1876 The Bar-Tenders' Guide or How to Mix all kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks by Jerry Thomas

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DISTILLATION.

The portable furnace(1) is most excellent for boilers of from 0 to 10 gallons,and may be used as a beating or cook ing stove for families, as -well as for the purposes of distil lation. Coal can be tilled in without moving the boiler, it having a good di-aught of air, and being laid out with fire bricks, with a fiJl-grate for extinguishing the coal after using The above can be obtamed, ready-made, of J. Murphy, at No.256 Water street, complete for $5. The concurbit, or boiler (2), belonging to the furnace, contains 10 gallons of liquid,.and is formed of tinned cof)- per—the sm.aller part of the bottom standing on the fire bricks, while the upper bottom covers the top of the fur- n.ace. This construction en.ables the first heat of the coal to give its whole strength on the under bottom, and rising up by the door, continues around the boiler, between the top and the brick-work, and in the stove-jiipe. By thia process, time and coal are both saved. Ir^

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2. Distillation Consists essentially in converting a liquid into vapor in a close vessel, by means of heat, and then conveying the vapor into another cool vessel, where it is condensed again mto a liquid. To .accomplish this, the liquids are placed in the boiler (2), and when he.at is applied to the boiler, spirit bomns to rise in vapor at 176° (degrees), and water is converted into vapor at 212°(degrees). These v.apors pass from ths