Exhaustor

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Beth exhaustor "R" (1910)

Exhaustor (Latin exhaurire "to exhaust", haurire "drink, empty") is generally a suction device.

The Lübeck industrial pioneer Wilhelm Beth is regarded as the forerunner of these devices .

As an Exhaustor z. B. a fan for suction or suction of steam , dust and. Usually it consists of a fan .

In food production , an exhaustor is a heated container in which air or gases are removed from canned food or glasses at temperatures around 80 to 90 degrees Celsius . The process that takes place before sterilization is called exhausting .

In zoology, an exhaustor is used to specifically catch insects by sucking them in.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jedermanns Lexikon in ten volumes , third volume, Verlaganstalt Hermann Klemm A.-G., Berlin-Grunewald 1929, p. 337
  2. ↑ Rüdiger blessing Busch: era - factories in Lübeck. Lübeck 1993, ISBN 3-7950-0114-5 , chapter: Beth and Dräger - No factory without an idea.
  3. ↑ Brockhaus - The Encyclopedia in 24 Volumes, 20th Revised and Updated Edition 1997, Volume 7, ISBN 3-7653-3107-4
  4. ^ Exhaustor ( Memento from April 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )