettes" for
lack OF an English name. AS these
leave the slicer they glide down a NOV
able feeder which supplies the diffusion
battery below. The latter consists OF
a circular arrangement of fourteen
large cells, within whose walls the juice
is extracted by what is known as the
diffusion process-in other words, the
withdrawal OF it by soaking in water.
Briefly, current of warm water Is
turned on the contents Of No. l. this
circulates through the mass Of cossettes,
passes out by means of false bottom
into pipe which enters the top Of No.
2, the mixture OF juice and water being
forced along by flow of cold water,
which follows it constantly. The,
temperature of the former is
maintained by steam chambers at
ess continues with the other watts
until No. II is reached, when the circuit
is ended, as one cell must be filling all
the time and an empty one stands ready
always to take its place. No. is then
emptied by removing the bottom, the
wet mass being carried to presses,
where tho surplus moisture is removed,
the pulp going out of doors to be used
as fodder. No. 2 then becomes first in
a new circuit, and so on, the cossettes
in each cell receiving twelve satura
tions.
After making the round. the fluid,
which on exposure to the air has be-
come deep purple color, is conveyed
to n measuring tank nearby, from
which it flows to a mixer, where it is
defeated with lime and then pumped
into huge carbonation tank in which
the lime and whatever foreign matter it
may take with it are rendered insoluble,
by means of carbonic- acid gas forced
through it.
Now the carbonated Juice is pumped
to the fllter-press room, where, by
means of an elaborate series of frames,
hung with heavy cloths, it Is filtered
and becomes a transparent fluid OF
pale-yellow hue. The lime thus re-
leved possesses about the same con-
sistency as putty, and is conveyed at
once into the yard, to be used the fol-
lowing season as a mild fertilizer. The
process OF mixing, carbonation. and fl
tration is then repeated with second
set of machinery, less lime being used
this time.
This finished, the juice is treated with
sulphur fumes, filtered by means of me-
Sh"iiS"i hiooio NpdSo pciHS usou III
stead of folded cloths) passing into the
qdadruple effect, four great boilers in
which the larger part Of the water con-
tanned in it is evaporated by the use of
steam. With repetition OF the sui
phur treatment and mechanical filtra-
ton the chemical part of the manufact-
ure ceases, and the liquid, now called
thick juice" is ready for crystalliza-
ton.
This syrup is boiled in the vacuum
pan, receptacle containing q copper
coil heated by steam, until the proper
crystals are obtained, which, with the
uncrystallized sugar, forms the "masse
cutie" an unprepossessng mixture,
which the centrifugals are able to rem
der into white sugar in the brief space
of few minutes. These machines make o
about thousand revolutions minute,
the centrifugal force driving the molas-
ses through the porous walls OF the re-
| ceiver, leaving solid layer OF crystals
| clinging to the side. After being sprayed
with water, the damp sugar is released
and conveyed to the drier, an immense
tumbler whose heated walls remove all
moisture. 1t gradually works TO the