Improvements relating to the Clarification of Beer,
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
TROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by KARL MÜLLER, of Kehl, Baden, in the Empire
of Germany, Brewer.]
Improvements relating to the Clarification of Beer,
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the natura
of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the clarification of beer.
It has heretofore been customary to place chips of hard wood in the store casks
to keep the sediments and yeast at the bottom or at the surface for the purpose of
clarifying the beer.
These chips of wood have the defect that they very soon collect or even form
acid which spoils the beer. Even when the chips are boiled or steamed they do
not lose the said defect.
Other means have been tried, for instance tinned iron chains, but these are
inconvenient owing to their great weight.
An excellent substitute for chips of wood are strips of aluminium, as they arc
very handy and light and are not attacked by the beer. These strips are cut from
sheet aluminium of about one-sixty fourth of an inch in thickness.
Such strips of aluminium the same width and curve as chips of wood
but they may also be of greater or smaller width and bent to any suitable curve.
The beer has no effect on the aluminium strips which completely replace the
chips of wood without possessing their defect.
As their weight is not great aluminium strips are very convenient in use.
Dated this 18th day of March 1803
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to the Clarification of Beer.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to the clarification of beer.
It has heretofore been customary to place chips of hard wood in the store casks
to keep the sediments and yeast at the bottom or at the surface for the purpose of
clarifying the beer.
These chips of wood have the defect that they very soon collect or even form
acid which spoils the beer. Even when the chips are boiled or steamed they do
not lose the said defect.
Other means have been
tried, for instance tinned iron chains, but these are
inconvenient owing to their great weight.
An excellent substitute for chips of wood are strips of aluminium, as they are
very handy and light and are not attacked by the beer. These strips are cut from
sheet aluminium of about one-sixty fourth of an inch in thickness.

page_text: Such strips of aluminium may have the same with and curve as chips, of wood,
but they may also be of greater or smaller width and bent to any suitable curve.
The beer has no effect on the aluminium strips which completely replace the
chips of wood without possessing their defect.
As their weight is not great, aluminium strips are very convenient in use.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, 1 declare that what I claim is :-
For clarifying beer, the employment of thin strips of aluminium bent to various
forins and having any suitable length and width.
Dated this 16th day of December 1893.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.