AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OE BOILER WITH LATERAL RECEIVERS FOR HEATING ALL KINDS OF LIQUIDS BY CONTINUOUS CIRCULATION, AND WHICH MAY BE. USED AS A WASHING MACHINE
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Gedge, of No. 11, Wellington
Street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for tho
Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OE BOILER WITH LATERAL
RECEIVERS FOR HEATING ALL KINDS OF LIQUIDS BY CONTINUOUS CIRCULATION,
AND WHICH MAY BE. USED AS A WASHING MACHINE."-A communication
from abroad by Octave Marie Fabas, Juge de Paix, Tarbes, Hautes,
Pyrénées. France.
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Gedge
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 4th April 1874.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS OR BOILER WITH LATERAL
RECEIVERS FOR HEATING ALL KINDS OF LIQUIDS BY CONTINUOUS CIRCULATION, AND
WHICH MAY BE USED AS A WASHING MACHINE," a communication to me from

page_text: abroad by Octave Marie Fabas, Juge de Paix, Tarbes, Hautes Pyrénées,
France, to be as follows:-
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The apparatus, the subject of this Invention, is intended for heating
all kinds of liquids, and particularly wines, when treating them for their
preservation by the process known as "Pasteur's." It will be found of
great utility in various manufactures, specially so in cold mineral water
establishments, in which under the mode of heating hitherto adopted
the mineralizing principles are considerably deteriorated by the necessity
of raising beyond measure the temperature of a certain quantity of water
which is afterwards mixed with cold water.
"
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing Figure 1 is a horizontal plan
view of an apparatus embodying this Invention; Figure 2, a longitudinal
section; Figure 3, a cross section; and Figure 4, an elevation of same.
A, boiler properly so called, set in a furnace with flues; B, B, lateral
receivers; they should be laid in the same plane as the bottom of the
boiler, and be of the same height; their capacity however may be much
greater, and they may be of any material provided they are perfectly
water-tight; C, D, connecting pipes between the boiler and the lateral
receivers; these pipes. are made in two parts, the one screwed to the
receivers, and the other to the boiler, and are joined by a screw coupling
F, F'; G, G', cocks serving to isolate the liquid in the boiler from that
of the receivers; H, draw-off cock of the boiler. Similar cocks may be
fitted to each of the receivers.
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The boiler and the receivers may be provided with hermetically closing
lids or with ordinary covers, according to the degree of temperature
which it is desired to obtain. If a hermetically closed lid be used it
should be provided with a safety valve.
The action of the apparatus is of the simplest. The boiler and the
lateral receivers are filled with the liquid to be heated, and the fire lit.
Directly the heat is felt by the liquid in the boiler the propagating
movement begins, and the liquid follows the course indicated by the
arrows, Fig. 2.
By the addition of a false wooden bottom to the lateral receivers this
apparatus becomes a washing apparatus with continuous flow. The
linen to be washed will be piled in the lateral receivers upon the false
bottom placed immediately above the opening of the lower tube com-

page_text: municating with the boiler. The lic prepared with soda in crystals is
then put in, and directly the fire is lit the continuous flow takes place, as
above mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Gedge in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 2nd October 1874.;
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD GEDGE, of No. 11, Wellington Street, Strand, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William Edward Gedge, Her special licence
that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Edward Gedge, myt
exccutors, 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 "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS OR BOILER WITH LATERAL RECEIVERS FOR HEATING ALL KINDS OF.
LIQUIDS BY CONTINUOUS CIRCULATION, AND WHICH MAY BE USED AS A WASHING.
MACHINE," a communication to me from abroad by Octave Maric Fabas,
Juge de Paix, Tarbes, Hautes Pyrénées, France, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Gedge, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and asce
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 I, the said William Edward Gedge, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
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The apparatus, the subject of this Invention, is intended for heating
all kinds of liquids, and particularly wines, when heating them for their
preservation by the process known as Pasteur's." It will be found of
great utility in various manufactures, specially so in cold mineral water
establishments, in which under the mode of heating hitherto adopted
the mineralizing principles are considerably deteriorated by the necessity
of raising beyond measure the temperature of a certain quantity of water
which is afterwards mixed with cold water.
On the accompanying Sheet of Drawing Figure 1 is a horizontal plan
view of an apparatus embodying this Invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal
section; Fig. 3, a cross section; and Fig. 4, an elevation of same.
A, boiler properly so called, set in a furnace witli flues; B, B, lateral
receivers; they should be laid in tlie same plane as the bottom of the
boiler, and be of the same height; their capacity however may be much
greater, and they may be of any material provided they are perfectly
water-tight; C, D, connecting pipes between the boiler and the lateral
receivers; these pipes are made in two parts, the one screwed to the
receivers and the other to the boiler, and one joined by a screw coupling
F, F¹; G, G¹, cocks serving to isolate the liquid in the boiler from that
of the receivers; H, draw-off cock of the boiler. Similar cocks may be
fitted to each of the receivers.
The boiler and the receiver may be provided with hermetically closing
lids or with ordinary covers, according to the degree of temperature
which it is desired to obtain. If a hermetically closed lid be used it
should be provided with a safety valve.
The action of the apparatus is of the simplest. The boiler and the
lateral receivers are filled with the liquid to be heated, and the fire lit.
Directly the heat is felt by the liquid in the boiler the propagating
movement begins, and the liquid follows the course indicated by the
arrows Fig. 2.
By the addition of a false wooden bottom to the lateral receivers this
apparatus becomes a washing apparatus with continuous flow. The
linen to be washed will be piled in the lateral receivers upon the false
bottom placed immediately above the opening of the lower tube commu

page_text: nicating with the boiler. The lie prepared with soda in crystals is then
put in, and directly the fire is lit the continuous flow takes place, as
above mentioned.
Fig. 5 shews a modificatian of this Invention, A, A, A, A, indicating
a portable fire-place, the form of which may vary; B, B, B, B, boiler
properly so called, almost entirely closed; D, D, ascending tube screwed
to the boiler so that it may be changed according to the height required;
C, C, casks containing the wine to be heated. Suitable receivers will
be substituted for washing, bleaching, washing of wool, tanning, and
other purposes; E, E, E, E, E, E, E, E, cocks placed upon the con-
necting pipes, and serving to isolate the heating apparatus from the
lateral receivers; F, F, F, F, screw couplings uniting the two parts of the
connecting pipes; G, G, small cocks lateral to the connecting tube, and
fixed thereupon; these cocks permit a little wine to be drawn off to
ascertain its temperature; H, small cock for letting off air; it closes
directly the liquid to be heated touches its opening; L, L, funnels for
completely filling the apparatus. At the moment of heating they are
replaced by the bungs. The cocks G, G, H, are only required in apparatus
for heating wines. The chimney is not shown on the Drawing.
That which is most striking in this modification of the original
apparatus, best adapted for operating upon a large scale, is this, that
while based upon the same calorico-dynamic principles, it no longer
necessitates boilers of the same dimensions, nor a special establishment;
it is therefore cheaper to fit up, more convenient, and better adapted for
general use.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Gedge, have here.
unto not my hand and coal this First day of October in the year
W. E. GEDGE. (L.S.)