

CHAPTER XIII. 

 HUSKING PAKCHMENT COFFEE. 



Now I am going to deal with one of the most Husking and 

 important stages in the preparation of coffee. Polishing. 

 Many styles of husking machines exist in the 

 market, the system being practically the same 

 in the majority of cases ; but the machines 

 universally used are the Smout, the invention of 

 Monsieur Jules Smout, a Swiss, and the 

 Okrassa, the invention of Don Roberto Okrassa, 

 of Central America. Both these machines are 

 polishers as well that is, the husking and the 

 polishing are effected in one operation. 

 Roughly speaking, the Okrassa latest patent 

 machine has many advantages over the Smout, 

 without in any way condemning this latter 

 machine, since I know by experience that its 

 working is highly satisfactory. However, the 

 advantages of the Okrassa latest patent Com- 

 bined Peeler and Polisher over all the existing 

 machines for the same purpose on the market 

 are the following : 



1st. It requires very little power for the 

 output. 



