IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND REFINING OR SUGAR AND RUN
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Gay Newton Alleyne, of the Butterley
Iron Works, Alfreton, in the County of Derby, Baronet, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANUFACTURE AND
REFINING OR SUGAR AND RUN OD
Sealed the 13th December 1872, and dated the 4th October 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Gay Newton
Alleyne at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 4th October 1872.
I, JOHN GAY NEWTON ALLEYNE, of the Butterley Iron Works,
Alfreton, in the County of Derby, Baronet, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANU-
FACTURE AND REFINING OF SUGAR AND RUM OR OTHER SPIRIT," to be as
follows:-
My Invention has principally for its object, firstly, to enable the
process of manufacturing sugar to be carried on with little or no waste
of water in localities where water is scarce, in order to economize and

page_text: use the water in which the sugar is in solution, which is usually wasted
by evaporation; and, secondly, to effect the boiling of the cane juice, or
the evaporation of the water therefrom as rapidly as possible after its
extraction from the cane up to the point where crystallization begins,
from which point the process is then carried on more slowly. For these
purposes I construct a number of double or hollow discs placed horizon-
tally, which are heated by the introduction of steam into the interior
thereof, and I cause the cane juice to flow successively over the outer
surfaces of these discs in a thin layer equally distributed over the heated
surfaces. By this means the watery vapour will pass away freely from.
the juice as soon as it is formed without having to force its way through
a mass of superincumbent fluid, as is the case in apparatus heretofore
employed for this purpose; also by the constant motion of the juice in
running over the discs the evaporation is greatly assisted. The said
discs may either be contained in an open pan or pans, so that the
evaporated water passes away into the atmosphere, or by preference they
are placed in closed pans communicating at top with a condenser, so that
the watery vapour is made to pass into such condenser to be condensed
and used over again for boiling the sugar cane juice, or stored for
general use. The pans, whether open or closed, are by preference
steam jacketed, so as to effect the further evaporation of the cane juice
as it falls from the heated discs into the pan.
Instead of the before-described heated discs other equivalent devices
may be employed, such as a steam drum with tubes passing through the
same similar in construction to the steam drums employed in ordinary
evaporating pans, so that the juice in flowing over the drum will at the
same time flow through the said tubes, the heated surfaces of which will
effect still further evaporation; or I employ a number of horizontal or
inclined tubes heated by steam, and placed close together in two or more
rows, one above the other, the tubes of each row being situated opposite
the spaces between the tubes of the row above, so that the juice in
flowing over the surface of the upper row will fall on to the tubes of the
row beneath.
The tubes are by preference constructed double, that is, with an
external tube closed at one end, and connected at the other end to a
pipe or chamber for leading off the condensed steam, and an inner tube
connected at one end with the steam supply, and extending with its
other open
end to the closed end of the external tube, so that the steam

page_text: passes through the inner tube to the end of the external tube, and thence
back to the escape chamber or pipe.
The said discs, drums, or pipes may either all be contained in one and
the same pan, or each disc may be contained in a separate pan, which
pans are arranged either directly or in the manner of steps one below
the other, so that the juice will flow from the one disc and pan into the
next one below.
By preference I arrange a number of such discs immediately below
each other in one closed-pan in the following manner:-I construct the
discs of two buckled plates (by preference of copper) rivetted together
round their outer edges. The plates have central apertures through
which the supply. steam pipe passes, and at such central apertures
circular distance pieces are inserted between the two plates, such
distance pieces having holes through which the steam enters the disc from
the steam pipe, and through which the condensed steam also flows out of
the disc. Round the edges of the discs are fitted rims which can be
adjusted so as to project more or less above the upper surfaces of the
discs, in order to regulate the depth of fluid on the same. A number
of these discs are threaded with their central holes on to the steam pipe
(which is suspended from the top of the pan, and serves to support the
discs), and a tubular distance piece is inserted between each two discs,
so as to keep them a certain distance apart. The discs and distance
pieces being placed on the steam pipe they are screwed up tightly
together by means of screws on the steam pipe. Surrounding each disc
is a shallow basin or tun dish (by preference made in halves fixed
together), into which the juice falls after passing over the disc; these
basins have at bottom a central aperture with a projecting rim,
which surrounds the before-mentioned distance piece between the two
discs, and by means of which the basin rests upon the centre of the
disc below it. This rim is provided with lateral holes through which
the juice falling into the basin is allowed to flow on to the disc below.
Or the basins may be made watertight at bottom, and the juice be
made to overflow at the rims from one basin into another. The steam
pipe has a number of perforations through which the steam passes into
the discs, and to its lower end is connected an escape pipe for conducting
away the condensed steam or water that flows from the discs into the
annular space formed between the steam pipe and the before-mentioned
tubular distance pieces,

