A METHOD OP OBTAINING ALCOHOL FROM THE FRUIT OR POD OF THE CAROB TREE
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A METHOD OP
OBTAINING ALCOHOL FROM THE FRUIT OR POD OF THE CAROB TREE."-A com-
munication from John Minghelli.
Sealed the 22nd July 1856, and dated the 7th February 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
7th February 1856.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A METHOD OF OBTAINING ALCOHOL FROM THE FRUIT OR POD OF THE CAROB TREE,"
(communicated to me by John Minghelli, a foreigner residing abroad,) to be
as follows:
This Invention consists in bruising or pulverizing the pod of the carob, and
in adding to it water, in the proportion of two parts of water to one part of the
bruised or pulverized mass, to which is added, immediately or shortly after the
water and the carobs have been mixed, some substance which will produce fer-
mentation. The whole is allowed to ferment, and as soon as fermentation.
ceases, the alcohol is obtained by distillation in any suitable distilling apparatus.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman, in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th August 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"A METHOD OF OBTAINING ALCOHOL FROM THE FRUIT OR POD OF THE CAROB TREE,"
(communicated to me by John Minghelli, a foreigner residing abroad,) upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
The Invention consists in obtaining alcohol from the fruit or pod of the
carob tree, by bruising or pulverizing the said fruit or pod, mixing it with water,
and subjecting the mixture to fermentation and distillation.
The Invention is carried into effect in the following manner:-The fruit or
pod of the carob tree is first bruised or pulverized, and is then placed in a
suitable vessel and mixed with water, in the proportion of two parts water to
one part of the bruised or pulverized pod, or any other proportion may be
adopted if found equally advantageous. Immediately or shortly after mixing

page_text: the carobs and water, some substance which will produce fermentation is added
to the mixture or infusion, and the whole allowed to ferment. As soon as
fermentation ceases, the mixture is subjected to distillation in a suitable dis-
tilling apparatus, when the alcohol will be given off.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the method of
obtaining alcohol from the fruit or pod of the carob tree, by bruising or pul-
verizing the said fruit or pod, mixing it with water, and subjecting the mixture
to ferimentation and distillation, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
R. A. BROOMAN.
(L.S.)