CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTILLING, AND OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1831

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GUTTERIDGE, in the Parish of Saint John's, Clerkenwell, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Eighteenth day of May, in the first year of His reign, did,
for Himself, His heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Gutteridge, His especial licence that I, the said William Gut-
teridge, my exors, adñiors, or assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Gutteridge, my exors, adñors, and assigns, should 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, and also within all His
Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR DISTILLING, AND OTHER PURPOSES;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, obliging me, the said William
Gutteridge, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, particularly
to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and what manner
the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be enrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six months next and immediately
after the date of the said 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 Gutteridge, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,

page_text: and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the Drawings hereunto annexed, and the
following description thereof, that is to say :-
Figure is a vertical section of a distilling and rectifying apparatus, in
which A is the body or steam boiler of a still, to which heat is to be applied
cither by a fire made beneath it in the ordinary manner, or by any other method
the distiller may think fit, the Drawing here indicating the usual erection
in masonry. Should steam be applied from a seperate boiler to distil the
contents of this boiler A, the vessel C indicated in the Drawing will be
unnecessary, but if the fire be applied directly to the bottom of the boiler A, it
would be less injurious to the wash, or other subject to be distilled, to distil it
in vessel C, by steam passed into it through pipe B, from water only boiled in
the boiler A; in the latter case the steam is made to pass out of the pipe B
through an aperture near to that end of it which is fastened to the bottom of
the vessel C, the lower end of such pipe B being fastened to the upper part
of the boiler A, and passes nearly to the top of vessel C, where it is curved
downward so as to be fastened at both ends. This pipe B thus conveys or
conducts the steam generated in the boiler A through the masonary which is
indicated as being placed between the boiler A, and the bottom of the vessel C,
the object of which masoury is to prevent the injurious influence of fire on
the spirit, and also as much as possible to prevent delay by a condensation of
the vapour or steam generated in the boiler A, which would take place if the
atmosphere were not excluded, and if the top of the boiler A constituted
the bottom of the vessel C, because the spirituous liquor boiling in vessel C,
would not be so hot as the steam of water generated in the boiler A; and to
prevent the delay which would be occasioned by the atmosphere if it were not
excluded from the outside of the vessel C, masonry is indicated in the Drawing
ns surrounding it at least as high as its charge, and also the whole of the
boiler A. Letter D indicates a pipe for the vapour generated in vessel C, to
pass into the vessel E; the plate of metal, which constitutes the top of the
vessel C, also constituting the bottom of the vessel E, which latter vessel
I call "tho rectifier" pipe D, therefore conveys the vapour through the
plate constituting the top of vessel C, and the bottom of the vessel E, and
delivers it through an aperture near to the end which is fastened down on
to that plate at a little distance from the other end thereof, which receives
it from vessel C, and which is fixed into that plate, such pipe D, passing
nearly to the top of the rectifier, where it is curved downward so as to bo
fastened at both ends to render it more firm. From one side of the top of
the rectifier E, proceeds a broad and somewhat flattened pipe F to
couvcy

page_text: the vapours between two similar circular metal disks or plates and 1,
which plates are joined together all round at their edges so as to form a sort
of vessel which I denominate a "partial condenser" or "vapour department
and which is of a somewhat inverted conical shape for the alcoholic vapour to
pass through it at the same time that a great part of the aqueous vaponr
may be condensed in it, and be collected and returned back into the rectifier;
the upper end or part of the pipe F is therefore fastened to those circular
plates G and H at their edges I, at one side, and from the central pipe J,
which is fixed into the lower part or apex of the lower plate of the partial
condenser, a large portion of the aqueous matter which rises with the spirit.
returns into the said rectifier E, it having been condensed in the partial
condenser by the influence of water which is made to surround it. Letter K
indicates another pipe affixed to the edge of the partial condenser most remote
from tho part where the pipe F delivers the vapours into it, pipe K being for
the purpose of conveying what passes in a state of vapour through the
partial condenser into the final condenser in the tank, a description of which
final condenser will be found herein-after in the proper place. The parts of
the apparatus which constitute the vessel to contain water about the partial
condenser, together with the pipes and their cocks, through which the water
passes to and from those parts, I denominato "the water department," and
when the water is raised by atmospheric pressure to replenish in that vessel
any quantity of water from time to time drawn out of it, I call such water
department "a siphon," and I sometimes use the denomination "still head;"
in speaking of any of the parts which constitute "the water department," or
"the vapour department," because if those parts be mounted as shewn in the
Drawing, they constitute a still head with its appurtenances; but I do not
intend or mean thereby that these parts of the apparatus are to be always
erected over the vessels containing the subject to be distilled, as it may be
in some premises more convenient to place those parts in a different position,
which may be done without altering the effect. In the water department of
the still head L, is placed a broad circular plate turned up round its edge,
and perforated all over with holes, which plate is made fast in convenient
manner by stays to suspend or support it; this plate I denominate "the
colander," the use of which is to diffuse the water of supply coming into the
still head or water department among the hotter water previously contained
therein, so that the colder water, on its entrance from the pipe m, may not
retard the process
falling immediately upon a more limited
thereby condense the alcoholic vapour together with the aqueous vapour.
Letter N indicates a funnel to charge water into the still head through a short
any
space,
and

