AN IMPROVED APPARATUS .FOR HEATING, COOLING, OR DRYING, INFUSING, EXTRACTING, OR ABSORBING VAPOURS OR GASES FOR MANUFACTURING, MEDICAL, OR DOMESTIC PURPOSES, AND FOR PRESERVING LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS ALIMENTARY OR OTHERWISE."
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Jolley, of 47, St. John Street, Smithfield, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS
.FOR HEATING, COOLING, OR DRYING, INFUSING, EXTRACTING, OR ABSORBING
VAPOURS OR GASES FOR MANUFACTURING, MEDICAL, OR DOMESTIC PURPOSES, AND
FOR PRESERVING LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS ALIMENTARY OR OTHERWISE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Jolly at the.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
December 1861.,
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I, RI HARD JOLLEY, of 47, St. John Street, Smithfield, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IM
PROVED APPARATUS FOR HEATING, COOLING, OR DRYING, INFUSING, EXTRACTING; OR
ABSORBING VAPOURS OR GASES FOR MANUFACTURING, MEDICAL, OR DOMESTIC PURPOSES,
AND FOR PRESERVING LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS ALIAMENTARY OR OTHERWISE,". to be
follows:
s'is
This improved apparatus is an air-tight enclosure, and may be constructed
of any shape or size,moveable for transit or fixed,and upon any non-conducting
principle, wholly or in part of pulp or fibrous substances, woven or compressed
animal or vegetable matter, or made to cohere with any liquid or waterproof
matter, bituminous, vitrious, or otherwise, the same being fixed especially
round all angles and joints to exclude air, water, heat, or cold.. Within the
top or any part of this enclosure is fitted a vessel or vessels, metallic or other-
wise, corrugated, ribbed, angulated, or not, with curved, elliptical, circular;
angular, or flat sides, ends, or bottom,or all or any of such forms as will cause
the adhesion of vapours during the process of extraction, and so placed that
the ascending air, yapour, or gas can pass through and mix with the heated or

page_text: refrigerated liquidsand solids. These vessels are provided with pipes and traps
for quickly carrying off what is extracted,and may be used with a continuous
flow or force of hot or cold water or air through pipes or not, or to be charged
especially on the upper part with any liquids or solids, mixed or otherwise,
natural or artificial, producing heat or cold, according to the temperature
required.
These vessels may be double, or one within another, and the space
between may be exhausted or filled with any kind of liquid or solid in like
manner as the aforesaid vessels, or warmed by gas or any other means.
Within, the enclosure is placed in moveable cases or otherwise any absorbing
liquid or solid which has an affinity for the particular gas or vapour which is
required to be absorbed or extracted, and to prevent the counter attraction
all metals used in the construction are covered by some fibrous material.
Also this enclosure may be used by exhausting ther efrom the air by heat
steam, or pumping.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Jolley in the Great Soal Patent Office on
the 7th June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
JOLLEY, of 47. Saint John Street, Smithfield, in the County of Middlesex
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Jolley, Her special licence that I, the said Richard Jolley,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Richard Jolley, 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 APPA-
BATUS FOR HEATING, COOLING, OR DRYING, INFUSING. EXTRACTING, FOR ABSORBING
VAPOURS OR GASES FOR MANUFACTURING, MEDICAL, OR DOMESTIC PURPOSES, AND FOR
PRESERVING LIQUIDS AND SOLIDS ALIAMENTARY OR OTHERWISE," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Jolley, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under his, or their, one of their hands

page_text: and seals,should particularlydescribeandascertain the natureof thesaid Inven
tion 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 the date of the said Letters Patent.
:;
NOW KNOW YE that I, the said Richard Jolley, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This apparatus or enclosure is made with double or single doors, lids, and
covers, to shut air-light, and wholly constructed upon air-light and non-
conducting principles, with valves to let air in or out. It may be inade of
any shape or size, as a box, closet, larder, or recepticle of any kind, and any
number together, and hereafter in this Specification called a "safe." It may
be made to stand or-fixed where required, or be moveable for transit by
railways, steam and sailing vessels, or any other motive power whatever. In
its construction I claim a new combination of fibrous, pulpy, and waterproof
materials, natural, artificial, or manufactured, for thethe purposeofpreventing
the transmission of heat, cold, air, or moisture, so as to keep whatever isplaced
within this safe in a quiescent state, or at any required uniform temperature.
I make this safe as a double case or one case within another, and the space
between is stuffed with charcoal, soot, hemp, flax, tan, bark, sawdust, hair, or
any non-conducting materials, fibrous, or otherwise, mixed or separate, and
either or both of these cases I form of wood boarding double, and so placed
that the joints of one layer of boarding is covered by the other boarding over
either transversly, horizontally, diagonally, or otherwise to keep out air, and
for keeping out moisture. I cover the outside or place between these layers
of boards asphalt, felt, cotton, or wool fabric, cocoa-nut, or any fibrous or
pulpy or waterproof material or liquid, resinous, vetrious, or otherwise; but to
prevent the transmission of heat or cold these fibrous materials need not be
waterproof; or I construct this safe partly of boarding as described, and partly
of compressed fibrous pulp or any fibrous material, waterproof; vitrious or not.
For the purpose of heating I lay on gas to burn inside or outside, with a metal
covering to prevent injury, to whatever may be placed within this safe; or I
use steam, hot air, or water, lime, or any liquid or solid, mixed or otherwise,
which will produce heat, by which means anything may be made or kept hot
or dryed; or the taste or smell of one liquid or solid may be infused into
another.
For the purpose of cooling and extracting I place within this safe, about
the upper part a vessel, vessels, or cistern, metallic or otherwise corrugated,

page_text: ribbed, angulated, or not, with curved, elliptical, circular, angular, or flat sides,
ends, or bottom, or all, and of such a form as will cause the adhesion of
vapours during the process of extraction, which vapours and water are con-
ducted by pipes, drains, and traps, for quickly carrying off or collecting
whatever is distilled or extracted or required. Also these vessels may be used
with steam, or hot or cold water, or air passing through pipes or not, or filled
with water or fregoric mixtures, for the purpose of heating and cooling; or
these pipes may be perforated so that the water or other liquid may trinkle or
run down within the vessel or cistern; or these vessels may be made double
or one within another, and the space between may be exhausted or filled
with any kind of liquid or solid or mixed for producing heat or cold.
Also I claim as a new principle for the purpose of extracting damp, vapours,
and bad odours and air that is emitted from whatever is placed within
the safe.
By making these vessels with perforations or openings with or without
descending tubes, or placed so that the ascending air, vapour, or gas may pass
through and mix with, or be absorbed by, or filtered through the heating or
fregoric solids or liquids, such as lime, ice, or any other freizing or cooling
mixtures which I place in these vessels for producing heat or cold or for
extracting all impurities.
Also I claim as new another way of extracting damp, vapour, and bad
odours, or air. I place anywhere within this safe carbon, charcoal, lime, salt,
sulphuric acid, or any other absorbient which has an offinity or attraction for
whatever is required to be absorbed or extracted for the purpose of stopping
decomposition, for keeping and preserving meat, poultry, and all kinds of
provisions dry and-wholesome; and for keeping fruit, flowers, wine, waters,
and all perishable articles in a proper state for a longer time than hitherto,
and for all domestic,medical,and manufacturing purposes; also the absorbients
may be in moveable cases or not for the purpose of easily renewing-or re
plenishing the same.
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RICHARD JOLLEY. (L.s.)