Patent ID: 6911119

Claim:
A simple, convenient, portable mini-distillation apparatus for the production of essential oils and hydrosols, which comprises one or more vessel(s) ( 1 ) capable of being heated either internally/eternally or both, the inside bottom of the said vessel(s) being provided with a threaded rod ( 6 ) fixed concentrically in such a manner so as to allow vertical movement of a sieved false bottom ( 5 ), one or more steam spurger(s) ( 24 ) being provided between the vessel bottom ( 2 ) and the said movable false bottom ( 5 , 7 ), the said vessel(s) being provided with lids(s) ( 3 ) having one or more safety valve(s) ( 21 ), said lid(s) being attached with the vessel by means of removable fixing means, the lid(s) are also provided with parameter gauges ( 20 ) and a vapor outlet(s) ( 9 ), the said vapor outlet(s) being connected by known means to the inlet of one or more vertical cohobation column(s) ( 8 ), the outlet(s) of the said cohobation column(s) being fixed by known means to the inlet ( 10 ) of a condenser ( 11 ) provided with closeable vent ( 15 ), the outlet ( 12 ) of the said condenser being detachably connected by one or more connecting means ( 14 ) to a vertical receiver-separator column ( 13 ) having a valve ( 18 ) at its lower end, which controls an outlet ( 23 ), the bottom and middle of the said receiver-separator column being provided with a plurality of valves ( 17 , 19 ) which control flow of fluids in one or more recycling means ( 16 ) connected to the upper portion of the said cohobation column(s).