MODERN MACHINERY. 



In the above machine the coffee " cherries " are fed 

 into the hopper whence they go through the hulling 

 part in which the hulls and parchment are gently de- 

 tached from the berries. Thence the hulls, parchment 

 and coffee fall into the polishing cylinder where the hulls, 

 parchment and silver skin are rubbed off and the coffee 

 is polished absolutely clean. The small hulls and parch- 

 ment drop through the perforations in the cylinder into 

 the trough below, the cleaned coffee being discharged at 

 the tail end of the cylinder along with the large hulls 

 and parchment, which are detached from the berries, 

 where all fall into a suction trunk and the fan separates 

 all hulls and parchment from the coffee, depositing all 

 bad material into a hopper which is a part of the machine. 

 The cleaned coffee as known to commerce comes out at 

 the tail end of the machine. 



"Washed coffee" is prepared in a different manner. 

 After the cherry coffee is picked from the tree it is 

 immediately run through the pulper and washer along 

 with a stream of water where the pulp and glutinous 

 matter are removed, leaving the coffee in the parchment 

 Avhen it has to be dried in the sun or in an artificial 

 dryer, after which "it is ready to be run through the 

 machine known as the huller and polisher, above men- 

 tioned, which removes the parchment and silver skin 

 and separates them from the good berries. 



While either the washed or the unwashed coffee after 

 passing through the huller and polisher is salable in the 

 market there is : still /-an opportunity open to the coffee- 

 planter to further enhance its value by running it 

 through a separator and cleaner, an illustration of 

 which machine is here shown. 