page_text: In some cases where large discs are required separate steam and
* exhaust pipes may be used. The pan in which the discs are enclosed is
provided with a pipe for leading the vapour resulting from the evapora-
tion of the juice to a condenser as before mentioned.
Another form of apparatus for the purposes above mentioned consists
of a rectangular box or vessel, which is charged with steam or hot air.
Pipes pass through this vessel from side to side like the tubes in a
tubular boiler, and an external spout or gutter is provided for cach row
of tubes for supplying them with liquor to be operated on, and receiving
the liquor discharged from them. The gutter of the upper row being
supplied with the liquor it flows through the tubes in the upper row,
and is received in the gutter at the other side of the vessel, whence it
flows through the tubes of the next row, and so on successively till it
has passed through all the rows of tubes. The tubes serve as stays to
the vessel to prevent its sides from being bulged out by the pressure of
the steam or other fluid within it.
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And in order more effectually to stay the vessel, I prefer to arrange
the tubes in rows alternately at right angles to one another, so that both
the sides and ends of the vessel are thereby stayed.
When fine grained sugar is required the process of evaporation may
be carried on to completion in apparatus such as above described, but
when it is desired to obtain larger grained sugar the process of evapora-
tion is only partially carried out in such apparatus, from which the juice
is then conducted through a pipe into a second evaporating apparatus
consisting of a closed steam jacketed pan in which are arms or blades
receiving rotary motion from any convenient source of motive power for
the purpose of agitating the juice during the process of evaporation.
The vapor of water is drawn from this pan into a condenser communi-
cating with an air pump, which condenser may be the same as that into
which the vapour from the first described evaporating apparatus passes.
Such condenser I prefer to construct of a number of hollow discs or
tubular drums similar to those before described, into which the vapor
from the evaporating pans is made to pass while cold water is made to
flow over the outer surfaces of the discs. As in the before described
evaporating apparatus the discs or drums may each be contained in
separate basins or troughs arranged one above the other, so that the cold
water can flow from one basin into the next below, or each basin may

page_text: be supplied with a stream of cold water and the rims be so arranged
that the hot water from one basin 'does not flow into the next below.
The interior of the lowest disc or drum is made to communicate with
an air
pump or exhauster, by which the water of condensation and air
are drawn off from the condenser, the water of condensation as also
the water employed for condensing is collected to be used over again.
Instead of using water as the cooling medium in the condenser I
sometimes employ the cold cane juice itself, whereby a preliminary
evaporation of water therefrom will be effected before it is introduced
into the evaporating apparatus.
For producing the steam required for heating the before-described
evaporating apparatus I prefer to employ a combination of Cornish,
cylindrical, and multitubular boilers constructed separate from each
other, but communicating with each other through flues, the object
being to obtain easy access to the flues and tubes of the boilers for
cleaning them, and to obviate some of the evils arising from the expan-
sion and contraction of the tubes and flues. For this purpose I arrango
one or more Cornish boilers with fire-grates for heating the whole
system of boilers, and at the end of such boiler or boilers I place a
cylindrical-flued boiler in an intermediate position between these and
one or more multitubular boilers, so that the flames and hot gases
from the Cornish boiler or boilers, pass first beneath the cylindrical boiler
and are deflected thereby in order that they may then pass in an equally
distributed manner through the tubes of the multitubular boiler or
boilers. From the latter the hot gases escape to the chimney.
:
I do not claim this arrangement of steam boilers as part of my present
Invention.
The before-described apparatus for evaporating cane juice is also appli-
cable for evaporating or distilling rum and other spirit from fermented
liquors by causing the liquor or wash to flow over the heated surfaces
in the same manner as described with reference to the cane juice.
When it is not desired to collect the evaporated liquid, the process
may be carried on in the open or in a current of air produced by
a chimney -draught, fan, or steam or air jet; when however it is
required to collect the evaporated fluid, the evaporating apparatus is
arranged in closed vessels, as has already been described, and the

