Improvements in and relating to Distilling and Rectifying Apparatus.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 1898-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Distilling and Rectifying
Apparatus.
I, ALFRED SKASSA, of Rovno, Government of Volhynia, in the Empire of Russia,
Nobleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
My invention relates to distilling and rectifyin apparatus and comprises the
improvements hereinafter set forth.
In apparatus of this kind as hitherto constructed the low wines-that is to say
those admixtures present in the spirit which have the highest boiling point-are
liable to return in a manner imperceptible to the eye on to the topmost heated dish
or tray and there once more become vaporized, thereby greatly interfering with
the production of a regular supply of those spirit-vapours which are evolved at the
lowest temperature..
The object of my invention is to obviate this defect and thus to enable the
apparatus fo be worked in a more efficient manner than heretofore.
In the accompanying drawings, I have shown how my said invention may be
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in vertical section, showing my improved
distilling and rectifying apparatus, and
Figures 2 and 3 are detail views drawn to a greatly enlarged scale.
Referring to Figure 1, A is the usual tank containing the fermented wash, 1) the
retort or still proper, and E the rectifying column, I denotes the dephlegmators;
G, the spirit-vapour-carrying connecting pipes f, h, the pipes connecting the
dephlegmators with the wash tank and a and b the return pipes for the low wines.
The said pipes a and bare provided at the top with the lanterns B and C, while
the pipes themselves reach down into the lower part of the rectifying column,
instead of, as heretofore, entering at the points markeds and . By this arrange-
ment the low wines or admixtures possessing the highest boiling point which drop
in a liquid state from the dephlegmator on to the heated dishes of the column are
prevented from becoming reconverted into vapour and are enabled to mix with the
spirit vapours at the lowest temperature; with the result that the upper part of the
rectifying column may be rendered serviceable for collecting spirit vapours and
precisely in such quantities as may happen to be required at the time; the
lanterns B and C enabling the quantity of low wines passing through to be readily
observed and ascertained hour by hour; thus enabling the distilling process to be
conducted in a perfectly uniform manner. The output of spirits of the best quality
is by such means materially increased, as the requisite amount of spirit-vapour
may thus at any time be generated.
A further advantage of the above-mentioned lanterns is that although the
quantity of the aqueous sediment or fluid collecting on the cooling pipes of the
dephlegmator may be thick and heavy, the formation of such aqueous sediment or
fluid may be controlled-by means of a constant and exact observation of the

page_text: passing jet or current-by varying the admission of cold water to the dephlegma-
tors F according to requirements; the admission of cold water being regulated by
cocks c, g, n, communicating with the cold water supply pipe i.
These improvements enable the retort or still proper 1 to be filled with alcohol
rectified at, say 80° while hitherto the alcohol could only be rectified at about 50°,
seeing that the vapours produced from the passing current, which fell on the warm.
upper plates of the rectifying column hindered the regular flow of the alcohol
vapours produced in the alembic. In consequence, as the charge of the alembic is
almost double approximately double the quantity of spirit vapour will be evolved,
the productive capacity of the whole apparatus, being thus practically duplicated,
while the consumption of fuel remains the same as it was before.
Figure 2 shows one of the lanterns detached. It consists of a copper ball or
globe having two orifices IV and V for the admission and discharge of the low
wines respectively. The diameter of these orifices is the same as that of the low
wine pipes, while the diameter of the globe itself is twice as large as the diameter
of those pipes. The globe is furthermore provided with two glazed peep-hoies
or windows I, arranged opposite each other and enabling the process of the low
wines passing from the dephlegmator into the rectifying column to be watched.
The diameter of the windows is the same as that of the low wine pipes. Within
the lantern a copper scale is erected' vertically in a central position, such scale being
graduated, as at VI, each division representing a known quantity of the current
of low wines passing every hour from the dephlegmator into the rectifying column.
The lantern is inserted into the pipe-system as shown, being joined to it by the
flanges II and III.
Figure 3 is a section of a low wine pipe at the part where the lantern is inserted
and the scale for measuring the low wines is placed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. In distilling or rectifying apparatus used in refining spirits, a globe or ball-
shaped lantern with a scale fitted in its interior for measuring the quantities of low
wines passing therethrough substantially as set forth.
2. In distilling or rectifying apparatus for refining spirits, the employment of
low-wines piping connecting the dephlegmator with the lower part of the rectifying
column substantially as and for the purposes set forth.
3. The improved apparatus constructed substantially as described with reference
to the accompanying drawing and operating as and for the purposes set forth.
Tatad ÷ 1141
1000
A. F. SPOONER,
323, High Holborn, London,
Agent for the Applicant.
A. F. SPOONER,
323, High Holborn, London,
Agent for the Applicant.