Theater of Machines, Volume 4

The 2nd Figure.

A wine-press beam or wine-trough original: "Wein-Trotten" to press out wine or must.

Now we also want to report something about the wine presses with which one presses out wine, many of which can indeed be seen here and there, because this press has been in use since ancient times just as well as it is today. And it is first to be noted that the foundation of this equipment should be made of very hard, good, squared millstones or other stones, which are joined together very well and stiffly, so that the wine may be made thereon quite clean and pure, and the pavement may not be softened by the wine. If the foundation is now good and strong, then the entire structure becomes all the more secure. Especially, however, the two beams MM in the front, which support the front part of the long cross-beam or turning-wood original: "Wendholtz" A, remain stiffer. For otherwise, where the pavement or foundation is not weighed down with hard stones, and also under the