CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING, BOILING, CURING, CLARIFYING, OR PREPARING BAW OR MUSCAVADO SUGAR, BASTARD SUGAR, AND MOLASSES
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
STOKES, of Cornhill, in the City of London, Merchant, sending greeting.
WHEREAS His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth
did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing
date at Westminster, the Eleventh day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-seven, in the eighth year of His reign, give and grant
unto me, the said James Stokes, His especial licence that I, the said James
Stokes, my executors, admors, and assigns, and such others as I, the said
James Stokes, my exors, adñors, 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 mentioned, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all
Ilis said Majesty's Plantations and Colonies abroad, my Invention of "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING, BOILING, CURING, CLARIFYING, OR PREPARING BAW
OR MUSCAVADO SUGAR, BASTARD SUGAR, AND MOLASSES;" in which said Letters
Patent there is contained a proviso, that I, the said James Stokes, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His 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
James Stokes, do hereby describe the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed and carried into effect, by the
following description thereof (that is to say) :-
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First, the liquor or cane juice being taken into the clarifier, I take to it
about fourteen pounds of charcoal, about seven pounds of bark of the wild clm-

page_text: tree, and about one pound of lime, and proceed to clear the liquor, take off
the scum, &c., in the usual way; and, when sufficiently clear, I pass it
through a blanket into a clarifying cistern or other vessel, and pump it or
otherwise convey it into the pans or teaches for the purpose of boiling or
evaporation. The liquor being boiled to the proper proof is passed into the
coolers according to the well-known method, or may be potted in moulds,
according to the practice of sugar refiners. But, previous to its being taken
into the hogsheads, I take it into boxes or vessels constructed for that purpose,
the dimensions of which I regulate according to circumstances, and mix with
the sugar, brandy, genena, rum, or any other spirit or spirits, in the proportion
of about one gallon to every hundredweight of sugar. I then submit it to
the action of an hydraulic or other press of adequate power, which forces out
the moisture and leaves the sugar sufficiently dry to put into the hogsheads,
and much improved in quality and colour. Or,
Secondly, I take raw sugar or bastard sugar in its finished or manufactured
state, and when boiled by this or any other method, and putting it into boxes,
as above mentioned, proceed to mix, press, &c. in the manner as before
described, and producing the same effect.
And I do declare that the articles and quantities mentioned are most
condusive to the said results. But I claim the privilege of varying the
quantities or apparatus as may be necessary, and of introducing any other
article or articles of similar chemical powers and affinity.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Stokes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord 1828, the aforesaid James Stokes came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid,
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
Inrolled the Eleventh day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.