AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING HOT WATER, COFFEE, AND OTHER BEVERAGES IN RESTAURANTS AND OTHER PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jules Christian Meinen, of Westbourne Grove, in the
County of Middlesex, and No. 8, Edbrooke Road, St. Peter's Park, Harrow
Road, in the said County, Confectioner, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING HOT WATER, COFFEE, AND OTHER BEVERAGES IN
RESTAURANTS AND OTHER PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.'
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jules Christian Meinen at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th October 1876.
JULES CHRISTIAN MEINEN, of Westbourne Grove, in the County of Middlesex,
and No. 8, Edbrooke Road, St. Peter's Park, Harrow Road, in the said County,
Confectioner. "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING HOT WATER, COFFEE,
AND OTHER BEVERAGES IN RESTAURANTS AND OTHER PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS."
My Invention relates to an apparatus or urn for supplying hot water, coffee, tea,
milk, and other beverages at refreshment buffets, bars, restaurants, and other
public places. It consists mainly of a cylindrical outer vessel to contain hot water,
into which dip a number of cylindrical or other shaped receptacles for the beverages
to be supplied. The outer vessel is a vertical cylinder closed top and bottom, and
the various receptacles are fitted in the top cover and dip down nearly to the bottom
of the outer vessel.
The contents of the. receptacles are drawn off by separate taps fixed at equal
distances round the outer vessel, and connected to the various receptacles by short
pipes leading therefrom through the sides of the outer vessel to which the
taps are affixed. This outer vessel or urn is mounted to rotate upon and partly
within a cylindrical base by means of wheels running on an internal flange. In
this base is contained the gas jets or other means of heating the contents of the
vessel.

page_text: The urn is provided with a float attached to a rod rising through a small central
cover, and serving to indicate the height of water in the urn.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Jules Christian Meinen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th April 1877.
JULES CHRISTIAN MEINEN, of Westbourne Grove, in the County of Middlesex,
and No. 8, Edbrooke Road, St. Peter's Park, Harrow Road, in the said County,
Confectioner. "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SUPPLYING HOT WATER, Coffee,
AND OTHER BEVERAGES IN RESTAURANTS AND OTHER PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS."
My Invention relates to an apparatus or urn for supplying hot water, coffee, tea,
milk, and other beverages at refreshment buffets, bars, restaurants, and other public
places. It consists mainly of a cylindrical outer vessel to contain hot water, into
which dip a number of cylindrical or other shaped receptacles for the beverages to
be supplied. The outer vessel is a vertical cylinder closed top and bottom, and the
various receptacles are fitted in the top cover and dip down nearly to the bottom.
of the outer vessel.
The contents of the receptacles are drawn off by separate taps fixed at equal
distances around the outer vessel, and connected to the various receptacles by short
pipes leading therefrom through the sides of the outer vessel, to which the taps
are fixed. This outer vessel or urn is mounted to rotate upon and partly within
a cylindrical base by means of wheels running on an internal flange. In
this base is contained the gas jets or other means of heating the contents of the
vessel.
Within the urn is a float attached to a rod rising through a small central cover
to indicate when the water falls below a certain level.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING.
The Drawing represents a perspective elevation of the improved urn containing
four inner receptacles for different beverages, but I would have it understood that
a greater or less number may be used. A portion of the side of the cylinder is
removed in the Drawing in order to more clearly show the internal arrangement.
A is the outer cylinder or vessel made of sheet metal and covered at top by a
plate a, and B, B, B, B, are the inner vessels, also made of sheet metal and fixed
in corresponding apertures in the top a, from which they hang within the vessel A,
their bottom ends being about an inch from the bottom of the outer vessel. The
vessels B are open at top and provided with removable covers b; and there is also
an opening in the centre of the top a, from which rises a short tube C, also pro-
vided with a cover c to give access for filling and cleaning. Taps D (of which two
only are shown) fixed around the vessel A. communicate by short pipes d with the
bottom part of vessels B, and a tap E communicates with vessel A. The urn is
supported on a hollow base F by rollers G running on a flange H fixed around the
inside of the base. Within the latter is a ring of gas jets to heat the water in the
vessel. I is a float within the vessel A attached to a rod passing up through
guides in the cover c, from the top of which it rises a short distance when the float
is raised by the water in the vessel A, but falls when the water level descends
below a certain point, thereby indicating when the water supply requires to be
replenished.
The urn is provided with suitable handles for lifting and turning it.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the

page_text: herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the combined apparatus or urn for
supplying hot water and various hot beverages, constructed substantially as herein
shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jules Christian Meinen, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
J. MEINEN. (L.S.)