IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC- TURE OR PRODUCTION OF CHEESE
Year: 1853

page_text: Christopher
ockey,
the Frome Iron Foundry, Frome, in the County of Somerset,
Engineers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFAC-
TURE OR PRODUCTION OF CHEESE."
Sealed the 21st January 1854, and dated the 21st July 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Cockey,
Henry Cockey, and Francis Christopher Cockey at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st
July 1853.
We, EDWARD COCKEY, HENRY COCKEY, and FRANCIS CHRISTOPHER
COCKEY, of the firm of Edward Cockey & Sons, of the From Iron
Foundry, in the County of Somerset, Engineers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OR PRODUCTION OF CHEESE" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the application of hot water or of steam
to the bottom or other portion of the cheese tub during the process of
the preparation of the curd, the heated water or steam being applied

page_text: by means of an outer casing or double bottom to the cheese tub, or by
any chamber or pipes applied to the cheese tub whereby the same
object may be attained. It also consists in the application of cold
water by the same means during the process for the purpose of.regu-
lating the temperature of the curd.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Cockey, Henry Cockey, and Francis
Christopher Cockey in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 21st
January 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
EDWARD COCKEY, HENRY COCKEY, and FRANCIS CHRISTOPHER COCKEY,
of the firm of Edward-Cockey and Sons, of the Frome Foundry, Frome,
in the County of Somerset, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Edward Cockey, Henry Cockey, and Francis
Christopher Cockey, Her special license that we, the said Edward
Cockey, Henry Cockey, and Francis Christopher Cockey, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward
Cockey, Henry Cockey, and Francis Christopher Cockey, our execu-
tors, administrators, or 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
THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF CHEESE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Edward Cockey, Henry Cockey, and Francis
Christopher Cockey, by an instrument in writing under our hands and
scals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should particularly de-
scribe 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

page_text: 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 we, the said Edward Cockey, Henry Cockey,
and Francis Christopher Cockey, do hereby declare the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters
and figures marked thereon, that is to say:
Our said Invention relates to an improved vessel or cheese tub for
heating the milk of which the cheese is to be formed, and consists in
the application of hot water or of steam to the bottom or other portion
of the cheese tub during the process of the preparation of the curd, the
heated water or steam being applied by means of an outer casing or
double bottom to the cheese tub, or by any chamber or pipes applied
to the cheese tub whereby the same object may be attained. It also
consists in the application of cold water by the same means during the
process for the purpose of regulating the temperature of the curd.
Figure 1, on the accompanying Sheet of Drawings represents a ver-
tical section of one modification of our improved cheese tub, wherein
the milk is heated by a circulation of hot water or steam through the
double bottom A, of the tub. Cold water-may also be admitted, when
necessary, for the purpose of regulating the temperature of the whey by
similar means. The tub is composed of sheet metal, and the steam or
hot water is supplied from a boiler placed in convenient proximity to it.
Two pipes B, C, are fitted to the lower chamber or double bottom of
the tub, in order that the circulation may be complete. By this means
the necessary degree of temperature is easily attained with far less
labor than by the ordinary method, and without the risk of injury to
the cheese, which is so frequently the case by the old process of heating.
Figure 2, represents a vertical section of another modification of cheese
tub, and Figure 3, is a corresponding plan of the same. In this
arrangement, in place of an external. chamber or double bottom, a
coiled pipe A, is employed, placed inside the. tub, and resting on the
bottom thereof; through this pipe a circulation of hot or cold water or
steam is effectel, as herein-before described.

page_text: Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used
or carried into effect, we would observe, in conclusion, that we do
not confine or restrict ourselves to the precise details or arrangements
which we have had occasion to describe or refer to, as many variations
may be made therefrom without deviating from the principles or main
features of our said Invention; but what we consider to be novel and
original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to us by the
hercin-before in part recited Letters Patent, is,-
First, the arrangement and construction of cheese tubs, as herein-
before described.
Second, the application and use of a double bottom or external
chamber for the reception of a current of liot or cold water or steam,
as herein-before described.
Third, the application and use of a pipe or vessel placed inside the
tub for heating or regulating the temperature of the milk or whey
contained therein, as herein-before described.
Fourth, the system or mode of making cheeses wherein the milk
or whey is heated in the cheese tub itself by the aid either of steam or
hot water, whether such heating medium be applied to the outside or
the inside of the tub, and also the regulating of the temperature by
currents of cold water similarly applied.
In witness whereof, wc, the said Edward Cockey, Henry Cockey.
& Francis Christopher Cockey, have hereunto set our hands
d seals, the Eighteenth day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-four
EDWARD COCKEY.
(L.S.)
HENRY COCKEY.
(L.S.)
FRANCIS C. COCKEY. (L.s.)