APPLIANCES FOn HONBr AND WAX EXTKAOTION, 



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1^", and the front is 2" by 1". The sash is glazed T7ith 24oz. glass. 

 The inside width (S'-S") was fixed upon so as to hold a tray of ordinary 

 corrugated iron, upon which the wax to be purified is laid. The 

 impurities remain on the tray, and the clear wax, as melted, runs 

 down into a trough which runs all along the front. The trough is 

 cut from a strip of corrugated iron (valley and two corrugations) the 

 two corrugations hammered up, to make one deep trough, the ends of 

 which are hammered up, so that the wax is held in it. The extractor 

 has a loose-fitting bottom, and is filled up with a sloping bed of cinders, 

 within 4" of the glass, the trough being set in the ashes in front, and 

 the tray on the bed of ashes and overhanging the edge of the trough. 

 Being fitted with a loose bottom, the extractor can be turned to face 

 the sun, the rays of which should fall perpendicularly on the glass. A 

 reflector, of a large sheet of tin,, could b? added." — Irish Bee Journal. 



140. Steam Wax Ex- 

 tractor. — For extracting 

 by steam, an apparatus 

 (Fig-. 62) is supplied 

 which does its work 

 thoroughly, is not diffi- 

 cult to manage, and is 

 our fickle climate which 

 so often denies us the 

 sun, is more generally 

 useful than is the Solar 

 Extractor. The upper 

 portion has a perforated 

 tin basket into which 

 the pieces of comb are 

 placed, and underneath 

 which is a tray, with an 

 outlet. When the water 

 la the lower portion 

 boils, the steam ascends 

 to the basket and melts 

 the wax which escapes 

 through the outlet and 

 is caught in a basin of 

 cold water. The refuse remains in the basket, and when the 

 wax in the basin cools, it may be lifted out in a cake. (J79). 



{.Other useful and necessary Appliances will be found described •» 

 the various chapters of Part IIIJ] 



S-IEAM WAX EXTRACTOR. 



