Battery for Sucking Off and Liquoring Masse Cuite with a Measurable and Adjustable Amount of Cleare for each Mold.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 30th Apr., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Battery for Sucking Off and Liquoring Masse Cuite with a Measurable
and Adjustable Amount of Cleare for each Mold.
I, OSCAR MENGELBIER, a citizen of the Republic of Chili, South America,
residing at Penco, Manufacturer and Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a battery like apparatus which serves for sucking off and
liquoring masse cuite and which renders it possible that the cleare can be used in
measured and regulated quantity for each sugar mold as may be necessary for each
boiling operation. The arrangement of the apparatus is such, that in spite of
the single sugar molds being connected to form a battery, each mold operates
for itself and can, when desired, be cut out.
The apparatus renders it possible to reduce the quantity of liquor to a minimum
thus reducing the work to be done by the centrifugal machine and increasing
the capacity of the same.
The application of the apparatus is manifold and the same can be employed
for sucking off the green syrup from the molds and for working with preliminary
liquoring or with pure liquor.
Fig. 1 is the elevation of a battery constructed according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is an end view of the same.
Figs. 3 & 4 represent one of the elements of the battery in longitudinal and cross
section on an enlarged scale.
The battery can be constructed in various ways according to the form of the
sugar molds employed and the grouping of the same, one construction being
represented in the accompanying drawing in which the sugar molds have almost a
cubic form and are arranged in two parallel rows.
Each of the sugar molds a are placed on a suction box or receptacle b which
has an india rubber packing ' held by strap iron 62 and on which the lower edge
of the sugar mold lies.
The upper part of each form a is provided with a tight fitting hood c which is
open at the top and provided at one side with a tube c through which the cleare
necessary for each mold flows. The form of the suction box band the hood c
depends on the form of the sugar molds which can consist of the customary molds
such as are used in sugar factories or of loaf molds.
In the battery like connection of the elements composed of the suction box b,
sugar mold a and hood c, the former is provided with an annular projection 6³ which
fits into perforations of a plate d carried by columns d'.-Figs. 3 & 4.
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Pieces of tubing et are attached to the hollow projection 63 of the suction box b
and are joined to the service pipe e and provided with suitable cocks or other devices
which will permit the service pipes being cleaned by means of steam, or the
syrup or cleare being let off out of the service when the liquoring operation is
finished. The hoods c of each two elements of the battery are tightly pressed, by
means of a bow or strap g screwed to the rod g, onto the sugar molds a.
hoods c of the elements are by means of their short tubes c¹ connected to a tube h
which is so fed with cleare from a liquor measuring vessel k by means of a feod
tube i that the cleare flowing from the measuring vessel, by opening the preferably
conical closure, is uniformly distributed to all the hoods. The connection of the
tube h with the separate hoods is such that the connecting tubes c² which embrace

page_text: the perforated tube hat h¹ so that each hood can be turned up (see the right hand
side of Fig. 2), will in this position close the opening leading to the hood so that
no cleare can flow into this battery element without simultaneously interrupting the
connection between the clear feed tube h and the other elements.
In order to be able to use the apparatus for sucking off the green syrup,
preliminary liquor or pure cleare, each suction box bis provided with a tube o
with downwardly directed perforations o² said tube being connected to a tube p
which is in connection with a tube q leading to the air pump or suction apparatus,
said tube being provided with suitable closing devices 7', '. Each of the
connecting tubes p are provided with cocks p₁ in order to cut off the single
elements of the battery.
A manometer r shows the degree of vacuum in the tube and can serve to control
the uniform action of each element of the battery. The cocks renders it possible
to let air into the suction service without opening the closures q' or ². The
suction boxes bare at their upper edges extended outwards so that the cleare
dripping from the raised hood e will be fed into the said suction boxes by means of
the pieces of sheet metal u.
The operation of the apparatus is as follows:
If the apparatus is to be used for sucking off the green syrup out of the masse
cuite in the sugar molds the operation can be carried out without cleare, i.e. when
the suction boxes and hoods c are tightly closed onto the molds a and the
cocks p², g², opened, the green syrup is sucked off and fed by means of the suction
boxes into the tube e and from thence into the vessel t.
Or the operation can be carried out with a preliminary liquoring for which
purpose a quantity of cleare which has already been used once, or saturated syrups
of higher quotients of purity than the green syrup to be driven off, is fed into the
measuring vessel k from whence the syrup or liquor passes through the tube i into
the distributing tube h in order to uniformly distribute the cleare or liquor to all
the hoods of the separate forms a.
If suction is now employed, the cock f¹ being closed and the cocks p¹ opened, the
green syrup driven out of the masse cuite by the cleare or liquor into the tube e
can be allowed to flow off.
After this preliminary liquoring pure white cleare is allowed to flow from the
measuring vessel and is uniformly distributed to all the sugar molds, and this
cleare sucked through the sugar mass so that the preliminary liquoring is driven off
and a well liquored product obtained.
The sucked off preliminary liquor is let off and can be collected separately, whilst
the pure white liquor used can be obtained by sucking same off or by treating the
molds a, which, after releasing the bow or strap g¹ and flapping up the hoods c, can
be readily removed, in a centrifugal machine.
Should one of the elements of the battery or one of the molds a in consequence
of same becoming untight or for any other reason, operate irregularly, such element
or mold can be readily cut out without in any way interfering with the operation of
the other elements or molds, this being effected by releasing the bow or strap g¹
and flapping up the hood c, so as to cut off all feed of cleare, and by closing the
cock p between the element and the section service.
By employing my improved device I am able to economically use a part of the
battery for the purpose as aforementioned according to the number of sugar molds
to be operated on.
The equalisation of the height of the cleare in the hoods is effected automatically
on the principle of intercommunicating vessels in such manner, that as soon as a
hood has received an excess of cleare such surplus cleare will flow back into the
tube and pass into another hood.
The position of the distributing tube h for the cleare is so arranged that the
bottom of the same will be at the exact height with the line y corresponding
with the height of the smallest quantity of cleare used.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
(1) A battery for sucking off and liquoring masse cuite and composed of sugar
molds of various kinds, in which an exactly measured and adjustable quantity of
cleare can be used in each mold a by arranging the same on suction boxes b and
providing said molds with open hoods c which communicate with the cleare supply
pipe / so that the cleare flowing from the measuring vessel k will be uniformly
distributed to all the hoods, substantially as described in the foregoing Specification
and shown in the drawings.
(2) In a battery of the kind characterised in the foregoing claim, the device by
means of which the separate elements of the battery can be cut off from the suction
service without disturbing the others, characterised by the revoluble attachment of
the hoods e to the cleare supply tube so that when a hood is flapped or turned up
the supply of cleare will be cut off substantially as described in the foregoing
Specification and shown in the drawings.
Dated this 24th day of March 1892
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.