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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
s outside the building. The kettles are technically known as the grande, propre, flambeau, sirop, and the batterie. The grande receives the cane-juice from the mill, and is the farthest removed from the mouth of the furnace. The scum, as it rises, is swept towards the rear from kettle to kettle, and the juice, as the kettles empty by evaporation, is dipped from one to the other towards the batterie. From the latter it is dipped into a box whose conducting troughs lead it to the coolers. Hoard's pan, patent 1838 (A, Fig. 1887), has a trough around to collect scum, and tubular flues passing through the boiler. The steam-pan, first introduced in Louisiana in 1829, had a serpentine coil at the bottom of a circular pan. Stillman's pan (B), 1846, had a series of bends connecting with a tube which also formed an axis for the system which could thus be erected so as to expose the bottom of the pan. A combination of the open pan and vacuum-pan has been adopted to some extent in L
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
the horse pulls upon it. Hitching-post. Hitch′ing-post. （Menage.) A post with convenient means for the attachment of the strap of a horse's halter or bridle. In the example, it has a weight to take up the slack, but allows a certain freedom of motion, as the weighted tiechain travels in the hollow post. The weight forms a stop to arrest the extraction of the chain from the post. Hive. （Husbandry.) A box or basket for a swarm of bees to live in. See beehive; apiary. Hoard; hoarding. （Building.) A temporary screen of boards enclosing a building-site, where erections or repairs are proceeding. Hob. 1. The flat, iron shelf at the side of a grate. 2. A hardened, threaded spindle, by which a comb or chasing-tool may be cut. A hub. Hob′by. The old English name of the velocipede. Every one rides his own hobby. Ho′bit. （Ordnance.) An old form of mortar of six or eight inches' bore, mounted on a carriage. Hob′nail. A short,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
alum, graphite, and water, to render it nearly incombustible. Noyes, December 19, 1865. The wick is made of closely woven fiber, inclosing loose longitudinal fibers to lead the oil. Le Count and Chard, February 27, 1866. The wick is made of wool or woolen cloth. Topliff, June 19, 1866. The lamp-wick is treated with alum and gum, to preserve it from combustion. Le Count, October 30, 1866. Cotton threads run longitudinally through the wick, to increase its conducting power. Hoard, November 20, 1866. The wick is made of paper pulp. Martine, March 5, 1867. The wick has a core of wood, twine, or some firm substance that will consume with the wick; the addition gives stiffness to the wick, and enables the teeth of the elevating wheel to operate upon it more effectively. Count Rumford invented the flat wick of soft cotton woven for the purpose, of the right width. Argand of Geneva invented the tubular wick and the lamp named after him, which was the first lamp