Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Distilling or Obtaining Volatile Constituents or Products.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 26th May, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Distilling or Obtaining
Volatile Constituents or Products.
I MANNING PRENTICE of Woodfield Stowmarket in the County of Suffolk
Manufacturing Chemist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide simple and efficient means, or
apparatus, whereby distilling operations, or the obtainment of volatile constituents,
or products, can be effected in a continuous manner, and so that, where required,
constituents, or products, which are separated at different periods, or under different
temperatures, can be separately obtained by a continuous process. According to
my invention I provide a still, or apparatus, consisting of a vessel divided into a
number of separate compartments, or consisting of a number of chambers so
constructed, or arranged, that the said compartments, or chambers communicate
with each other at their lower parts, so that the matter, or matters, being distilled
passes or pass into the first compartment, or chamber, by a suitable inlet and then
flows or flow from compartment, or chamber, to compartment, or chamber, and
eventually passes or pass off by a syphon, or other suitable outlet. The said matter;
or matters, acts, or act, as a seal by which the upper portions of the compartments,
or chambers, are kept separate from each other and the volatile constituents, or
products driven off in each compartment or chamber are led off separately by an
outlet therefor provided at the upper part of each compartment or chamber. The
matter or matters to be distilled can thus be passed continuously through the series
of compartments or chambers and the volatile constituent or constituents or product
or products be obtained continuously from the several compartments or chambers.
The apparatus can be heated by any suitable heating medium, such as by fire heat,
or by steam outside the compartments or chambers or passed through coils contained
therein, and when different constituents or products are obtainable at different
temperatures from the material, or materials under treatment the arrangement
may be such that the compartments or chambers are subjected each to a tempera-
ture necessary to obtain from each, the required constituent, or product.
Dated this 4th dor of Anril 1802
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Distilling or Obtaining
Volatile Constituents or Products.
I, MANNING PRENTICE of Woodfield. Stowmarket in the County of Suffolk,
Manufacturing Chemist do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention has for its object to provide simple and efficient means or apparatus
whereby distilling operations or the obtainment of volatile constituents or products
can be effected in a continuous manner and so that where required constituents or
products which are separated at different periods or under different temperatures
can be separately obtained by a continuous process.
According to my invention I provide a still, or apparatus consisting of a vessel
divided into a number of separate compartments or consisting of a number of chambers
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page_text: so constructed or arranged, that the said compartments or chambers communicate with
each other at their lower parts so that the matter or matters being distilled passes or
pass into the first compartment or chamber by a suitable inlet and then flows or flow
from compartment or chamber to compartment or chamber and eventually the matter
or matters from which the volatile constituents have been distilled passes or pass
off by a syphon or other suitable outlet. The said matter or matters acts or act as
a seal by which the upper portions of the compartments or chambers are kept
separate from each other and the volatile constituents or products driven off in
each compartment or chamber are led off separately by an outlet therefor provided
at the upper part of each compartment or chamber. The matter or matters to be
distilled can thus be passed continuously through the series of compartments or
or chambers, and the volatile constituent or constituents or product or products be
obtained continuously from the several compartments or chambers. The apparatus
can be heated by any suitable heating medium; such as by fire heat or by steam
outside the compartments or chambers, or passed through coils contained therein,
and when different constituents or products are obtainable at different temperatures
from the material, or materials, under treatment the arrangement may be such
that the compartments or chambers are subjected each to a temperature necessary
to obtain from each, the required constituent or product.
The accompanying drawing represents in longitudinal section an apparatus
constructed or arranged in accordance with my invention. A is the still or vessel pro-
vided with the inlet 6 for the matter to be distilled and with the outlet e for the matter
after distillation to pass off, care partitions which each extend from side to side
of the still or vessel A and leave a space c' between their lower edges and the
bottom of the still or vessel A dividing the upper part of the still or vessel A into
four compartments a although I do not limit myself to that number, d are the
outlets from each compartment a for the volatile constituents driven off by the heat
which is shewn as being applied to the still or vessel A by the furnace E although
I do not limit myself to that mode of applying the heat as it may be applied in any
other suitable way. If it be desired to obtain products from each compartment
which are driven off at different temperatures the compartments may be heated by
providing each with separate furnaces or heating appliances or by so arranging a
flue or flues from a furnace or furnaces that the heated products therefrom are, as
they pass in proximity to the several compartments, at the requisite temperatures
to drive off the volatile constituents required from each.
The liquid being distilled is maintained at such a height in the still or vessel A
that it seals the openings c² beneath the partitions c keeping the upper parts of the
compartments a separate from each other so that the volatile constituents can be
separately obtained at the outlets & from each compartment. If the matter to be
distilled be supplied by the inlet b as the liquid after distillation is drawn off at the
outlet e the process of distillation can be carried on continuously.
I do not limit myself to the precise details shewn in the drawings as it will be
evident that the construction may be modified for example the compartments a may
be made up of separate chambers with pipes or passages between each equivalent to
the passages c³.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A still or apparatus for distilling or obtaining volatile constituents or products
the said still or apparatus consisting of a vessel with an inlet for the matter to be
distilled and an outlet for the matter after distillation the said vessel being divided
by partitions with openings eneath them so that the matter being distilled seals
the said openings as it passes from the inlet to the outlet and constitutes separate
compartments or spaces above the said matter from which the volatile constituents
or products can be obtained and the distillatory process be carried on in a continuous
manner substantially as hereinbefore described.

page_text: 2. An apparatus for distilling or obtaining volatile constituents or products the
said apparatus consisting of a series of chambers with at one end of the series an
inlet for the matter to be distilled and at the other end an outlet for the matter
after distillation the series being connected at the lower parts of the chambers by
pipes or passages through which the matter under distillation passes on its way
from the inlet to the outlet so as to seal the said pipes or passages and constitute
in each chamber a separate space above the said matter from which the volatile
constituents or products can be obtained and the distillatory process be carried on in
a continuous manner substantially as hereinbefore described.
3. The arrangement and combination of parts constituting the distillatory
apparatus for operating as hereinbefore described and shewn in the accompanying
drawing.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields.