US23089A - Improvement in apparatus for distilling - Google Patents

Description

P. KESSLER.

Alcohol Still.

Patented March l. 1859.

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IMPROVEMENTIN APPARATUS FOR I'JISTILLING.

To CLZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER KEssLER, of Belleville, inthe county of St.A Clair and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Distilling Apparatuses; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specication, in which-,-

Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a distilling apparatus constructed according to my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of my'doubler, (the vessel which I use for rectifying the liquor.)

Similar letters of reference indicate icorresponding parts in the two gures.

This invention consists in conducting the gaseous liquor from the still into ahollow cylin- \drical space which is partly iilled up by a conical vessel filled with water, so that the impurities contained in the liquor are condensed by coming in contact with the cold sides of the water-vessel, and the pure liquor may be drawn off by a pipe leading to a suitable cooler, the water-vessels being so arranged in the space surrounding the same that the .strength of the liquor may be determined by the Vquantity of water contained in saidvessel, while at the same time the condensed impuritiese., t-he low-wine-may be brought back to the rst still by means of a faucet and without pumping. y

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improved apparatus, I will proceed to describe it.

Two stills, A and B, are placed in such re` lation to each other asis usual in distilling apparatuses of this kind, the beer contained in the still A being heated by steam conducted to it by a pipe, C. The vapors thus arising from the beer ascend through a pipe, D, to the still B,from Awhich they enter a vessel, E, by means of a pipe, F. rllhis vessel is closed at the top by a cup, G, the bottom of which has an opening, a, and a plate, H, placed on the top of the cup G, has another opening, b, just opposite the opening a.

`Another cylindrical vessel, l, is placed on the top of the vessel E, communicating with the same by means of the openings c and b, and the circulation is further increased by a hollow cylinder, J, attached tothe top of the plate H, said cylinder having an open space, c, in its side, and being of such height as to reach to the bottom of a conical vessel, K, which iitsinto the cylindrical vessel I. The

- space L left between the outside of the vessel K and the inside of the vessel I is decreasing toward the top, and it runs out into a sharp point, as clearly represented in Fig. 2. The gaseous liquor contained in the vessel E ascends through the openings a and b and fills the space L, and if cold water is poured into the vessel K the impurities contained in the liquor are condensed. Vater is admitted to the vessel K by means of a pipe, M, and a pipe, N, serves to carry off the surplus water, so as to prevent an overiiowing. It is obvious thatthe condensation takes place more rapidly Atoward the top of the space L if the vessel K be filled with water up to the top,`

as the cold surface of the outside ofthe ves sel K increases while the contentsI of the space L decrease, so that by 4putting more or less' cold water into the vessel K the strength of the liquor may be regulated. The condensed impurities-i. e.,'the low-wine-flow back to the vessel E through the openings a and b, and they are carried backto the still A by means of afaucet, O, which is attached tothe vessel E close to its bottom. By this arrangement the pumping out of the low-wine is avoided,and a great deal of trouble and labor are saved thereby; and as a certain quantity of goed spirits will always be contained in the low-wine, the iiowing back into the still by this arrangement causes a great saving, as much ofthe liquor contained in the low-wine as treated in the usual way is lost, the lowf eseapes through a pipe, P, which leads into a are arranged so as to have a tapering space, suitable cooler, Q, from which it is drawn off L, and an intermediate circulating passage,

into easks. G a b J c, between them7 substantially as and Whatelaim as my invention, and desire to for the purposes herein set forth. Secure by Letters Patent, is- PETER KESSLER.

The employment of the stills A B and XVitnesses: i cooler Q, in eombinationwith the vessels E I H. SCHLETH, K, as described and shown, when said vessels THEODORE DAUTH. f

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