Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Oil-Purifi/ing Tank. bottom. The tank may be used in the See also Lard-t.\xk. Fig. 3387 shows an arrangement of tanks for carry-ing out successively the operations of oxidizing, neu-tralizing, steaming and heating for evaporation, oilsto be purified ; and ol special devices to be employedin connection with one or more of the tanks for the


Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . Oil-Purifi/ing Tank. bottom. The tank may be used in the See also Lard-t.\xk. Fig. 3387 shows an arrangement of tanks for carry-ing out successively the operations of oxidizing, neu-tralizing, steaming and heating for evaporation, oilsto be purified ; and ol special devices to be employedin connection with one or more of the tanks for theaddition of oxidizing and neutralizing chemicals tothe oils, for stirring and agitating the same, and for OIL-TANK. 1557 OIL-TAXK. indicating tlie condition of the contents ofthe several tanks. The o.\idizing-tank A is piovided with adetachable stirring-shalt H, and diiiusing-sieve P. On the next step is a neutraliziiig-tank £ with sieve P at top, and steam orhot-air pipes Q within tlie same. Third inthe series is a stcamiug-tank C, containingsuitablesteam-jet pipes P, and fourth ^ is an evaporating-tank 1>, the whole ^_-being adapted and made to operate ^^ii--^ i Fig. 3387.


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