QUICK PROCESS OF FABRICATION OF VINEGAR. 



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A uniform distribution of the alcoholic liquid upon all portions 

 of the filling of the apparatus would be effected if about the same 

 quantity of liquid dripped from all the threads. This being, how- 

 ever, difficult to attain, it has been sought to give the disk a more 



Fig. 10. 



Generator with Air-tube in the Lower Portion. 



suitable arrangement, which consists, for instance, in the insertion 

 of small wooden tubes with a small aperture on the side (Fig. 11). 

 This arrangement, though very suitable in itself, becomes, however, 

 useless in case of the slightest warping of the disk, a number of 

 the tubes being then raised so high that no fluid runs through 

 them while it passes in a full stream through the others. 



Fie. 11. 



Disk with Wooden Tubes. 



These evils connected with the use of a disk can be somewhat 

 diminished by the employment of a so-called "tilting trough" 

 (Figs. 12 and 13), which is arranged as follows : 



