A Practical Handbook on the Distillation of Alcohol from Farm Products
CHAPTER XIV.
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