Patent Model - Improvement in Sugar-Draining Machines
Maker and role
Josiah Archbald (Puerto Rico, b.1794), Patentee
Horace Southmayd, Assignee
Production date
Jan 25 1853
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Iron
Measurements
4 3/4 x 8 1/4" (12.1 x 21cm)
Description
Archbald's patent "consists in employing a loose bag of cotton, linen, hair-cloth, or any such fibrous or flexible material, in combination with the 'American centrifugal refining sugar machine,' by placing the said bag in said machine loosely, or securing it by loops, with the sugar to be operated upon inside of it to keep the sugar from attaching itself to the wire-gauze or perforated cylinder when the machine is in motion, and whereby the whole of the sugar, when refined, can be at once lifted out of the machine by lifting out the said bag containing the sugar..." (Patent Number 9,560)
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Object number
2015.14.115a,b
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