page_text: pipe or stop cock O permanently fixed, a process necessary to be formed before
setting the apparatus to work. Letter P indicates a pipe which can be usel
to convey vapour from the vessel C to a final condenser without passing such
vapour through the partial condenser, the objects of which are to run off
feints, take samples immediately from C, on any quantity of weak spirit, and
to prevent feints from contaminating the superior spirit at any time by the use
of two final condensers; but although the use of two final condensers for these
purposes are obvious, yet the other parts of this apparatus may be used with
only one condenser, and that one a worm or any other. Letter Q indicates a
stop cock in a pipe to let into the vessel C from the rectifier what the latter
receives from the partial condenser by the pipe J. Letter R indicates another
pipe also fitted with a stop cock, by which the contents of the vessel C can
be let into the vessel or boiler A, if at any time necessary. Letter S is a pipe
with a cock to let off from vessel C the spent subject when the spirit has
been distilled out of it; and T indicates a pipe with a cock to discharge the
contents of the boiler A when desireable. Man-holes with covers and other
usual appendages to stills in general aro to bo used, but it is unnecessary hero
to detail or explain them further. Letter U indicates a tank to contain the
final condensers, and water to surround them, to condenso the spirituous
vapours which pass into them from the distilling subject. Letters V and W
indicate the two final condensers, the forms of which are approaching
to concentric semi-cylinders, each final condenser being constructed of
two metal plates joined everywhere at their edges except at their ends,
where they receive the vapour and deliver them after condensation; and
the junction of those condensers with the pipes are so formed that by the
spreading of the pipes also the vapours enter in a thin, wide stratum, and are
delivered after condensation in the same manner into the delivery pipe. The
distances of the pair of plates which constitute the body of each final condenser,
are kept at uniform and small distances from each other by small pieces of
metal of the thickness intended for the stratum of vapour, which may be from
about a quarter of an inch, and upwards, not being in any case much less than
a quarter of an inch, but the nearer they are together the more effectual
and rapid is the condensation, the ratio of this power being inversely as the
squares of half their distance as under, multiplied by the exterior surfaco; and
besides, the superior effect, resulting from this arrangement as compared with
the common worm, is that of the far greater part of the condensing power
being preserved in the lower half of the cold water in tho tank, and not in tho
hot water in the upper part of the tank, like condensing worms in general,
Each final condenser having been constructed in the manner thus directed, the

