Theater of Machines, Volume 4

earth were chained together with the beams, it could easily happen that, because of the heaviness of the rear part of the aforementioned cross-beam, the front beams MM would be pulled upwards. However, all wine and oil presses should have such stiff and well-provided foundations and footings. The long cross-beam (which one is accustomed to call the turning-wood, and on which the entire work of this structure rests) is divided in the middle like a path; thereon is the screw V, which pulls the turning-wood downwards with the great weight P that goes downwards into a pit original: "Brunnen". It also lifts it up again, as the necessity requires, and after the grapes have been pressed, and the wine has flowed or run down through the channels S into the tubs, barrels, or vats F. The rear beams, which hold the cross-beam up with the wedges, do not need to stand deep under the earth like the front beams, for these are pulled or pressed not only by the weight of the millstones in the foundation, but also by the