IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BEER AND WINE FININGS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Juby Coleman, of St. Mary-at-Hill,
in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVED APPARATUS
TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BEER AND WINE FININGS."
Sealed the 17th July 1868, and dated the 21st January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Juby
Coleman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 21st January 1868.
I, WILLIAM JUBY COLEMAN, of St. Mary-at-Hill, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for.
"IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BEER AND
WINE FININGS," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
My Invention has reference to an improved apparatus to be
employed in the process of manufacturing tasteless beer and wine
finings (as referred to in a former Patent granted to me on 22nd
of March 1865, No. 799, in which an arrangement of mechanical
stirrers are employed so as to revolve within suitable vats containing
the mixture of isinglass; sulphurous acid and water, and consists of
a vat in which a vertical shaft having radial arms or stirrers attached

page_text: thereto is caused to revolve freely within the same through the
medium of bevelled tooth gear and coupling clutch driven by an
horizontal shaft from plumber block bearings mounted upon the
cover or head of the said vat and put in motion by straps and pulley
wheels direct from an intermediate shaft by steam or other motive
power machinery, the said intermediate shaft being supported from
pendent bearings from the ceiling of the floor above upon which a
vat of half the dimensions of the lower one is placed communicating
with the same by a descending shoot or pipe in which a wooden
hand plug is fitted whilst in connection within the said vats (which
are closed by a cover in each case) an exhaust fan is employed for
driving off the gaseous exhalations during the process.
The action of the apparatus may be stated to be as follows:-―The
isinglass, sulphurous acid, and water (forming the tasteless beer
finings) is placed within the upper vat and allowed to remain for
about twenty-four hours; the hand plug is then removed from the
bottom of the said vat, and the mixture allowed to descend through
the shoot aforesaid into the vat below containing the stirrers in motion,
where it is kept constantly agitated for the space of about forty-eight
hours, when it may be drawn off and refilled and the process in like
manner renewed, employing the said vats in single pairs or in .sets
working in connection with the horizontal shaft aforesaid or otherwise
as may be found necessary.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Juby Coleman in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JUBY COLEMAN, of St. Mary-at-Hill, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her 'most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in
the thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said William Juby Coleman,
Her special licence, that I; the said William Juby Coleman, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others, as I, the said

page_text: William Juby Coleman, 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 "IMPROVED APPARATUS TO BE EMPLOYED
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BEER AND WINE FININGS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Juby Coleman, my
executors, or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what 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 William Juby Coleman, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement, and the Drawings therein referred
to (that is to say) :-
:-
My Invention has reference to an improved construction of apparatus
to be employed in the manufacture of beer and wine finings as
referred to in a former Patent granted to me, dated the 22nd of
March 1865, No. 799, whereby greater uniformity in the process and
mode of treating the several ingredients under operation is obtained than
by the system at present in use, and consists in a suitable arrangement
of vats connected together by descending shoots or pipes, in the lower
ones of which horizontal arms or stirrers are fitted and caused to
revolve freely within the same through the medium of steam or other
motive-power machinery.
And in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood
and readily carried into effect, I now proceed to describe it by the
aid of the accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters
and figures thereon marked (that is to say) :-
:-
Fig. 1 represents an external side elevation of my improved machinery
or apparatus to be employed in the manufacture of beer and wine
finings; Fig. 2, a front view thereof partly, in section, showing the
vats charged with the ingredients under operation; Fig. 3, top or
plan view of the lower vat separately shown; Fig. 4, a transverse

page_text: vertical section taken through the dotted line in Fig. 1; and Fig. 5,
an horizontal section through the upper vat at a, a. In each Figure
the same letters of reference denote similar corresponding parts.
A, A, vat (placed upon an upper floor) in which the isinglass,
sulphurous acid, and water are first mixed; B, B, lid or cover to
same; C, C, descending shoot for discharging the contents of the
said vat into the lower one through the medium of the hand plug
D, D, as shown; E, E, lower vat containing the horizontal stirrers
for agitating the mixture and keeping it constantly stirred while
under operation; F, F, the stirrers; G, G, spindle revolving vertically
within bearings H, H, composed of wood or other suitable substance
or material not acted upon by acids; I, I, intermediate shaft mounted
upon plumber block bearings I¹ secured to the framing of the lid
or cover of the said lower vat for giving rotatory motion to the stirrers
through the medium of the bevel wheel and pinion gear J and J';
K, K, clutch box for throwing the said pinion in or out of gear
with the bevel wheel when required to stop the revolution of the
stirrers; L, L, fast and loose pulleys for giving motion to the bevel
gear through the medium of the strap M direct from the driving
shaft N, N, as shown in the annexed Drawings; O, O, pendant bearings
in which the said shaft revolves, actuated by steam power or otherwise
as aforesaid; P, P, exhaust fan communicating with the upper and
lower vats through the medium of the connecting pipes or passages
Q, Q, for the purpose of drawing and passing off the gaseous vapours
or exhalations into the atmosphere evolved during the process of
manufacturing the beer and wine finings aforesaid; R, R, outlet tube
through which the said vapours escape from the vats in the direction
indicated by the arrows; S and S', strap wheel and pulleys for driving
the exhaust fan.
In conclusion to the foregoing description I would here briefly
note that upon the above principle of construction vats of other form
or dimensions may be employed and worked in like manner to the
above, either in single couples or in sets, or receive such other
modifications as in practice may be found necessary.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed
and carried into effect, I would have it clearly understood that I do
not intend to limit myself to the precise details herein-before described,

page_text: as the same may be otherwise varied without departing from the
general principle of these my said improvements, nor do I claim as
new and of my said Invention the exclusive use of the several parts,
combinations, or processes above referred to except when the same are
employed in and for the purposes of my said Invention which I
hereby declare to consist in the mechanical arrangement and com-
bination constituting the principle of my improved apparatus in
connection with the mode of employing the same in the manufacture
of tasteless beer and wine finings in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Juby Coleman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
W. J. COLEMAN. (L.S.)
Witness,
T. M. CORNOCK,
Clerk to Messrs. Weatherdon & Co.
77, Chancery Lane.