1868 The complete Practical Distiller

THE COMPLETE PRACTICAL DISTILLER.

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solidated with the rest of the apparatus by two iron bars, one of which is nailed lo the timber-work p Q, while the other is attached to the first egg. This pipe is called come dJ dbondance^ or horn of plenty. All the apparatus of the French distillers that have been encouraged by pa- tents have been constructed according to the principles of this now described, or those analogous to them. In the working of the still just described, they first close the lower cocks that communicate with the grand tube connected with the egg. They open those of the conducting tube; then the wine contained in the tun escapes and settles in the still. During this time a labourer pumps, to replace the wine in the tun that has escaped by the pipe. They know that the still is sufficiently charged when the wine flows through the little cock adapted to it. The globules are compelled to traverse the liquid to ascend to the upper part of the egg ; but it is necessary to observe that the vapours that issue from the still are not purely alcoholic, but mixed with many watery particles. In visiting the vacant part of the ^gg^ the watery part mixes with the wine, with which it has much affinity, while the spurious parts, accumulating in the upper part of the first ^gg^ pass from that into the second and third, and after having traversed them all, settle in the upper worm, where they condense, and finish the cooling in the second worm. The liquor comes out cold from the lower orifice of the second worm, and is received into the vessel destined to that purpose. The vapours are passed through all the condensers, or only a part of them, accordingly as the