Two Batteries of 

 Centrifugal 

 Machines Show- 

 ing Mixers Above 



supports. The outer part of the basket is perforated and lined with a fine 

 screen. There is a steel curb placed around the outside of the basket to 

 collect the molasses. A charge of massecuite weighing several hundred 

 pounds is led into the centrifugal basket through the gates in the bottom 

 of the mixer and the basket, which is propelled by a belt or a motor directly 

 connected to the spindle, is then started and turns at a speed of about 1000 

 to 1200 revolutions per minute. The molasses percolates through the 

 wall of sugar and fine screen and is thrown off by centrifugal force. After the 

 basket has been revolved for a few minutes, all of the molasses has been 

 separated from the sugar crystals. It is then brought to rest and the sugar 

 crystals discharged through the bottom of the centrifugal into a conveyor 

 placed horizontally below the floor. 



Bagging and Storing 



This conveyor takes the sugar to an elevator which deposits it into a 

 bagging bin having a conical or V-shaped bottom. 



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