An Improved Apparatus for Bringing to a Desired Temperature Articles of all kinds, more particularly Wines.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Sept., 1896-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Bringing to a Desired Temperature
Articles of all kinds, more particularly Wines.
I, CARL FISCHER of 33 Grosse Bleiche Hamburg in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to he particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object an apparatus which is capable of receiving various
kinds of articles in its interior and bringing them to any desired temperature by means
of a source of heat placed in its centre, or in place thereof a vessel containing a
refrigerating liquid or ice. This apparatus is more particularly advantageous for
keeping wine, as it is well known that the good flavour of this depends very
considerably on its temperature, which should amount for red wine to 16-20° C,
and for white wine to about 8-10° C.
Such an apparatus is shown in the accompanying drawings-
Figure 1 being a longitudinal section and
Figure 2 a plan view.
The improved apparatus consists of a round vessel or chamber a, the walls of
which are hollow and insulated, and the floor b of which is perforated in the centre
with a circular group of perforations. On the periphery of this circular group a
socket c is fastened and serves to receive a tube d formed of perforated sheet
metal.
The side walls of the apparatus project below the bottom of the chamber to an
extent sufficient to allow of a suitably sized water containor e being formed or arranged
beneath the said bottom. The apparatus is closed at the top by a lid or cover which
is also hollow and is provided with a hinge and a lock or other suitable fastening
device to allow of the whole case being completely closed.
The space between the tube d and the walls serves for receiving the bottles
of wine which are intended to evenly absorb the temperature proceeding from the
tube d.
The tube d, according as the contents of the apparatus are to be warmned or cooled,
serves for receiving a heat producer or a cooling substance, respectively, and for the
purpose of more easily giving off its temperature has numerous perforations, and
consists of corrugated sheet metal. It may also have a perforated bottom. If the
wine or the like is to be cooled, the tube d is filled with ice. The water flowing from
this may pass through the perforated bottom into the vessel e, from which it may be
drawn off by means of a tap f. If the contents of the apparatus are to be brought to
a higher temperature, a heating flame is suspended in the tube d and the whole
apparatus is tightly closed. The heating flame burns until the oxygen contained in
the closed chamber is consumed, and therefore a temperature entirely independent
of the size of the source of heat and which always remains even or equal (according to
practical experiments about 32°) may be attained. The duration of the whole process
lasts about an hour, and, as was herein before stated, in the case of red wine, it is a
question of warming and in the case of white wine of cooling the liquid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. An apparatus for bringing to a desired temperature articles of all kinds, more

page_text: particularly wine, characterized by a tube (d) adapted to receive a heating flame
or refrigerating substance, as the case may be, being arranged in the interior of a
chamber or vessel (a) serving for receiving the articlos to be tempered, in such
a way that an even radiation of heat is exerted from all sides on the contents,
substantially as described.
2. In an apparatus such as described, forming or providing the heating or cooling
tube (a) with a perforated bottom so that the ice water (where ice is employed
for cooling) may run away into a container (e) which is arranged under the floor
of the whole case (a) substantially as described.
Dated this 19th day of September 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.