IMPROVEMENTS IN STILLS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Harvey, of Hillside Estate, Vere, Jamaica,
and of 47, Lime Street, in the County of Middlesex, Sugar Planter
and Mouchant for the Invention of is TrendamangS IN SOILLS "
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Harvey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st October 1873.
I, JAMES HARVEY, of Hillside Estate, Vere, Jamaica, and of 47, Lime
Street, in the County of Middlesex, Sugar Planter and Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STILLS," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to improvements designed to be applied to stills
of the kind commonly used in the colonies for distilling rum, and which
can be applied without great expense to existing stills.
The improvements are also applicable to any 'stills of forms generally
like that referred to and used for distilling various liquids when steam
heat is employed.
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page_text: By the Invention a casing constructed to receive steam is fitted by
flanges to the body of the still so as to form the bottom thereof, and a
number of vertical tubes are fixed in the upper surface of the casing with
their upper end closed, and their bottom ends open into the casing so as
to admit the steam inside of them. These tubes increase the heating
surface in an effective manner, and are much more convenient and easily
cleaned than the horizontal coils of piping sometimes employed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Harvey in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th April 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
HARVEY, of Hillside Estate, Vere, Jamaica, and of 47, Lime Street, in
the County of Middlesex, Sugar Planter and Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said James Harvey, Her special licence that I,
the said James Harvey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said James Harvey, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STILLS," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said James Harvey, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Harvey, do hereby declare

page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement in writing, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, that is to say :—
My said Invention relates to improvements designed to be applied to
stills of the kind commonly used in the colonies for distilling rum, and
the said improvements can be applied to existing stills without great
expence.
My Invention is also applicable to any stills of forms generally like
that referred to and used for distilling various liquids, in cases in which
steam heat is or may be employed.
And in order that my said Invention and the manner of performing
the same may be properly understood, I hereunto append a Sheet
bearing an explanatory Drawing, to be herein-after referred to, and
representing a still suitable for distilling rum, and which embodies my
improvenients.
In the accompanying Drawing my improved still is shown in sectional
side elevation.
My Invention has more particular reference to the arrangements for
heating the still, and in practically carrying it out a casing 1, 1, con-
structed to receive steam, and which may be of iron, is attached by
means of flanges 2, 2, to the body 3, 3, of the still, so as to form the
bottom thereof, and a number of vertical or nearly vertical tubes 4, 4, 4,
of brass or other suitable metal are fixed in the upper surface or shell of
the casing 1, 1, with their upper ends closed, and their bottom ends open
into the interior of the casing so as to admit the steam up inside of
them.
The tubes 4, 4, 4, increase the heating surface in an effective manner,

page_text: Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I have to state that I do not
restrict myself to the precise details herein described or delineated, but
that what I believe to be novel and original and claim as the Invention
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,
the fitting of stills with bottoms consisting of steam casings, having
tubes projecting up into the still with their upper ends closed and their
bottom ends open to the steam, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Harvey, have hereunto set
_my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
JAMES HARVEY. (L.S.) ·