Improved Apparatus appertaining to the Process of Boiling Sugar and Glucose, either Separately or Mixed.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1394-Accepted, 2nd Feb. 185
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Apparatus appertaining to the Process of Boiling Sugar
and Glucose, either Separately or Mixed.
I, EDWARD SHAW, of 6, Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton, Bristol, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the process of boiling sugar and glucose, and apparatus
therefor, that is to say, in which sugar dissolved in water and either alone or mixed
with glucose is boiled to fit it for use in the manufacture of sweetmeats and other
purposes by forcing it through a coil or series of chambers connected by pipes, such
coil or series of chambers being contained within a closed vessel heated by fire or
steam or other suitable heating agent.
This invention consists in the provision, in connection with apparatus for carrying
out the aforesaid process, of a receiver situated outside the heated vessel aforesaid
and connected to the coils or boiling chambers by a pipe or duct, or by more
than one.
The boiled sugar and steam are received into the said receiver, and separation of
the steam from the sugar is completed therein. The sugar passes out at the bottom
of the receiver, and the steam is conducted away by a pipe or other exit towards
the top of the receiver. By the adoption of the said receiver the separation of the
steam and sugar is effected in a non-heated vessel, and extended time is allowed for
the sugar to settle. It is delivered to the cooling slab in a drier condition.
Dated this 7th day of February 1894.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.
Improved Apparatus appertaining to the Process of Boiling Sugar
and Glucose, either Separately or Mixed.
I, EDWARD SHAW, of 6, Cornwallis Crescent, Clifton, Bristol, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to the process of boiling sugar and glucose and apparatus
therefor, that is to say, in which sugar dissolved in water and either alone or mixed
with glucose is boiled to fit it for use in the manufacture of sweetmeats and other
purposes by forcing it through a coil or series of chambers connected by pipes, such
coil or series of chambers being contained within a closed vessel heated by fire or
steam or other suitable heating agent.
This invention consists in the provision, in connection with apparatus for carrying
out the aforesaid process, of a receiver situated outside the heated vessel aforesaid
and connected to the coils or boiling chambers by a pipe or duct, or by more
than one.
The boiled sugar and steam are received into the said receiver, and separation
of the steam from the sugar is completed therein. The sugar passes out at the

page_text: bottom of the receiver, and the steam is conducted away by a pipe or other exit
towards the top of the receiver. By the adoption of the said receiver the
separation of the steam and sugar is effected in a non-heated vessel, and extended
time is allowed for the sugar to settle. It is delivered to the cooling slab in a
drier condition.
In the accompanying drawing is represented in vertical section a chamber a
designed in accordance with this invention as a receiver for the cooked syrup in its
path towards delivery. The syrup, whether it be dissolved sugar or glucose, or a
mixture of these, after having been passed through a coiled pipe or the like
contained within a heated chamber, is fed by the inlet b into the vessel a. The
steam accompanying the syrup finds exit through the vent pipe c and the syrup
thus separated from the steam is discharged through the outlet à on to the cooling
table e in a comparatively dry state.
The vessel a is not heated except by the syrup and steam, and by virtue of thus
separating the syrup and the steam an extended time is afforded for the syrup to
settle without being cooked to an undue degree.
The shape of the separating vessel may vary.
I do not confine myself to the particular form shown, as it is obvious that the
said vessel may be of any shape suitable for the purpose specified.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
In connection with apparatus for boiling or cooking dissolved sugar or dissolved
glucose or a mixture of them to fit the syrup for use in the manufacture of sweet-
meats and like purposes by forcing the same through a coil or pipe or a series of
chambers connected by pipes contained within a chamber heated by admitting
steam, hot air or other suitable heating agent into such chamber, the provision of a
vessel such as a, or its equivalent, into which the syrup as it flows to delivery is
conducted; said vessel having an inlet such as b for the syrup and steam, an outlet
such as d for discharge of the syrup and an escape pipe such as e for the exit of
steam, substantially as hereinabove described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 7th day of November 1894.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.