Apparatus for Brewing Tea, Coffee, and other Beverages.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Apparatus for Brewing Tea, Coffee, and other Beverages.
I, FARNHAM BUDGETT, of 52 Redcliff Hill, Bristol, Tea Merchant, 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:-
This invention consists in improved apparatus for brewing tea, coffee and other
beverages produced by infusion in the same or similar manner as tea and coffee.
The improved apparatus constituting this invention consists in the combination,
as virtually one appliance, of a series of vessels and their fittings constructed and
arranged in a pile or column in the manner following.
At the top of the apparatus is a vessel for heating water. It is furnished with a
movable cover and is fitted with a draw off cock which overhangs a duct opening
into a second vessel between the top of which and the bottom of the water heater
is a space for a gas jet or lamp. In the duct of the second vessel loosely fits a
perforated or reticulated pocket or bag designed to be charged with dry tea or
coffee or other substance to be infused. The duct is furnished with a movable
cover and the vessel with which it communicates is fitted with a draw off cock
which overhangs a duct opening into a third vessel between which and the vessel
above it is a suitable division. A jacket for hot water extends below the third
vessel and around it and, if desired, to the top of the second vessel. Between the
bottom of the water chamber below the third vessel and the base of the appliance
is a space for a gas jet or lamp. In setting forth the manner of practically using
the appliance it will be convenient to consider it as dealing with tea; it being
understood that the operation is the same as for coffee and other beverages to the
making of which the appliance is adapted. The upper vessel having been charged
with water from an overhead tap, or otherwise, the gas or other flame having been
lit, the water is heated. When the water is sufficiently heated the draw off cock
of the said upper vessel is opened and the water is discharged into the perforated
or reticulated pocket or bag in the duct of the second vessel which pocket is
previously charged with dry tea leaves. After having been steeped for the
requisite time, indicated by a sand glass or other timing device, the liquid is drawn
off through the cock and discharged into the third vessel or tea receiver below,
whence it is drawn off for consumption as required. It is kept hot in the receiver
by the water jacket above referred to.
The gas jet for the top vessel and for the water jacket is conveniently supplied
from the same pipe fitted with independent regulating cocks. The apparatus may
be made partly of stone, earthen or other ware and partly of sheet iron, tin or other
suitable material.
By means of the apparatus above described a more continuous supply of tea can
be maintained.
A glass gauge tube fitted to the receiver indicates the level and strength of tea
therein.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 represents a side view, Fig. 2 a front view and Fig. 3 a vertical section of
the apparatus which constitutes this invention.
At the top is a vessel a under the bottom of which is a gas burner 6 the flame
from which heats the water in the vessel a. When the water commences to boil,
the steam whistle c is sounded by the escaping steam. The cock d is then opened
and water discharged into the duct e in which is a tea holder f easily removed from
and placed in position. The holder is perforated or reticulated towards the
bottom end. A bag of linen or other suitable material may be substituted
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page_text: The duct e communicates with the vessel 9 which serves as a tea-
therefor.
brewing chamber.
A sufficient time having been allowed for steeping the tea, the holder fis
withdrawn and the liquid in the vessel g is run off through the cock h and delivered
by the duct into the receiver k whence it is drawn off through the cock / for
consumption as required. Below the receiver k and around the sides thereof is a
water jacket the water in which is heated by a flame from the gas burner m which
is conveniently supplied from the same pipe n by which the burner b is fed. Two
cocks n', n control the supply of gas to the burners. A glass gauge tube o shews
the level of the liquid in the receiver and the quality or degree of strength of such
liquid.
In the example illustrated in the drawings the hot water jacket extends up to the
top of the tea-brewing chamber. It need not, however, be extended up so high,
but may stop short at any point. The water, which is poured in at the lip p, is
drawn off when required through the cock q. The appliance may be made partly
in earthen or other ware, or in other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
Apparatus for brewing, by infusion, tea, coffee and other beverages; said
apparatus consisting of a water heater or kettle such as a mounted on a second
vessel or tea-brewing chamber such as 9 with duct e for containing a holder, bag or
pocket of the substance to be infused; the vessel g being situated above a receiver
such as with duct i and gauge tube o; all three vessels being fitted with cocks,
and the uppermost and lowermost vessels being heated through the medium of
flames from gas burners, or other equivalents, substantially as hereinbefore described
with reference to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings.
Dated this 18th day of August 1893.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Chartered Patent Agent.