IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS CALLED ICE SAPES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Falck, of No. 19, Union Street, Clarendon
Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN APPARATUS CALLED ICE SAPES."
Sealed the 6th July 1865, and dated the 26th January 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Falck at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
January 1865.
I, CHARLES FALCK, of No. 19, Union Street, Clarendon Square, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS CALLED ICE SAFES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus called ice
safes. In constructing an ice safe according to this Invention, the ice safe
may be of any desired external form or shape, but by preference I make them
of a cylindrical form. I construct these safes double, leaving a space between
the inner and outer cylinders, into which charcoal or other suitable non-
conductor of heat is placed. Each safe is made to receive any desired number
of shelves, on to which the articles to be cooled are placed. In front of each
safe is a door, which is double, and is filled with a non-conductor of heat
as described above in respect to the other parts of the safe. At the back the
safe is divided off by a vertical partition, in the front of which the shelves and:

page_text: articles to be cooled are situated; at the back of this partition is a chamber
for receiving the ice; this chamber may extend from top to bottom of the
safe, but I prefer that it should not descend lower than the bottom shelf. It
is preferred to have a cage or vessel to fit the ice chamber, which may be
lifted out when desired, and returned into position with a charge of ice. At
the bottom of the safe a hollow chamber is formed communicating with the
ice chamber by a pipe or tube, so that the water from the ice may descend
freely into this bottom chamber, and from time to time be drawn off therefrom
by a suitable cock or tap. It is preferred to make these safes of sheet metal,
such as iron coated or covered with zinc or tin.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Falck in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th
July 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FALCK, of No. 19, Union Street, Clarendon Square, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Charles Falck, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Falck, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Falck, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS CALLED ICE SAFES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Charles Falck, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Falck, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-

page_text: for containing water to be cooled; from the bottom of it the tube d'
passes to
the outside of the safe, and is there fitted with a cock; c¹ is a passage from
the bottom of the compartment c leading to the space e, where the water pro-
duced by the thawing of the ice accumulates; it is drawn off from time to
time by the cock f; g is a lid closing the compartment c. The bottom of
the compartment c may be lined with sheet lead to protect it from bruising
when lumps of ice are thrown in.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Falck, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
CHARLES FALCK. (L.s.)