CANE SUGAR. 



lowered by the hand wheel out of range of the annulus, the washings are caught 

 on the wire cloth and conducted out of the centrifugal by the special gutter. 



Another very complete but expensive process consists in the use of two 

 sets of centrifugals in one of which the original molasses are removed ; the 

 sugar is discharged, repugged with syrup, and again cured with water and 

 steam washings ; the second purgings return to first sugar manufacture and 

 the first purgings are treated separately. 



FIG. 213. 



Conveyance of Cured Sugar. In some instances the cured 

 sugar is filled into bags directly from the baskets ; but in the majority of cases 

 it is elevated to an upper floor of the factory, whence it is, after becoming 

 partly air dried, directed down shoots into the bags in which it is packed, 



The elevator in most common use is shown in Fig. 213 ; it consists of an 

 endless belt carrying a number of buckets ; the belt can be arranged to work 

 at any angle ; the dry sugar is carried on one of the systems described below 

 to the elevator, and falls directly into the buckets. 



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