A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR CONDENSING AND UTILIZING STEAM OR OTHER VAPORS ARISING FROM THE BOILING OF LIQUIDS, WORT, AND OTHER INGREDIENTS IN BREWERIES, DISTILLERIES, AND OTHER PLACES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Waddington, junior, Proprietor of the
Barrow Herald, Andrew Waddington, Builder, and Francis Bell,
Engineer, all of Barrow-in-Furness, in the County of Lancashire,
for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS
OR MACHINERY FOR CONDENSING AND UTILIZING STEAM OR OTHER VAPORS
ARISING FROM THE BOILING OF LIQUIDS, WORT, AND OTHER INGREDIENTS IN
BREWERIES, DISTILLERIES, AND OTHER PLACES."
Sealéd the 31st August 1869, and dated the 11th March 1869..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Waddington,
Andrew Waddington, and Francis Bell at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 11th March 1869.
We, JAMES WADDINGTON, junior, Proprietor of the Barrow Herald,
ANDREW WADDINGTON, Builder, and FRANCIS BELL, Engineer, all of
Barrow-in-Furness, in the County of Lancashire, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF AND

page_text: APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR CONDENSING AND UTILIZING STEAM OR OTHER
VAPORS ARISING FROM THE BOILING OF LIQUIDS, WORT, AND OTHER INGREDIENTS
IN BREWERIES, DISTILLERIES, AND OTHER PLACES," to be as follows:--
Our new or improved method of condensing and utilizing steam or
other vapor arising from the boiling of liquids, wort, or other ingredients
consists in causing the steam arising therefrom to be condensed by
coming into contact with a lid or cover, over or through which a current
of cold air, or cold water, or other liquid or fluid is caused to pass; and
our Invention further consists in the employment of apparatus or
machinery, all as hereafter described, for carrying the same into effect.
We fit to the boiler containing the materials under treatment a lid or
cover made of sheet iron or other suitable material with a flange all
round its circumference, say, from three to four inches deep. There is
an inlet pipe on one side and an outlet pipe on the other, whereby a
supply of cold water is conveyed to and led from the surface of the lid
or cover. When the boiling commences a stream of cold water or other
fluid is turned on and admitted by the inlet pipe which becomes spread
over the lid or cover and escapes by the outlet pipe, and so the lid or
cover is maintained at a low temperature, and consequently when steam
is produced and it comes into contact with the cold lid it is immediately
condensed and returns to the boiler, thereby not only increasing the
quantity of the contents but adding very materially to the strength of
the liquor being made.
Instead of constructing the lid as before described we sometimes form
it with a chamber or compartment, and instead of cold water or other
liquid we introduce cold air by means of a fan or other appliance, and
which escapes by an exit pipe at the opposite side. The inlet and outlet
pipes are provided with couplings so that they may be easily discon-
nected from the lid to allow the latter to be taken off the boiler.
is also a loose nozzle or plug. in the lid to enable an attendant to gauge
-the quantity of liquor in the boiler, or to ascertain its temperature.
There

page_text: filed by the said James Waddington, Andrew Waddington, and
Francis Bell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th September
1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
WADDINGTON, junior, Proprietor of the Barrow Herald, ANDREW WAD-
DINGTON, Builder, and FRANCIS BELL, Engineer, all of Barrow-in-Furness,
in the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said James Waddington, junior, Andrew
Waddington, and Francis Bell, Her special licence that we, the said
James Waddington, junior, Andrew Waddington, and Francis Bell, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as wc, the said
James Waddington, junior, Andrew Waddington, and Francis Bell, 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 "A NEW OR
IMPROVED METHOD OF AND APPARATUS OR MACHINERY FOR CONDENSING AND
UTILIZING STEAM OR OTHER VAPOURS ARISING FROM THE BOILING OF LIQUIDS,
WORT, AND OTHER INGREDIENTS IN BREWERIES, DISTILLERIES, AND OTHER PLACES,'
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said James Wadding-
ton, junior, Andrew Waddington, and Francis Bell, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or ono
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 James Waddington, junior, Andrew

