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follows: — "No special originality of method is claimed 

 for this little appliance, the plan in various forms 

 having been long in use ; but we {i.e., Mr. Meadows) 

 do claim credit for a simple, economical, and original 

 application of the known method of wax-extracting. 

 A round pan or boiler is fitted with an inner vessel 

 of corrugated iron having a loose top and bottom 

 of perforated metal, together with a device for 

 keeping it in middle of the boiler when in use. This 



Fig. 29. 



is the wax-holder. When the latter has been filled 

 with broken combs — pressed close down and the 

 loose lid laid over all — the boiler is filled with cold 

 water until the wax-holder is completely submerged. 

 As the water heats the wax melts and passes upward 

 to the surface of water above, on which it floats till 

 removed when cold, as a solid cake of clean wax, the 

 dt^bris being retained in the wax-holder The boiler 