page_text: evaporation may be assisted by the formation of a partial vacuum in
these vessels by means of an air pump or steam or air jet.
To prevent loss of heat by radiation from the boilers or other vessels
employed, they may be coated with a lagging made of megass or other
fibre, mixed with loam or clay, and applied by a trowel.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
.filed by the said John Gay Newton Alleyne in the Great Scal
Patent Office on the 1st April 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John Gay
NEWTON ALLEYNE, of the Butterley Iron Works, Alfreton, in the
County of Derby, Baronet, send greeting.
"
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Gay Newton Alleyne,
Her special license that I, the said John Gay Newton Alleyne, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Gay Newton Alleyne, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no otliers, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR THE MANU-
FACTURE AND REFINING OF SUGAR AND RUM OR OTHER SPIRITS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Gay Newton Alleyne,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Gay Newton Alleyne, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, and to the figures and letters marked thereon, that
is to say :-
My Invention has principally for its object, firstly, to enable the
process of manufacturing sugar, to be carried on with little or no waste
of water in localities where water is scarce, in order to economize and
use the water in which the sugar is in solution, which is usually wasted
by evaporation; and secondly, to effect the boiling of the cane juice or
the evaporation of water therefrom as rapidly as possible after its
extraction from the cane, up to the point where crystallization begins,
from which point the process is then carried on more slowly. For these
purposes I construct a number of double or hollow discs placed horizon-
tally, which are heated by the introduction of steam into the interior
thereof, and I cause the cane juice to flow successively over the outer
surfaces of these discs in a thin layer equally distributed over the heated
surfaces. By this means the watery vapour will pass away freely from
the juice as soon as it is formed, without having to force its way through
a mass of superincumbent fluid, as is the case in apparatus heretofore
employed for this purpose; also, by the constant motion of the juice in
running over the discs, the evaporation is greatly assisted. The said
discs may either be contained in an open pan or pans, so that the
evaporated water passes away into the atmosphere, or by preference they
are placed in closed pans communicating at top with a condenser, so that
the watery vapour is made to pass into such condenser to be condensed
and used over again for boiling the suger cane juice, or stored for general
usc. The pans whether open or closed are by preference steam jacketed,
so as to effect the further evaporation of the cane juice as it falls from
the heated discs into the pan.
Instead of the before-described heated discs, other equivalent divices
may be employed, such as a steam drum with tubes passing through the
same, similar in construction to the steam drums employed in ordinary
evaporating pans, so that the juice in flowing over the drum will at the
same time flow through the said tubes, the heated surfaces of which will
effect still further evaporation; or I employ a number of horizontal or
inclined tubes heated by steam and placed close together in two or moro
rows one above the other, the tubes of each row being situated opposite
the spaces between the tubes of the row above, so that the juice in

