IMPROVEMENTS IN CONCENTRATING SYRUPS AND OTHER SOLUTIONS. AND IN DISTILLATION
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Baptiste Moinier, of Rue de Marseille,
and Charles Constant Boutigny, of Rue de Flandre, of La Villette,
France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONCENTRATING
SYRUPS AND OTHER SOLUTIONS. AND IN DISTILLATION."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Baptiste
Moinier and Charles Constant Boutigny at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st December
1852.
We, JEAN BAPTISTE MOINIER, of Rue de Marseille, and CHARLES
CONSTANT BOUTIGNY, of Rue de Flandre, of La Villette, France, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CONCENTRATING SYRUPS AND OTHER SOLUTIONS, AND IN DISTILLATION," to be
as follows:-
This Invention consists of a vessel, heated by means of steam exter-
nally, in which are a number of hollow metal spheres or other forms.
The liquid is allowed to descend in a divided state from the upper part

page_text: of the apparatus amongst the spheres, and at the same time air is
admitted at the lower part and drawn by an air pump. By this means
the fluid is rapidly separated, and the syrup or more concentrated fluid
is drawn off below, and the vapours passing off when desired are con-
densed in a suitable condenser.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jean, Baptiste Moinier and Charles Constant
Boutigny in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 20th June 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
JEAN BAPTISTE MOINIER, of Rue de Marseille, and CHARLES CONSTANT
BOUTIGNY, of Rue de Flandre, of La Vilotte, France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, lid, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Jean Baptiste Moinier and Charles
Constant Boutigny, Her special licence that we, the said Jean Baptiste
Moinier and Charles Constant Boutigny, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Jean Baptiste Moinier
and Charles Constant Boutigny, our 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, usc, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONCENTRATING
SYRUPS AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, AND IN DISTILLATION," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Jean Baptiste Moinier and Charles
Constant Boutigny, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our
hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Jean Baptiste Moinier and
Charles Constant Boutigny, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists of a vessel, heated by means of steam exter-
nally, in which are a number of hollow metal spheres or other forms.
The liquid is allowed to descend in a divided state from the upper part
of the apparatus amongst the spheres, and at the same time air is
admitted at the lower part and drawn by an air pump. By this means
the fluid is rapidly separated, and the syrup or more concentrated fluid
is drawn off below, and the vapours passing off when desired are con-
densed in a suitable condensor. And in order that our Invention may
be more fully understood and readily carried into effect we will pro-
ceed to describe the Drawing
Figure 1, is a side view; Figure 2, is a plan; Figure 3, is a vertical
section; and Figure 4, are two horizontal sections of the apparatus.
A, and B, are two cylinders, placed one inside the other, between which
steam or hot air circulates, entering by the tube C, and passing out by
the tube D, so as to heat the inner cylinder B, with its contents. The
water which is deposited when steam is employed is blown out at
intervals through the tube E. The cylinder B, contains a large num-
ber of spheres G, those which we employ being constructed of sheet
copper. Those spheres rest on a grating H, at the bottom of the
cylinder, which is shewn separately at Figure 5. The fluid to be con-
centrated is placed in the funnel I, and the quantity admitted into the
cylinder B, is regulated by the cock J, and the fluid falls through the
perforated ring K, (shewn at Figure 6,) on to the spheres G; and as it
trickles among them it is met by a current of air caused by an air
pump in connection with the orifice L, at the top of the cylinder B, and
which draws the air through the openings M, at the bottom of the
apparatus. By this means the fluid is rapidly concentrated, and the

page_text: concentrated liquid is drawn off at the lower part of the cylinder by
the cock N.
Aud we would remark, that when this apparatus is to be used for
distilling, it will be necessary to insert a condenser between the orifice
L, and the air pump.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, we would have it understood that we do not
confine ourself to the exact details described; but what we claim is
the arrangement or combination of apparatus herein described for con-
centrating syrups and other solutions, and for distilling.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Constant Boutigny; have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
threc.
BOUTIGNY (DEVREUX). (L.S.)
Witness,
W. CARPMAEL, jun.
Fils.