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 184. -GORDON'S PATENT COFFEE PULPING MACHINES. 



The "Columbia" and the "India." 



Both these Pulpers have been specially designed to meet the 

 requirements of Planters of very small estates and they will be found 

 to be very strong, simple and serviceable machines. The ripe Coffee 

 Cherries and feed water should be delivered into the water-box which 

 is formed in the hopper, so that the water may float the coffee over 

 the division into the machine ; the supply is regulated by the feed water. 



The " Columbia" consists of a grooved disc of hard cast-iron 

 fixed to a shaft which runs in a long bearing mounted on a suitable 

 standard which also carries the bar 'A' and a hopper. The bar 'A' 

 has a channel on its side along \. hich the coffee passes while being- 

 pulped ; the pulp and skins are dragged down past the bar by the 



