AN IMPROVEMENT IN COOLING WORTS AND BEER
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, E.C., Editor of the Mechanics' Magazine, and
Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN COOLING WORTS
AND BEER."—A communication from Madame Jolibois, residing at Dijon,
France.
Sealed the 2nd August 1859, and dated the 4th February 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 4th February .1859.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, E.C., Editor of the Mechanics' Magazine, and Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN COOLING WORTS AND BEER," (communicated to me by Madame Jolibois
residing at Dijon, France,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in causing a current of cold water to circulate
through passages suitably arranged beneath the vessel containing the worts or
beer to be cooled, thereby gradually and quickly reducing the temperature of
the same, and preventing that sourness and bad taste in beer which are often
produced by the ordinary methods of cooling. The water, is introduced cold
at one part or end of the water circulating chamber, and coming in contact
with the bottom of the vessel containing the worts or beer, becomes charged
with caloric from the worts or beer, and flows off from the opposite part or
end of the chamber in a heated state.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the. City of London, E.C.,
Editor of the Mechanics' Magazine, and Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald, Brooman; my executors,. administrators; and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN COOLING WORTS AND BEER," (communi-
cated to me by Madame Jolibois, residing at Dijon, France,) upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 filed1 in. the. Great Seal Patent
Office, within six, calendar, montlis next; and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do biereby.
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner-the-same is
to, be performed, to; be, particularly described and ascertained in, and by the
following. statement, thereof; reference; being. had: to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say..
This Invention, consists. in, causing, a current of cold water. to circulate
through passages suitably, arranged; beneath the vessel, containing the worts on
beer, to be cooled, thereby, gradually; and quickly reducing the temperature of
⚫ the same, and preventing, that: sourness and bad taste in beer which are often
produced by the ordinary. methods of cooling. The. water. is introduced cold
at one part or end of the water circulating chamber, and coming-in contact
with the bottom of the vessel containing the worts or beer, becomes charged

page_text: with caloric from the worts or beer, and flows off from the opposite part or
end of the chamber in a heated state.
Figure 1 of the Drawings hereunto annexed is a view in plan of the
apparatus in which the water circulates with the vessel that contains the beer
removed; and Figure 2 is a transverse section of the whole apparatus, com-
prising the vat or vessel for holding the beer, and the part through which the
water circulates. The apparatus through which the water circulates is
composed of a table or bed a, surrounded by sides b, b, to which cross pieces
c, c, are connected, as well as to the bed a, as shewn clearly in Figure 1. The
cross pieces are so arranged that there shall be a continuous flow of water
through the apparatus, as shown by the arrows in Figure 1. Water is intro-
duced into the apparatus through a pipe e, furnished with a tapf, which, after
entering, passes successively through the passages formed by the cross pieces
c, c, viz., from the passages marked 1 to 2, and so on, through 3, 4, 5, till it
reaches that marked 6, from which it issues through a pipe g, provided with a
tap h. Water enters the apparatus in a cold state through the pipe e, but
becomes gradually beated as it circulates through the passages by the caloric
that is discharged from the worts, until it leaves by the pipe g. Thus a con-
tinuous flow of water can be maintained through the apparatus.until the beer
contained in the vat is reduced to a proper temperature.
For the sake of simplifying the apparatus as much as possible, the cross
pieces are shewn straight, and although this form is preferred, yet the passages
can be made circular, or in fact in any form by which a continuous flow of
water can be maintained through the apparatus without departing from the
essential features of the Invention.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
The causing of a current of water to circulate beneath worts or beer, in the
manner and for the purposes herein-before described and illustrated in the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this First day of August, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nine