Improvements in or relating to Means for the Hot Aëration of Wort.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Aor., 1891
Complete Specification Left,- 1st Jan., 1892-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Means for the Hot Aëration of Wort.
I, WALTER HEASMAN of the Wear Brewery, Sunderland in the County of
Durham, Brewer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention refers to improvements in or relating to means for the hot aëration
of wort.
To carry out my invention I make use of means whereby the hot wort may be
arrested and subjected to a process of aeration with its concomitant advantages
during its transit from the hop back to the coolers or refrigerator. The wort
main may deliver its contents onto a revolving sprinkler or agitator mounted on
a spindle. The agitator may be of any convenient form but a circular form fitted
with a sufficient number of straight or curved radial arms or blades will answer the
purpose or any suitable form of revolving distributor may be employed so that the
worts delivered thereonto or thereinto may be ejected centrifugally or otherwise
therefrom in the form of spray and then fall into settling reservoirs or coolers.
Considerable economy in manufacture with superior results may thus be
obtained.
Dated this 4th day of April 1891
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3, St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Patent Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Means for the Hot Aëration of Wort.
I, WALTER HEASMAN of the Wear Brewery, Sunderland in the County of
Durham, Brewer 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 refers to improvements in or relating to means for the hot aëration
of wort.
To carry out my invention I make use of means whereby the hot wort may be
arrested and subjected to a process of aëration with its concomitant advantages
during its transit from the hop back to the coolers or refrigerator.
The wort main may deliver its contents onto a revolving sprinkler or agitator
mounted on a spindle. The agitator may be of any convenient form but a circular
form fitted with a sufficient number of straight or curved radial arms or blades will
answer the purpose or any suitable form of revolving distributor may be employed
so that the worts delivered thereonto or thereinto may be ejected centrifugally or
otherwise therefrom in the form of spray and then fall into settling reservoirs or
coolers.
Considerable economy in manufacture with superior results may thus be
obtained.
I will fully describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which
Figure 1 shows a general arrangement elevation and Figure 2 a plan view of the
sprinkler and throughout this description like letters of reference indicate like parts.
A is the wort main delivering the wort from the hop back onto the revolving
sprinkler or agitator A¹ which may be secured on a vertical shaft or spindle A
mounted within the cooler A³ as shown and driven by bevel or other gearing at A'.
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page_text: The agitator may consist of a disc fitted on its upper side with radial arms,
preferably of a curved form and the depth of the arms may be constant or increase
gradually towards the tips as indicated in Fig. 1 by the dotted lines A³.
The position of the agitator on the spindle may be regulated by for instance a
set pin in the agitator socket Aº.
The hot wort falling on the revolving sprinkler is instantly thrown off in the
form of spray which thus effects the desired aëration.
The acrated worts are then allowed to fall into the cooler whence they may be
transferred for subsequent further treatment.
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
1. A revolving sprinkler or agitator consisting of a disc fitted with radial arms
arranged and adapted to operate on hot worts for the purpose of aërating them
substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 29th day of December 1891.
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3, St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent.