Method of and Apparatus for Refining Sugar.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Nov., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1900-Accepted, 20th Nov., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Method of and Apparatus for Refining Sugar.
I, JOSEPH ROBIN-LANGLOIS, of 4, Rue de la Bourse, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention consists in a device of quick refining for beetroot-sugar, cane-
sugar, and the like, by taking raw and crystallized sugar which is afterwards
washed, turbunated, dryed and ground, for the purpose of agglomerating it into
a pasty mass without any compression into small plates, ingots, lumps, and the
like, with a section in conformity with a portion of the moulding-table and of.
the table for removing the sugar from the moulds.
In the annexed drawings, Fig. 1, represents the arriving quay for unloading
the sugar crystals to be transformed into a pasty mass by means of a cleaner,
washer, turbines, dryer, crusher, before they enter into the moulding device
represented underneath, in an elevation in Fig. 2, and in a plan in Fig. 3.
Fig. 4, shews on a larger scale the details of the cross-section through —c
of Fig. 3.
Fig. 5, is an exterior view of a metallic sheet called "the lift of the small
plates."
Fig. 6, is an elevation and sectional view of the distributor of the pasty mass
upon the moulding table, and, Fig. 7, is a plan and sectional view through
line y-y of Fig. 6.
Fig. 8, is a detailed view of the needle carrying-arm.
Fig. 9, indicates in a general way the outside of the distributor of Fig. 6,
provided with the solidary levers of the conical rollers and with the counter-
weight equilibrating the big roller.
Finally in Figs. 10 and 11, I show the industrial result obtained under the
form of a small plate.
I take as an example, for the realization of my invention, a white sugar, type
No. 3, of the l'aris Exchange; it contains yet some parts of molasses and mineral
salts. For eliminating them, I treat the sugar in the following manner before
moulding it. As soon as the initial volume of crystals of said sugar comes to
the quays, I, of the factory, (Fig. 1), it passes through one or several cleaners 2,
it is
which free it from the hair of the bags and from all extraneous bodies;
then washed at 3, with cleare saturated with sugar or nearly saturated, in order
not to smelt any sugar and to destroy crystallisation. I obtain thus a moist
and pasty mass pretty liquid, either by the cold or the hot process.
Later on I will explain how I obtain that fine cleare employed at 3.
The pasty mass falls afterwards into one or several turbines 4, the drips run
out from 4 to be taken into 5; it ought theorically to pass to the cooling appa-
ratus. It can be used again for washing at 3, on the condition that it should be
mixed up with bone black and passed through mechanical filters in order to be
brought to the state of a fine cleare.

page_text: The sugar turbinated at 4, is carried to 6, to be washed again with fine cleare,
it is turbinated at 7, and as its drips being previously eliminated flow out
separately to fall into 8, it is taken through the pipe 9, to the washer 3, where
it will be used for a second washing.
Now all that remains of the initial volume of unloaded sugar at 1, will be
⚫ carried, after all these successive eliminations of its drips, to the dryers 10,
crushers 11, and bolted at 12, in order to have:-
(1) The good corn which will be afterwards moistened with water blued with
vegetable indigo, and will fall as a pasty mass through the pipes 13, 13ª, (Figs. 1
and 3); this mass will be heated in a water-bath, then moulded in a hot con-
dition in order that, after being moulded and cooled, it may become crystallized
and joined together without any compression.
(2). The impalpable sugar powder called ice will be smelted in one or several
boilers 14, filtered with an addition of bone-black in 15, in order to obtain a
fine clear, which will be carried through the pipe 16, to the washer 6.
(3) The refuses will go back automatically to the crushers 11.
As soon as the sugar falls through the vertical pipes, 13, 13ª, (Figs. 1, 2, 3,)
I put into operation the moulding organs shewn in Fig. 2.
The moving power operates respectively on the pulley 17, and its horizontal
shaft 18, and upon the shaft of the endless screw 19, (Fig. 2) meshing with the
mangle wheel 20.
As soon as the first rotations are made by the pulley 17, and the horizontal
shaft 18, on its brackets 21, 22, its rotation allows, by means of the bevel-
pinion 23, to rotate the bevelled wheel 24, in order to rotate the vertical shaft 25,
laying at its bottom within a socket 26, and ending at its top by a spur-pinion 27,
which pulls into gear respectively the two spur-wheels 28, 29, solidary of the
vertical shafts 30, 31, (Figs. 2 and 3) of the mixers 32, 33, composed with round
troughs provided with a double bottom 34, in which hot water fed by the
pipes 35, 36, is contained. Columns 37, 38, 39, 40, connected together by U-
shaped irons 41, 42, 43, 44, and girders 45, 46, carrying cross-bars 47, 48, with
four branches (Fig. 3), constitute the whole of the principal frame-work. The
shafts 30, 31, of the mixers 32, 33, rotate continually when the pulley 17, is
revolving, which allows to realize a continuous mixing of the pasty mass falling
respectively from the pipes, 13, 13, by following the path shewn by the arrows
(Fig. 2). A tube 36, (Fig. 3) carries separately into each mixer the water
blued with vegetable indigo, which is necessary in order to moisten the good
corn properly. When the pasty mass of the mixer 33, is sufficiently treated
by the operation of a hand flying-wheel 49, which actuates the pinion 50, of the
horizontal kneading-mill 51, at a temperature at least equal to that of the mixer 33,
in consequence of the heating by hot water provided at 52, (Fig. 2). Such
kneading-mill is kept in position by stands 53, 54, (Fig. 2) resting on brackets
and cross-bars 55, 56, fixed to the columns.
The mixer 33, is loaded again with pasty mass which falls through its pipe 13*,
and the mixer works as I have said just now. By operating at its turn the hand
flying-wheel 57, (Fig. 3) the inside siuice of the mixer 32, opens itself and allows
the pasty mass to flow into the inferior kneading-mill 51.
The horizontal shaft 58 of that kneading-mill 51 is kept in position by stuff-
ing-boxes 59, 60, they allow the said shaft 58, to receive fixedly at one of its
ends a spur-toothed-wheel 61, meshing with a pinion 62, solidary of the hori-
zontal shaft 18, (Fig. 2), so that the rotatory movement of the shaft 58, remains
continuous as long as the pulley 17, rotates. Upon the horizontal shaft 58, I
have fixed kneading-knives 63. so that the pasty mass is continually shaken,
turned up and kneaded at a fixed temperature in order to keep up its malleability.
The pasty mass comes out from 51, through the superior opening of the ver-
tical distributor 64 (Figs. 2, 6, 7), formed with a cylindrical, vertical and prin-
cipal part, provided with a vertical shaft 65, held by brackets 66, 67, provided
with arms 68. Such distributor receives its rotatory movement from the bevelled

page_text: wheel 69, solidary of the horizontal shaft 18, which meshes with the wheel 70,
fixed on that vertical shaft 65. A stuffing-box 71, is arranged above the dis-
tributor. Two eye-holes 72, 73, represented at their respective place, allow,
when opening them, to book into the inside of the distributor. The lever 74,
(Figs. 2 and 3) with handle 75, is so arranged that through a single traction it
operates an obturator-disk of the superior opening of 64. By such operation, I
allow only the necessary quantity of pasty mass to pass which is intended to be
moulded.
Upon the moulding-table 76, I put a few removable copper plates of a sur-
face similar to that of Fig. 11, with the object of avoiding the pasty mass
adhering upon the cast-iron of 76, when the moulding is taking place.
The inferior end of the shaft 65, is provided with one or several arms 77,
(Figs. 6 and 8) provided with one or several vertical blades 75, the object of
which is to divide in a continuous manner,. during the rotation of 65, the pasty
mass which remains in contact with the moulding-table (Fig. 2) under which
I maintain a sufficient temperature by means of the pipes 79, 80, in which water-
steam is circulating.
