Diffuser
OwnerJames M. Cargillinventor
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Abstract
A diffuser, particularly for solvent extraction, and more particularly for the extraction of sugar from sugar cane, the diffuser comprising vertically disposed annular extracting stages, each having means to move the material being processed around each stage, each stage including an orifice for material to fall to a lower extracting stage or to a material removal stage.
Claims1
Diffusion apparatus comprising vertically disposed stationary screens about a fixed central cylindrical column, liquid collecting trays located below the screens, the trays being attached to the central column, the screens and trays being located in an annulus defined by the central column and the outer shell of the apparatus, said shell being rotatable, and radial members being attached to the outer shell and being arranged to move the material being treated over the screens.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.