IMPROVE- MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ROASTING COFFEE AND COCOA
Year: 1852

page_text: GEE, of Liverpool, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the First day of May,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the fifteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Edward Gee, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial license, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Edward Gee, my exors, admors,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Gee, my exors,.
admors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR ROASTING COFFEE AND COCOA;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Edward Gee, shall cause a
particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in
part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with, the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Gee, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be
the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a roasting apparatus containing the proposed
improvement; Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same; and Figure 3 is a
plan corresponding to Figures 1 and 2.
This Invention consists of an outer cylinder or casing A fixed on a base or
sole plate B, and containing in the interior a conical fire box or close chamber
C, (the cylinder is shown broken at certain places in Figures 1 and 2 in order
to show the various parts contained in the interior of the apparatus,) under-
neath a perforated plate or surface D, on which the matters to be roasted are
placed. A flue E allows the products of combustion to escape from the fire
box, the latter being also formed with an aperture in front (to receive the fuel),
against which is placed a cover or door F (Figure 1), hinged to the cylinder
for regulating the application of heat to the perforated plate above named.
The fire chamber C is supported on a stand G resting on the base plate, and
à tray H (Fig. 1) is placed upon the latter immediately underneath the fire
grate to form an ash-pit.
The top of the outer cylindrical casing A projects above, and surrounds the
perforated plate or surface, there being at one part of the circumference an
opening and shoot a' furnished with a door I (removed in Fig. 1, but shewn
in detail at Figures 3, 4, and 5), hinged to the cylinder, so that when the
door is opened or raised by the handle I, and retained in that position by
means of the pall K and ratchet L, the matters when roasted can be removed
from the surface of the perforated plate. In order to move or turn over the
coffee or cocoa when being roasted, there are inclined blades or instruments M,
Figures 3, 6, and 7, hinged on the arms N, fixed on an upright central axis O,
which is caused to rotate on motion being communicated by the fly wheel P
placed on the shaft Q to the bevil wheels R and S, the upright axis 0 (shown
at Figures 2, 3, 6, and 7), being supported at the upper and lower extremities
by means of brackets T and U attached to the circumference of the cylinder;
the former bracket also supports one end of the shaft Q, the other extremity
being secured in its proper position by a bracket V attached to the cylinder.
When the process of roasting is complete, the door I is opened in the manner

page_text: above described, and the inclined blades cause the coffee or cocoa to be
discharged through the opening, and shoot from the surface of the perforated
plate into the vessel intended for its reception.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, I wish it to be under-
stood that I do not strictly confine myself to the details thereof, so long as the
peculiar character of the Invention is retained; but what I claim is for the
improved combination of apparatus for roasting coffee and cocoa.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Gee, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-two