Above the bevelled wheel 70, I have keyed upon the shaft 65, a spur toothed-
wheel 81, which actuates another spur toothed-wheel 82, (Fig. 3), the latter is
solidary of its vertical shaft 85, which ends at its inferior part by a series of
arms 84, having the shape of crescents of an oval cross-section in order to make
property smooth by their rotatory movement the superior face of the small plates,
as the pasty mass is being spread on the table 76, and sufficiently subdivided
by the points of 76, in order to realize an homogeneous agglomeration which can,
by a nearer contact and when being cooled, become intimately united when the
table has run already a certain dimension of the sector which begins at the
moment of the moulding in 85, (Fig. 3) to finish in 86 (Fig. 3) and in the sense
of the arrow 87.
All such operation through the points 78, and the crescents 84, takes place in
the middle of an envelop of a sheet-iron 88, composed of one or several pieces.
The rotatory movement of the moulding-table is made upon six-feet 89, pro-
vided with rollers 90, of a conical periphery each one of them being solidary of
an axle 91, rotating in a case 92, the tapped rod 93, of which passes into a
hole 9. made in the superior part of each foot 89 and remains fixed there by
means of nuts (Fig. 4).
On the superior part of each foot 89, I put a stand 95, which maintains the
heating pipes 79, 80, in a position near to the table 76. The latter is a ring
with a cross-section U-shaped, on the sides of which the arms 96, of the nave 97,
fit inwardly, forming thus a flat wheel 76, which rotates round the axle 98,
(Figs. 2 and 3). A ring 99, of small thickness is fixed at 76, to constitute the
fixed lift forming thus the portion of the small circumference in each moulded
small plate. Inside the table 76, the removable lifts, 100, (Figs. 4 and 5) are
arranged from place to place, but in an uninterrupted manner; the exterior
view of Fig. 5, shews their general aspect. Brackets 101, carry a ring 102, in
galvanized iron-sheet. That table 102, allows to receive at a proper moment
the small plates cut off, as it will be said farther on. Each lift 100, is provided
with a roller 103, with axle 104. Each roller 103 rolls in the middle of a path
formed by the corner-plates 105, 106, fixed respectively to the six feet 89, in a
not horizontal plan. From the point 85, to the point 86, (Fig. 3) the rollers
roll on a perfectly straight line to secure the moulding of the small continuous
plate which is accomplished in that portion of sector.
From the first displacing of the ring 76, and from the point 85, the roller 107,
(Figs. 3 and 9) with its branches 108, 108, begins to regularize the adhesion on
the cast iron table 76, of the small removable plates, the object of which I have
mentioned already. During the operation of moulding and the rotation of the
shafts 65, 83, the distribution of the pasty mass into a long annular section is
realized very exactly on these removable plates, and the roller 109, used for the

page_text: object of finishing the coat of the sugar is suspended by his levers 110, 110ª,
articulated in 111, to the axle 112, and then equilibrated by the counter-
weight 113, fixed to the levers 114, 114 at the necessary plate, so as not to com-
press, but to smooth. As soon as the point 86 is passed, and in the sense of the
arrow 87, the two corner-plates or rails 105, 106 take a slight descending curve,
so that the superior part of each removable lift 100, comes to the flat and even
to the inferior level of 70, and that the cutting of the annular sector of sugar
moulded in that way without compression can take place, as shewn in Fig. 10,
with copper knives, and I obtain as an industrial result, the small plate 115,
represented in Fig. 11, which I order to be carried to the drying rooms.
As the table is rotating, a new set of copper blades are placed till those which
have been just taken away with the small plates of sugar, being cut off, come
back from the drying rooms.
Dated this 20th day of November 1899.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents.
I, JOSEPH ROBIN-LANGLOIS, of 4, Rue de la Bourse, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Gentleman, 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:―
My invention consists in a device for quickly refining beetroot, cane, or other,
sugars by taking them in the raw and crystalised state and afterwards washing,
turbining, drying, and grinding, for the purpose of (without compression)
agglomerating same into a pasty mass whether as small plates, ingots, or lumps
of various sections all in conformity with the various portions of the moulding
table and of the table for removing the sugar from the mould.