page_text: flowing over the surface of the upper row will fall on to the tubes of the
row beneath.
The tubes are by preference constructed double, that is, with an
external tube closed at one end and connected at the other to a pipe
or chamber leading off the condensed steam, and an inner tube connected
at one end with the steam supply and extending with its other open end
to the closed end of the external tube, so that the steam passes through
the inner tube to the end of the external tube and thenco back to tho
escape chamber or pipe.
The said discs, drums, or pipes may either all be contained in one and :
the same pan, or each disc may be contained in a separate pan, which
pans are arranged either directly or in the manner of steps one below the
other, so that the juice will flow from the one disc and pan into the next
one below.
By preference. I arrange a number of such discs immediately below 1
each other in one closed pan in the following manner :-I construct the
disc of two buckled plates (by preference of copper) rivetted together
round their outer edgos. Tho plates have central apertures through
which the supply steam pipe passes, and at such central apertures
circular distance pieces are inserted between the two plates, such a
distance pieces having holes through which the steam enters the disc
from the steam pipe, and through which the condensed steam also flows
out of the disc. Round the edges of the discs are fitted rims which can
be adjusted so as to project more or less above the upper surfaces of the
discs in order to regulate the depth of fluid on the same. A number of
these discs are threaded with their central holes on to the steam pipo
(which is suspended from the top of the pan, and serves to support the
discs) and a tubular distance piece is inserted between each two discs, so
as to keep them a certain distance apart. The discs and distance pieces
being placed on the steam pipe they are screwed up tightly together by 3
means of screws on the steam pipe. Surrounding each disc is a shallow
basin or tun-dish (by preference made in halves fixed together) into
which the juice falls after passing over the disc. These basins have at
bottom a central aperture with a projecting rim, which surrounds the
before-mentioned distance piece between the two discs, and by means of å
which the basin rests upon the centre of the disc below it. This rim is
provided with lateral holes, through which the juice falling into the

page_text: basin is allowed to flow on to the disc below; or the basins may be made
water-tight at bottom, and the juice be made to overflow at the rims
from one basin into another. The steam pipe has a number of per-
forations through which the steam passes into the discs, and to its lower
end is connected an escape pipe for conducting away the condensed
steam or water that flows from the discs into the annular space formed
between the steam pipe and the before-mentioned tubular distance
pieces.
In some cases where large 'discs are required separate steam and
exhaust pipes may be used. The pan in which the discs are enclosed
is provided with a pipe for leading the vapour resulting from the
evaporation of the juice to a condenser, as before mentioned.
Another form of apparatus for the purposes above mentioned consists
of a rectangular box or vessel which is charged with steam or hot air.
Pipes pass through this vessel, from side to side like the tubes in a
tubular boiler, and an external spout or gutter is provided for each row
of tubes for supplying them with liquor to be operated on and receiving
the liquor discharged from them. The gutter of the upper row being
supplied with the liquor it flows through the tubes in the upper row
and is received in the gutter at the other side of the vessel; whence it
flows through the tubes of the next row, and so on successively till it
has passed through all the rows of tubes. The tubes serve as stays to
the vessel to prevent its sides from being bulged out by the pressure of
the steam or other fluid within it.
And in order more effectually to stay the vessel I prefer to arrange tho
tubes in rows alternately at right angles to one another, so that both the
sides and ends of the vessel are thereby stayed.
When fine grained sugar is required the process of evaporation may
be carried on to completion in apparatus such as above described, but
when it is desired to obtain larger grained sugar the process of evapo-
ration is only partially carried out in such apparatus, from which the
juice is then conducted through a pipe into a second evaporating
apparatus consisting of a closed steam jacketed pan, in which are arms
or blades receiving rotary motion from any convenient source of motive
power for the purpose of agitating the juice during the process of
evaporation. The vapour of water is drawn from this pan into a condenser
communicating with an air pump, which condenser may be the same

