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nominal cost in a large winery, would prove a burden on a smaller 

 stock of wine. 



The illustration shows the apparatus, which consists'of one to 

 two or more batteries of thin copper tubes, well tinned, varying in 

 length from six to 12 feet, and one and a-half inches in diameter. 

 These two columns (1 and 2) are connected by means of a tube (3), 

 which runs from the topmost tube of the first column to the bottom. 



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Muntz and Eousseaux tubular refrigerator. 



tube of the other. The wine thus is forced upwards by means of a 

 pump, and, entering at 7, runs at the top of the second column 

 through the outlet (8) back into the vat. Cool water from the 

 tank (4) is allowed to drip by means of two rows of holes in the 

 bottom, corresponding to the two columns, over which it spreads in 

 thin layers, and, exposed to the air and in contact with the metal 

 warmed by the ascending wine, evaporates and helps to cool 



