Bagasse depither
AssigneeBeloit Technologies, Inc.
InventorGary Kroeker
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for depithing bagasse fibers wherein a horizontal perforate surface such as a screen is provided with means for delivering bagasse onto a delivery end and the screen is given sudden vertical accelerations to accelerate the bagasse upwardly separating the pith from the fibers and driving the pith down through the perforations with the accelerations repeated at sequential localized areas along the screen.
Claims9
The method of depithing bagasse fibers from a sugar making process, and subsequently separating the pith from the fiber, comprising the steps:
- delivering squeezed and dried, pith containing bagasse fibers onto a horizontal perforate surface of foraminous flexible material;
- and imparting to said material sudden, violent, intermittent vertical movements by applying impacts from beneath said material for accelerating the bagasse vertically away from said surface and causing pith to detach from the fibers and pass through the perforate surface.
An apparatus for depithing bagasse fibers and for separating the pith from the depithed fiber, comprising in combination:
- a perforate flexible bed extending from a receiving end to a delivery end;
- bagasse delivery means positioned above the receiving end delivering the bagasse onto the flexible bed;
- and beater means for imparting localized impacts to the lower surface of the bed, to impart vertical acceleration to the bagasse, detaching pith from fibers and forcing the pith through the surface.
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