The sugar crystals are transformed into a pasty mass by means of a cleaner,
washer, turbines, drying apparatus, and a crusher, before they enter into the
moulding device, and a distributor is employed for distributing the mass upon
the moulding table.
And in order that this my invention may be fully understood I will describe
same with reference to the drawings left with the Provisional Specification.
Fig. 1 represents the arrival quay of the factory for unloading the sugar
crystals to be operated upon.
Figs. 2 and 3, are respectively elevational and plan views of the moulding
device..
Fig. 4 is, to a larger scale, a cross section through line a a Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 is an external view of a metallic sleet called
plates."
**
the lift of the small
Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation of the distributor of the pasty mass upon the
moulding table, and
Fig. is a sectional plan through line y y Fig. 6.
Fig. 8 is a detail view of the needle carrying arm.
Fig. 9 indicates in a general way the outside of the distributor (Fig. 6) pro-
vided with levers, rollers, and counter weight.
Finally in Figs. 10 and 11 I shew the industrial result obtained under the
form of a small plate.

page_text: For the purposes of explaining this invention I will take as an example say
a white sugar of a type known as No. 3 of the Paris Exchange; which contains
some parts of molasses and mineral salts. For eliminating them, I treat the
sugar in the following manner before moulding it. As soon as the initial
volume of crystals of said sugar arrives at the quays, I, of the factory (Fig. 1)
it passes through one or several cleaners 2 which free it from the hair of the
bags and from all extraneous bodies; it is then washed at 3 with clearers satu-
rated with sugar or nearly so saturated, in order not to smelt any sugar and to
destroy crystalization, I obtain thus a moist and pasty mass pretty liquid, either
by the cold or the hot process.
Later on I will explain how I obtain that fine cleare employed at 3.
The pasty mass falls afterwards into one or several turbines 4 the drips run
out from 4 to be taken into 5; it ought theorically to pass to the cooking appa-
ratus. It can be used again for washing at 3 on the condition that it should be
mixed up with bone black and passed through mechanical filters in order to be
brought to the state of a fine cleare.
The sugar turbined at 4, is carried to 6 to be washed again with fine cleare,
it is turbined at 7 and as its drips, being previously eliminated, flow out
separately to fall into S it is taken through the pipe 9 to the washer 3 where
it will be used for a second washing.
Now all that remains of the initial volume of unloaded sugar at 1 will be
carried, after all these successive eliminations of its drips, to the dryers, 10,
crushers 11, and bolted at 12, in order to have:-
(1) The good corn which will be afterwards moistened with water blued with
vegetable indigo, and will fall as a pasty mass through the pipes 13, 13ª (Figs. 1
and 3) this mass will be heated in a water-bath, then moulded in a hot con-
dition, in order that, after being moulded and cooled, it may become crystalized
and joined together without any compression.
(2) The impalpable sugar powder called ice will be smelted in one or several
boilers, 14, filtered with an addition of bone-black in, 15, in order to obtain a
fine cleare which will be carried through the pipe 16, to the washer 6.
.
(3) The refuses will go back automatically to the crushers 11.
As soon as the sugar falls through the vertical pipes 13, 13ª, (Figs. 1, 2, and 3)
I put into operation the moulding organs shown in Fig. 2.
The moving power operates respectively on the pulley 17, and its horizontal
shaft, 18, and upon the shaft of the endless screw 19, (Fig. 2) meshing with the
mangle-wheel 20.
