IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PROCESSES OF MAKING WORTS AND WASHES IN BREWING AND DISTILLING AND IN COMBINATION AND ADAPTATION OF APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH THE SAME, AND FOR NOVEL APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH THE SAME
Year: 1861

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Elizabeth Burton West at the
. Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the 2nd
January 1861-A communication from abroad by Edward Felix
Andrews, Gentleman, Versailles, France.
I, ELIZABETH BURTON WEST, of 24, Longford Terrace, County of Dublin,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE PROCESSES OF MAKING WORTS AND WASHES IN BREWING AND DISTILLING
AND IN COMBINATION AND ADAPTATION OF APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH THE SAME,
AND FOR NOVEL APPARATUS CONNECTED WITH THE SAME," to be as follows:-
My said improvements consist in making worts and washes from materials
used for these purposes, malt, grain, &c., by a new and improved process
herein-after mentioned, which embraces the making of the worts or washes,
washing out of the goods, grains, and hops, and the hopping and boiling of the
worts so made, and which process is carried out by means of novel com-
bination and adaptation of apparatus for that purpose, and of novel apparatus
for the same. I stew the malt or other materials without any washings, as at
present followed, at a regular progressive heat in and commencing with liquor
so low in temperature as from about 60 degrees Fahrenheit to about blood-
warm, and carry out this stewing process by means of apparatus of the nature of
a hot hearth or hot plate, combined with and adapted to my improved stewing
copper or vessel; I also adapt to and combine my new hot hearth or hot plate
apparatus with my improved wort copper or vessel, and I stew the hops instead
of boiling them, and boil the worts and strain and wash out, and press the

page_text: goods, grains, and hops, and prevent evaporation during the stewing processes
in and by means of my improved stewing and wort coppers or vessels herein-
after referred to in combination with my hot hearth or hot plate apparatus
herein-before mentioned, and also in combination with my floating covers,
pressers, strainers, and weights, also herein-after referred to.
My improved stewing and wort coppers or vessels consist of copper pans or
vessels of any suitable material for heating, and which may be made of
different shapes, according to circumstances, generally concave at the bottom,
but fitted and adapted to a hot hearth or hot plate apparatus, as herein-before
referred to, and also containing strainers for straining the goods, grains, and
hops, and also fitted with novel pressing apparatus of the nature of plates
of metal or wood, combined with weights, the whole arranged so as to let
down and fit into the said coppers or vessels, and also provided with floating
covers made to fit inside, and arranged so as to let down into the said coppers
or vessels, and float upon the surface of the liquor contained therein, the said
covers being made to suit the shape of the vessel to which they are applied.
Ordinary brewer's and distiller's grists either ground or crushed, and either
finely or coarsely ground are generally and equally applicable to and used
in the making of worts and washes by the herein mentioned process and
apparatus.