AN IMPROVEMENT IN REFRIGERATORS FOR COOLING BEER AND WORTS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Bennett and John Bennett, of the Firm of
Bennett and Sons, of Kingsland Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineers, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN REFRIGERATORS
FOR COOLING BEER AND WORTS."
Sealed the 9th August 1859, and dated the 12th February 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Bennett and John
Bennett at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 12th February 1859.
We, JAMES BENNETT and JOHN BENNETT, of the Firm of Bennett and
Sons, of Kingsland Road, in the County of Middlesex, Engineers, do hereby
declare the nature of tho said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN RE-
FRIGERATORS FOR COOLING BEER AND WORTS," to be as follows:-
The object of our Invention is to obtain an extensive cooling surface in a
refrigerator of a limited size. It consists in fitting two or more tiers of pipes
in the refrigerator, and in connecting two or more of these pipes with the
cold water main, so arranged that the whole may be cleaned without
difficulty.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Bennett and John Bennett in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 12th August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
BENNETT and JOHN BENNETT, of the Firm of Bennett and Sons, of Kingsland
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Engineers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said James Bennett and John Bennett, Her special licence that we, the said
James Bennett and John Bennett, our executors, ádministrators, and assigns,
or such others as we, the said James Bennett and John Bennett, 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, use, exercise, and vend, within
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN REFRIGERATORS FOR
COOLING BEER AND WORTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said James Bennett and John Bennett, or one of us, our executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of our
or their hands and seals, should particularly 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said James Bennett and John Bennett, do
hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say:-
The object of our Invention is to obtain an extensive cooling surface in a
refrigerator of a limited size. It consists in fitting two or more tiers of pipes
in the refrigerator, and in connecting four or more of these pipes with the
cold water main so arranged that the whole may be cleaned without
difficulty.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a plan of a box for connecting a
number of pipes together; Figure 2 is an end view of a box with passages

page_text: P, P, for cleaning the pipes; Figure 3 is a section of a box shewing the
passages for cleaning; Figure 4 is a side view of a stop for checking the flow
of worts or beer over the pipes; Figure 5 is a section on the line E, z, of the
plan, Figure 6; and Figure 6 is a plan of the cooler with the refrigerator
laid in. F, F, is the cooler; G, G, are the pipes; H, H, are stops to cause
the worts to flow over the whole surface; I is the charging, and K the dis-
charge passage for the water; M is the charging, and N the discharge passage
for the beer or worts; O, O, are the boxes for connecting as many pipes
together as may be required.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim constructing
a refrigerator with two or more tiers of pipes and connecting four or more of
these pipes with the cold water main, as herein-before described, whereby the
whole may be cleansed without difficulty.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Bennett and John Bennett,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eleventh day of August,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
JAMES BENNETT. (L.S.)
JOHN BENNETT.
(L.S.)