page_text: one is placed a little above the other, and both are fixed by proper supports
and stays to preserve them in that position in the tank, as indicated in
Figure 2, which is an end view of them, the same letters of reference
indicating the same parts, as in Figure 1, and these observations apply equally
to the parts of those final condensers shewn in Figure 3; stays and braces,
similar to those indicated in Figures 2 and 3 are also to be used to fix the
partial condenser in the still head. Letter X of Figure 1 indicates two stop
cocks, the plugs of which are both moved at once by means of the spanner Y,
which is fastened to both of them; the use of which arrangement is to turn
one of those cocks so as to close it at the same moment that it opens the
other, one of them being fixed in pipe K, and the other in pipe P, which pipes
convey the vapours from the head and from the body C of the still to the
final condensers, the strongest spirit being passed through the pipe K into the
lower or outer final condenser W, and the inferior through the pipe P from
the vessel C into the upper or inner final condenser V; the pipes Z and a
convey and deliver the condensed spirit out of the two final condensers V
and W, pipe a delivering the stronger from condenser W, and pipe Z; the
weaker from the condenser V. Before setting to work, the tank U must be
filled with water through pipe b, the cock in pipe c being then opened for the
cscape of air. In order that all the air may the more readily escape at c, the
tank is made rather conical, so that the point to which the cock c is fixed may
be a little higher than any other part of the tank, and the ends of the tank are
rather convex, the outside the better to sustain the pressure of the atmosphere.
When the supply of water is from a reservoir or other source higher than the
tank, it may be let in through pipe b, and having become heated in the tank is
lischarged through pipo d and its cock e, an equal quantity of cold water at
the same time entering through pipe 6 from above; but if the reservoir or
source of supply be lower than the tank, the water can be obtained from such
source, as shewn at f, by keeping the cock g then open; or an arrangement
may be made at the end of the pipe to raise the water from the reservoir f
even if it be still lower than is here shewn, similar to that arrangement which
is shown and described hereafter in reference to the charging leg of the siphon
or still head, Figure 9, the cock in pipe 6 as well as c being always kept
closed after the tank has been filled with water. When the supply is obtained
from below a cock h may be fixed in the pipe leading from the upper part of
the tank to the still head to convey the warm water out of the former into the
latter; in which case both tank and still head form but one vessell, which I
denominate a compound siphon. In this case there will be only one cold
water supply pipe used for both tank and still head, which pipe may be from a

page_text: supply either higher or lower than the tank, as before described, cold water
entering only the tank, and warm water entering the head from the tank,
whilst there will be two pipes discharging hot water, namely, the pipe d dis-
charging through cock e a part thereof from the tank, and the pipe i through
cock m, at the same time discharging from the head that portion which it
receives from the tank through the cock h; and the area of the pipe or leg
through which the water enters the tank, to supply such tank and water
department of the still head, sequently, must rather exceed the sum at the
areas of the pipes used as the legs to discharge simultaneously the hot water
from both such tank and water department of the still head; but when this
apparatus is used as two distinct siphons, the cock h is kept closed, when cold
water may be raised to the still head by atmospheric pressure on the surface of
the source of water in which the lower end of pipe j is placed, which will
be better understood and appreciated by reference to Figure 4, in which jis
the last-mentioned pipe, the upper end of which enters the still head L at m,
whilst its lower end is placed in the reservoir 7, cock & being used when neces
sary to let up to the still head or to stop therefrom the water of the reservoir 7.
It is however to be observed that the cock is always closed when cock his
open, and vice versa, is always open when his closed, as it is not cock k, but
cock m in pipe i that governs the quantity of water under every case which is
used in the still head to regulate the strength of the spirit under distillation.
The two pipes n and o, which are furnished with stop cocks, and are united to
the pipes i and j, near to the cocks m and k, are for the escape of air from the
pipes i and j during the time of filling the water department of the still head.
The other letters of reference of this Figure relate to similar parts indicated by
those letters in Figure 1. Figuro 5 is an internal plan, taken at the dotted
line in Fig. 6, of such parts as are indicated and explained by similar letters
and numerical figures in both these Diagrams. Figure 6 is a vertical section
of another modification of an improved still head or combination of a water
department and vapour department, or partial condenser, of which A is part
of a body or boiler of a still, on which it may be erected, or it may be erected
on any other arrangement of vessels, used to contain and distill wash or other
subjects, such as those already described in Figure 1 by the letters A, B, C, D,
and E, or otherwise in this Figure 6; p is a pipe leading out of the upper
part of the space intended for .containing vapour above the charge in the
body A, through the plate hero forming the top of that vapour space, and the
bottom of the still head or water department L, L, so as to convey or conduct
the vapour into the space 9 between metal plates, which are formed into a
pa rallelopipedon, being rectangular, indicated by r; the vapour passes on

