Centrifugal machine basket

Claim 1

A COMPOSITE BASKET STRUCTURE FOR A CONTINUOUS SUGAR CENTRIFUGAL MACHINE COMPRISING AN OPEN-WORK BASKET COMPRISING A HUB MEMBER, AN END RING MEMBER OF GREATER DIAMETER THAN THE HUB MEMBER, A MULTIPLICITY OF SPACED RIB MEMBERS BETWEEN THE HUB MEMBER AND THE END RING MEMBER, EACH OF SAID RIB MEMBERS HAVING A RECTANGULAR CROSS-SECTION IN WHICH THE SHORT DIMENSION THEREOF IS NO LARGER THAN A FOURTH OF ITS LONG DIMENSION, SAID RIB MEMBERS EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID CONTAINER AND BEING SPACED IN SUCH A MANNER THAT THEY FORM AN OUTER BASKET OF FRUSTO-CONICAL SHAPE, AND A PLURALITY OF SPACED RING MEMBERS SURROUNDING THE RIB MEMBERS IN THE SPACE BETWEEN SAID HUB MEMBER AND SAID END RING MEMBER, AND A THIN METALLIC CONTAINER OF FRUSTO-CONICAL SHAPE HAVING A MULTIPLICITY OF PERFORATIONS THEREIN OF A SIZE TO PREVENT THE PASSAGE OF SUGAR GRAIN THERETHROUGH AND BEING MUCH SMALLER THAN THE SPACE BETWEEN RIB MEMBERS AND THE SPACE BETWEEN RING MEMBERS, SAID CONTAINER BEING WITHIN SAID OPEN-WORK BASKET IN INTIMATE CONTACT WITH THE SHORT DIMENSION OF EACH OF SAID RIBS, SOME OF SAID RIB MEMBERS EXTENDING ONLY A PORTION OF THE OVERALL DISTANCE BETWEEN THE LARGER END OF SAID FRUSTO-CONICAL CONTAINER AND THE SMALLER END THEREOF.