1868 The complete Practical Distiller

THE COMPLETE PRACTICAL DISTILLER.

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from the centre of the head or dome, and descends to the bottom of the egg, where it enlarges into the form of the rose of a garden watering-pot, pierced with a number of It must be understood that this tube is soldered to the egg at its entrance, to prevent any other issue of the vapours but by the way intended. The first egg communicates with the second, this with tha third, and so on to the last, by means of the tube M, which is soldered to the first egg at the point K, and pro- ceeds to the bottom of the following, where it enlarges in the form of a watering-pot, as in the first. The last egg is furnished with the cooler N, by means of which the su perior part of the egg, where the vapours are collected, is encircled with water to commence the refrigeration. This cooler is supplied with a cock o, to let out the water when it gets too warm. Every condenser is furnished with a cock like this, or otherwise their upper parts are plunged into the common tub full of water. This tub or bag, often made of copper, has the form of a parallelepiped. The tube R communicates from the second egg with the worm, which is generally used with two eggs, sufficient to obtain brandy at 18°, when they close the cock M, which communicates with the second and third egg, and they open the cock r to establish the conanunication with the worm. The pipe s communi- cates between the third egg and the worm. When three eggs are used, they operate as just indicated; they open the cocks M and s, and stop the cock r. The same pro- ceeding is observed when the greatest number of eggs are i*ni ployed. Each of these has a tube that communicates with the holes.