Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-15
SEARBY SHREDDER And RAMSEY
INVENTION HELP TO SUGAR men
Both are Given High Praise in
Committee Report to Plant
erS' Association

Ramsey macerating scraper and con-
yeyor trough, are given great atten-
ton and unqualified Endorsement In
the annual report of the committee on
manufacturing machinery submitted 10
the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Asso-
citation at the annual meeting which
Is converting.
The committee, consists of A. Cart
ley, chairman; ]. A. Scott, w. G. Hail.
j. N. s. Williams, E. Kopke and w
J. Dyer. Their report follows, In
part:
Milling Department.
Shredder.-The Searby system OF
shredding which was discussed at the
last meeting Of this association has
created a keen interest. not only in
these islands, but among cane sugar
manufacturers in different parts OF the
world On July Is of this year letters
patent of the United States were is
sued to Mr.. Searby granting the fol-
lowing claims which are presented
below, and from which 1t will be seen
that Mr.. Searby's patent covers the
combination OF a beating machine
which converts the cane into loose,
fibrous mass and thereafter submits
such fibrous mass to pressing opera
tons:
Claim 1.-The process of recovering
sugar from cane which comprises
crushing cane to fiatten and break II.
loosening the fibers to convert such
cane into a loose, fibrous mass and
depressing the fibrous material
Claim 2. The process of recovering
sugar from cane which comprises
crushing cane to fiatten and break It,
loosening the fibers to convert such
cane into loose, flbfous mass, and
depressing the fibrous material plu-
rality of times, and spraying the mass
between depressing operations.
10 Rolling Pressure.
Claim 3. The process of recover.
ing sugar from cane which comprises
submitting cane to rolling pressure
plurality of times, and loosening the
fiber to convert such cane into a
loose, fibrous mass between a pair Of
such pressing operations.
Claim 4.--The process of recovering
sugar from cane which comprises
crushing cane to fiatten and break it.
submitting the crushed cane to a
beating operation to loosen the fibers
and REFRESHING the fibrous material
Claim SIN the recovery of sugar
from cane, the process which COM
prises submitting cane to a beating
operation to loosen the fibers and
convert such cane into loose, fibrous
mass and thereafter submitting such.
fibrpus mass to pressing operation.
Claim Sin the recovery of sugar
from cane, the process which COM
prises submitting cane to a beating
operation to loosen the fibers and con-
vert such cane into a loose, fibrous
mass and thereafter submitting such
ibrous mass to pressing operations
plurality of times.
Successive Treatment.
5 Claim Tin cane-treating appara-
tus, beating and fibrous mass-form-
ing device and q plurality of roller
pressing devices arranged in series
for successive treatment of cane.
Claim Sin cane-treating appara-
tus, roller pressing device, beating
and fibrous transforming device and
roller-pressing device arranged In
series for successive treatment of the
cane
In writing of the improvements
made In the factory of the Hawaiian
Commercial & Sugar Company this:
year, Mr.. F. F. Baldwin writes:
"The most important item is un-
doubtedly the Searby shredder or beat
ing machine One Of these was In
operation In one of our trains of mills
during the entire 1915 crop. We we're
fortunate in having two sets of mills,
as this enabled us to try out new
machinery and methods of milling in
one of the mills and at the same time.
we had the second train of mills for
check in regard to the tonnage of
cane handled and quality Of work
done. This, of course, is obviously
better than comparison of work done
at different times when the character
of the cane ground may have varied
or other conditions may have chang
ed.
10 Simple Machine.
The shredder is a very simple ma
chine, the essential parts consisting
of series of cutter bars and set
Of heaters, revolving at a moderate
speed. The shredder cane resembles
fine excelsior and thus relieves the
mills from the necessity of breaking
up the harder portions of the cane.
with this shredder preparing the
cane, the function of the three-roller
mills becomes what it was originally
intended to be, viz: that of continu-
Gus, revolving hydraulic press. The
mill with the shredder obtained / per
cent better extraction than the set
without the shredder. AS this was
only an experimental machine, which
was intended for short trial, the re-
suits are very encouraging, and we
are confident of increasing this
amount this year"
Mr.. F. A. Alexander of McBryde
Sugar Company has to report as fol.
lows:
"Under the head of Manufacturing
Machinery, McBryde Sugar Company
in June, 1915. installed o Searby 42Dx
81" Swing Hammer Shredder.
Used For Trial Run.