Improvements in Apparatus for Cooling and Evaporating Liquids, such as are used in Breweries and Distilleries, and for such like purposes.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL DILUIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Cooling and Evaporating Liquids,
such as are used in Breweries and Distilleries, and for such like
purposes.
I, HENRY JOHN WORSSAM, of Wenlock Road, City Road, in the County of
London, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of apparatus for
cooling liquids in which the liquor to be cooled is allowed to flow down and over
the outsides of tubes arranged vertically one above another whilst cold water
passes through them. The object which I have in view is to so construct the
apparatus that the cooling surfaces can be easily cleaned and the separate tubes
and parts readily repaired.
In carrying out my invention I employ thin metal tubes by preference of
elliptic or oblong section formed with ribs or projections running the whole length
of the tube at the top and bottom flattened parts of the ellipse so that when a
series of these tubes are arranged one above another they touch or nearly touch
each other where these ribs or projections occur.
The ribs are thus made to guide the liquid being cooled from the one tube
to the middle of the top surface of the next below it. A series of these tubes
are mounted one above the other in a framing by preference of the following
construction. It consists of two hollow vertical standards at each end which have
branches at suitable distances apart extending towards each other and bending
inwards so as to present a vertical and parallel series of sockets having openings
of a similar configuration to that of the outside of the cooling tubes, such sockets
proceeding alternately from the two tubes.
The cooling tubes are fixed in these sockets in such manner that the first, third,
fifth &c. are connected to the hollow standards at each end appearing in front
of the refrigerator and the second, fourth, sixth &c. are connected to the standards
at each end appearing at the back of the refrigerator. Means are provided
whereby the two front tubular standards and their cooling tubes may be with-
drawn from the two back standards and their cooling tubes so as to permit ready.
access to the cooling tubes for cleansing them, as ou withdrawing the one part
from the other there will be a clear space between all the cooling tubes equal
to the size of a tube.
For the purpose of ready access to the under part of the cooling tubes the
whole apparatus may be mounted on trunnious so as to permit the refrigerator
to be turned upside down.
The hollow standards and their branches may be built up of segments bolted
together for facilitating repair of any one cooling tube and its parts.
It will be evident that the above described construction may also be employed
for evaporating liquids by causing hot fluid to pass through the tubes.
Dated this 24th day of March 1893..
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Apparatus for, Cooling and Evaporating Liquids,
such as are used in Breweries and Distilleries, and for such like
purposes.
I, HENRY JOHN WORSSAM of Wenlock Road, City Road in the County of
London, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to improvements in the construction of apparatus for
cooling liquids in which the liquor to be cooled is allowed to flow down and over
the outsides of tubes arranged vertically one above another whilst cold water
passes through them. The object which I have in view is to so construct the
apparatus that the cooling surfaces can be easily cleaned and the separate tubes
and parts readily repaired as I shall describe referring to the accompanying
drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 is an end view and Fig. 3 is a plan of apparatus
according to my invention.
Fig. 4 is a section of several of the tubes, and Fig. 5 is a part section of the end
junctions made in modified form.
I employ thin metal tubes T by preference of elliptic or oblong section formed
with ribs or projections running the whole length of the tube at the top and
bottom flattened parts of the ellipse, so that when a series of these tubes are
arranged one above another they touch or nearly touch each other where these ribs
or projections occur.
It
The ribs are thus made to guide the liquid being cooled from the one tube to the
middle of the top surface of the next below it. A series of these tubes are mounted
one above the other in a framing by preference of the following construction.
consists of two hollow vertical standards A at each end which have branches B at
suitable distances apart extending towards each other and bending inwards so as to
present a vertical and parallel series of sockets having openings of a similar
configuration to that of the outside of the cooling tubes, such sockets proceeding
alternately from the two standards A.
B¹ Fig. 5 indicates a modified form of socket projecting obliquely from the
standards A¹.
The cooling tubes T are fixed in these sockets in such manner that the first,
third, fifth &c. are connected to the hollow standards A or A' at each end appearing
in front of the refrigerator, and the second, fourth, sixth &c. are connected to the
standards at each end appearing at the back of the refrigerator.
Means are provided whereby the two front tubular standards and their cooling
tubes may be withdrawn from the two back standards and their cooling tubes, so as
to permit ready access to the cooling tubes for cleansing them, as on withdrawing
the one part from the other a clear space is left between each tube and the next
equal to the depth of a tube.
As shewn in the drawings the front standards A have mounted on them a shaft D
with a pair of pinions gearing with racks E projecting from the back standards, so
that on turning the shaft D the front standards and the tubes carried by them are
separated from the back standards and their tubes.
For the purpose of ready access to the under part of the cooling tubes the whole
apparatus may be mounted on trunnions C so as to permit the refrigerator to be
turned upside down.
The hollow standards and their branches may be built up of segments secured
together by bolts F for facilitating repair of any one cooling tube and its parts.

page_text: The cooling liquid is admitted to the standards A by inlets G and after circulating
through the tubes T issues by the outlets H. The liquid to be cooled supplied to
the funnel K issues thence through perforations in fine streams directed on the
uppermost tube T, and after passing over the surfaces of the successive tubes collects
in the basin L.
It will be evident that the above described construction may also be employed
for evaporating liquids by causing hot fluid to pass through the standards A and
tubes T.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
In apparatus for cooling and evaporating liquids the combination of a pair of
hollow end standards connected by a set of thin flattened tubes with another pair of
standards and set of tubes, the tubes being so arranged that those of the one set
enter the spaces between those of the other set, substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.
Dated this 21st dor of Dannmber 1902 ·
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicant.