Abstract
This article shows an approach to the three-dimensional modelling of a sugarcane mill and its associated steam engine, designed by the Robey and Co. engineering company in 1869. In order to obtain the 3D CAD model of said invention, CATIA V5 R20 software has been employed. Various sources of starting material, from the basis of this research and found in the process of searching for relevant information, provide information on the main elements, operating conditions, and mechanism of the machine. Thanks to the three-dimensional geometric modelling carried out, it has been possible to explain, in detail, both its operation and the final assembly of the invention through the assemblies of its different subsets, thereby obtaining a virtual recreation that shows its operation. Likewise, a study has been carried out, from a mechanical engineering viewpoint, of the gear train that transmitted the movement, in order to ascertain the compression force exerted on the sugar cane. This research, related to industrial archaeology, therefore, enables the reader to understand a machine that constituted a milestone in the sugarcane industry, while paying tribute to the English engineer, Robert Robey.
Highlights
Robert Robey (1826–1876) was an English engineer who contributed significantly to the development of machines for different uses that incorporated steam engines
This research focuses on the general objective of studying machines that have contributed significantly to the technological development of the sugarcane industry; that is, it is a study related to industrial archaeology that seeks to recover the industrial and historical heritage, from the point of view of engineering graphics and mechanical engineering
The invention analysed in this article focuses on the part of milling the sugar cane by means of a gear train driven by a steam engine, whose movement is communicated to cylinders that produce the milling of the sugar cane
Summary
Robert Robey (1826–1876) was an English engineer who contributed significantly to the development of machines for different uses that incorporated steam engines. The cane sugar industry has undergone major technological advances, but it is undoubtedly since the Industrial Revolution, with the use of steam (transforming heat into mechanical energy), when the number of contributions was most significant. In this respect, it should be borne in mind that the invention of Robey and Co. was one of the first steam-powered mills; the significance of its study. The significance of this restored sugarcane machine to the development of modern industry is based on the beginning of the design of new machines from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as those designed by the Scottish company Mirrlees Watson or the French company Fives-Lille, which used steam as motive power
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