Apparatus for recovering sugar cane from leaf trash

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IN AN ARRANGEMENT OF THE CHARACTER DESCRIBED, A LIQUID RESERVOIR, A FLUME IN COMMUNICATION WITH SAID RESERVOIR FOR DELIVERING INTERMINGLED LEAFY AND STALK MATERIAL TO SAID RESERVOIR, A FLIGHT CONVEYOR HAVING ITS LOWER END IMMERSED IN SAID RESERVOIR AND ITS UPPER END ELEVATED ABOVE SAID RESERVIR, A PADDLE WHEEL BETWEEN SAID FLIGHT CONVEYOR AND SAID FLUME CONVEYOR, A COMBINTERMINGLED MATERIAL TO SAID FLIGHT CONVEYOR, A COMBING ROLLER COOPERATING WITH SAID FLIGH CONVEYOR FOR CONDITIONING THE MATERIAL CARRIED BY SAID CNVEYOR, A DISCRIMINATING DRUM RECEIVING SAID MATERIAL FROM SAID FLIGHT CONVEYOR, SAID DISCRIMINATING DRUM INCORPORATING MEANS WHEREBY SAID LEAFY MATERIAL CLINGS TO THE SAME AND SAID STALK MATERIAL IS REJECTED THEREFROM, AND MEANS PRODUCING AN AIR STREAM COOPERATING WITH SAID DISCRIMINATING DRUM TO REMOVE THE LEAFY MATERIAL THEREFROM.