CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COOLING LIQUIDS
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL, COME, I, WILLIAM
ALEXIS JARRIN, of 123, New Bond Street, in the County of Middlesex, Italian.
Confectioner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the
Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain,
bearing date at Westminister, the Thirteenth day of August One thousand
eight hundred and twenty-seven, in the eighth year of His reign, did, for
Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said William
Alexis Jarrin, His especial licence, that I, the said, William Alexis Jarrin,
my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Alexis Jarrin, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at, any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR COOLING LIQUIDS ;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William Alexis
Jarrin, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly to
describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and

page_text: immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in
and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Alexis Jarrin, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained by the following description thereof (that is to
say) :-
My apparatus for cooling liquids is to be made as represented in the
annexed Drawing (that is to say) :-An outer vessel or vase to be seventeen
inches in altitude, and eleven in diameter, and to be composed of silver, china,
earthenware, stone, wood, or any other material. The inner vessel or cylinder
to be sixteen inches in altitude, and five inches in diameter, and to be
composed of pewter or any other materials. The sizes specified to be enlarged
or decreased to suit the various purposes to which it may be applied. The
inner cylinder to contain nine pounds of ice, and three pounds of salt or salt-
petre, to be increased or decreased in quantity to agree with the increased or
decreased size of the receiving vessels. The outer vessel to contain (for icing)
water or any other liquid, according to the purposes of the Patent. The outer
as well as inner vessel or cylinder to be made in the above cylindrical form, or
any other shape, and may be ornamented in various ways.
THE USE OF THE APPARATUS.
First, to ice any given quantity of water or other liquid that may be
required to be consumed in the day.
Second, to ice in a quarter of an hour a sufficient number of bottles of wine
for dinner, &c., &c.
Thirdly, to be adapted for the table, or other purposes, to produce any liquid
at 31° of coldness.
Fourthly, while the liquid in the outer vessel is becoming frigid by removing
the cap from the inner cylinder, wine, &c. may be introduced and become
iced at the same time.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Alexis Jarrin, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Eighth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
WILLIAM ALEXIN (L.s.) JARRIN.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of October, in the
year of our Lord 1827, the aforesaid William Alexis Jarrin came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirteenth day of October; in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.