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Gleanings in Bee Culture 



Fiu. 3. — Demonstrations of this kind always draw a big crowd. 



SEVERINS HONEY AND WAX SEPARATOR. 



BY F. J. SEVERIN. 



Fig. 1 shows my separator just as it ap- 

 pears ready for use, except that it is tipped 

 up to show the interior. In Fig. 2 the sep- 

 arator stands in its regular position. 



In brief, the principle of the operation of 

 this separator isas follows: The melted wax, 

 honey, and slumgura from the nielter fall 

 into the screen shown in the right-hand 

 compartment. Fig. 1. The partition between 

 the right-hand compartment and the left- 

 hand compartment does not go quite to the 

 bottom, there being a quarter-inch space; 

 and since there is always supposed to be 

 some cold honey in the separator, the wax 

 can not get under this partition, for it floats 

 on the top of the honey. When the liquid 

 in the separator reaches the spout at the 

 left-hand side of the left compartment the 

 honey runs out in the trough which extends 

 around that end of the separator, down the 

 long side in front, and back to the three- 

 inch pipe that conveys the honey from the 

 extractor to the storage-tank. XVhen the 

 work has been kept up long enough so that 

 the liquid reaches the height of the spout 

 (hat connects the right-hand compartment 



with the left, the wax flows over into the 

 left-hand compartment and is caught in 

 the wax-pan placed there to receive it; and 

 since it is surrounded by hot honey, it does 

 not chill. The wax-pan holds enough M'ax 

 for a whole day's work — about 2o pounds in 

 all when full. The slumgum is kept back 

 by the wire-cloth basket in the right-hand 

 compartment. 



These separators can be made of any size 

 desired. The one shown is 20 inches long, 

 11 inches deep, and 11 inches wide, outside 

 measurements. The partition separating 

 the right-hand compartment from the left 

 is five inches from the right-hand end of 

 the separator, and extends to within % inch 

 of the bottom. The slumgum-basket is four 

 inches wide, ten long, and ten deep. Five 

 or six inches is deep enough, as slumgum 

 acts like wax; that is, before it will sink 

 very far it will rise and go over the top; 

 therefore there is no need of having so deep 

 a basket. 



The wax-pan is fourteen inches long, ten 

 wide, and nine deep. The bottom is 1>^ 

 inches smaller each way all around. This 

 pan is held up from the bottom of the out- 

 side tank by means of ribs. 



The spout for wax in the upper part of the 

 partition isjthree inches [long and one inch 



