US698183A - Apparatus for refining, aging, mellowing, and purifying alcoholic liquors. - Google Patents

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No. 698,l83.

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APPARATUS FOR BEFINING, AGING, MELLOWING, AND PURIFYING ALCOHOLIC LIHUORS.

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(Application filed Sept. 30, 1901.

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UNITED Tiaras I ATENT JAMES FRANKLIN DUFFY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

APPARATUS FOR REFINING, AGING, MELLOWING, AND PURIFYING ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS.

SPECIFHJATION formingpart a Letters Patent No. 698,183, dated April 22 1902.

Application filed September 30, 1901. Serial No. 77,008. (No model.)

To all whom) it neay concern:

Be it known thatI, JAMES FRANKLINDUFFY,

a citizen of the United States of America, re-

siding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Refining, Aging, Mellowiug, and Purifying Alcoholic Liquors, of which the following is a specification.

[0 My invention relates to a certain apparatus designed for the purpose of refining, aging, inellowing, and purifying liquors, the object being to give to said liquors the same taste and properties as if they had been treated in I; the ordinary way during a period of many years.

To such end the invention consists in the combination in certain relations of a series of tanks or receptacles having suitable conneczo tions containing certain devices by means of Which the desired operation may be effected.

The preferred form of apparatus will be described in detail, and the essential features thereof pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1.is an elevation of a complete apparatus. Fig. 2 is a detail of an air-mixer. Fig. 3 is a vertical diametrical section of tank No. 2. Fig. 4 is a similar section.

of tank No. 3. Fig. 5 is a similar ViGW of tank .30 3; and Fig. 6 is a similar section through both members of an ordinary simple form of still.

Referring to the drawings, A is a supply tank or vat in which the liquor is placed and from which it flows, preferably by gravity, into the next portion of the apparatus. 7

B is a second tank connected With the first by a pipe 0, in Which is interposed nearest the tank A a stop-cock D, then a check-valve E, then an air mixer or injector F.

G is an air-compressor of ordinary construction, from which a pipe g leads to the injector F.

In Fig. 2 the preferred construction of said injector is shown, the same containing a port or passagefin line with the pipe 0, and a similar port or passage f in line With the pipe g and at an acute angle to the port f. A'stopcock g controls the passage of air to the injectoiu By means of the air-compressor and the connections described a quantity of air,

'dicates the temperature thereof.

such as may be found desirable, may be mingled with the liquor during its passage through the pipe C, said air aiding in the oxidation of the portions of the liquors to be removed therefrom.

The pipe C passes into the tank B, enters a coil 1) therein, Fig. 3, and emerges into a pipe H. The tank B is preferably filled with water 1), heated by means of a steam-pipe b and preferably kept at about 170 Fahrenheit, at 6c which temperature the essential oils and n0xious ingredients of liquors are more easily separated Without injury to their aroma.

A thermometer b provides means for determining the temperature of the interior of 6 the tank B. From the tank B the pipe II leads into the third tank I and terminates, preferably, in about the center thereof in a spray-nozzle K, shown as consisting of a coilof pipe containing inner perforations lo. 70 The pressure back of the liquor at this point should force it from the perforations with an atomizing efiect, and a nozzle m in the end of a pipe'M'ejects into the spray discharged from the atomizer a current of air impregnated with tannic or acetic acid, adapted to impart to the Wine a certain astringency and also'to aid in the etherization of such impurities as may remain therein at this point- The impregnated air is furnished from a tank N, Fig.6, having a Water jacket n, inclosing'an inner receptacle n, in which is placed a vessel 02, containing tannic or acetic acid. A steam-pipe n affords means of heating the receptacle, and a thermometer n in- An air-pipe 0, controlled by a stop-cock 0, leads from the air-compressor to the inner receptacle, and the pipe M leads from the top of the receptacle to the nozzle m. A stop-cock m enables 0 the flow of air in the pipe M to be controlled.

I prefer to heat the air in the receptacle n to about 150 Fahrenheit to assist it in taking up the tannic or acetic acid and also to maintain the desired temperature at the point 5 of discharge through the nozzle m.

From the lower portion of the tank I a pipe P leads to an ordinary distilling apparatus Q, as shown in Fig. 6, the same consisting of a heater (1 heated by a steam-pipe q and preferably containing water (f, a still (1 the upper portion of which is connected with a worm g in a cooler supplied with cold water q through the pipe cf, the water passing off through the overflow-pipe g As the liquor reaches the still the volatile ether will pass off in the first working of the still in the form of gas and the products of oxidation will remain in the bottom of the still to be cleaned out prior to the receiving of a new charge. The product may be redistilled in the ordinary way and will have the same taste and properties as are imparted to it by aging according to the method commonly practiced.

The method of aging and refining liquors herein set forth is fully described and claimed in application for patent of even date herewith and designated by the Serial No. 77,009.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with a supply-tank, of a heatiug-tank arranged at a lower level, an aircompressor, a supply-pipe leading from the supply-tank to the heating-tank, a pipe leading from the air-compressor to the supplypipe and entering the same at an acute angle in the direction of ilow in said supply-pipe, a coil within the heating-tank connected with the supply-tank, means for heating the interior of said heating-tank, an atomizing-tank, an atomizer therein connected with the heating-tank and means for ejecting a current of impregnated air upon the liquor as it emerges from the atomizer; substantially as described.

2. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with an atomizing-tank, of an atomizer therein provided with means for supplying it with a flow of mingled air and liquor and a nozzle directed toward the spray of the atomizer and provided with means for supplying it with a flow of air impregnated with a suitable substance; substantially as described.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with an atomizing-tank, of an atomizer therein, a heating-tank, a supply-tank and air compressor, connectingpipes leading the liquor from the supply-tank, injecting air into the same, passing in the form of a coil through the heating-tank and leading to the atomizer, means for heating the interior of said heating-tank, a heated receptacle containing a suitable reagent, an air-pipe supplying air to said heated receptacle and a pipe leading therefrom and discharging into the spray of the atomizer; substantially as described.

4. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination of a supply-tank, a heatingtank at a lower level and. connected therewith by a suitable connection, an air-injector in said connection, an air-compressor, connected to said injector and adapted to in ject a current of air into the liquor, a heated coil within the heating-tank joined to the connection with the supply-tank, a suitable atomizing-tank, an atomizer therein connected with said coil, a heated receptacle containing a suitable reagent, a connection between said receptacle and the atomizingtank, means for forcing compressed air into said heated receptacle, suitable distilling apparatus and connections between said atomizing-tank and said distilling apparatus; substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this .u7t11l day of September, A. D. 1901.

JAMES FRANKLIN DUFFY.

\Vitnesses:

S. BLISS, M. 1- Buss.

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