. Gleanings in bee culture. he book was written in 1897. Con-cerning the combined steam and screw wax-pres-ses, and their use in Germany, the authorsays: We will describe here only the Dietrich apparatus,as the essential principles of it are the same as thoseof all the others. It consists of an outer receptacle orjacket, having fastened near the bottom a tube forthe purpose allowing the melted wax to run to the top of this outer receptacle is a pecul-iarly shaped cover made of cast iron. Thiough themiddle of it passes a screw with a wheel on the upperend to turn it. Inside of
. Gleanings in bee culture. he book was written in 1897. Con-cerning the combined steam and screw wax-pres-ses, and their use in Germany, the authorsays: We will describe here only the Dietrich apparatus,as the essential principles of it are the same as thoseof all the others. It consists of an outer receptacle orjacket, having fastened near the bottom a tube forthe purpose allowing the melted wax to run to the top of this outer receptacle is a pecul-iarly shaped cover made of cast iron. Thiough themiddle of it passes a screw with a wheel on the upperend to turn it. Inside of the outer vessel is a cylinder 282 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUflE. Apr. 1 pierced with holes. This is to contain the fragmentsof wax to be melted. On the lower end of the screwis a disk fitting exactlv into the perforate 1 space between the inner cylinder and the on erone is designed for the generation of steam. Throughthe upper orifice pour warm or even hot water, andplace the apparatus on the stove. Pour in enough. KOi,B & GROBEK STKAM WAX-PRESS. water to come up to the top of the glass observation-hole. The steam soon causes the wax to melt, wh chruns out into a vessel beneath, which is partly filledw Ih cold water. . For more exttn>iive bee-keep-ers the steam wax press is to be recommenderl. suchas is offered for sale by Kolb & Grober, in i, rch. This description will answer for any of theother presses shown on this page.
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