As soon as the first rotations are made by the pulley, 17, and the horizontal
shaft, 18, on its brackets 21, 22, its rotation allows, by means of the bevel-
pinion 23, the bevelled wheel, 24 to rotate in order to rotate the vertical shaft 25,
laying at its bottom within a socket 26, and ending at its top by a spur-pinion 27,
which pulls into gear respectively the two spur-wheels 28, 29 solid with the
vertical shafts 30, 31 (Figs. 2 and 3) of the mixers 32, 33, composed with round
troughs provided with a double bottom. 34, in which hot water fed by the
pipes 35 36 is contained. Columns, 37 38 39 40, connected together by U-
shaped irons 41, 42 43 44, and girders 45 46 carrying cross-bars 47 48 with
four branches (Fig. 3) constitute the whole of the principal frame-work. The
shafts 30, 31 of the mixers 32, 33, rotate continually when the pulley 17, is
revolving, which allows of a continuous mixing of the pasty mass falling
respectively from the pipes 13, 13 by following the path shown by the arrows
(Fig. 2). The tubes 35 36 (Fig. 3) carry separately into each mixer the water
blued with vegetable indigo which is necessary in order to moisten the good
corn properly. When the pasty mass of the mixer, 33, is sufficiently treated,
by the operation of a hand-wheel 49 which actuates the pinion 50 of the hori-
zontal kneading-mill 51, the inside sluice of the mixer is opened & the pasty
mass flows into said kneading mill at a temperature at least equal to that of
the mixer 33 in consequence of the heating by hot water provided at 52 (Fig. 2).

page_text: Such kneading-mill is kept in position by stands 53, 54, (Fig. 2) resting on
brackets and cross-bars 55 56 fixed to the columns.
The mixer 33, is loaded again with pasty mass which falls through its pipe 13ª
and the mixer works as aforesaid. By operating in its turn the hand
flying-wheel 57 (Fig. 3) the inside sluice of the mixer 32 opens itself and allows
the pasty mass to flow into the inferior kneading-mill 51.
The horizontal shaft 58 of the kneading-mill 51 is kept in position by stuff-
ing-boxes 59 60 they allow the said shaft 58 to receive fixedly at one of its
ends a spur-toothed wheel 61 meshing with a pinion 62 solid with the hori-
zontal shaft 18 (Fig. 2) so that the rotary movement of the shaft 58 remains
continuous as long as the pulley, 17 rotates. Upon the horizontal shaft, 58 I
have fixed kneading knives 63 so that the pasty mass is continually shaken,
turned un and kneaded at a fixed temperature in order to keep up its malleability.
The pasty mass comes out from 51 through the superior opening of the ver-
tical distributor 64, (Fig. 2, 6, and 7) formed with a cylindrical, vertical and prin-
cipal part, provided with a vertical shaft 65, held by brackets 66, 67, provided
with arms 68. The shaft 65 receives its rotary movement from the bevelled
wheel 69 solid with the horizontal shaft, 18, which meshes with the wheel_70
fixed on the vertical shaft, 65. A stuffing-box 71 is arranged above the dis-
tributor. Two eye-holes 72 73 represented at their respective places allow,
when opened, the inside of the distributor to be seen. The lever 74
(Figs. 2 and 3) with handle 75 is so arranged that through a single traction it
operates an obturator-disk of the upper opening of 64. By such operation, I
allow only the necessary quantity of pasty mass to pass which it is intended to
mould.
Upon the moulding-table 76 I put a few removable copper plates of a sur-
face similar to that of Fig. 11, with the object of avoiding the pasty mass
adhering upon the castiron of 76 when the moulding is taking place.
The lower end of the shaft 65 is provided with
one or several arms 77,
(Figs. 6 and 8) provided with one or several vertical blades 78 the object of
which is to divide in a continuous manner during the rotation of 65 the pasty
mass which remains in contact with the moulding table, (Fig. 2) under which
I maintain a sufficient temperature by means of the pipes 79, 80 in which water-
steam is circulating.
Below the bevelled wheel 70 I have keyed upon the shaft, 65 a spur-toothed-
wheel 81 which actuates another spur-toothed-wheel 82 (Fig. 3) the latter is
solid upon its vertical shaft 83, which ends at its lower part in a series of
arms 84 having the shape of crescents of an oval cross-section in order to make
properly smooth by their rotatory movement the upper face of the small plates,
as the pasty-mass is being spread on the table 76 and sufficiently subdivided,
by the points of 78 in order to realise an homogeneous agglomeration which can,
by a nearer contact and when being cooled, become intimately united when the
table has run already a certain dimension of the sector which begins at the
moment of the moulding in 85, (Fig. 3) to finish in SG (Fig. 3) and in the sense
of the arrow 87.
All such operation through the points 78 and the crescents 84 takes place in
the middle of an envelop of sheet-iron 88 composed of one or several pieces.
The rotary movement of the moulding-table is made upon six feet 89 pro-
vided with rollers 90 of a conical periphery each one of them being solid upon
an axle, 91 rotating in a case 92, the tapped rod 93 of which passes into a
hole 94 made in the upper part of each foot 89, and remains fixed there by
means of nuts (rig. 4).
On the upper part of each foot 89 I put a stand 95 which maintains the
heating pipes 79 80 in a position near to the table 76. The latter is a ring
with a cross-section U-shaped on the sides of which the arms 96. of the nave 97
fit inwardly, forming thus a flat wheel 76 which rotates round the axle 98
(Figs. and 3). A ring 99 of small thickness is fixed at 76 to constitute the

page_text: fixed lift forming thus the portion of the small circumference in each moulded
small plate. Inside the table 76 the removable lifts 100 (Figs. 4 and 5) are
arranged from place to place, but in an uninterrupted manner; the exterior
view of Fig. 5 shows their general aspect. Brackets 101 carry a ring 102 in
galvanized iron-sheet. The table or ring 102 receives at a proper moment
the small plates cut off, as hereinafter stated. Each lift 100 is provided
with a roller 103 with axle 104. Each roller 103 rolls in the middle of a path
formed by the corner-plates 105 106 fixed respectively to the six feet 89. From
the point 85 to the point 86 (Fig. 3) the rollers roll on a perfectly straight line
to secure the moulding of the small continuous plate which is accomplished in
that portion of sector.
From the first displacing of the ring 76 and from the point 85 the roller 107
(Figs. 3 and 9) with its branches 108 108 begins to regulate the adhesion on
the cast-iron table, 76 of the small removable plates, the object of which I have
mentioned already. During the operation of moulding and the rotation of the
shafts 65 83 the distribution of the pasty mass into a long annular section is
realised very exactly on these removable plates, and the roller, 109 used for the
object of finishing the coat of the sugar is suspended by its levers 110, 110*
articulated in 111 to the axle 112 and kept in equilibrium by the counter-
weight 113 fixed to the levers 114 114ª at the necessary plate, so as not to com-
press, but to smooth. As soon as the point 86 is passed, and in the sense of the
arrow 87 the two corner-plates or rails 105 106 take a slight descending curve,
so that the upper part of cach removable lift 100 comes to the flat and even
to the lower level of 76 and that the cutting of the annular sector of sugar
moulded in that way without compression can take place, as shewn in Fig. 10,
with copper knives, and I obtain, as an industrial result, the small plate 115
represented in Fig. 11; which is carried to the drying rooms.
As the table is rotating, a new set of copper blades are placed till those
have been just taken away with the small plates of sugar, being cut off, come
back from the drying-rooms.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare, that what
I claim is
(1) In apparatus for refining sugar, taken in the raw and crystallized state,
the cleaning in, 2, the washings in 3, 6, of its crystals with cleare saturated
with water or nearly saturated, coming from their drips mixed up with fine
bone black passed through mechanical filters, in combination with their extrac-
tion by the action of the centrifugal force of the turbines in 4, 7, in the con-
tinuous work, shown in Fig. 1, for the purpose of ridding the said crystals from
any molasses, mineral waters etc. which might yet subsist, substantially as
described and shown.
