AN IMPROVED TUBULAR REFRIGERATING OR COOLING APPARATUS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Hill, of Southwark, in the County of
Surrey, Cabinet Bar Fitter, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
TUBULAR REFRIGERATING OR COOLING APPARATUS."
Sealed the 6th June 1873, and dated the 9th December 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Hill- at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th December 1872.
I, SAMUEL HILL, of Southwark, in the County of Surrey, Cabinet
Bar Fitter, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED TUBULAR REFRIGERATING OR COOLING APPARATUS," to be as
follows:
This Invention, which relates to an improved tubular refrigerating or
cooling apparatus, consists in constructing the apparatus so that the
water as it dissolves from the ice passes through a coiled or other tube
or tubes, placed in a vessel or tank below the ice box, and which contains
the water or other liquid required to be cooled. This vessel may be

page_text: fed by a supply cock with the liquid which may be withdrawn at the
lower part by similar means.
In constructing a refrigerator according to this Invention I place at
the sides or other parts thereof the usual trays or supports for holding the
various solids or articles that are to be cooled; but instead of constructing
the same of the usual sheet metal, I form them of continuations of the
pipe or pipes from the liquid supply tank, and (by preference) in the centre
thereof I place the improved ice box and liquid supply tank, by which
means I utilize the iceing properties of the waste water from the ice,
after the latter has performed its functions in part by cooling the solids
and other articles in such a manner as has not hitherto been accom-
plished, and so effect a great saving in the quantity of ice required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Samuel Hill in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th June 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
HILL, of Southwark, in the County of Surrey, Cabinet Bar Fitter, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in
the thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Hill, Her
special licence, that I, the said Samuel Hill, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Hill, my
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 Íslands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED TUBULAR REFRIGERATING OR COOLING APPARATUS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Hill, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain

page_text: 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 I, the said Samuel Hill, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in wliat manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement in writing, that is to say :--
This Invention, which relates to an improved tubular refrigerating or
cooling apparatus, consists in constructing the same so that the water as
it dissolves from the ice shall pass through a coil or other tube (or tubes)
placed in a vessel or tank (below the ice box) which contains the water
or other liquid required to be cooled, which is supplied by a supply cock
and withdrawn by a spring or urn tap.
In constructing a refrigerator for example according to this Invention,
I place at the sides or other suitable parts thereof the usual trays or
supports for holding the various solids or articles which are to be cooled ;
but instead of constructing the same of sheet metal as hitherto, I form
them of continuations of the tubing from the liquid supply tank, and
by preference in the centre thereof I place the improved ice box and
liquid supply tank, and thus utilize the iceing properties of the waste
water from the ice after the latter has performed its functions in partly
cooling the solids and other articles, and so effect a great saving in the
quantity of ice required to complete the cooling.
The Invention can be further applied in any shape or form to any con-
tainer of liquor, having sufficient space for the air-tight tubular tank
and ice container, and may be fitted also to pedestals of side boards,
cabinets, beer engines, &c. The cabinets, &c., are well packed with the.
best non-conductor of heat, zinc lined, and fitted with a supply and
waste union. The improved cabinet apparatus is the best of its kind
hitherto known, having the smallest ice container ever employed to cool
the quantity of liquor; there is no trouble whatever, as all that is
required is to lay on a supply and waste pipe, the latter being provided
with a bend in some part of the pipe to hold a portion of liquor, in
order to prevent hot air from passing into the refrigerator. It is par-
ticularly adapted for hospitals, ships, refreshment, and public house
bars, and can be made of any size, and to supply any number of taps,

page_text: and may be filled by hand or by a constant supply. The smaller sizes
are sufficient for any ordinary bar, and especially suitable for private
dwellings, offices, parties, or excursions. The same can be used for
iceing ales or wines, where the cabinet can be stood on a level with the
cask;
but if the latter is placed on a counter or pedestal the liquor
must be pumped into the apparatus or supplied by hand. For wines or
ales they should be lined with pewter or pure tin. If used for ale, it
should always be bright before going into the container, as it will not
clear while iceing. A small rough box can also be made fitted with the
same apparatus to go to any motion (or motions) of beer engines. The
supply already laid on to the beer engine merely requires to be cut and
joined to the supply of the refrigerator, and the union fitted to the top
of the same. The ice container entirely cools the barrel or pump; the
apparatus cooling the liquor before passing through the above.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for
"An Improved Tubular Refrigerating or Cooling Apparatus," together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or
carried into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim
as my Invention,-the general and peculiar construction of the
improved tubular refrigerating or cooling apparatus, and its application to
ordinary refrigerators, and to any of the above-mentioned purposes, or
to others of a similar nature, substantially as herein-described, or any
modification or variation thereof.
In witness whereof I, the said Samuel Hill, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
BRISTOW HUNT,
Solicitor and Patent Agent,
Serle Street,
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Lincoln's Inn.
5. ILL. (4.5.)