page_text: as that into which the vapour from the first described evaporating
apparatus passes. Such condenser I prefer to construct of a number
of hollow discs or tubular drums similar to those before described, into
which the vapour from the evaporating pans is made to pass. while cold
water is made to flow over the outer surfaces of the discs. As in the 6
before described evaporating apparatus the discs or drums may each
be contained in separate basins or troughs arranged one above the
other, so that the cold water can flow from one basin into the next
below, or each basin may be supplied with a stream of cold water, and
the rims be so arranged that the hot water from one basin does not flow.]
into the next below.
The interior of the lowest disc or drum is made to communicate with
an air pump or exhauster by which the water of condensation and air
are drawn off from the condenser; the water of condensation as also
the water employed for condensing is collected to be used over again.
Instead of using water as the cooling medium in tlie condenser I
sometimes employ the cold cane juice itself, whereby a preliminary
evaporation of water therefrom will be effected before it is introduced
into the evaporating apparatus.
For producing the steam required for heating the before described
evaporating apparatus I prefer to employ a combination of Cornish
cylindrical and multitubular boilers constructed separate from each
other but communicating with each other through flues, the object
being to obtain easy access to the flues and tubes of the boilers for
cleaning them, and to obviate some of the evils arising from the
expansion and contraction of the tubes and flues. For this purpose I
arrange one or more Cornish boilers with fire grates for heating the
whole system of boilers, and at the end of such boiler or boiler I place a
cylindrical flued boiler in an intermediate position between these and one
or more multitubular boilers, so that the flames and hot gases from the
Cornish boiler or boilers pass first beneath the cylindrical boiler and are
deflected thereby, in order that they may pass in an equally distributed
manner through the tubes of the multitubular boiler or boilers; from
the latter the hot gases escape to the chimney.
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page_text: The before described apparatus for evaporating cane juice is also
applicable for evaporating syrup or solutions of sugar in the various
processes of refining, and for evaporating or distilling rum and other
spirit from fermented liquors by causing the liquor or wash to flow
over the heated surfaces in the same manner as described with reference
to the cane juice.
When it is not desired to collect the evaporated liquid the process
may be carried on in the open or in a current of air produced bỷ a
chimney draught, fan, or steam or air jet. When however it is required
to collect the evaporated fluid, the evaporating apparatus is arranged in
closed vessels, as has already been described, and the evaporation may
be assisted by the formation of a partial vacuum in these vessels by
means of an air pump or steam or air jet.
To prevent loss of heat by radiation from the boilers or: other vessels
3 employed, they may be coated with a lagging made of megass or other
fibre mixed with loam or clay and applied by a trowel.
DESCRIPTION. OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1, Sheet I., represents an end view; and Fig. 2, Sheet I., repre-
sents a side view, partly in section of apparatus for evaporating sugar.
cane juice constructed and arranged according to my Invention. A is a
vessel containing the evaporating discs, of which vessel with its contents
a vertical section to an enlarged scale is shewn in Fig. 3, Sheet II.; B is
the funnel and pipe provided with a stop-cock, by which the juice to be
evaporated is supplied; and C is the pipe supplying steam to effect the
evaporation; D is the discharge pipe for water produced from the con-
densation of the steam; E is the pipe by which the vapour generated
from the juice is carried off; and F is a pressure gauge for indicating
the pressure within the vessel A. On the steam pipe O are strung a
number of buckled discs G, each pair of which are rivetted together at
the edges and kept a little apart at the centre by a distanco piece g, so
that a cavity is formed between the discs. The steam pipe C has a
number of holes bored through its periphery, and there are passages
formed on the upper and under sides of the central pieces g, so that
steam from the pipe C can enter and charge all the cavities between the
discs, and water of condensation from those cavities can flow down to the
discharge pipe D. Each pair of discs is kept apart from the next pair
by distance pieces H, and the whole set are tightly secured on the pipe C

