suction box (sukshonboks)

ing, a chamber in which there is a partial vacuum, placed below the web of pulp to a ist in removing the water from it. suction-chamber (suk's hon-chamber), n. The barrel or chamber of a pump into which the liquid is delivered from the suction-pipe. suction-fan (suk's hon-fan), n. In milling, a fan for withdrawing by suction chaff and refuse from grain, or steam and hot air from meal as it comes from the burs. E. H. Knight. suction-pipe (suk's hon-pip), n. 1. The pipe leading from the bottom of a pump-barrel or -cylinder to the well, cistern, or reservoir from which the water or other liquid is to be drawn up. See pump1.-2. An air-tight pipe run bles, in entom., mandibles which are tubular, having an orifice through which liquid food pa es to the mouth, as in the larvæ of certain aquatic beetles and in the young ant-lion.