Sugar Apparatus Manufacturing Company.

The Sugar Apparatus Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia was typical of many of the small specialty manufacturers of the region. S. Morris Lillie, the company president, patented his single and multiple effect evaporators and began marketing them in 1893. The evaporators were primarily used to recover crystallized sugar from solutions made from sugar cane or sugar beets. As was common in such operations, Lillie contracted the actual manufacture to a variety of local foundries and machine companies and employed an erecting engineer to supervise the installations.

Lillie's evaporators were widely used by sugar refineries in North America, Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines and also to concentrate sugar cane juice on the plantations. The apparatus was also adapted to evaporate tannin extract, glue liquors, tank waters, and other solutions, including salt refinery. Lillie sold evaporators to both the United States and Japanese navies for on-board distillation of drinking water.

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