1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class VIII.: Fawcett, Preston and Co
1850. FAWCETT, PRESTON and CO., Liverpool.
Cane mill and engine Aspinall's patent evaporating pan; vacuum apparatus; centrifugal machines.
P— Represents the pan, which is filled with cane juice to about an inch or two above.
T— The tube box or steam chest which rests upon brackets, B, and is fitted with vertical tubes, open top and bottom, so that the cane juice has free passage through them; the steam which surrounds the tubes being admitted through
S— The steam pipe.
C— Is the pipe through which the condensed water escapes, thus arranged to avoid joints in the pan, and to make it simple and easy to cleanse, for by lifting out the tube box it leaves only the plain pan to wash out.
V— The discharge valve, worked by a hand-wheel and screw.
0— Outside brackets on which the pan rests, so that a few pieces of timber are all that are required for its support.
B— The inside brackets on which T, the tube box, rests.
MESSRS. FAWCETT, PRESTON, and CO., are also manufacturers of
STEAM ENGINES- land and marine, of every description, high or low pressure, combined or condensing, etc.
DREDGING MACHINERY.
BOILERS- of wrought-iron, Cornish, plain, flue, tubular, multitubular, etc.
MILLS— for rice, corn, shumac, mortar, sugar (horizontal or vertical, driven by cattle, wind, water, or steam-power, and on De Mornay's patent); also, rolling mills for iron.
SUGAR APPARATUS of every description.
CENTRIFUGAL MACHINES- (Patent).
VACUUM PANS and APPARATUS complete.
PANS- of all descriptions; wrought and cast iron, and copper patent evaporating pans: clarifiers, cisterns, and tanks of wrought and cast iron.
PRESSES- hydraulic and screw, worked by hand or steam, for oil, cotton, grapes, etc.
IRON ROOFS, GAS APPARATUS, COTTON GINS, etc.
ORDNANCE and AMMUNITION- smooth-bored or rifled cannon, in steel, brass, iron, and on Blakely's patent. Carriages, limbers, and ammunition waggons. Patent rifle-bullet presses.
Wrought-iron work, castings, and millwright work of all kinds.
Steam vessels, dredge boats, barges, etc. etc.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of one of the improved machines; and Fig. 2 is a vertical cross sectional elevation of the same, and a side elevation of one of the trucks used to feed the apparatus.
A is the external casing, provided with B, opening to allow the moist air to escape; C the revolving drum, for containing the charge to be operated upon; D, a conical flanch surrounding the annular opening, through which the charge is inserted; E, circular opening in the side of external casing, which is surrounded by an annular lip or flanch, which projects over the outer edge of the conical flanch D, to prevent any portion of the charge falling, between the inner side of the outer cover and the outside of the revolving drum, by which arrangement the apparatus can be charged during the time it is in motion; F, a loose pulley on axle of the revolving drum; G, a fast pulley on ditto; H, friction pulley on the axle of the machine, against which acts I, the friction strap; K, the lever to actuate the break gear for stopping the machine; L, division to prevent the syrup falling on the strap; M, a transverse horizontal bar, upon which the truck rests during the time it is being emptied of its contents; 0, the improved truck for charging the machine, which is mounted on a pair of wheels, and a single one in front, the bearings of which turn on a vertical axis, to enable the carriage to be re-turned round with facility; P, pulley block and tackle for elevating the rear of the truck.