. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . cturer, as the cost of the package as well asthe extra handling is always included in the selling price. A few years ago all sugar went out in barrels or bags, whiletoday a modern refinery turns out about twenty different stylesof container, and twenty-four kinds of sugar. It is obvious,therefore, that the packing room of a refinery is an interestingplace, covering as it does a large area and including a greatamount of special, intricate machinery for filling, weighing andsewing or sealing packages. In the bottom of t
. Something about sugar; its history, growth, manufacture and distribution . cturer, as the cost of the package as well asthe extra handling is always included in the selling price. A few years ago all sugar went out in barrels or bags, whiletoday a modern refinery turns out about twenty different stylesof container, and twenty-four kinds of sugar. It is obvious,therefore, that the packing room of a refinery is an interestingplace, covering as it does a large area and including a greatamount of special, intricate machinery for filling, weighing andsewing or sealing packages. In the bottom of the bins into which the sugar is deliveredfrom the separators is a series of galvanized iron pipes, throughwhich the sugar runs to the various filling devices, the latter be-ing usually arranged in long rows. Under the end of each pipeis an automatic weighing machine. In packing bags, a work-man hangs a bag on the weighing machine and presses a lever,thus allowing the sugar to run into the bag. As soon as the ex-act amount required is reached, the flow is automatically cut.
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