CERTAIN NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR TRANSFERRING CALORIC FROM AERIAFORM OR FLUID BODIES TO OTHER BODIES OF THE LIKE DESCRIPTION, AND APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES
Year: 1833

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHRISTOPHER
ROBINSON, of Athlone, in the County of Roscommon, in that part of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ireland, Distiller, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King William the Fourth, by His Letters
Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of May now last
past, did give and grant unto me, the said Christopher Robinson, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Christopher Robinson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Christopher Robinson, my executors, administrators, or assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter, 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 in all His Majesty's Colonies and Planta-
tions abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN NEW OR IMPROVED MACHINERY FOR
TRANSFERRING CALORIC FROM AERIAFORM OR FLUID BODIES TO OTHER BODIES OF THE
LIKE DESCRIPTION, AND APPLICABLE TO OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said Christopher
Robinson, 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 said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar 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 appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Christopher Robinson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly described
and ascertained in and by the Drawing hereunto annexed, and as follows
(that is to say):
Figure 1 is a tube with a large ring turned outward, or one end perforated
with holes, and a small ring turned outward on the other.
Figure 2 is a second tube, larger in diameter, with a branch pipe from the
side near one end, and a ring turned outward a few inches from the side tube,
and its other end prepared with a screw to screw it to a circular cap, Figure 3,
which cap has small tubes from it to go through the holes in the large ring of
Figure 1.
Figure 4 is a tube, larger in diameter than Figure 2, having one end
prepared with a screw to screw into the inner edge of Figure 3, and an
outward ring perforated with holes on the other end.
Figures 5 is a view of Figures 2 and 4 screwed into their cap, Figure 3.
Figure 6 is a view of Figure 5, with Figure 1 placed within it.
Figure 7 is a larger pipe than Figure 4, prepared with a screw on one end
to screw into the inner edge of a larger but similar cap to Figure 3, and an
inward ring perforated with holes a few inches from the other end.
Figure 8 is a larger pipe than Figure 7, with a screw on one end to screw
into the outer edge of a similar but larger cap to Figure 3, and an outer ring
perforated with holes on the other end.
Figure 9 is a view of Figures 7 and 8 united by their cap.
Figure 10 is a view of Figure 6 placed within Figure 9, with their caps in a
different position, they being at opposite ends.
Figure 11 is a cover, with a small pipe in it; this cover has a screw which
screws into the end of the pipe, Figure 7.
Figure 12 is a pipe larger than Figure 8, similar in every respect, except
size, to Figure 7, screwed for a third cap.
Figure 13 is a pipe larger than Figure 12, similar in every respect, except
size, to Figure 8.
Figure 14 is a view of Figure 10, with 12 and 13 added, united by their
caps thereto.
Figure 15 is a cover which screws into Figure 12, and is made good to the
ring on Figure 2.
Figure 16 is a larger pipe than Figure 13, with an external ring on each
end, and an internal ring a few inches in from each end.
Figure 17 is a view of Figure 14, with Figure 16 added.

page_text: Figure 18 is a cap with the centre out, the inside edge of which unites to
the cap, Figure 11, and the outer edge to the ring on Figure 16, and so closes
the remainder of the end.
Figure 19 is another similar cap, with pipes, and closes the remainder of
the other end.
Figure 20 are small pipes to convey the condensed steam.
It is evident that if any fluid is admitted at the orifice 21 it will traverse
the machine until it is delivered at 23; and, if heated air or steam is admitted
at 22, it is also evident that it will traverse the machine until it is delivered at
24; both fluids run in contrary directions, so as to bring the most heated
portion of the air with the hottest portion of the water, and according as the
air is deprived of its caloric, it is moving on to a colder situation, which still
tends to deprive it of more of its caloric, thus transferring the caloric from one
fluid to another.
I claim as my Invention the above arrangement and connection of the tubes,
as well as for the adaptation of the machine to the purpose of heating fluids
and condensing gases.
In witness whereof, I, the said Christopher Robinson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three.
CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON. (L.S.)
Taken and acknowledged by the above-
named Christopher Robinson, at Ath-
lone, in the County of Roscommon, in
Ireland, this Eighteenth day of October
1833, before me,