Improvements in connection with Sugar Mills.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 19th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with Sugar Mills.
I, PETER GIBSON, of Eyemouth Grain Mills, Eyemouth, in the County of
Berwick, Manufacturer, (a communication from John Gibson, of Labasa Mill,
Fiji) do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to an improved process or combination of processes
for extracting the sugar from the sugar cane, the object of the invention being to
produce a total exhaustion of the cane in an expeditious simple and effective
manner.
In carrying my invention into effect I arrange a horizontal carrier of a length
to suit the distance between the mills, and I form this horizontal carrier with an
inclined part so that the cane delivered on the one part from one mill is carried
through a bath and delivered from the inclined part of the rolls of another mill.
I employ any ordinary mill for passing my cane through and I arrange a
macerating apparatus which delivers the liquid or water on to the crushed cane or
megass after it has passed through the first set of rolls, so that when it is received
on to the carriers, or the bars forming the carriers it can be made to traverse my
horizontal diffusion bath and in its journey be caused to deliver up by diffusion
the
held within the megass.
sugar
I apply sufficient steam or other heat to keep
the juice at a temperature preferably of from 180 to 200 degrees, and the macerating
water or liquid, which I allow to fall on to the megass when it leaves the top and
bottom rollers, keeps the bath full, while an overflow is provided and the liquid is
pumped back as desired to the macerating water tank, thereby saving heat and
giving an extra supply for thorough maceration.
I provide the inclined part of my carrier with a false bottom and the plates are
made to lap upwards while rows of holes are drilled above the laps to effectively
drain the ascending megass. Near the upper end of the inclined part of my
carrier frame I provide outlet doors or troughs so that the megass can be delivered
from the traveller on to the final set of rolls, where the remaining juice or sugar is
completely crushed out.
I provide suitable bearings within or upon my diffusion bath and carrier frame
together with the necessary guide pullies for enabling a correct traversing of the
carrier plates to be produced and I arrange a false bottom where desired within
my frame, making the same of any suitable material.
I employ any ordinary rolls or mills and any well known macerating bath together
with any common form of carrier suitable for the purpose.
Dated this 17th day of December 1895
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.

page_text: improvements in Commection with Sugar IIIS.
I, PETER GIBSON, of Eyemouth Grain Mills, Eyemouth, Berwickshire,
Manufacturer, (a communication from John Gibson, of Labasa Mill, in the Island
of Fiji, one of the Polynesian Islands), 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 has reference to an improved process or combination of processes
for extracting sugar from the sugar cane, the object of the invention being to
produce a total exhaustion of the cane in an expeditious, simple and effective
manner.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings ;—
Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved mill.
Figure 2 is a transverse sectional elevation on the line xx, and
Figure 3 is a transverse section on the line y z.
In carrying my invention into effect I arrange a horizontal carrier CD of a
length to suit the distance between the mills A G and I form this horizontal
carrier with an inclined part so that the cane delivered on the one part from one
mill is carried through a bath and delivered from the inclined part to the rolls of
another mill.
I employ any ordinary mill A for passing my cane through and I arrange a
macerating apparatus which delivers the liquid or water on to the crushed cane or
megass after it has passed through the first set of rolls, so that when it is received
on to the carriers B, or the bars forming the carriers it can be made to traverse
my horizontal diffusion bath C and in its journey be caused to deliver up by
diffusion the sugar held within the megass. I apply sufficient steam or other heat
to keep the juice at a temperature preferably of from 180 to 200 degrees, and the
macerating water or liquid, which I allow to fall to the megass when it leaves the
top and bottom rollers, keeps the bath full, while an overflow is provided and
the liquid is pumped back as desired to the macerating water tank, thereby saving
heat and giving an extra supply for thorough maceration.
1 provide the inclined part of my carrier frame D with a false bottom E and
the plates are made to lap upwards while rows of holes are drilled above the lapse,
to effectively drain the ascending megass. Near the upper end of the inclined
part of my carrier frame I provide outlet doors or troughs F so that the megass
can be delivered from the traveller on to the final set of rolls G where the
remaining juice or sugar is completely crushed out.
I provide suitable bearings HHH within or upon my diffusion bath C and
carrier frame D together with the necessary guide pullies for enabling a correct
traversing of the carrier plates to be produced and I arrange a false bottom E
where desired within my frame, making the same of any suitable material.
I employ any ordinary rolls or mills and any well known macerating bath together
with any common form of carrier suitable for the purpose.
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 1
claim is―
(1.) The improvements in connection with sugar mills substantially as and for
the purposes herein before described and as illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
(2.) In a sugar mill the arrangement of a bath between two sets of rolls,
through which the sugar cane is made to pass by means of a moving carrier

page_text: substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
(3.) The improved arrangement of diffusion bath having an inclined draining
end up which the sugar cane is carried for delivery to the rolls of an ordinary mill
substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
(4.) In a sugar mill the arrangement of a carrier or conveyor for transferring
the sugar cane from one mill through a diffusion bath to another mill substantially
as and for the purposes herein before described and as illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
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MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.