A NEW ART OR METHOD OF REPINING SUGAR
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
WAKEFIELD, of Northwich, in the County of Chester, Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, on or about the Second day of June, in the forty-first year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Wakefield, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said Thomas Wakefield, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend the Invention therein mentioned, to wit,
"A NEW ART OR METHOD OF REPINING SUGAR," within that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of
Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's
Colonies and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Thomas
Wakefield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should,
seem meet; to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers,
privileges, and advantages therein granted unto me, the said Thomas Wake-
field, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said

page_text: Letters Patent there is (amongst other things) contained a proviso that if
I, the said Thomas Wakefield, should not particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause
the same to be inrolled in the High. Court of Chancery within one calendar
month next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and
by the said recited Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more
fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Wakefield; do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows,
that is to say -
Pressure is to be applied to the sugar intended to be refined, which may
be done by weight, or by rollers, or by the screw or wedge, with the help of a
steam engine, or any engine, mill, or power capable of acting by way of pressure
with great force. The sugar so to be refined is to be placed in such a
situation as to be conveniently acted upon by the pressure to be applied, and
is to be contained or inclosed in a cloth felt vessel or covering, either having
pores or holes therein, or otherwise so constructed that moisture may be
discharged from the sugar through or out of the said cloth vessel or covering,
and such sugar previously containing moisture in it, or having moisture
added or given to the substance thereof, or by such moisture being com-
municated to the inclosing cloth felt vessel, or other covering, the pressure
is to be applied forcibly, so as to make the moisture, or a part thereof, pass
from the sugar, and out of or through the said covering, and thus a part of
the colouring matter, and of the impurities of the sugar, will be expelled,
and the degree of refinement procured will be proportioned to the quantity
of pressure applied, and the quantity of moisture expelled or squeezed out
of the sugar. From the moisture or substance thus forced out there may be
extracted some sugar, molasses, and rum, or other spirits, by the usual process;
and every sort of sugar, from the lowest to the highest degree in quality and
value, will be very much accelerated in the refinement thereof, in several
stages of the progress towards refinement, by pressure applied in the manner
above described, the pressure being used as often as the workman shall
think fit, according to the previous quality and state of the sugar, and
the nature of the operations that are to follow. And, further; the sugar

page_text: refined as aforesaid may be further or otherwise refined and manufactured by
the methods now in use, or by other means.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Wakefield, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and one.
JOHN MARSHALL,
Northwich,
Cheshire,
THO CHANTLER,
Do.
JA OLLIER,
Do.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Twenty-eighth day of
June, in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Thomas Wakefield came
before our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Speci-
fication aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute in that case made and provided.
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