AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CONDENSING AND COOLING OF SPIRITS IN THE PROCESS OF DISTILLATION, BY MEANS OF MACHINERY NOT BEFORE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1797

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FALCONER ATLEE, of Wandsworth, in the County of Surrey, Distiller, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventh day of February, in the thirty-seventh year of His
reign, give and grant unto me, the said John Falconer Atlee, His especial
licence, that I, the said John Falconer Atlee, during the term of years therein
mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF CONDENSING AND COOLING OF SPIRITS IN THE PROCESS OF DISTILLATION,
BY MEANS OF MACHINERY NOT BEFORE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said John Falconer
Atlee, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a par-
ticular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court
of Chancery within one calendar month after the date of the said recited
Letters Patent, as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may
more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I. the said
John Falconer Atlee, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described
in the plan and description thereof hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Falconer Atlee have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of!
our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven.

page_text: C.C.C.C.represent my invention of a Worm the same is connected and attach'd to the Worm
B, at the under part of the Coil of the worm, with a tundish or funnel like communication
as at D.
The worm C. C. commencing from the point D a circular or other form course to the Refrigerator
E (the application of the Refrigerator being my invention) which is ficced at the bottom or
nearly so of the Worm Tibb and may be made of Pewter or any other Metal fit for the purpose
the size and figure of the Refrigerator may be made to vary as the nature of the business
may require or convainency of situation admit. From the Refrigerator the Worm CC is continued;
ascending by a Circular or other form manner till it is again connected and Joined to the Worm
Bas at F the same being introduced into the side or upper part of the Coil the Coil to which the
Junction is formed must be lower than that Coil from whence the Worm C.C first branched off as at D.
Abranch of the Worm C. C is carried through the side of the Worm Tubb to the save all Gat the end of this
branch is a stop coch H which when opened discharges and clears the Worm C.C.C.C and the Refrigerator E
of their contents.
The purpose and intention of this my invention is to condense, to Cool and Refrigerate Steam
vapour or any evaporation either from Wash, Low Wines, Spirits and every other kind of liquor undergoing
the process of Distillation in a more efficaceous complete and cheaper method than any now used
and practised the present construction of Worms not admitting the Low Wines or Spirits to remain
a sufficient length of time or in a proportionate quantity to the exposure of the cooling medium
nor are the parts of the present worms se arranged that they can be acted upon so immediately and
to such an effect as my frevention professes to do.....