IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR COOLING BEERS AND OTHER LIQUIDS."
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Saddleton Marsters, of North Runcton, near
Lynn, in the County of Norfolk, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR COOLING BEERS AND OTHER LIQUIDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Saddleton Marsters
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th February 1873.
I, SADDLETON MARSTERS, of North Runcton, near Lynn, in the
County of Norfolk, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVED MEANS AND APPARATUS FOR COOLING BEERS AND OTHER
LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
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The object of this Invention is to reduce the temperature of beers and
other liquids to the required degree by the employment of a series of
pipes of small diameter within a chamber or trough in which a constant
supply of watcr preferably salt water or brino is permitted to flow. The
liquid to be acted upon is forced in under pressure or drawn in by
suction, and is so to speak broken up into thin bodies or streams in its

page_text: passage to the outlet, where the streams again unite, and is then led
away to be stored in the usual manner. The liquid is forced or drawn
through the pipes of not more than one. inch bore, and as it passes
through in fine streams, it partakes of the coldness of the water or brine
in which the pipes are submerged. The cooling medium is admitted to 5
the chamber or trough near the bottom at one end and is permitted to
flow over into a reservoir at the other to be reused again and again as
desired.
I am aware that pipes submerged in a chamber or in a trough of water
have been used, beforo, but these have been comparatively of largo 1
diameter through which the beer has been allowed to flow in one
continuous stream, therefore I lay no claim to Invention in this
application of them broadly, but I do claim the novelty and Invention
of submerging pipes of a diameter not exceeding one inch in a cooling
trough constantly supplied, and in which tho liquid is broken up into 1
fine streams under pressure or suction..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patènt,
filed by the said Saddleton Marsters in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th August 1878.,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SADDLETON
MARSTERS, of North Runcton, near Lynn, in the County of Norfolk,
send greeting:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, boaring date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Saddleton Marsters, Her special
licence that I, the said Saddleton Marsters, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Saddleton Marsters, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter daring the term

page_text: 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 "IMPROVED MEANS
AND APPARATUS FOR COOLING BEERS AND OTHER LIQUIDS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Saddleton Marsters, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and scals, 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 tho said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, tho said Saddleton Marsters do hereby declaro
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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings here-
unto annexed, that is to say:-
The object of this Invention is to reduce the temperature of beers and
other liquids to the required degree by the employment of a series of
pipes of small diameter within a chamber or trough, in which a constant
supply of water preferably salt water or brine is permitted to flow. The
liquid to be acted upon is so to speak forced under pressure or drawn in
by suction, and is broken up into thin bodies or streams in its passage to
the outlet where the streams again unite, and is then led away to be
stored in the usual manner. The liquid is forced or drawn through the
pipes of not more than one inch bore, and as it passes through in fino
streams it partakes of the coldness of the water or brine in which tho
pipes are submerged. The cooling medium is admitted to the chamber
or trough near the bottom at one end and is permitted to flow over into
a reservoir at the other to be reused again and again as desired.
I am aware that pipes submerged in a chamber or in a trough of water
have been used before, but these have been of comparatively largo
diameter through which the beer has been allowed to flow in one
continuous stream, therefore I lay no claim to Invention in this
application of them broadly, but I do claim the novelty and Invention
of submerging pipes of a diameter not exceeding one inch in a cooling
trough constantly supplied, and in which the liquid is broken up into
fine streams under pressure or suction,

page_text: I prefer to employ pipes of ½ inch bore, these being of the size from
which the bests results have been obtained.
The Invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of an
apparatus in a complete statc, but with the side wall of the trough 5
removed to show the series of small bore pipes through which the liquid
to be cooled is passed in fine streams, whereby it is broken up and
caused to partake in a quick manner of the temperature of the exterior
water or brine in which the apparatus is submerged in a vertical position,
but the apparatus may be inclined or laid upon its side as found suitable 1
for obtaining the best results.
Figure 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the apparatus, and
Figure 3 an end view of the series of pipes.
", a, are small bore pipes arranged in tiers and in a superposed
manner, the passages b, b, between the tiers being checked by partition 1
plates c, c, which direct the wort or other liquor to be cooled into tho
proper direction from one tier to the next below, until it enters the
outlet pipe d from whence it can be conveyed for storage or for other
purposes. The pipe ends are fitted in plates e, e, whose edges are holed
for the reception of bolts which firmly bind the end plates f, f, with the
partitions upon them into close contact, the partitions of the two end
plates being in alternate order to permit of the flow of liquor taking
place as indicated by the arrows in Figure 2. The hot liquor enters the
topmost tier or series of pipes by the inlet g, and after it has traversed
this series it reunites in the upper chamber at the opposite end of the
apparatus and travels back through the next lower scries or tier in a
divided state to be again united in the second upper chamber, and so on
from one chamber to another by gravity, by pressure, or by suction until
it reaches the outlet d up which it ascends in a cold state to be used as
before explained. The trough h in which the apparatus is placed is
supplied with cold water by the pipe i fitted at the lower part at one
end j, so that the water or the brinc, as the case may be, traverses the
whole of the trough and the exterior of the apparatus within it before it
reaches its outlet / which is at the opposite end of the trough, and at
the top.

page_text: supplied with, say, beer at the boiling point for twenty-four hours is capable
of cooling down a quantity equal to nine hundred and sixty barrels,
supposing the trough to have been furnished with brine, which I prefer
it should be on account of its extra cooling properties to that contained
in ordinary water. The water from the trough can be run into a receiver
and can be used over and over again for cooling purposes.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,—
Firstly. The improved means of reducing the temperature of beers
and other liquids as herein-before described.
Secondly. The apparatus composed of pipes of diameters not exceeding
one inch, each arranged with end plates and partitions for directing the
flow of bears and other liquors, and when such pipes are submerged in a
trough furnished with cold water or brine, in the manner and for the
purpose set forth.
TIL
purpose set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Saddleton Marsters, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of August Ono
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
SADDLETON MARSTERS (L.B.)