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machines thus nail a hundred and fifty to two hundred cases
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per hour; two are enough to meet the needs of the factory.
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Beside the nailing machines, which are of American
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origin, we admire a machine which marks the stoppers,
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accounting for 5,000 stoppers per hour, without requiring any
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attention other than to fill the hopper which feeds it from time
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to time.
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The nailed cases are lined up in the vast halls of which
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we spoke before, there they are branded, rigged, and loaded
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onto the wagons that await them at the doorway.
A hundred
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cases of 12 bottles can thus be finished in the space of an hour
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and the number could be well increased if not for the fact that
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this would make it necessary to enlarge the buildings.
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From the handling of bottles, we descend into the cellars
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where new surprises await us.
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Under these sonorous vaults are aligned in immense
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perspective the 230 tuns containing altogether millions of liters
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of fabricated absinthe; 19 large steel vats contain in their bellies
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the hundreds of millions of liters of proof spirit of wine. A
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simple move of the tap starts the flow of alcohol to the vats
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from tank cars brought from Languedoc and Rousillon.
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Powerful pumps make the transfers, accumulating in a
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storage room the proof spirit needed to distill or to fill the
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bottle preparation vats; electric bells, acoustic tubes and
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whistles transmit commands at the speed of thought and the
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enormous
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(Translated by "Artemis" for your pleasure.) |
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