Cane sugar; a textbook on the agriculture of the sugar cane, the manufacture of cane sugar, and the analysis of sugar-house products . A flume consists of a wooden gutter ofV-section. The material used is pine lumber, i in. x 14 in., and for ease oftransport is made in 12 ft. lengths ; ,vertical boards, 6 in. high, are fixedabove the sides of the gutter. It issupported on light wooden frame-work, and ends directly over theend of the conveyor carrying thecane to the crushers. The canesare carried down the flume bymeans of a stream of water. In^^^- 7?) Js shown a view of such aflume. Approximate
Cane sugar; a textbook on the agriculture of the sugar cane, the manufacture of cane sugar, and the analysis of sugar-house products . A flume consists of a wooden gutter ofV-section. The material used is pine lumber, i in. x 14 in., and for ease oftransport is made in 12 ft. lengths ; ,vertical boards, 6 in. high, are fixedabove the sides of the gutter. It issupported on light wooden frame-work, and ends directly over theend of the conveyor carrying thecane to the crushers. The canesare carried down the flume bymeans of a stream of water. In^^^- 7?) Js shown a view of such aflume. Approximately 1,000,000gallons in 24 hours will flume 10tons of cane per hour. Fluming isa most expensive method of trans-portation, and has been developedsolely on account of some conditionspeculiar to the Hawaiian include factories located ator near sea level, steep gradientsand the presence of ravines orgullies making railroading difficult,combined with an abundance ofwater. The weakest feature of aflume system is that it only oper-ates in one direction, and separatemeans have to be adopted to carry supplies to the THE HARVESTING OF THE CANE i8i Cane Unloading.—The cane after arrival at the factory is transferred byone or other of the means described below on to an endless belt slat conveyor,or is dumped into a hopper and elevated to the mill by an endless belt con-ve3or set at a steep angle. The convej-or is provided with broad curved teeth,which catch the tangled mass of material and prevent it slipping backwards. The endless belt conveyor, usually called a carrier, as opposed to theelevator, is claimed in Patent 8731, 1840, granted to Robinson on behalf ofimnamed parties. This patent includes means for cutting off steam from theengine when the thickness of the feed of canes is too great. The hopper andelevator appear first in Kielys patent ( 675222, 1901), and are indicatedin Plate XXT.
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