Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 548
avat with a semi-cylindrical bottom. In this vat revolves a cylinder covered with a wire cloth. Oneend of the cylinder is closed; the other end has an opening about the shaft, out of which flowswater drained from the pulp. The pressure of the fluid within the tank forces the pulp againstthe wire… … a web upon the cylindrical surface, and is removed as a continuous sheet by a roll which pressesthe cylinder at its highest part. The water which flows out from the cylinder passes into a box,fromwhich it is pumped into a trough with a perforated bottom placed over the vat, into whichlatter it…
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