New APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF WORKING THE SAME, FOR DISTILLING AND RECTIFYING SPIRITS
Year: 1812

page_text: STEELE'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JERE-
MIAH STEELE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Distiller, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighth day of Fe-
bruary, in the fifty-second year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the
said Jeremiah Steele, my executors, administrators, and assigns, His espe-
cial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Jeremiah Steele, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of
them, by myself and themselves, or by my and their deputy or deputies,
servants or agents, or such others as I, the said Jeremiah Steele, my
executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time 'agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within that part of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland called
England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and
also in all the Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me,
the said Jeremiah Steele, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of
them, should in my or their discretion seem meet, my Invention of "A New
APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF WORKING THE SAME, FOR DISTILLING AND RECTIFYING
SPIRITS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Jeremiah Steele, particularly to describe and ascertain 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, and to cause the same

page_text: to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as
in and by the same Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, may more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of and in compliance with the said
recited proviso, I, the said Jeremiah Steele, do hereby declare that the
nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, is as herein-after mentioned.
My Invention consists of an apparatus combining two or more stills to be
heated by steam, and so connected together that the same steam will heat both
or all of the stills at the same time, and whereby two or more quantities of
the same or different kinds of spirits may be distilled or rectified at the same
time.
The Drawings in the margin hereof, and the following references thereto,
describe a method in which my apparatus may be made. The spirits which
arise from the inner and outer stills, shewn in the Drawings, as well as from
different compartments in such outer stills as are divided into compartments,
may either be kept separate, or by uniting the pipes from the heads of the
stills be mixed together; by which latter contrivance a great advantage may
be gained in some of the processes of distillation. My method of working
the same is by applying steam between the stills, by means of which both or
all of the stills are heated with the same steam; and at the same time I
disclaim as my Invention the application of steam to the processes of distil-
lation and rectification. I also disclaim any Invention with respect to a
single still, and I confine my Invention to a combination of two or more stills
heated at the same time by the same steam passing between them.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jeremiah Steele, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the First day of April, in the fifty-second year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of
the Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and twelve
Signed, sealed, and delivered, by the
said Jeremiah Steele, in the pre-
sence of
JEREMIAH STEELE. (L.s.)
THOS MORECROFT,

page_text: Figure 1, view of a new-invented double steam still.-A, outer still or.
casing of the outer still; B, the top of the inner still; 1, main steam pipe.
leading from the boiler; 2, steam cock and pipe to convey the steam between
the outer and inner stills; 3, discharging cock from the inner still; 4, dis-
charging cock from the outer still; 5, head of the inner still; 6, head of the
outer still; 7, pipe or cyphon to carry off the condensed steam, which acts
also as a safety valve; 8, frame on which the still stands.
Figure 2, section of the new-invented double steam still.-A, section of the
inside of the outer still; B, the top of the inner still; C, section of the inside of
the inner still; 1, main steam pipe leading from the boiler; 2, steam cock and
pipe to convey the steam between the outer and inner stills; 3, discharging.
cock from the inner still; 4, discharging cock from the outer still; 5, head.
of the inner still; 6, head of the outer still; 7, pipe or cyphon to carry off the
condensed steam, which acts also as a safety valve; 8, frame on which the
still stands; 9, inside of the outer still and the outside of the inner still form
a casing which contains the steam, and acts at the same time on both stills."
By this method little more than the same quantity of steam that would be
necessary to work a single still will perform the work of two stills.
Figure 3, section of the top of the double steam still.-A, the top of the
outer still; B, the top of the inner still; 2 hole in which the end of the
steam pipe is fixed; 5 neck or collar to which the head is joined which
communicates with the inner still; (6) neck or collar to which the head is
joined which communicates with the outer still; 9, inside of the outer still
and the outside of the inner still form a casing which contains the steam, and
acts at the same time on both stills. By this method little more than the
same quantity of steam that would be necessary to work a single will perform
the work of two stills.
b C
Figure 4, section of the top of a still upon the same principle as the double
steam still, Figure 1, with this difference, that the outer still is here divided
into four compartments, admitting four different kinds of spirits to be distilled
or rectified at the same time.-A, A, A, A, the tops of the four compartments
of the outer still; a
(d. collars or necks to which the heads
of the still join; e collar or neck of the inner still. B, the inner still.
2 hole in which the end of the steam pipes is fixed. 9, inside of the
outer still and the outside of the inner still form a casing which contains
the steam and acts at the same time on both stills. By this method nearly
the same quantity of steam that would be necessary to work a single still

page_text: will perform the work of five stills. By this principle any increase which
may be made in the number of the compartments will be attended with the.
same increase in the number of the different kinds of spirits that may be.
distilled or rectified.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the First day of April, in the
fifty-second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said Jeremiah Steele came before our said Lord the King in His. Chancery,
and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein
contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instrument
aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute-made in the
forty-eighth year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Eighth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and
twelve.