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metal (usually tin) cylinder, about 17in. in diameter by 24in. 

 in height. It contains a square basket of tin work, with wire 

 cloth covering on two opposite sides, sufficiently large to take 

 two frames of the Langstroth hive, one on each side, placed on 

 end, and resting against the wire cloth. A spindle, to which 

 the basket is attached, passes down the centre, the lower 

 end working in a bearing raised some height above the bottom 

 of the cylinder, so that there is a space for honey to accumu- 

 late below the bottom of the basket. The upper end of the 

 spindle works through a bearing exactly in the centre of the 



Fig. 63.— HONEY EXTRACTOR. 



INSIDE BASKET. 



cylinder and attached to the inside of its rim by a light casting ; 

 to the top of the spindle is attached a handle with gearing to 

 multiply the motion, so that by turning rather slowly with the 

 hand a considerable velocity is got up on the outsides of the 

 basket. When combs are to be extracted, the capping of the 

 cells having been removed with the uncapping knife hereafter 

 to be described, one frame is placed against each wire cloth 

 side of the basket and made to revolve until the honey from 

 the outer side of each comb is thrown out, through the wire 

 cloth, and, striking against the inside of the cylinder, trickles 

 down to the bottom, to be withdrawn by the tap or honey-gate 



