A NEW AND IMPROVED MODE OF DISTILLING SPIRITS FROM WASH AND OTHER ARTICLES, ALSO APPLICABLE TO GENERAL PURPOSES OF RECTIFYING, BOILING, AND EVAPORATING OR CONCENTRATING
Year: 1837

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
GOODLET, of Leith, in the County of Edinburgh, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS His late most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
at Westminster, the Eleventh day of January, in the seventh year of His
reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Goodlet, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said George Goodlet, my exors, admors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Goodlet, my exors, admors, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED MODE OF
DISTILLING SPIRITS FROM WASH AND OTHER ARTICLES, ALSO APPLICABLE TO GENERAL
PURPOSES OF RECTIFYING, BOILING, AND EVAPORATING OR CONCENTRATING;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said George
Goodlet, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and

page_text: by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Goodlet, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in causing the fluid to be operated upon to circulate
through a pipe or pipes or other vessels, which are acted on by the heat of
steam or water, in a builer or other vessel containing oil or other heated fluid,
from which as a medium the said fluid to be operated upon shall receive the
necessary supply of heat which is required for the general purposes of distilling,
rectifying, boiling, and evaporating or concentrating. In applying my Invention
to distillation and rectifying spirits, I conduct the process in the following
manner Suppose a receiver (the shape is not material) charged with wash or
other article to be distilled, the wash is to be conveyed by means of a pipe, with
the aid of a force pump or otherwise, into the circulating pipes which passes
through a steam boiler or other vessel containing heated fluid, there to become
heated, and after circulating through them, to be carried by means of a pipe
connected to the circulating pipe, into a still or other vessel, where the said
pipe after peforming a number of turns shall discharge the heated wash into
the upper part of said still or other vessel; and for the better diffusion of
the heated wash or other fluid on being discharged, the termination of the
pipe may be of a globular form perforated with small holes; such still
or vessel having a refrigeratory or condensing apparatus as usual, the vapours
passing thereto become condensed in like manner to what would take place
if the wash or liquid were put into a still and heated in the usual manner.
In case the low wines from this mode of evaporation should have a tendency
to go off too weak, the head of the still should be high and capacious; the
dregs and spent wash during the operation may be let off when found to be
thoroughly exhausted, and in this way the process will be continuous; or in
place of putting the wash into a receiver, as above described, the distillation
may be conducted by charging the still itself with wash, and passing the wash
through the circulating pipes in the heated medium, by means of a force
pump or otherwise. In such case, the circulating pipe will be connected to
the still in order to draw the wash therefrom, and when it has been caused to
pass through the heating medium, the circulating pipe will discharge the heated
fluid to the still, as before; or the distillation may be performed by immersing
of the end of circulating pipe into the wash in the still, and thus discharge the
heated wash below the surface of the wash in the still, which latter will thus

page_text: be brought very speedily to boil. To produce a spirit of greater strength, and
at the same time to effect a saving of water for condensation, a number of
stills may be employed connected with each other, and severally communicating
with circulating pipes in the boiler. Each of the stills is to be charged with
wash, and by condensing the alcoholic vapour of the one in the wash of the
next, and by exhausting them of their spirit in succession, the last of the
series will contain the alcohol of all the former, and produce a spirit of a
strength in proportion to the number of stills employed. As applied to
rectifying of spirits, the process may be conducted, by any of the methods
enumerated, with greater regularity and exactness than the mode at present
in general use. To a practical distiller the simplicity of conducting dis-
tillation by any of the methods described will be apparent, and will be found
to yield a greater extract, a purer and finer spirit, being free of essential oil
and still burning, and it will be seen that he has full power over the tem-
perature at which the processes are carried on, which will depend on the
temperature of the steam or other fluid through which the fluid operated on is
caused to pass. The steam boiler or other vessel containing suitable heated
fluid to be employed, must be of a size proportioned to the work to be
performed, and the pipe or pipes or other shaped vessels to be inserted in the
interior, or acted on by the heating medium of the boiler or other vessel in
which the heating medium is contained, must be of adequate dimensions to
expose sufficient surface for the evaporation required; and in order to give the
best information to guide the workınan, I would state that I have found that
about twenty gallons of water per hour can be evaporated through a pipe of
one hundred and twenty feet long by one inch in diameter, in the form of a
coil, with a pressure of steam of one hundred pounds per square inch; the
evaporation may be proportionally increased or diminished by any additional
quantity of pipe, or varying the temperature of the heating medium. The
pipes or vessels in the interior of the boiler I prefer being of copper, being
one of the best conductors of heat, and which I denominate circulating pipes.
In the application of this principle as applied to the evaporation of worts,
syrups, the juice of the sugar cane, of mangle wurzel, and other articles,
the process may be advantageously conducted in the following manner :-
Suppose a reservoir, which may be of wood or any other suitable material, with
a spout or vent, of a convenient length to suit the premises; placed above the
said reservoir, allowing the steam to get quickly away; this reservoir being
charged with the fluid to be operated upon, and a connection being formed
with it and the circulating pipes in the heated medium, the fluid, with the aid
of a force pump or otherwise, is made to pass through the said circulating

