IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR DRYING Hops
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Henry Samson, of Underhill, in the Parish
of Wittersham, in the County. of Kent, Farmer and Grazier, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR DRYING
Hops."
Sealed the 10th May 1867, and dated the 26th February 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Henry Samson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 26th February 1867.
I, WILLIAM HENRY SAMSON, of Underhill, in the Parish of Wittersham,
in the County of Kent, Farmer and Grazier, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR
DRYING HOPS," to be as follows:-
The substitution of an air-tight chamber similar to an oven underneath the
floor or hair on which the hops are spread out for drying instead of the
furnaces or cockles which are in present use in oast houses, and which chamber

page_text: or oven is proposed to be heated and cooled by an atmospheric or heated air
engine or machine, which is well known and is at present in use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Henry Samson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 19th June 1867.
WILLIAN
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,
HENRY SAMSON, of Underhill, in the Parish of Wittersham, in the County of
Kent, Farmer and Grazier, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Henry Samson, Her special licence that I, the said William
Henry Samson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
J, the said William Henry Samson, my executors, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEANS OF AND APPARATUS POR DRYING HOPS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Henry Samson, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 Henry Samson, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
The substitution of an air-tight chamber similar to an oven underneath the
floor or hair on which the hops are spread out for drying instead of the
furnaces or cockles which are in present use in oast houses, and which chamber

page_text: or oven is proposed to be heated and cooled by an atmospheric or heated air
engine or machine, which is well known and is at present in use.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Henry Samson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
W. H. SAMSON. (L.S.)