page_text: through this parellelopipedon, which is surrounded with water, such part of
the vapour as remains uncondensed in the space q leaving it by pipes, which
conveys it into another space t, between two parellel circular metal disks u.
whose edges terminate on the outside of the apparatus, where a joint is made all
round, with the plates forming the outside, above, between, and below them,
as shewn at v; from near to the edge of the upper of those two disks u, and at
the pipe farthest from pipe s, proceeds another pipe w, which conveys such
vapour as does not get condensed in the space t into another space a, which is
formed between other metal plates constituting another parallelopipedon y,
similar to that mentioned before; from which space a, the remaining uncon-
densed vapours pass through pipes into space 1, between two other circular
parallel metal disks 2, similar to those before described, from whence such
vapours as yet remain uncondensed pass off through the pipe 3 into pipe k,
which conveys them into the final condenser, which final condenser may either
be such as one of those described in Figure 1, or any other; the pipes 4
and 5 are fitted with stop cocks to enable the distiller to draw off spirituous
vapour of strengths less potent when he does not require them of the highest
degree of strength, which he can effect by turning one or the other or both
of them, and thus immediately change the strength of the spirit running from
the final condenser without any alteration of the fire under the still body
or of the water to its head; pipes 6 and 7 are for the purpose of admitting
the water and air to move through the disks in order that the moving column
may be interrupted and unbroken for the air to escape upwards out of
the several parts, when the water is at first charged and put in, and for the
water to movo downwards when the column is moved through the head
or water department by drawing off the hottest water by pipe i through
its cock m, a like quantity then immediately continuing to enter at the top
of the head, from either the tank or other source as it may have been
previously determined upon and arranged, as herein-before described. Pipo 7
also passes through the parellelopipedon y, the object of extending them
as high as may be upwards being to receive only such water into them as shall
successively occupy the upper parts of the divisions made by the intervention
of the disks, such water being the hottest; and to prevent the descending
column passing down through those pipes from falling on a smaller part of
the plates, there is a small piece of metal plate fixed at the lower end of
each of those pipes to throw the water obliquely, and disperse it among the
hotter water in the divisions. A colander 8 is also fixed in this head for the
same purpose, and similarly constructed, as already described in Figure 1. It
will thus be seen that the convex surfaces of the disks are uppermost, and that

page_text: the water acts against the convex surface of the upper of each pair of disks, and
against the concave surface of the lower of each pair; likewise, that it surrounds
the upper parallcopedor in the same manner as has been described for the lower
one; and it will be also perceived that those parallelopipedons are fixed to slope
downwards from the ends, they receive the vapours, the object of which is, that
such vapours as become condensed in the spaces within them may run forward
in the same direction as the moving volumes of vapours, by which any collision
between the condensed and uncondensed matters is avoided, a reason why
other stills frequently run foul or puke, as distillers denominate such collision.
The better to condense the aqueous vapour in the spaces between the plates
which constitute the parallelopipedons and those plates denominated disks, those
spaces are to be thin (that is to say) such that they will allow only n thin
stratum of the vapours to pass, which may be from about a quarter of an inch
or upwards, but must be very little less. The condensed matter collects at the
ends of the paralletopipedons, where they receive and deliver.those ends, being
formed into a sort of cylindrical shape for that purpose. The matter also
which condenses between the disks collects near to the outer edges of the
lower of each pair of disks, from the lower of the upper pair of which disks,
and from the corners of the upper parallelopipidon such condensed matter
falls into four pipes 9, 9, 9, 9, as seen in Figures 5, two of which are shown
by 9, 9. In Figure 6 the upper ends of those pipes are inserted through the
lower of the upper pair of disks for this purpose, and havo an aperture in them
to receive the condensed matter from the upper parallelopipidon, where they
touch the angles thereof for that purpose, to which angles they are likewise
fastenod, so that no vapours can get into the water from within the vapour
spaces, nor can any of the water from without get into those spaces, the parts
being perfectly joined together. The lower ends of those pipes pass down
through the lower pair of disks, close joints being made with them, and the upper
of those disks at the parts where they go through the orifices beneath through
the lower disks, through which they also pass, being made larger in order to
fix therein four more pipes of larger diameter, two of which 10, 10, are seen
in Figure 6; within which larger pipes the four smaller ones are passed down.
The diameters of these larger ones are sufficient to admit the smaller ones
freely, besides collecting the condensed matter from the spaces between the lower
pair of disk, and from the lower parallelopipidon in the same manner, and
with similar openings and fastenings, as have been explained with respect to the
smaller pipes 9, 9, 9, 9, and the upper pair of disks and parallatopipidon.
Thus, the condensed vapours are collected and returned fram the upper disks
and parallelopipedon by pipes 9, 9, 9, 9, and from the lower disks and paral-

