Improved Means for Obtaining Ice for Brewing Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 9th Mar., 1895
UUMI DEIE DIBUI
Improved Means for Obtaining Ice for Brewing Purposes.
I, JACOB NADLER, Brewer at Jetzendorf, in the Kingdom of Bavaria,
Germany, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The present invention comprises ineans for obtaining ice for brewing and malting
purposes in such manner that the same may be transported by means of slips direct
into the ice cellar under the malt house.
And in order to make this present Specification more easily intelligible reference
is had to the accompanying drawing in which similar letters of reference denote
similar parts throughout the several views:
Fig. 1 being a vertical section through the device,
Fig. 2 a plan and
Fig. 3 a vertical section through a modified form of the invention.
The shed A is provided with a series of double T-rails a arranged in tiers and
adapted to carry trucks e coupled together in such manner as not to lie directly
one over the other in the various tiers, but alternating as shown at Fig. 2. These
trucks each carry a freezing cell d. Above the said rail tiers and at the top of the
shed slanting rails are mounted on which a truck f having nozzles 9 runs, said
truck serving spray water onto the ice cells and being connected with a water
This truck
supply hose o by means of which it is continually supplied with water.
is drawn up the rails and then allowed to run down again spraying water onto the
ice cells, which being arranged alternately will all be fed, the surplus water, should
the upper cells be filled first running off into the lower ones thereunder. The
truck is drawn upwards by means of a wheel B mounted in the shed as shown at
Figs. 1 and 2 and driven by suitable nieans from a driving shaft within the works.
Said wheel has, around its periphery suitable radial extensions, i, which as it
revolves, engage behind a roll on the truck f (Fig. 1) operating the latter up, the
inclined rails b and leaving it as soon as it has reached top, said truck running
down by gravity to be caught and again taken up by the next extension as the
wheel revolves. Instead of the wheel B an endless band or chain k (Fig. 3) may
be employed having lugs thereon which engage being a projection of the said
truck taking the same up the incline and disengaging at the top similarly to the
extensions i as will be apparent.
The device operates in the following manner :-
As the truck runs up and down its inclined rails, water issues slowly from its
If the exterior
nozzles, gradually filling the cells d arranged in their thereunder.
temperature around the apparatus is under freezing point the water soon freezes in
the cells, being supplied slowly and in small quantities to the same.
As soon as all the cells are filled with ice, they are drawn along the rails a and
precipitated into a warm water tank in order to loosen the ice from the cell walls,
the blocks of ice thus obtained being let down shutes directly into the ice cellar
under the malt house. The warm water tank may be heated from the malt kiln
firing whilst the truck may be supplied from a suitable water tank.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is performed I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. A method of obtaining and storing ice consisting in spraying water through

page_text: an atmosphere having a temperature below freezing point into a series of trucks or
cells arranged in tiers as specified, precipitating said cells when filled with ice into
a warm water bath and transporting said ice blocks thus loosened through shutes to
the cellar substantially as described.
2. The combination of a series of rails arranged in tiers, a series of ice cells, and
trucks each to carry one cell, stationed on said rails, said cells being arranged to
alternate with those above and below, an inclined rail above said cells, a truck f
having spraying nozzles to run on said inclined rail a water supply to said truck
and means for actuating said truck up said incline substantially as described.
3. The combination of a series of rails arranged in tiers, a series of ice cells, and
trucks each to carry one cell, stationed on said rails, said cells being arranged to
alternate with those above and below, an inclined rail above said cells a truck f
having spraying nozzles to run on said inclined rail a water supply to said truck
and a wheel B having radial projections i, a roll on said truck against which said
projections engage and means for rotating said wheel substantially as described.
Dated this 24th day of January 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.