many advantages, as the cane is usually conveyed in large cars. The carrier 

 is provided with an endless moving platform placed about 10 feet below the 

 surface of the ground. It is wide and long enough to receive all of the cane 

 from a 20 or 2 5 -ton car. This moving platform is sometimes placed horizon- 

 tally or on a slight incline. If there are two tandem milling plants installed 

 in the factory, or if it is expected that there will be two, the moving table is 

 usually placed at right angles to the cane carrier and elevator for convenience 

 in arranging the railway tracks. The car is placed on a tipping table, to which 

 it is held by clamps and is tipped to an angle sufficient to allow the cane to 

 discharge onto the moving table. After the car is emptied the table resumes 

 its horizontal position, the empty car is removed to the storage tracks, and 

 another loaded car is placed on the tipping table. The handling of cars from 

 the scales to the tipping table and from there to the storage yard is usu- 

 ally done by means of an electric or steam winch. The moving table is driven 

 by a steam engine or an electric motor and is so controlled that an even feed 

 of cane is deposited on the cane carrier. 



. The cane carrier is of approximately the same width as the 



or Elevator length of the rolls employed in the crushing of the cane. It is 

 formed by two or three strands of chain supported by rollers. 

 Wooden slats are bolted to the chains at right angles to the direction of travel. 

 The construction is somewhat similar to the moving table just referred to, 

 but the carrier need not be so substantially built. 



Extraction of Juice 



The modern milling or crushing plant which extracts the 

 Crushers juice from the cane usually consists of one or two crushers, each 

 having two rollers with interlocking or corrugated teeth or with 

 deep grooves on the circumference of each roll. These rollers are set close 

 together and held in place by hydraulic jacks. The cane passing through is 

 broken and crushed into pieces and matted into an even layer. 



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