Victorian Cheque book & ephemera James Kite Engineers Co, Gold Medal 1862 international Exhibition, Award for filter press
Large collection of james kite correspondents, regarding filter presses and other engineering equipment.
This collection also includes a Victorian Cheque book with 49 used cheques pin in the book, london & Westminster bank ltd. 1885
Number of signatures on the paper work, including the famous Victorian engineer James to Kite.
Needham and Kite
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Needham and Kite, engineers, of Phoenix Iron Works, Vauxhall and Hanley, Staffordshire.
1853 Credited with the invention of the press-filter [1]
1862 Exhibition: Patent filter press for semi-fluids. The press was used by manufacturers of china and earthenware, for expressing the water from the slip instead of boiling, and by brewers for rapidly clarifying drawings, and expressing beer from yeast and grounds; and also by oil refiners and colour makers
The PATENT FILTER PRESS for semi-fluids, manufactured by the patentees Needham and Kite, engineers, Phoenix Iron Works, Vauxhall, London, and Hanley, Staffordshire.
The patent filter press is used by the largest manufacturers of china and earthenware, for expressing the water from slip instead of boiling.
It is used by the largest brewers in London, Burton-on-Trent, and the United Kingdom, for rapidly clarifying drawings, and expressing beer from yeast and grounds; and also by the largest oil refiners and colour makers in the United Kingdom. It can be applied to all trades having large quantities of semi-fluids to deal with.
Kite, James, and Co
Successors to Needham and Kite who made filter presses.1885 Gold medal at the Inventions Exhibition for filter presses
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