vacuum pan
Americannoun
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In 1846 he invented and patented a vacuum pan which in its day revolutionized to a large extent the then known method of refining sugar.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various
A man can’t have his head pumped out like a vacuum pan, or stuffed full of odds and ends like a bologna sausage, and do his work right.
From Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." by Lorimer, George Horace
The original vacuum pan used by Gail Borden in 1853 for condensing milk by concentrating it in a vacuum.
From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by Schlebecker, John T.
Borden's vacuum pan of 1853, used to make condensed milk.
From Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17 by Schlebecker, John T.
The process of cleaning has now been completed, and the sirup is pumped into the covered vessel previously alluded to, called the vacuum pan.
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