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Show uu Vacnora Machine for Packing Coffee Here The installation of what will bo the first vacuum packed coffee in tho state if not in the intermountain country coun-try is belug arranged for by James Scowcroft for John Scowcroft & Sons company. The machinery for the company com-pany 'has been ordered from Chicago and will bo installed in September. The vacuum sealing machine is the latest device known to the packing science. The machine was selected while Air. Scowcroft and S. T Currant, Jr., superintendent sup-erintendent of the plant, were on tho coast Tho new machine for scaling cans in vacuum under about 27 pounds' pressure makes It one of the .most interesting: pieces of mechanism in the modern packing Industry. i After roasting the coffee it goes through the steel cut grinder, in which tho dust and chaff are removed, the ground coffee passes through tho automatic auto-matic weighing machine which fills the can and puts on the lid. The cans of coffee pass to the vacuum packer I whore a small piece of solder is laid I over the air hole in the top of the can. I Tho can then passes Into the lai-go cast iron round tank where the can is placed under 11 pounds' pressure. As the cans revoho upon a circulai ; table an inspector standing at a small 'hole covered with a strong glass oper-' oper-' ates a small electric soldering iron j which touches the solder upon the top j of the can and the air-tight can is complete and ready for the market when it comes from the machine, which has a capacity for forty canb. nn |