AN APPARATUS OR METHOD FOR MORE EFFECTUALLY DISSOLVING AND EXTRACTING THE VIRTUES AND PRESERVING THE ESSENTIAL OIL OP HOPS, MALT, AND OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES USED IN BREWING, DISTILLING, DYING, AND SUGAR REPINING; AND DISSOLVING. ANIMAL SUBSTANCES IN MAKING SOAP, AND WHICH IS ALSO USEFUL AND APPLICABLE TO VARIOUS OTHER CHEMICAL AND OTHER PROCESSES
Year: 1800

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
TICKELL, of Mansel Street, in the Parish of Saint Mary, Whitechapel, in the
County of Middlesex, Brewer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Thirtieth day of December now last past, hath given and granted unto me,
the said Henry Tickell, my executors, administrators; and assigns; special
licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority to make, use, exercise; and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of. Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations. abroad, during the .term of
fourteen years; therein expressed, my Invention of "AN APPARATUS OR METHOD
FOR MORE EFFECTUALLY DISSOLVING AND EXTRACTING THE VIRTUES AND PRESERVING
THE ESSENTIAL OIL OP HOPS, MALT, AND OTHER VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES USED IN
BREWING, DISTILLING, DYING, AND SUGAR REPINING; AND DISSOLVING. ANIMAL
SUBSTANCES IN MAKING SOAP, AND WHICH IS ALSO USEFUL AND APPLICABLE TO
VARIOUS OTHER CHEMICAL AND OTHER PROCESSES;" in which said Letters Patent
there is contained a proviso; obliging me, the said. Henry Tickell, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a particular description
of the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner. the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one
calendar month next after the date of the said recited. Letters Patént, as in and
by the same, relation being thereunito had; may more fully and at. large
appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Tickell, in compliance with the
said provisoe, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described and
ascertained in the Plans hereunto annexed and the following description
thereof, that is to say :-
Plate I. A, a steam box, having a connection and communication by means
of pipes of copper or other metal or materials proper for such purposes, with
boilers and apparatus of any description to which it may be desirable to apply
this Invention B, B, steam boxes; C, a vessel, which may be constructed of
wood, iron, copper, or any other materials; D, D, two backs, one situate over
each boiler; E, a box or cupola on the dome of the boiler F, and situated in
the centre of the back D (shewn by a section of one of the backs D being
given in the Drawing). A similar one is also placed on the top of boiler G.
F, a section of a boiler, shewing the internal pipe, and the mode in which
the boiler is emptied; G, a boiler, domed, having the same apparatus as the
boiler F; H, H, the brickwork in which the boilers are set, and by which the
apparatus is supported; I, I, fire-places to the boilers, having the several flues
and connected in the usual manner with chimnies; K, a-tun or vessel for
extracting or dissolving the virtue of malt, or any other vegetable or animal
matter; L, a vat, or any. other vessel; M, an internal view of the bottom of
the mash tun or vessel K. No. 1, a metal pipe, through which the steam
ascends from the boiler G into the box B, and thence through the pipe 2 into
the box A, from which it passes through the corresponding pipe 2 into the
other box B, and thence descends through the pipe 3, nearly to the bottom of
boiler F, which contains the animal or vegetable matters, with the fluid intended
to dissolve them, or to extract their virtue, which fluid is caused to boil by the
steam which enters it from the open end of the pipe 3. The same operation
may be performed in boiler G by applying fire to boiler F. No. 4, a metal
pipe through which the steam descends from the box A into the vessel C,
which is partly filled with hops and water, or any liquid intended to act upon
or dissolve any vegetable or animal matters, which steam, by its peculiar
manner of operation, more effectually acts upon or dissolves them, or extracts
their virtues or properties, than can be performed by the usual way. No. 5, a
steam ascending pipe for regulating the vessel C while at work.
pipe for conducting the steam from box A into the mash tun K at the bottom
M, to which it is connected with the box 7, and thence it passes through the
branching pipes 8, 8, 8. 8, 8, into the mash tun K, partly filled with water and
malt, other grain, or vegetable or animal matters, causing the fluid, if required,
No. 6, 6, a

page_text: to boil, and thus extracting their virtue or dissolving them more effectually
than is done in the usual way. No. 9, 9, 9, is a pipe conducting the steani from
the box A nearly to the bottom of any vat or vessel L, or any other kind of
vessel proper for the purpose, from which the steam arising excites the opera-
tion of acidifying fermented vegetable saccharine matter; or the pipe 9, 9, 9,
immediately as it enters the vat or vessel L, may have an additional branch of
a curved or spiral form, as instanced in the Drawing as one of several other
modes in which this Invention may be constructed and applied), and the end of
it passing through the vat near or at the bottom, will deliver the steam which
may have been condensed on the outside of the vat or vessel L, instead of
letting it mix with the liquor under fermentation, as it does in the way speci-
fied above. No. 10, 10, metal pipes, through which the steam arrising from
the boilers or vessells G, C, or F may be applied to the use of working a steam
engine, or to any other purpose to which steam is applicable. No. 11, air
valves, with a counterbalancing weight for regulating the boiler while at work.
No. 12, a steam valve for regulating the boiler F while at work; the boiler
G is also furnished with corresponding air and steam valves. No. 13, an air
valve, with a counterbalancing weight, for regulating the vessel C while at
work. No. 14, a steam valve for regulating the vessel C while at work.
No. 15, 15, 15, man-holes. No. 16, 16, 16, 16, pipes and cocks for charging
the boilers F and G from the backs D, D. No. 17, a valve placed in a bason
through which vessel C is charged or filled. No. 18, 18, the cocks and pipes
of the boilers F and G, by which they are emptied. No. 19, 19, the cocks and
pipes by which the vessel C may be emptied into the boilers For G.
No. 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, the cocks by which the
passage of the steam is regulated from the boilers F and G to the vessel C,
the mash tun or vessel K, vat or vessel L, or the pipes No. 10, so that the
liquid in one or more vessels may at discretion be heated or made to boil at
the same time by one fire only. No. 21, a cock for draining off the steam
which has been condensed in that part of the pipe 9, 9, 9, which is curved or
of a spiral form. No. 22, a steam box made of metal or other materials.
No. 23, a steam valve, for regulating the steam which is conveyed through
that part of the pipe 9, 9, 9, which is curved or of a spiral form. No. 24, an
air valve for regulating the air of the same part of the pipe 9, 9, 9, of the
apparatus; as the valve 23 is intended to regulate the steam of the several
vessels, steam boxes, pipes, valves, cocks, and other things, before described,
may be manufactured of any proper material, and may be applied in several
varieties of form to produce the same effect, instances of which are shewn in