IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING WINE AND OTHER FERMENTED LIQUIDS IN BOTTLES
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MOSE
POOLE, of Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Twenty-fourth day of February, in the first year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and succussors, give and grant unto me, the said Moses
Poole, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Moses Poole, my exors, admñňors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING WINE AND OTHER FERMENTED
LIQUIDS IN BOTTLES," communicated to me by a certain foreigner residing
abroad; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said
Moses Poole, shall cause a particular description of the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled
in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Moses Poole, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention, as communicated
to me from abroad, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are

page_text: fully described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures
marked thereon (that is to say):-
According to the ordinary practice of preserving wine and other fermented
liquids in bottles, a particular description of bottles are used, made of coloured
glass, and sometimes called green or black bottles, and the wine or other
fermented liquids being put into such bottles, the bottles are stopped by corks;
and it is well known that such corks, even of the best quality, will more or
less injure the taste of the wine contained in the bottles, and, further, such
corks in many caseses become rotten. Now, the object of the Invention
secured by the present Letters Patent is to preserve wine, and other fermented
liquids used as a beverage, in bottles closed with glass stoppers, suitably
constructed to allow of being fastened to the necks of the bottles, hence the
wine or other liquid contained in such bottles will not be liable to injury from
bad corks or from the decomposing of good corks, and the glass stoppers may
be used over and over again; and thus make up for any extra cost of the first
purchase of such bottles and stoppers.
In constructing bottles for carrying out the Invention, in place of making
the necks as heretofore suitable for receiving corks, the-necks of wine bottles,
or beer or ale bottles, are to be somewhat stronger, to allow for grinding away
of part of the inner surface to receiving a ground glass stopper.
Figures 1, 2, and 3 shew thrce bottles made suitable for carrying out the
Invention, they having suitable stoppers to allow of being fastened with string
or wire, there being an indentation or groove at the upper part of each stopper
for that purpose, as is clearly shewn in the Drawing.
The stoppers are to be ground into the necks of the bottles, in like manner
to grinding stoppers into the necks of decanters and bottles used by chemists,
and as is well understood. And I would have it understood, that the Inven-
tion does not relate to the mode of grinding, that process, in respect to other
bottles and stoppers, being well understood, and is simply to be applied to
bottles suitable for wine, beer, or ale, or such fermented liquids as are cóm-
monly used as beverage, and have been heretofore preserved in bottles stopped
and corked; the Invention being the application of such prepared bottles
and stoppers to preserve such fermented liquids, in place of using the ordinary
bottles with cork stoppers.
In witness whereof, I, the said Moses Poole, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this 22nd day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
MOSES (L.B.) POOLE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of August,
in the year of our Lord 1888, the aforesaid Moses Poole came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.