page_text: by a nut c screwed thereon. The upper of each pair of discs is fitted
with the rim g' projecting a little above its upper surface so as to retain
upon it a certain depth of juice. Round and under the lower of each
pair of discs is the basin or tun-dish g³, by which juice flowing over
the edge of the rim g' is collected and made to flow towards the centre, 5
whence it issues through perforations g³, and flows over the upper discs
of the next lower pair. The basins g³ are most conveniently made in
halves so that they can readily be taken off or put into their places.
The halves may be jointed together in the manner shewn at g', which
represents the jointing of one of the basins shewn in elevation. It will 1
be observed that there is one of these basins provided above the upper-
most pair of discs, which receives its supply of juice from the pipe B;
also that there is no basin provided for the lowest pair of discs, the juice
flowing from the lip thereof down to the bottom of the vessel A, which
by preference is steam jacketed, as shewn in Fig. 3. The juice collected 1
at the bottom of the vessel flows by a pipe I provided with a stop-cock
into the steam jacketed vessel K, wherein it is agitated by a revolving
agitator.
Fig. 4, Sheet I., shews a modified construction of the vessel K, the
juice in this case entering by a pipe at one end of the vessel, and the 2
other end as well as the periphery being steam jacketed.
It may be readily understood that instead of having the granulating
vessel fixed and making an agitator revolve therein, the vessel might be
made to revolve on trunnions, through one of which the juice could be
introduced, the vapour being withdrawn through the other. Passages in 2
these trunnions would also serve for the introduction of steam to the
jacket of the rotating vessel, and for the removal of condensed water
therefrom. The vapour pipe E, as well as another vapour pipe e from
the vessel K, communicates with the interior cavities of a number of
discs similar to those already described which act as a surface condenser. 3
These discs are arranged within a vessel L, in a manner similar to those
in the vessel A. Each pair of discs is provided with a basin or tun-dish
(marked, Fig. 2), into which cold water flows from a pipe P. The
water resulting from condensation of the vapour within the discs flows
away by the pipe, which, when evaporating under vacuum is desired, 3
may be connected to the exhausted receiver of an air pump. The
vapour rising from the water used for condensing flows from the vessel L

page_text: by a pipe l, which may in its turn be connected to a condenser when it
is desired to economise water.
It may be readily understood that instead of the condensing vessel L,
with discs arranged as above described, any known surface condenser
might be employed for condensation of the vapour issuing by the pipes E
and e.
For the evaporation of the juice it may be made to flow as described
above over a number of heated pipes. Fig. 5, Sheet I., represents a
section of one of such pipes heated by steam. It consists of an outer
pipe M closed at the one end, and at the other communicating. with a
chamber m, from which chamber a number of such pipes might be made
to branch. From the same chamber m a pipe m³ discharges the water
of condensation. A steam pipe N° passes through the chamber m and
pipe M, and extends nearly to its closed end, so that when steam is
supplied by the pipe N it flows back along the pipe M, heating its
periphery, on which the cane juice is allowed to trickle.
Fig. 6, Sheet I., represents a section of evaporating apparatus arranged
as described above, somewhat like a tubular boiler. It consists of a
vessel P provided with a number of tubes p passing through its sides,
and secured tightly thereto like the tubes of a locomotive boiler. These
tubes may be all fixed longitudinally, or by preference they may be
arranged in alternate longitudinal`and transverse tiers, as shewn in the
Figure, as thus they serve as stays to the sides and ends of the vessel.
Each tier of tubes has a gutter or channel of supply p', and the top of
the vessel may be provided with a lip p; also a trough a is provided at
bottom for the reception of juice after it has flowed through the tubes.
The interior of the vessel P being supplied with steam or heated air, so
as to heat its top and side surface and the surfaces of all the tubes,
cane juice is allowed to flow on the top, whence it flows over the edge
into one of the gutters p'; it passes through one tier of tubes,' and
thence through another, and so on successively till it is finally discharged
from the tubes of the lowest tier into the trough q.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim,―
First. The use of apparatus for evaporating sugar cane juice, con-
structed and acting substantially as herein described with reference to

page_text: Second. The combination of such evaporating apparatus with a steam
jacketed granulating vessel and a surface condenser, substantially as
herein described with reference to Figs. 1 and 2, Sheet II.
Third. The use for evaporating sugar cane juice of tubes heated by
steam, substantially as described with reference to Fig. 5, Sheet I.
:
Fourth. The use for evaporating sugar cane juice of apparatus con-
structed and acting substantially as herein described with reference to
Fig. 6, Sheet I,
In witness whereof, I, the said John Gay Newton Alleyne, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
JOHN GAY NEWTON ALLEYNE. (L.S.)