page_text: pipes and returned by the ejection pipe entering at the under part of
said steam spout or vent. The steam immediately ascends with great force,
and the concentrated fluid falls into the reservoir to be recirculated, until the
process be finished; or the heated fluid from the circulating pipe may enter
below the surface of the fluid in the reservoir. As applied to the evaporation
of sea water, brine, soap lees, and other articles, an additional vessel may be
used placed below said spout or vent, in order to have an adequate space to
collect the salt or substances, and allow the fluid to return to the reservoir
for circulation.
In applying my Invention to generating steam generally, and particularly as
applied tos team engines of every kind, I adopt the following mode, by which
the same water may be used over again for supplying the steam for the engine.
In an air-tight cistern or condensing vessel I place a supply of fresh water
necessary for producing steam for the engine, and which condensing vessel to
be connected by pipes with the circulating pipes in the boilers, and with a
steam chest having a suitable steam pipe to the cylinder of the engine. The
water in the condenser is made, with the aid of a force pump or otherwise, to
pass through the circulating pipes in the boiler, and the steam is then conveyed
from the circulating pipes to the steam chest, and from thence to the cylinder,
and having worked the piston passes into the condenser to be condensed and
recirculated. The air would in the first instance require to be expelled
through a stopcock in the condenser, and all communication with the atmo-
sphere must be afterwards shut off, as the tendency of the water in the said
condenser will be to vaporise. I propose that said condenser should be
exposed to a flow of cold water upon its external surface, and cold water may
be made to pass through a number of small pipes to be inserted in the interior
of it, namly, the condenser to condense the steam as it flows in from the
cylinder and to maintain a supply of water for circulation. In applying the
Invention to the drying of grain, malt, and other articles by evaporating
moisture therefrom, by which the saving of fuel and time will be considerable,
and which may be effected as follows:-A connection being formed with the
circulating pipes in the heated medium, and a number of pipes arranged
below the bed of a kiln, which pipes are to communicate with a close cistern
containing a supply of water which is to be made to pass through the said
circulating pipes by a feed pipe and force pump, or otherwise. The steam
thus formed after giving off its heat in the pipes placed under the bed of the
kiln is condensed, and the water returns to the cistern for recirculation. The
air from the vessels should be expelled on commencing. The drying of grain,
malt, or other articles, may be much accelerated by forcing air by means of

page_text: an air pump, bellows, or otherwise, through circulating pipes in the heated
medium, and applying the air thus heated to the under part of the kiln.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I would remark that I
do not confine myself to the precise arrangements described, as variations may
be made, provided the principle of my Invention be retained, and I would
remark that many fluids may be employed for the heating medium, such as
oil; I do not confine myself to any particular fluid. And I would have it
understood that I am aware that hot water, steam, oil, and other fluids have
been caused to circulate in pipes in order to evaporate and heat fluids
contained in vessels. I do not therefore claim any Invention wherein the
liquid to be acted on is not caused to circulate. And I am aware that fluids
have been caused to circulate through pipes and vessels in order to be eva-
porated, such pipes being acted on directly by fire; I do not therefore claim
the same.
But what I do claim as my Invention is the causing the fluids to
be operated on for the purpose of evaporation to circulate through pipes or
other vessels acted on by steam, hot water, oil, or other suitable heated fluid
contained in proper vessels, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Goodlet, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.