(2) In apparatus for refining sugar, coming from the preliminary treatment
experienced as described in Claim 1, its drying in 10 its crushing in 11 and its
bolting in 12, in order to have the good corn, the impalpable powder smelted
in 14 filtered in 15 carried through the tube 16 to the washer 6 in combination
with the arrangement in 13b (Fig. 3) for moistening and blueing it sufficiently
for the object that, being subsequently heated in a water-bath before moulding,
it may give a continuous small plate with fine crystallized and intimately joined
corns without employing any compressive force, the cohesion being caused by
the crystallisation of the element of the syrup produced.
(3) In apparatus for refining sugar, treated as explained in Claims para-
graphs 1, 2, and falling through the pipes 13 and 13 the arrangement of the
mixers 32 33 (Fig. 2) heated through a water-bath 34 and also the kneading-
mill 51 heated in 52 in combination with a distributor 64 of that pasty mass
composed of sugar and of a syrup saturated at the temperature of the mass
itself, moistened, blued or not, treated at a certain temperature which is. going

page_text: to undergo the phenomenon of crystallisation after moulding, either through
lowering of temperature or through evaporation during and after the moulding,
in consequence of the pressure exerted by the rollers 107 substantially as described
and shown.
(4) In apparatus for refining sugar, treated as explained in Claims 1, 2, 3
and located in the distributor 64 of pasty mass upon the moulding table 76 the
arrangement of the vertical shaft 65 provided with one or several arms 77
(Figs. 6 and 8) fitted with blades or points 78 in combination with that lettered
83 (Figs. 3 and 6) provided with a series of arms 84 having the shape of cres-
cents with oval cross-section for the object of after having sufficiently sub-
divided the small plate continuous in moulding laying out and smoothing
properly its upper surface, as described and shown.
(5) In apparatus for refining sugar, which has become a pasty mass, according
to the continuous work described in Claims 1 to 4, the arrangement of the
arms 77 Fig. 6 and 7 and of those lettered 84 with rotatory movements different
and solid with the vertical shafts 65 and 83 in combination with a ring pro-
vided with arms 96 a nave 97 and an axle 98 or a moulding table 76 of a cross-
section U-shaped rolling upon rollers 90 for the purpose of realising such laying
out and smoothing of sugar whilst the ring 76 provided with a double iron-
corner rail 105 106 occupies a perfect horizontal plane so that the removable
small lifts 100 take the highest position (Fig. 2) for the moulding, substantially
as described and shown.
(6) In apparatus for refining sugar, which has become a pasty-mass, according
to the continuous work described in Claims 1 to 5 the arrangement of the mould-
ing table 76 having a U-shaped cross-section rolling upon rollers 90 in com-
bination with the heating system by radiation by means of the pipes 79, 80 in
which water steam circulates, said pipes being placed inside the U-section in
order that the sugar during its moulding may not get cooled through the con-
tact of a cold wall.
(7) In apparatus for refining sugar, which has become the pasty-mass laid out
regularly according to the work described in the Claims 1 to 6 the arrangement
of the U-shaped cross-sections in order to receive inside said ring the arms 96,
of the nave 97, with axle 98 the fixed small lift 99 in combination with remov
able small lifts 100 (Fig. 4 and 5) for the purpose of realising a continuous small
plate, substantially as described and represented.
(8) In apparatus for refining sugar, which has become the pasty-mass under
the form of a small plate according to the work described in Claims 1 to 7 the
arrangement of an ear, 111 with axle 112 and levers 110 110 in combination
with a roller 109 in equilibrium by the counter-weight 113 for the purpose of
finishing the coat of sugar, substantially as described and shown.
(9) In apparatus for refining sugar treated and moulded into a continuous
plate, as stated in Claims 1 to 8, the descending arrangement of the rail pro-
vided with iron-corners 105, 106 after its passage before the point 86 in com-
bination with the roller 109 kept in equilibrium for the purpose of realizing the
cutting of the continuous plate rationally, and the subsequent removing from
the table, 76, towards the ring 102 for each small plate 115 representing an
homogeneous agglomeration which becomes intimately joined through cooling,
in order to realize their individual removal.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents.