Improved Battery for Sucking Off and Liquoring Mass Cuite with a Measurable and Adjustable Amount of Cleare for each Mold.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Battery for Sucking Off and Liquoring Mass Cuite with a
Measurable and Adjustable Amount of Cleare for each Mold.
I, OSCAR MENGELBIER, of Penco, in the Republic of Chili, South America,
Manufacturer and Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a battery or like apparatus which serves for sucking off
and liquoring mass cuite, and is an improvement on the battery described in my
Patent No. 5762, dated 24th March 1892.
This battery is so arranged that the cleare can be used in exactly measured and
regulated quantity for each mold as required for each boiling operation, and the
unequal distribution of the cleare in each mold by reason of irregular operation of
the single molds during the liquoring, is prevented.
According to a certain modification of the battery, the arrangement is such that
the single elements can be cut out when required.
It is possible with this apparatus to reduce the quantity of liquor necessary for
liquoring the impure mass-cuite, and thus to increase the capacity of the centrifugal
drying machine. The apparatus can also be employed for sucking off the green
syrup and for working with pure liquor.
I will now describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings,
in which,
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the battery partly in vertical section.
Fig. 2 is a cross-section of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the battery in different horizontal planes.
Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 7 are sections of a modification of the rotatable cleare distributing
pipe in different positions, viz., from the closed position to that in which the
perforations or holes of the tube communicate or coincide with the hoods of the
elements of the battery.
Fig. 8 is a horizontal section of such distributing tube, and
Fig. 9 a vertical section of same.
Fig. 10 is a vertical section of a mold showing the communication of the device
for distributing the cleare with an open hood above the mold.
Fig. 11 shows the communication of the distributing device with a closed hood,
enabling the sucking off to be assisted by pressure, said hood being set upon a
loaf mold.
The symmetrical arrangement of the battery to the central axis is similar to that
described in Patent No. 5762 dated 24th March 1892, as regards the arrangement
of the single elements of the battery.
In the present modification, the cups or suction boxes are substituted by rings b,
whose packings can be placed immediately on the table or plate d receiving a
pipe el with cock e for each mold. The cocks connect with the pipes c on each side
of the battery leading to the closed receptacle E, from which the air is exhausted.
The plate or table & preferably inclines towards each pipe e' in the form of a
funnel.
According to the battery shown in Figs. 1-3, the hoods for the several sugar
molds are not in connection with the device common to all the molds for distributing
the cleare. The conveying and uniform distributing of the cleare from the liquor-
measuring vessel K, after opening the bottom valve, is effected by an open conduit H,
which can be tilted to one or the other side on trunnions mounted in the frame hº,
by means of a handle H*.
If the cleare necessary for liquoring all the elements of the battery is run from

page_text: the liquor-measuring vessel K on one side into the conduit H, the latter will be
tilted to the corresponding side (see dotted lines in Fig. 2) and consequently the
contents of the conduit discharged by spouts H' into the hoods of the elements of
the battery, the partitions H³ uniformly dividing or separating the corresponding
quantity of cleare for each hood. By tilting the conduit in the same manner to
the opposite side, the cleare will be correspondingly distributed or fed to each
hood. The liquoring operation is completed after the said distribution of the cleare
to every element of the battery has been effected, in such way, that by the suction-
pipe e connecting the elements of the one side, the cleare is sucked through the
impure mass in the molds, and then refined in a well known manner.
When it is required to cut out the single elements of the battery, or to use com-
pressed air for assisting the operation of liquoring, the separate hoods c are
connected to the device for distributing the cleare, as shown in Figs. 10 and 11.
In that case the distribution of the cleare is effected by a tube H° rotatable in the
tube h, and provided with semi-partitions H³ and holes or apertures H₁. The tube
has corresponding holes h¹, through which when coinciding with the holes H¹ of
the tube Ho, the cleare contained between the partition walls for each element of
the battery is delivered or fed to the hoods c of the elements of the battery. The
coverings or lids of each hood are correspondingly perforated, so that by turning
up the hood it is possible to cut off the corresponding mold from the apparatus.
The filling of the distributing tube Hº takes place when in the position shown in
Fig. 4, where the partitions (shown in black in the drawings) are in the upper
position, and the perforations H', ', not coinciding with each other; by rotating
the tube Ho, the partition walls uniformly divide the cleare in equal quantities
corresponding with the number of hoods to be filled.
The shape or size of the molds for the mass cuite may be varied, and is not
essential to this invention. The tight closing of the hoods against the molds and
the tightening of same against the rings b or plate d of the table, is effected by
means of clamps or bows similar to those employed in the previously-mentioned
Patent, but in such manner that one bow or clamp serves for tightening and closing
several molds.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1) An improved battery for sucking off and liquoring mass cuite with a measurable
and adjustable amount of cleare for each mold, characterized in that the sugar
molds (a) provided with hoods (c) and tightly pressed on the plate (d) of the frame,
are connected with a pipe (e) common to all the molds, the cleare being fed to all
the hoods from the measuring vessel (K) by a conduit (H) which can be tilted to
one or the other side, and is provided with spouts (H¹) and partitions (H³)
separating the cleare for each mold, substantially as described and shown in the
drawings.
2) In an improved battery for sucking off and liquoring mass cuite with a
measurable and adjustable amount of cleare for each mold, the combination with
the hoods of the device for distributing the cleare, consisting of a rotatable
tube (H°) provided with perforations (H) and semi-partitions (H) separating on
rotation of the tube (H°) within the pipe (h) the quantity of cleare for each mold,
such cleare being fed to the molds through holes or perforations (') of the pipe (h)
when the holes in both pipes (H°, h) coincide, substantially as described and shown
in the drawings.
Dh00-1 1 6 I 1002
ALLISON BROS.,
Agents for the Applicant.