page_text: latopipedon by pipes 10, 10, the latter conveying what they collect, together
with the former and what they have collected, back into any vessel employed
to receive such condensed matter, as the rectifier E, Figure 1, or the body, as
represented in Figure 5. The other letters or marks of referrence in Figures
5 and 6, indicate the parts referred to by those indications in Figures 1 and 4,
and there is also an air escape pipe fixed on the higher part of the still head
L, not indicated by any letter or figures. Figure 7 is a side elevation, and
Figure 8 an end view of an apparatus for cooling worts or other hot liquids.
It consists of two vessels joined together at their ends, and one passing through
the other, the inner one for the subject to be cooled, and the outer one for
the water to be used to make cool the wort or other liquor, the liquid to be
cooled being passed through the inner vessel in a thin stratum, and the
water passing in a thin stratum and every where touching the exterior surface
of the vessel containing the liquor to be cooled between the parts where both
vessels join. In Figure 8, 11, 11, 11, 11, indicate those parts of the vessel
for the water, which water forms as it were two strata joining together at the
lower parts 12, 12. The middle vessel conducts the stratum 13, 13, of the
liquid to be cooled. Provious to this apparatus being set to work, the cocks
below are to be closed, the upper ones opened for the escape of air, and the
outer or water vessel is then to be filled with water, and the inner vessel with
cither water or other cold liquor, such as beer, if the subject to be cooled be
wort. In Figures 7 and 8, 14 indicates a stop-cock in a pipe containing a
funnel for introducing such charging water, which then fills the water vessel
and its pipes 15, 16, 17, and 18. When the water has expelled all the air
out of the vessel and has entirely filled it, which will be ascertained by a
running over of water at the tops of the several pipes, which open upwards,
the stop-cocks of those pipes are to be closed, when this water department or
vessel will be ready for work. The hot liquor department or work vessel is to
filled by observing to shut the lower and open the upper cocks, in the same
manner as directed for those of the water vessel pipes. Pipes 19, 20, 21, 22,
23, belong to the wort or other hot liquid departments 13, pipes 21 and 23
being the air escape pipes of pipes 20 and 22. The pipe 20 is that used to
introduce the cold liquor through a funnel; when this vessel is full, and the
upper cocks closed as well as the lower ones, it is ready for work. If the
liquid to be made cool is higher than the cooling apparatus, it is introduced at
pipe 19, but if it be lower it is introduced at pipe 20 from a vessel 24; but
whether the liquor be let in through pipes 19 or 20, it is always drawn out
through pipe 22. If the liquor enter through the pipe 19 leading from a
vessel above, the law by which it moves through the vessel is merely that of

page_text: gravitation; but if it enter through the pipe 20 from a vessel 24 below, the
laws by which the liquor passes through the vessel are those by which liquor
passes through a sephon, namely, gravitation, by which it falls down, and the
pressure of the atmosphere by which it rises up. The water to be used for
cooling the hot liquor during the operation may be either from a reservoir
or other source above the apparatus, or below it; if it be above it, it enters
through pipo 14; if it be below it, it enters through pipe 15 from the reservoir
25, the discharge in both cases being by pipe 17, so that this water vessel,
like the other for the hot liquor, will act by gravitation alone if the supply be
above it, or by gravitation and atmospheric pressure if the supply be below. In
the latter case it acts as a siphon. Pipes 26, 26, in Figure 7, and 26 in
Figuro 8 are furnished with stop cocks for the purpose of emptying and
cleaning out the water vessel 11. Here, then, we have an apparatus for
cooling composed of two conjoined vessels capable of acting as two distinct
siphons, or of being otherwise used in refrigeration of hot liquors, pipes 20
and 22 being the shorter and longer legs of the hot liquor siphon, and pipes
15 and 17 being the shorter and longer leg of the water siphon, both of
which are to be set to work simultaneously, by which the hot liquor may be
at once cool'd to the desired temperature by aid of the cocks in the dis-
charging legs, those cocks in the supplying legs being previously set open when
those pipes are immersed at their ends in the liquors to be passed through them.
In Figure 9 a indicates a water tank of masonry, such as is commonly used in
the British Colonies, where this modification is peculiarly arranged and designed
for. The line 6 indicates the surface of the water in such tank, and c indicates
a buoy floating upon the water, and appended to the end of the pipe d, e, near
to its end d, which pipe is so fixed as to be freely moved on a pivot or joint e,
when the surface of the water in the tank may be either higher or lower, in
order that such pipe at its end may be kept at a small and uniform distance
below the surface of the water to allow of warm water from the upper part of
the tank to enter the still head through pipes d, e, and f, these two pipes con-
stituting thus the supply leg of the water department of the head, the water
moving through the joint e of both pipes, whatever be their relative positions
with each other. This still head being similar to that already described of
Figure 1, except as to its pipes of supply and discharge, these pipes only require
to be explained. The vapour rising from the body g heats the water in tho
head as the latter condenses the aqueous vapour, and improves and strength-
ens the spirit, and rendors a small but uniform supply from the tank or other
source nocessary, which is thus obtained. Pipe h lets out any quantity at
pleasure by the turning of its cock i more or less, when an equal quantity

