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Show Wi wi iremity of the Pit, at an equal Diftance from the Pile inthe Middle, for fupporting fome of the Timbers, and ‘to prevent the Earth from falling down into the Pic. The Space between thefe three little Walls of three Feet depth, is neceffary to give Air to the Wood, to prevent its rotting. The Wall, which ought to be from the Sides of the Beams (which may be placed Ground, ‘Fhefe they join with the Piles which crofs ’em, upon which they put the Beams, which are all joined by Cramps of Wood, except the laft, to which the Stillings ferve inftead of Braces: erect the Mafonry, They afterwards in which theyenclofe the Ends ofthe Piles, as alfo thofe ofthe Braces, from the Right to the Left of the Prefs, ac- cording to the greateft Conveniency of the Place) fhould be deeper than the Hollow of the Beams, which fhall be explain’d hereafter ; to prevent the Beams fromrifing ; thefe Piles ought to be placed contrary to the Stillings, which furround or crofs them every three Feet, and Dove-tail’d into the fquare Supporters ; the Space left between the Mafonry they do not fill up, that the Beams may be lay a Piece of Timber length-ways, which preferved fromrotting, and that, if Occafion be, they may go down into the Pit. The Beams ought to be laid in fuch a Manner, that their Sides may occupy the Middle of the Bafon, and they fhould incline two Inches beyond it: The Front andSides muft be made they call a falje Stilling; fmooth and even; andthat which is contriv’d on the bent Side of the Beams, fhould be thicker than the Square of the Bafon, which will be more eafily comprehended by what follows. Uponthe little Wall of the Middle, they upon this, to the Side of the hollow Beams, they place a Ground-plate, which is fupported by another Pile of Mafonry, where is joinedclofe to the Beams the Piles which they crofs; all thefe Pieces fhouldbe laid level, in order to fupport four Stillings, which are placed acrofs themat an equal Diftance. Thefe Pieces ought to extend beyond the Wall of the Bafon, on the Side of the Beams, about three Feet, and but the Back and Tops muft be left rough: They make at Top, under the Pieces of Maye, a Step of two or three Inches, for Support to the Carriage ; the Top of the Beams is joined with a Crofs-beam, under which is a Spindle fupported by a dia- hos gonal Beam, on which all the Force and Re- fiftance of the Prefs bears; this diagonal Beam fhouldbe clofely faftened with Nails and Girders under the Heads of the Beams: In be laid upon the Piles to hinder them from rifing : There muft always be allowed a Declivity of three or four Inches from the Front the Middle of the other Side of the Bafon, they put upon the Ground-plate, between to the four Stillings, in order to facilitate the little Diftance from the true ones, Mo the Ends of the Stillings, two falfe Beams a becaufe it Draining of the Wine into the Cask, which is on this Side that the Axle Tree is notched fhould be placed under the Middle, in the fore Part of the Bafon, to receive it from the to receive the Beams, to prevent their recoiling back; thefe are little enlarged towards the falfe Beams ; theyfuftain thefe with fourcrofs Pieces or ftrong Jambs, two on the Front, and lings, crofs the Bafon of the Prefs, fome two on the Sides, which abut againit them, Pieces of Wood called Maye; thefe fhould and keep them in their Places; thefe crofs have their Tops level with the Top of the Pieces are borne by the Ground-plate and the Stillings, and ought to be cut in Notches of Pofts, and let in at the other End, juft to the Middle ofthe falfe Beams ; thefe ought to four Inches in length on bothSides the Bafon, be bored about four Feet high, that the for receiving the Maye in fuch a manner, that they may be faftened on each Side with moving Pins may beput in there for the Beam Wedges, after having put in the middle of to reft upon: Thefe falfe Beams fhould have where the Holes are bored. hey afterwards place upon thefe four Stil- the Joints, Potters Earth and Mofs, to pre- vent the Wine from getting out at the Crevices: Thefe Pieces of Maye are fimply join’d together without Fillets or Notches, that they may the better clofe the two Ends to the Middle ofthe Quoins their whole Length, between the Stillings and the Side of the laft Pieces of Maye: Thefe Pieces fhould be raifed in the Middle with a Ridge, to make a Gutter in each Joint, to facilitate the draining, ofthe Wine ; they alfo make for the fame Purpofe, a Ridge or Furrow all round the Extremity of the Pieces of Maye. In the Place appointed for the Beams, on the Right or Left of the Bafon, they make a Hole big enough to ereét a Frame of Mafonry twelve leet deep, eight long, and five broad; oneof the three Piles of Mafonry, which fupports the Bafon, ferves there inftead of one Side of the Wall to the Beams, which are drove into the Groundat the Bottom of the faid Frame, twelve Feet deep, and are fifteen or fixteen Feet above the Level of the Holes at their Bottoms, toreceive the wooden Pegs which crofs the Ground-plate, and are cut to half their Thicknefs, that they may be capable to enter the Notches, and be joined with Keys and Pins where they crofs the falfe Beams ; they likewife bind thefe Beams at the Top with a crofs Beam, andthey fuftain them again at the Bottom with two crofs Pieces 0m their Sides ; thefe crofs Pieces are placed upon the Pofts which are joined into the Groundplate by a Dove-tail, and are borne uphori- zontally by a fmall Piece of Mafonry of their own Size, which is chiefly hid in the Ground : There mutt alfo be on eachSide alarge crofs Piece to crofs the Bafon, which binds together the falfe Beams with the true, both before and behind; thefe they faften to the Top of the Beams, allowing them a Foot and half Declivity tothe Place where theyare mortile into the falfe Beams. They alfo make in the Grotnd, on the Sides of the falfe Beams, ten Feet trom the Bafon, a Pit twelve Feet deep, and ten Feet {quare, 3 |
