IMPROVEMENTS IN STONEWARE FILTERS AND COOLERS FOR FILTERING AND COOLING WATER
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Octavius Vaughan Morgan, of Kensington, in
the County of Middlesex, and Gustav Robert Moelchaerek, of
Battersea, in the County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IM-
Sealed the 21st December 1874, and dated the 29th June 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Octavius Vaughan
Morgan and Gustav Robert Moclchaerek at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 29th June
1874.
We, OCTAVIUS VAUGHAN MORGAN, of Kensington, in the County
of Middlesex, and GUSTAV ROBERT MOELCHAEREK, of Battersea, in the
County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STONEWARE FILTERS AND COOLERS FOR FILTERING AND
COOLING WATER," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is arrangements of apparatus or appli-
ances made in a piece with or applicable to stoneware (earthernware)
filters and coolers for filtering and for cooling water.

page_text: In carrying the Invention into effect we partition a stoneware
(earthenware) vessel off into two or three compartments, which par-
titions may be of porous or of solid material, or a combination of such
arranged vertically or horizontally, or both vertically and horizontally,
according to the purpose for which the vessel is intended.
One of the spaces or chambers formed by the partitions is for the
reception of water and another space for ice or other cooling medium, a
third chamber being for the reception of the filtered water, which per-
colates through a partition of porous, material, such as (and preferably)
a block or screen of silicated carbon. The vessel may have only one
vertical partition, so that the coldness of the ice placed in one compart-
ment may reduce the temperature of the water within the other previous
to its withdrawal. The ice we prefer should be placed direct into its
compartment in the vessel, the lower part of which compartment may or
may not be provided with an outlet for the drain water, but the ice can
be first placed in a separate vessel of perforated metal or of wirework or
earthenware and then be dropped in.
If the ice compartment be of cylindrical or other form and in the
centre of the vessel we arrange one or more ledges in the compartment
for the metal ice receiver to lodge upon, a space being then left below for
the reception of the drain water.
If the vessel is intended for filtering only we arrange two blocks or
screens of filtering material within it, one of them being arranged
vertically and the other horizontally, so that the water may percolate
first through the vertical partition and then through the horizontal one
before it can be drawn off. The vertical partition may be and is pre-
ferably fitted into or upon an inverted semi-dished surface of solid
material to ensure the water passing in the proper direction.
If the vessel is intended for cooling and for filtering purposes we
arrange one solid partition and one porous partition within it, one of
them being vertical and the other horizontal. By this means the ice in
one chamber by conduction cools the water in the other before it passes
through the filtering body into the third chamber or compartment,
where it is stored or retained in a cold state.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Octavius Vaughan Morgan and Gustav Robert
Moclchacrek in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th December
1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, OCTAVIUS
VAUGHAN MORGAN, of Kensington, in the County of Middlesex, and.
GUSTAV ROBERT MOELCHAEREK, of Battersea, in the County of Surrcy,.
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
cighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Octavius Vaughan Morgan and
Gustav Robert Moclchacrck, Her special licence, that we, the said
Octavius Vaughan Morgan and Gustav Robert Moelchacrek, our exc-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Octavius
Vaughan Morgan and Gustav Robert Moclchacrck, our exccutors, admini-
strators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN STONE-
WARE FILTERS AND COOLERS FOR FILTERING AND COOLING WATER,"
upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Octavius Vaughan Morgan
and Gustav Robert Moelchaerck, or one of us, our executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under our, or one of our or
their, or one 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Octavius Vaughan Morgan and
Gustav Robert Moclchacrck, do hereby declare the nature of our said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to
be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, that is to say:—
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The object of this Invention is arrangements of apparatus or appli

page_text: ances made in a piece with or applicable to stoneware (carthenware)
filters and coolers for filtering and for cooling water. The Invention is
clearly represented in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In carrying the first part of the Invention into practice we partition
a stoneware (earthenware) vessel A, as seen in Figure 1, off into two or
three compartments B, C, and D, which partitions E, F, may be of porous
or of solid material, or a combination of such arranged vertically or
horizontally, or both vertically and horizontally, according to the purpose
for which the vessel is intended.
One of the spaces or chambers B formed by the partitions is for the
reception of water and another space C for ice or other cooling medium,
a third chamber D being for the reception of the filtered water, which
percolates through a partition E of porous material, such as (and pre-
ferably) a block or screen of silicated carbon. The vessel A is represented
as having one vertical partition F, so that the coldness of the ice placed
in the compartment C may reduce the temperature of the water within
the other B previous to its withdrawal through the tap G in the lower
chamber D. The ice we place direct into its compartment C in the
vessel, the lower part of which compartment may or may not be pro-
vided with an outlet or tap H for the drain water which runs through
the perforated bottom or grating I, but the ice can be first placed in a
separate vessel of perforated metal, or of wirework or earthenware, and
then be dropped in.
If the ice compartment be of cylindrical or other form, and in the
centre of the vessel, as in the cooler shown in Figure 2, we arrange one
or more ledges J in the compartment for the metal ice receiver K to
lodge upon, a space I being then left below for the reception of the drain
water which runs through the perforated bottom I, and can be drawn off
by the tap H, as in Figure 1, the cooled water being drawn off by a tap on
the opposite side of the cooler in communication with the compartment B.
If the vessel A is intended for filtering only we arrange, as in Figure 3,
two blocks or screens F, E, of filtering material within it, one of them F
being arranged vertically and the other, E, horizontally, so that the
water may percolate first through the vertical partition and then through
the horizontal one before it can be drawn off. The vertical partition F
may be, and is preferably, fitted into or upon an inverted semi-dished
surface of solid non-porous material M to ensure the water passing in
the proper direction.

page_text: If this latter vessel is intended for cooling and for filtering purposes we
arrange one solid partition and one porous partition within it, one of
them being vertical and the other horizontal. By this means the ice in
one chamber by conduction cools the water in the other before it passes
through the filtering body into the third chamber or compartment,
where it is stored or retained in a cold state.
Figure 4 is a partial sectional view of a vessel for cooling water only.
In this construction the vessel A has a horizontal partition M in a piece
with the vessel. From the horizontal partition. a tubular chamber K is
fitted on as part of the vessel itself, into which ice can be placed for
cooling the water in the chamber B prior to its being drawn off by the
tap G. The drain water from the ice passes through an aperture a in
partition M into a chamber L, to be afterwards drawn off by the
tap H.
We claim as our Invention,-
The cooling and filtering vessel made as described and shown in
Figure 1 of the annexed Drawings.
Secondly. The cooling vessel made as described and as shown in
Figure 2 of the annexed Drawings.
Thirdly. The filtering vessel made as described with reference to
Figure 3 of the annexed Drawings.
Fourthly. The cooling vessel made as described with reference to
Figure 4 of the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, we, the said Octavius Vaughan Morgan and
Gustav Robert Moelchaerck, have hereunto set our hands and
seals, this Twenty-eighth day of December, One thousand cight
hundred and seventy-four.
OCTAVIUS VAUGHAN MORGAN. (L.S.)
GUSTAV ROBERT MOELCHAEREK. (L.S.)