AN IMPROVED MASH TUN AND MASHING MACHINE FOR MIXING AND MASHING MALT AND ALL KINDS OF GRAIN OR CORN USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF BREWING OR DISTILLING
Year: 1797

page_text: GOODWYN'S SPECIFICATION!
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
GOODWYN, junior, of the Red Lion Brewhouse, Lower East-Smithfield, in-the-
County of Middlesex, Porter Brewer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Ninth day of March, in the thirty-seventh year of
His reign, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Goodwyn, His especial
licence that I, the said Henry Goodwyn, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention or
"AN IMPROVED MASH TUN AND MASHING MACHINE FOR MIXING AND MASHING
MALT AND ALL KINDS OF GRAIN OR CORN USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF BREWING OR
DISTILLING;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso,
obliging me, the said Henry Goodwyn, particularly to describe and ascertain
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 inrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month after
the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation
being thereunto had) may more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Goodwyn, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in the
plan and description thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Goodwyn, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.
Sealed and delivered by the above-named.
Henry Goodwyn, in the presence of
RICH SAM WHITE
H. GOODWYN, JUN'. (L.S.)
JA SOMERVILLE TOWNES, LIIcons In.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Eighth day of April,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Henry Goodwyn came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the same Eighth day of April, in the year above written.

page_text: The side of the frame for supporting the Mush Tun. -
An end view of the horizontal Shaft made with either Iron or
may
be either circular or formed with any number of sides._
Wood
or
both which passes across the Mash Tun und
Are aims or Rudii fixed in a Spiral or other Direction either over or in the horizontal Shaft and extending within an
Inch or two of the inner circumference of the Jun. –
Is
an Arc of a Cicle sunk into the bottom of the Mash Tun and quite across the same to the depth of about two Inches
for the purpose of placing a false bottom of Iron Wood or other Materials perforated to admit the pussuge of the Extract
Is a Cock thro' which (and many others as represented in the end view
russes into the Underback. _
of the Tun in Figure 2) the Extruct
Figure 2nd
Is a Representation of the end vrucw of the Mash Tun - frame B in Figure 1.
The Houzontal Shaft – –
The Arms or Radii as they appear when placed in a Spiral direction with the Arm next the left hand perpendiculur
the Horizon-
The false bottom of the Mash Tum .__
Cocks thro' which the Extract passes which may be of any number at pleasure....
Is a pipe for supplyping the Mash Tun with Liquor from the Coppex in the usual way.
Figure 3rd
Is a representation of the Mash Tum when tooked down upon from the Centre of it above the shaft.
-The Shaft without the Aims
The false bottom from the same point of view –
In figures 1. 2- and 3 represent a Wheel with Cogs by which the Machine is turned in the usual way or it may be turned by hand
nly - it appears most proper not to exceed two Revolutions of the Machine per Minule but one has been found quite sufficient. -
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Figure 4th
a side view of one of the Arms or Rudii as it appears when detached from the Horisontal Shaft
Is an Eye
or Collar in the arm thro' which the Horizontal Shaft passes..
or Collar to, at the back of the Arm, a, and into a hole sunk in the Shaft C. c. in
Is a Screw which passes into the Eye
Figure 2 to fix the Aurm to the Shaft, if the shaft is not made circular but with a number of sides the Eye of the Arm, a,
should contain a like number and the Screw will then be immecessary, as the Arm may be fixed on the Shaft by thages.
Are holes in the arms in which pms of Iron or Wood are,
Is a front view of the same Arm . _
ce fixed to form the Qax for Mashing. -
an Our made of Iron or Wood or both and may be fixed on any part of the Arun, a by means of fluns of Screws
Is
Is a side view
of the Oar c,-
Is an end view of the same, shewing
one
of the two Square Staples h. by which the Oax may be fixed on any part of the
Arm, a, in Figure 4. –
General Remarks
In a Mash Tum whose width is twelve feet Six Arms or Radii are sufficient and if the fins, &, in, a, ove, fijure 4. are each hventy
Six Inches in length they will project a few Inches over each other and by that means make the Mash compleat
The Distance of the Pins d, at the extremity of the Arm, a, from Centre to Centre of each other may be about four
Inches and un half and the 3 at the middle of the Arm may be about nine Inches Assunder .
The Diameter of the Pins is about one Inch .
-
"The three upper D³. in Figure 2 shew the projection of the Pins beyond each other upon the Arms
Drawn on Stone by Malby & Sons.
M SPOTTISWOODE,
1856.