1868 The complete Practical Distiller

THE COMrLETE PRACTICAL DISTILLER.

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look upon them as useless when they only wish to obtain

However^ they have all the rest of the appa-

three-six.

ratus complete ; and as these eggs communicate one with another, and each separately with the first worm, they may be used as condensers at pleasure ; it is only neces- sary to turn or stop one of the cocks. At the extremities of these eggs a large tub is placed, the interior of which contains a large worm constructed of tin, which plunges into the wine instead of water, and is hermetically sealed. This first worm communicates with a second longer than itself, and enters a large tub placed under the first, which is entirely full of water. On one side, and under this lower tub, a large space is dug in the earth and built round with stone, which the French distillers call a tampot ; this serves as a magazine for their wine previous to distillation, which may be pumped into the upper tub. All the eggs, as well as the still, communicate with the upper tub through tubes placed between the lower part of the eggs and the still there are, besides, lateral tubes which run from the upper part of the eggs to the orifice of the worm in the uppei tub. There are other tubes proceeding from the uppei part of each of the vessels, even from the still, which en- ter a small worm immersed in a little tub upon the fur- nace, by the side of the still. The mechanism of the distillation is no less curious than the apparatus. Explanation of the Egg- Plate. — A is the furnace on which the still b is built ; of this the dome or head only

the punctuated lines indicate the form

to be seen ;

is

masked by the building, c is the tube, furnished with a cock on the outside of the furnace, communicating with