1868 The complete Practical Distiller

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worm, and all these are soldered to the spherical T, in which the vapours from each egg are deposited, to be conveyed from thence into the worm in the tub u. u is a tub, hermetically closed, which contains the principal worm ; this is full of wine, heated by the passage of the hot vapours from the last. It is also surmounted with the dome a, from which proceeds the pipe 5, that serves to contain the alcoholic vapours that escape from the tube last mentioned, from the vessel t, or from any of the eggs or still, to convey them thence into the worm, j is a large tub under the first, and which encloses the second worm, but is much longer than the other. It is full of water, always kept cold ; but disgorges itself through the pipe c on the outside of the vessel, against which it is supported by the three iron bars d^ d, d. It has not been thought necessary to represent the stone cavity used as a storehouse for the wines designed for dis- tillation, which wines may be raised into the tub u by means of a pump managed by one man ; the conducting pipe of this, marked ///, discharges itself near the bot- tom of the tub u. g g g 18 the pipe of communication belonging to the still and the eggs ; A, i, k are cocks to establish or inter- cept the communication of the eggs with the conducting pipe g; Ij Z, m," n are cocks for continuing or interrupting the communication between each egg and the still, to dis- charge it, or with the condensing vessel, for the purpose of filling it ; o o is the pipe through which the brandy or the feints are conveyed by means of the tun^, when they wish to charge the still or the eggs. It is soldered to the pipe ^, into which it discharges itself, and is con*