AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MASHING MALT OR GRAIN TO BE USED IN THE PROCESSES OF BREWING AND DISTILLING
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Ryder, of the City of Manchester, in tho
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
MASHING MALT OR GRAIN TO BE USED IN THE PROCESSES OF BREWING AND
DISTILLING."
Sealed the 25th September 1866, and dated the 28th March 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Ryder at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
March 1866.
I, THOMAS RYDER, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
FOR MASHING MALT OR GRAIN TO BE USED IN THE PROCESSES OF BREWING AND
DISTILLING," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in improved mashing apparatus for separating and
obtaining the saccharine matters and juices from the malt or grain. The
apparatus consists of an outer casing or shell, to which is fixed a number of
perforated conical tubes, thero being a pipe at the outside of the vessel
communicating with the cavities between the tubes, and by means of the per-
forations with the interiors of the tubes. The malt or grain is introduced at
the top of the vessel, and passes through the tubes, and the mash water passes

page_text: through the exterior pipe, and through the perforations to the descending malt
or grain, and becomes intimately mixed with it and effectually mashes it in
consequence of the said malt or grain being divided in a number of spaces
or tubes having a number of perforations in their exteriors.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by tho said Thomas Ryder in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th
September 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, TпоMAS
RYDER, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Thomas Ryder, Ier special license that I, the said Thomas
Ryder, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Thomas Ryder, 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 IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MASHING MALT OR GRAIN TO BE USED IN THE
PROCESSES OF BREWING AND DISTILLING," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Thomas Ryder, 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 tho date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Thomas Ryder do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be s
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
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I make an outer casing or shell, and divide it into several compartments
or divisions, so that a horizontal section of the vessel would have the
appearance of a wheel, whose rim and arms and central boss are hollow and
In communication, so that the mash water will permeate throughout.
I

page_text: perforate the inner surfaces of the rim, the arms, and the boss, so that the mash
liquid will issue into the segmental spaces formed between the rim, arms, and
boss and impinge against the malt, which descends through the said segmental
spaces or passages. The hollow arms and the central hollow boss taper,
towards the top of the vessel becoming a thin line, so that there may be no
lodgement for the descending malt.
These improvements will be clearly understood by reference to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, in which a represents the outer casing or
shell b, a number of perforated conical tubes, there being a pipe c at the out-
side of the vessel communicating with the cavities between the tubes and by
meaus of the perforations & with the interiors of the tubes. The malt or
grain is introduced at the top of the vessel and passes through the tubes b,
the mash water passing through the perforations d to the descending malt or
grain, and becomes intimately mixed with it, and effectually mashes it in
consequence of the said malt or grain being divided and passing through the
spaces or tubes 8, having a number of perforations d for the passage of the
mash water.
Having now described the nature and particulars of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I desire it to be understood
that I claim the improved apparatus for mashing malt or grain to be used in
the processes of brewing and distilling, as herein described and illustrated in
the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Ryder, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
THO. RYDER.
(ms.)