page_text: rises into the head from the tank through the pipes d, e, and f, the latter
acting as the supply legs, and the pipe II the discharging leg of a siphon-
ized still head, pipe j being for the escape of air out of pipe h when water is
charged into the head before it can work, which is effected by the keeping
cock i closed, unstopping the upper end of pipe j, and raising vertically pipe
d, e, and when thus arranged, by putting water into the head through the short
pipe k by means of a funnel. When the head or water department is filled
the stoppers at the top of pipe j and are restored, and the pipe d, e, placed
under water, keeping the hand over its end d until it is immersed to prevent the
escape of any water, which must be done to prevent air passing into the head.
These directions being attended to, the apparatus is ready for work. Letter
is a final condenser in the tank a, which may be used instead of a worm; its
construction differs only from those described as placed in the tank U, Figure
1, in approaching nearer to the figure of an arc of a large circle than to that
of a semi-cylinder, the use of which is to place them in a less depth of water,
and thereby effecting a more perfect condensation with a less supply of water
than can be effected by any worm or other final condenser when the water in
the tank gets hot at top to a considerable depth. The vapour which passes
through the head leaves it by pipe m, and enters the final condenser at
the further part n, where the pipe is made broad and flattish at its junction
with the final condenser to spread the vapour and pass it into the whole width
of the final condenser, the more effectually to condense it therein.
This arrangement also allows of the pipe o, p, to deliver the spirit higher in
the distillery, as at Q, where it may fall into a cask on the ground of such of
the colonial distilleries as now require a vessel to be sunk into the ground to
receive it. The pipe o, p, is wide at its junction o with the final condenser,
for the purpose of condensing every portion of the vapour on its passage to the
distillery 2, through part p.
Now I do not mean or intend hereby to clain as my Invention any of the
various parts herein shewn and described which may already have been known
or in use; but I do hereby claim as my invention the method of forming the
vessel or vessels containing the water for refrigerating the partial condensers,
together with the pipes thereof, into a siphon or siphons, and all the various
positions that the said apparatus will admit of either by placing them on the
top of the still, as shown in Figures 1, 4, 6, and 9, or in any other way; also
the arrangement of closed vessels containing the water for partial condensing,
so as to keep the same filled by the use of the cock to draw off the hot water,
be the discharge of such hot water more or less, and whother such water be
supplied by a siphon or otherwise; and I likewise claim the arrangements

page_text: of the partial condensers, as drawn and described, by which the condeused
aqueous vapours are collected and returned; also the arrangement of the final
condensers and tank, and whether the latter form parts of a compound siphon
as described, or be used separately; likewise my arrangement, as described
in Figaro 9, or otherwise, of the apparatus for raising by atmospheric pressure
the water from the open tank to the still head, and of drawing the hot water
thereout, together with the final condenser thereto; and lastly, my arrango-
ment of the apparatus for cooling wort or other hot liquids as drawn and
described, and the application of the siphon thereto, either as herein-beforo
described or otherwise.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Gutteridge, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-one.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1831, the aforesaid William Gutteridge 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 Eighteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one.