AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR CLARIFYING AND FINING BEER AND OTHER FERMENTED LIQUORS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Juby Coleman, of the Town Hall, Bury St.
Edmunds, in the County of Suffolk, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
COMPOSITION FOR CLARIFYING AND FINING BEER AND OTHER FERMENTED LIQUORS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Juby Coleman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
22nd March 1865.
I, WILLIAM JUBY COLEMAN, of the Town Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, in the
County of Suffolk, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR CLARIFYING AND FINING BEER AND OTHER FER-
MENTED LIQUORS," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
My Invention has reference to the manufacture and employment of an
improved composition, which I term the tasteless beer fining, for clarifying
beer and other fermented liquors, and consists in dissolving isinglass in
sulphurous acid and water, and subsequently removing the acid by constantly
agitating the mixture for about three days through the medium of mechanical
stirrers or other convenient apparatus, thereby leaving when strained, and a
small proportion of concentrated essence of hop added, a transparent tasteless
liquid solution fit for use.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Juby Coleman in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 19th September 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JUBY COLEMAN, of the Town Hall, Bury St. Edmunds, in the County of
Suffolk, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said William Juby Coleman, Her special licence that I, the said William
Juby Coleman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Juby Coleman, my exccutors, 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 Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR CLARIFYING AND FINING BEER AND OTHER
FERMENTED LIQUORS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Juby Coleman; 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 William Juby Coleman, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
-
My Invention has reference to the manufacture and employment of an
improved composition, which I term the tasteless beer finings, for clarifying
beer and other fermented liquors, and consists in dissolving isinglass in
sulphurous acid and water, and subsequently removing the acid by constantly
agitating the mixture for about three days, thereby leaving when strained, and
a small proportion of concentrated solution of hop added, a transparent tasteless
liquid solution fit for use.
And in order that my said Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I now proceed to describe in detail the mode of
performing the same (that is to say):-
In producing or manufacturing the said tasteless beer finings in accordance
with my said Invention I employ,-
Isinglass
1 part-
Sulphurous acid 5 parts by weight,
Water
100 parts
iainclose in the form of Brazil or Ponany ning noo

page_text: viously cut or otherwise reduced to small shreds or tissues for enabling the
same to be more readily acted upon and dissolved by the sulphurous acid above
mentioned; the ingredients are then to be placed within any suitable closed
vessels or apparatus, and allowed to soak or steep for about seven days, during
which period a small proportion of the water should be occasionally added, as
may be found necessary for effecting the complete solution; the composition
is then to be passed through any ordinary pulping apparatus, and placed
within a suitable open vessel or chamber, after which the remainder of the
water is to be gradually added thereto, and the liquor frequently stirred or
agitated for about three days, to allow the volatile acid to escape, employing,
for the purpose of facilitating the same, mechanical beaters or stirrers, or any
other convenient apparatus that may be found desirable. The liquid is then
to be filtered or strained by any of the ordinary means, and 180 drops of
concentrated solution of hop added to each barrel of the finings obtained as
above described for the purpose of keeping or preserving the same.
In conclusion to the foregoing description it may be here necessary to note
that in clarifying beer or otherwise, as aforesaid, through the medium of my
improved tasteless beer finings, the same proportion or quantity should be used
as at present, and employed in like manner as heretofore.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I would
have it clearly understood that I do not intend to confine myself to the
precise details and proportions herein-before described, as the same may be
varied without departing from the general principle of this my said Inven-
tion; nor do I claim as new and of my said Invention the several substances
and processes herein-before set forth except when the same are employed in
and for the purposes of my said Invention, which I hereby declare to consist
in the manufacture and employment of the tasteless beer finings formed by
the admixture or combination of isinglass, sulphurous acid, and water, in the
manner and for the purposes hercin-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Juby Coleman, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
WILLIAM JUBY COLEMAN. (L.S.)