IMPROVEMENTS IN DRYING MALT
Year: 1851

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
HALLEWELL, of Leeds, in the County of York, Wine Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by
Her Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth-day
of September, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, in the fifteenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Benjamin Hallewell, my exors, adññors, and assigns, Her
especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Benjamin Hallewell, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Benjamin Hallewell, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during
the term of years therein expressed, should 'and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of: Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRYING MALT;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said, Benjamin Halle-
well, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after

page_text: the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being hereunto bad, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin Hallewell, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say:
My Invention consists of employing numerous jets of gas, or combined
therewith the use of stean, for drying malt.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into practice, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a section of a floor covered. with perforated tiles, as here-
tofore; Figure 2 shows a plan of the floor; and Figure 3 shows an under side
view of the floor, shewing means of employing gas lights and steam pipes
for heating the floor. a, a, is the perforated floor; b, b, are gas pipes with
numerous jets or burners at c, c; and d, d, is a steam pipe, through which
steam from a boiler passes, there being a-vent at the outer end, as is well
understood when using steam in pipes for heating purposes. The size of
steam pipes which I employ are about three inches diameter, and the size
of the gas pipes about one and a half inch in diameter; these sizes, however,
may be varied.
And although I believe the arrangement of pipes and
burners shown to be the most convenient for the purpose, I do not confine
myself thereto. The gas burners which I use are known as tulip burners,
but others may be employed in place thereof. The great advantage derived
by using gas is, that the extent of heat may be most readily varied and regu-
lated, and the steam pipes will, by their proximity to the numerous flames of
gas, be kept hot, and the steam prevented condensing therein.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is, the
application of numerous jets of gas alone, or combined therewith the use of
steam for drying malt, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Hallewell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
BENJAMIN (L.S.). HALLEWELL..

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of February, in
the year of our Lord 1852, the aforesaid Benjamin Hallewell came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that
purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.