IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF MATERIALS USED IN OR RESULTING FROM THE DISTILLATION OF SPIRITS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James King, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Chemist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
TREATMENT OF MATERIALS USED IN OR RESULTING FROM THE DISTILLATION
OF SPIRITS."
Sealed the 25th January 1860, and dated the 26th July 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James King at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th July
1859.
I, JAMES KING, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF MATERIALS USED IN OR RESULTING FROM THE DIS-
TILLATON OF SPIRITS," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to the treatment of materials used in or resulting
from the distillation of spirits from grain or other vegetables, and consists in
separating the fluid from the solid parts of such materials by means of centri-
fugal apparatus of the class known as "hydro-extractors." In order to make
the separation as perfect as possible, it is preferred to encase the "basket" or
rotating cylinder of the hydro extractor with flannel, linen, or cotton cloth.
The improved treatment may be applied at different stages of the spirit manu-

page_text: facture, that is to say, either to what is known to distillers as the "worts," or
to the "wash," or to the "spent wash," and in all cases the solid residue is
obtained in a more fit state for after use than hitherto.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James King in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th
January 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
KING, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Chemist, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, IIer heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said James King, Her special licence that I, the said James King,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James King, 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 therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE TREATMENT OF MATERIALS USED IN OR RESULTING FROM THE DISTILLATION OF
SPIRITS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James King,
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 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 James King, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to the treatment of materials used in or resulting
from the distillation of spirits from grain, malt, or other vegetable matter,
and has for object the separating of the fluid from the solid parts of such

page_text: materials in a more rapid and efficient manner than by the ordinary processes
hitherto in use in distilleries, and the obtaining of the solid residue in a more
fit state than hitherto for subsequent utilization. The improved treatment
may be applied at different stages of the spirit manufacture; thus, it may be
applied to what distillers term the "worts," to separate from the fluid part
thereof the husk, fibre, gluten, and other solid matter; or it may be applied
to what distillers terin the "wash," to separate therefrom the yeast, or tho
husk, fibre, gluten, and other solid matter; or, again, it may be applied to
what distillers term the "spent wash," also to separate therefrom husk, fibre,
gluten, or other solid matter. The required separation is by this Invention
satisfactorily effected by subjecting the "worts," "wash," or "spent wash" to
the action of centrifugal force, in apparatus of the class known as "bydro-
extractors." Such apparatus as constructed for the purposes of the present
Invention comprises a "basket" or cylindrical vessel, into which the matters
to be treated are put, this vessel being mounted upon a vertical shaft
driven in any convenient or suitable way. The vertical cylindrical sides of
this basket are constructed so as to be permeable, being made, for example,
of strong wirework, the wire being, by preference, of brass or copper; and
in order to prevent the passage through of minute particles of fibre or other
solid matter, the permeable sides of the basket are, by preference, lined with
one or more plies of flannel, linen, or cotton cloth, or very fine wire cloth may
be used for the same purpose. The basket or rotating vessel is placed in a
vessel or chamber arranged to collect the fluid projected by the centrifugal
force through the sides of the basket, and a suitable valve or duct is provided
for drawing off or discharging the fluid. The solid matters remain in the
basket or rotating vessel, from which they are removed as they accumulate.
The solid matters separated in this way are obtained in a much more suitable
condition for feeding cattle or for other uses than hitherto.
Having thus particularly described my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be used or carried into effect, I have to state that
I do not restrict myself to the precise details herein-before described or
referred to, and that I do not claim to have invented every separate detail
herein-before described or referred to; but that what I consider to be novel
and original, and claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent, is, the improved treatment of materials used
in or resulting from the distillation of spirits, that is to say, the subjecting
of "worts," "wash," or "spent wash" to the action-of centrifugal force, for
the separation of solid matters therefrom, substantially as herein-before

page_text: described; and the separating of the solid residue of "worts," "wash," or
"spent wash" in a superior condition for feeding cattle or other uses, by
employing centrifugal force in the operation, substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James King, have hereunto set my !
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
EDMUND HUNT, Patent Agent,
28, St. Enoch Square, Glasgow.
JAMES KING. (L.B.)