Sugar juice clarifier

Claim 1

IN A SUGAR CLARIFIER, A TANK COMPRISING A PAIR OF SIDE WALLS OPPOSITE ONE ANOTHER AND A PAIR OF END WALLS INTERCONNECTING THE SIDE WALLS, THE END WALL BEING SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALL WHILE AT LEAST MAJOR LOWER PARTS OF THE SIDE WALLS CONVERGE DOWNWARDLY WITH SUFFICEINT SLOPE TO FORCE GRAVITATIONAL FLOW OF MUD, THEREBY FORMING A NARROW, ELONGATED MUD ZONE BETWEEN THE LOWER ENDS OF THE WALLS; PARTITION MEANS EXTENDING FROM THE TOP TO THE TANK INTO THE MUD ZONE AND HAVING A LONG BOTTOM EDGE IN THE MUD ZONE GENERALLY PARALLEL WITH THE ELONGATION OF THAT ZONE, SO THAT THE PARTITION MEANS SEPARATES A GENERALLY NARROW SKIMMING AND FLOCCULATION ZONE FROM A GENERALLY WIDE, UPWARDLY EXPANDING REACTION AND CLARIFICATION ZONE, WHILE ALLOWING COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THESE ZONE, THROUGH THE MUD ZONE SUBSTANTIALLY THROUGHOUT THE HORIZONTAL EXTENSION OF THE LATTER; INLET MEANS FOR SUGAR JUICE TO BE CLARIFIED, IN AN UPPER PART OF THE SKIMMING AND FLOCCULATION ZONE; OUTLET MEANS FOR CLARIFIED SUGAR JUICE AT THE TOP OF THE REACTION AND CLARIFICATION ZONE; AND MEANS TO SHIFT MUD SUBSTANTIALLY HORIZONTALLY ALONG THE BOTTOM OF THE MUD ZONE AND OUT OF THE TANK.