page_text: Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters of reference marked thereon, that is to say :-
Our new or improved method of condensing and utilizing steam or
other vapor arising from the boiling of liquids, wort, or other ingredients
consists in causing the steam or smell arising therefrom to be condensed
by coming into contact with a lid or cover, over or through which a
current of cold air, or cold water, or other liquid or fluid is caused to
pass; and our Invention further consists in the employment of apparatus
or machinery, all as hereafter described, for carrying the same into effect.
We fit to the boiler containing the materials under treatment a lid
or cover made of sheet iron or other suitable material with a flange all
round its circumference, say, from three to six inches deep. There is
an inlet pipe on one side, and an outlet pipe on the other, whereby a
supply of cold water is conveyed to and led from the surface of the lid
or cover.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view in plan of a lid or
cover constructed according to our Invention, and Figure 2 is a vertical
section of same showing the lid applied to a boiler. A is the boiler, and
B is the lid or cover fitted to same; C is a flange extending round the
circumference of the cover B, and by preference of or about from three
to six inches in depth; D is a pipe connected to one side of the cover B;
and E is a pipe connected to the other or opposite side, that marked D
being intended as an inlet pipe, and that marked E as an outlet pipe.
Couplings, not shewn in the Drawings, are provided whereby the pipes D
and E may be connected and disconnected from the lid or cover B, so
that the latter may be removed from the boiler A when required; or if
desired couplings may be dispensed with in case of water or other
liquids being used by dispensing with the pipe marked D, and by
allowing a jet or stream of cold water to be thrown on the lid from
above and allowing the same to escape by a pipe or trough marked E;
F is a ring or eye attached to the lid, and by preference at or near the
centre thereof, whereby the lid may be easily lifted off the boiler; G is a
loose nozzle or plug capable of being readily removed, whereby the
quantity of liquid contained in the boiler may be readily guaged, or
the temperature thereof ascertained. When the boiling commences a

page_text: stream of cold water or other fluid is turned on and admitted by the
inlet pipe D, or if in case the couplings are dispensed with to 'throw a
jet or stream of cold water or other liquid from above to serve the
purpose of the same, which becomes spread over the lid or cover B, and
escapes by the outlet pipe or trough E, and so the lid or cover B is
maintained at a low temperature, and consequently when steam is pro-
duced in the boiler A, and it comes into contact with the cold lid B, it
is immediately condensed, and returns to the boiler, thereby not only
increasing the quantity of the contents but adding very materially
to the strength of the liquor being made.
Instead of constructing the lid as before described we sometimes form
it with a chamber or compartment, and instead of cold water or other
liquid we introduce cold air by means of a fan or other appliance, and
which escapes by an exit pipe at the opposite side.
Figure 3 is a vertical and Figure 4 a horizontal section of a lid or
cover constructed in this manner, the arrangement is similar to that
before described except the top of the lid is closed, whereby a compart-
ment is formed to retain the air or other fluid forced through; similar
letters of reference refer to like parts in all the Figures. Cold air
admitted by the pipe D is driven into and through the compartment B
and escapes by the pipe E. A fan blast or other appliance may be used
for producing a current of air, and this air circulating through and
about the compartment B causes condensation to take place in a similar
manner to that before described.
We have shown the apparatus of a circular form, but we do not limit
ourselves to this particular shape as they may be made of any form to
adapt themselves to the shape of the boiler or other apparatus to which
it is intended they should be applied.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim,―
First. The condensing and utilizing of steam or other vapors arising
from the boiling of liquids, wort, and other ingredients by causing the
said steam, smell, or other vapors to come into contact with a lid or
cover, or with lids or covers, over or through which a current of cold
air, or other cold fluid, or cold water, or other liquid or fluid is caused to
pass, substantially as herein-before described.

page_text: Second. The construction and application of lids or covers to boilers
for use in breweries, distilleries, and other places, substantially in manner
and for the purposes herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Waddington, junior,
Andrew Waddington, and Francis Bell, have hereunto set our
hands and scals, this Twenty-first day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
JAMES WADDINGTON, JUN. (L.S.)
ANDREW-WADDINGTON...
FRANCIS BELL.
(L.S.)
(L:S.)