A CERTAIN UTENSIL OR APPARATUS TO BE USED IN BREWERIES, DISTILLERIES, &C., FOR THE PURPOSE OF COOLING WORTS OF ALL KINDS
Year: 1790

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
HARRIS, of the City of Bristol, Distiller, and JOHN LONG, of Dublin, in the
Kingdom of Ireland, Merchant, 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 the
Twenty-eighth day of July, in the thirtieth year of His reign, give and grant
unto us, the said Thomas Harris and John Long, His especial licence that
we, the said Thomas and John Long, during the term of years therein
expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed our Invention of "A CERTAIN
UTENSIL OR APPARATUS TO BE USED IN BREWERIES, DISTILLERIES, &C., FOR THE
PURPOSE OF COOLING WORTS OF ALL KINDS;" in which said Letters Patent there
is contained a proviso, obliging us, the said Thomas Harris and John Long,
under our hands and seals, to cause, a particular description of the nature of
our 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 complianco with the said proviso, we, tho sai
Thomas Harris and John Long, do hereby declare that our said Invention o
a certain utensil or apparatus to 'he used in breweries, distilleries, &c., for the
purpose of cooling worts of all kinds, is described in manner following, that i
to say :-
The original and present mode of cooling worts brewed from malt and raw
grain, at all the breweries and distilleries in this kingdom, is effected by
extending and exposing them over a large surface of wooden coolers, erected at
a great expence for that purpose, by which much of saccharine substance is los
by evaporation and absorption; and in the heat of summer it is impossible
to bring the worts to a proper temperature or degree of coolness. This new
invented mode of cooling worts is intended to remedy these inconveniences, and
is performed by running the wort through an apparatus constructed of metal, or
other tubes or worms of spiral-or other forms, as opinion and local circum
stances may require, and having as many revolutions as possible, the diameters
of which tubes or worms must be proportioned. to the size and extent of the
manufactory, from the tenth part of an inch to one hundred inches or upwards.
This apparatus is to be placed either in a worm tub or cistern, pond or river,
or other situation where a sufficient body of cold water may be constantly
circulating on the external surface thereof, which will effectually and expedi-
tiously cool, the worts in the course of their passage through such tubes or
worms. If the apparatus is placed in a tub or cistern, the-best and most
effectual method is to let the worts descend through. it, and in that case the
water. must come in at the bottom; but if the situation of the utensils. is
such that the worts are required to ascend, the water, must be admitted in at
the top of such tub.orcistern,, so that a 'contrary direction of the water and
wort is uniformly required, and a continual stream of cold water kept running
in whilst the wort is, pressing through the tube or worm, by which means
the worts may be at all seasons of the year reduced to a degree of coolness
proper for fermentation. (
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In witness. whereof; we, the said Thomas Harris and John Long, have
thereunto set our hands and scals, this Eighteenth day of August, One
thousand seven hundred and ninety.
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page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of August, in the
year above written, the aforesaid Thomas Harris and John Long came before
our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the said Eighteenth day of August, in the year above mentioned.