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 874
t.; and with steam-power, 61.9to 81 per cent. Defecation and Condensation.—The juice caught in the pan be-neath the mill is conducted through strainers to a tank, whence it is pumped to the defecators, or toa receiving vat from which the latter are supplied. A large number of defecating and… … the acid and renders some of the solid impurities insoluble. The heat is usually obtained from theproducts of combustion fiom under the kettles of the Jamaica train hereafter described, or fromexhaust steam. The ordinary defecator is an oblong iron or copper tank holding some 600 gallons. 840 SUGAR…
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