CERTAIN MACHINERY, AND THE APPLICATION OF STEAM TO COMMUNICATE HEAT AND MOTION TO WINES, PORTER, AND OTHER LIQUIDS OR FLUIDS IN CELLARS, STORE- HOUSES, WAREHOUSES, OR OTHER PLACES
Year: 1812

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DODD, of Vauxhall Place, in the County of Surry, Engineer, do send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty George the Third, by His Letters
Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-third day of January now
last past, did give and grant unto me, the said George Dodd, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said George Dodd, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within
England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of
"CERTAIN MACHINERY, AND THE APPLICATION OF STEAM TO COMMUNICATE HEAT AND
MOTION TO WINES, PORTER, AND OTHER LIQUIDS OR FLUIDS IN CELLARS, STORE-
HOUSES, WAREHOUSES, OR OTHER PLACES;" in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, obliging me, the said George Dodd, under my hand and
seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and*.
the manner in which the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within two calendar months next and.
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in-
and by the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large-
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Dodd, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention is fully
described and ascertained in manner following (that is to say):
My Invention consists in ameliorating wine, porter, and other beverages by
artificial means, as much and as completely as can be, by transporting such
liquids to and from distant places by sea, and in giving to them the mellowness

page_text: and other qualities of age, without the expence and numerous inconveniences
of sending such liquids long sea voyages. These effects I obtain by the
application of machinery and of steam, the first to agitate the liquid to be
improved, and the second to give it heat and moisture, by which means I can
obtain the motion which liquids receive on shipboard and an artifical climate
to any degree of temperature and humidity that may be required, and shall
may be found by experience to produce the most ameliorating effects on the
liquids. I do not think it necessary to describe any particular kind of machinery
for communicating motion to the liquids, as it must necessarily vary according
to form and situation of the cellar, storehouse, or premises in which the vessels
containing the liquids to be agitated are deposited. The following is one of the
methods of carrying my Invention into effect, (viz)-To construct in the cellar,
storehouse, or other place where the liquids are deposited framing of any and
suitable form, suspended or otherwise erected, so as to be capable of taking an
:oscillating or other required motion from the bean of a steam engine or other
power, placed in or near the cellar, storehouse, or other place; and placing on
this framing the vessels of wine or beer to be improved. The motion most
desirable to be given to the framing is that of the rising, falling, pitching, and
rolling of a ship at sea, which may be attained by giving it a circulinear as
well as a pendulous 'motion, varying the speed of it occasionally, so as to give
it any required irregularity; but I do not confine msyelf to any particular
motion, experience will dictate the best. The temperature of the cellar, store-
house, or place where the liquid is deposited may be raised and kept at the
requisite degree by means of the flew or flews or chimney of the steam engine
passing through the cellar, storehouse, or place where the liquor is deposited,
having valves to admit or exclude the smoke or heated air, as may be required.
If a steam engine be used it should have another flew or chimney with requisite
valves, through which the superabundance of smoke or heated air may pass off;
humidity may be obtained by means of a pipe fitted with proper valves or cocks
leading from the boiler of the steam engine into the cellar, storehouse, or other
place where the liquid to be operated on is deposited, through which gusts of
steam may be emitted at discretion.
In witness whereof, the said George Dodd hath hereunto set his hand and
seal, this Twenty day of March, in the fifty-second year of the reign of
our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
حساسة

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of March, in
the fifty-second year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third, the
said George Dodd came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and
acknowledged the instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing therein cou-
tained and specified, in form above written. And also the instrument aforesaid
was stamped according to the tenor of the Statute made in the forty-eighth
year of His said Majesty's reign.
Inrolled the Twenty-third day of March, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twelve.