A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products

CHAPTER XIV.

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DE-NATURING REGULATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.

The Free Alcohol Act of 1906, and proposed changes therein. The Amendment of 1907. Internal Revenue Regulations. 224

Index. 261

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

No. PAGE.

1 Vacuum mash cooker _to face_ 10

2 Henze steamer 12

3 Mash cooler, air system 15

4 Mash cooler, water system 17

5 Yeasting and fermenting apparatus _to face_ 22

6 A simple still 34

7 Simple direct-heated still 35

8 Simple still, with rectifier 37

9 Adam's still 39

10 Corty's simplified distilling apparatus 41

11 Double still 42

12 Dorn's compound still 43

13 Compound still 46

14 Compound direct-fire still 47

15 Cellier-Blumenthal still 49

16 Details of rectifier column 50

17 Details of condenser and mash heater 52

18 Coffey's rectifying still 55

19, 20 Rotary current still 59, 60

21 Indicator for regulating the distilling fire 61

22 Diagrammatic view of column still and accessory apparatus _to face_ 64

23 Distilling plate 64

24, 25 Barbet traps 68

26 Steam regulator 70

27 Gauge glass for regulator 72

28 Continuous distilling apparatus with external tubular condenser _to face_ 72

29 Detail of chamber, continuous still 73

30, 31 Details of perforated plate _A_ 75, 76

32 Continuous distilling apparatus with goose separator _to face_ 76

33 Section of Gillaume's inclined column still 78

34 Gillaume's inclined column still 79

35 Rectifying still 88

36 Section of rectifying still 89

37 Fractional distilling apparatus 91

38 Rectifying apparatus with external tubular condenser _to face_ 94

39 Twin column Barbet rectifier 95

40 Gillaume's rectifier and inclined still 97

41 Steaming vat for potatoes 112

42 Bottom of steaming vat 113

43 Steam generator 114

44 Potato steamer and crusher 116

45 Bohn's steamer and crusher 118

46 Stack for storing beets 148

47 Storage cellar for beets 149

48 Beet and potato rasp 152

49 Dujardin's roll press 155

50 Defusion battery 158

51 Mixing vat 165

52 Syke's hydrometer 176

53 Field's alcoholometer 182

54 Geisler's apparatus 184

55 Continuous grain alcohol distillery--Barbet's system 198

56 Grain distillery, capacity 2500 bushels per day _to face_ 198

57 Small beet distillery 200

58 Large beet distillery 202

59 Molasses distillery, capacity 2500 gallons per day _to face_ 206

60 Molasses fermenting house 207