OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR VENTILATING AND PROTECTING OR PRESERVING GOODS WHEN PACKED."
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Methodios Joannides and Leon Marco.
Adutt, both of the City of London, for the Invention of "NEW
OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR VENTILATING AND PROTECTING OR PRESERVING
GOODS WHEN PACKED."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Methodios
Joannides and Lèon Marco Adutt at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 10th October
1871.
We, JEAN METHODIOS JOANNIDES and LEON MARCO ADUTT, both of
the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR VENTILATING AND PROTECTING OR
PRESERVING GOODS WHEN PACKED," to be as follows:―
Certain substances when packed for transportation or other purposes
become liable to be deteriorated by mildew or otherwise, or to be

page_text: prejudicially heated and even to spontaneous combustion, and the object
of our Invention therefore is to furnish means or apparatus whereby
these difficulties can be removed or reduced to a minimum by so
arranging that the circulation of air amongst such substances shall be
sufficiently provided for.
To effect such ventilation I adopt apparatus of substantially the
following character:-The goods are to be packed in a case or receptacle,
and through this case or receptacle one hollow cylinder or tube (hereafter
called the outer cylinder) is to be fitted, or more than one such outer
cylinder may if necessary be used; said outer cylinder is to be perforated
lengthwise, and at the ends should be provided with perforated caps so
that the air may enter at one end and escape from the other. These
perforations we prefer should be round. Inside the said outer cylinder
another smaller tube is inserted having apertures provided at one end
communicating with the interior of the said outer cylinder, its outer end
communicating with the air exteriorly of the case or receptacle.
Assuming for an example that cochineal is the substance to which this
Invention is to be applied, that substance is to be packed in proper cases
lined with "hessian" linen or other material, such cases having the venti-
lating cylinders and tubes above referred to fitted thereto, the operation of
the inner tube being to draw out heated air whilst the fresh air has free
passage through the outer tube and thus circulates amongst the cochineal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent;
filed by the said Jean Methodios Joannides and Leon Marco Adutt
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th April 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JEAN
METHODIOS JOANNIDES and LEON MARCO ADUTT, both of the City
of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of October, in the 8
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in
the thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto us, the said Jean Methodios Joannides

page_text: and Leon Marco Adutt, Her special licence that we, the said Jean
Methodios Joannides and Leon Marco Adutt, executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Jean Methodios
Joannides and Leon Marco Adutt, our 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 "NEW OR IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR
VENTILATING AND PROTECTING OR PRESERVING GOODS WHEN PACKED," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Jean Methodios Joannides
and Leon Marco Adutt, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner 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 we, the said Jean Methodios Joannides and
Leon Marco Adutt, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Certain substances when packed for transportation or other purposes
become liable to be deteriorated by mildew or otherwise, or to be
prejudicially heated and even to spontaneous combustion, and the object
of our Invention therefore is to furnish means or apparatus whereby
these difficulties can be removed or reduced to a minimum, and by so
arranging that the circulation of air amongst such substances shall be
sufficiently provided for.
To effect such ventilation we adopt apparatus of substantially the
following character:-The goods are to be packed in a case or receptacle,
and through this case or receptacle one hollow cylinder or tube (here-
after called the outer cylinder) is to be fitted, or more than one such
outer cylinder may if necessary be used; said outer cylinder is to be
perforated lengthwise, and should also be perforated at the ends, or
should be provided with perforated caps so that the air may enter at one
end and escape from the other. These perforations may be round or

page_text: Drawing; C, projecting plates for securing the apparatus to a box or
other thing to which it may be required to apply our Invention.
Having now particularly ascertained the nature and object of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same may be performed or
carried out in practice, we hereby declare that we claim for purposes
above-named the arrangements herein-before described and illustrated
by the Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jean Methodios Joannides and
Leon Marco Adutt, have hercunto set our hands and scals, this
Twenty-eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.