534 Coco-nuts The Consols of the East 



makers of vegetable butter and margarine, as 

 well as those who simply refine the oil for 

 others to use. 



The Bataille plant is one of the best, if not 

 actually the best, apparatus for the work. Oil- 

 makers agree that by its use every trace 

 of taste or smell is removed from the oil, 

 whether coco-nut or otherwise. Recognizing 

 this has caused the Bataille machines to be 

 generally adopted on the Continent and else- 

 where, especially as, whilst being reliable and 

 effective, they are at the same time simple in 

 construction, economical to buy and to work, 

 and the wearing parts are cheaply, quickly, and 

 easily replaced. The machines are so simple 

 that the services of an engineer or chemist can 

 be dispensed with, although large establish- 

 ments employing such assistants would of 

 course find their services of use at times. 



The apparatus, as shown in the pre- 

 ceding illustration, consists of two vessels, 

 made of tinned sheet-iron, so shaped as to 

 allow the oil inside to be violently stirred up 

 and agitated by means of jets of steam, pro- 

 duced from the water boiled in vacuo, and 

 therefore at a low temperature, avoiding any 

 taste of cooking. From this first portion of 

 the apparatus, the steam passes through into 

 the condenser, still under vacuum, and the oil 

 becomes completely separated from the water 

 and steam. 



Coco-nut, palm-kernel, soya-bean, cotton- 



