IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING LIQUID MATTERS FROM ONE VESSEL TO ANOTHER
Year: 1862

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Edward Bolton at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 13th March
1862.
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I, EDWARD BOLTON, of Warrington, in the County of Lancaster,: Glass
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING LIQUID MATTERS FROM ONE VESSEL
TO ANOTHER," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates chiefly to those branches of manufacture which
require the transfer of manufactured liquids from one vessel to another, the
object being to effect an economy, in, manual labor by facilitating such opera-
tion through the medium of improved apparatus. In adapting my Invention
to the use of soap boilers, for example, who require to transfer the saponaceous
mixture while in a liquid state from one pan to another, or from the pan to
the soap frames, or from the pan to a cistern or receiver, I fit through a socket
in the centre of the pan a tube, which passes down to the surface of the soap
or other manufactured liquid. This tube, which is closed at the top and opens
into the pan, has a branch or branches (either metal or flexible) leading off to
the soap frames or other vessels in the same room or rooms above or below.
The pendent portion of the tube is fitted with a steam jacket, and so also is
the branch tube or branches leading from the upper part to the soap frames or
other receivers. These jackets (supplied with steam or hot liquid from any
convenient source) are for the purpose of maintaining the heat of the liquid as

page_text: it passes through the tubes or other passage leading from the pan to the
frames or other receiver. Within the pendent tube of the pan is inserted a
telescopic tube, which is capable of receiving a vertical movement from a regu-
lating screw, which supports it and allows it to follow. the descending level of
the liquid as it is drawn out from the pan, the object being at the same time
to draw off the supernatant liquid without disturbing the dregs underneath.
It may be convenient to make the outer portion along with the central and
branch tube capable of turning in the 'socket (which socket is supported by
brackets attached to the side of the pan) or by a swivel joint, so that the
branch tube may be directed to any required position within its range. It is
to be secured to the soap frames or other vessel by air-tight lids or couplings.
The lids or couplings are made air-tight while filling the frames, then loosened
and passed on to others in succession with or without the tube and pump
attached. To effect the ascent of the liquid from the pan and its transfer to
the frames or receiver, I connect temporarily with the frame or receiver an
exhaust pump, which when set in motion by steam or hand power will pro-
duce a partial vacuum in the frames or receiver, and thus ensure the flowing
of the liquid from the pan to the receivers, or I form this vacuum by steam
condensed in the cistern, receiver, or frames.
This arrangement of apparatus, modified to suit varying circumstances and
situations, is to obviate the necessity of resorting to the slow process of trans-
ferring liquid materials during or after their manufacture from one vessel 'to
another by means of ladles.