NEW-INVENTED METHOD OF STIRRING AND DIVIDING THE PARTICLES OF MALT IN THE ART OR PROCESS OF BREWING COMMONLY CALLED STIRRING THE MASH, BY WHICH THE STRENGTH AND VIRTUES OF THE MALT ARE MORE EASILY AND FULLY EXTRACTED
Year: 1792

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WHITMORE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Enginer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Fifteenth day of May, in the thirty-second year of His said
Majesty's reign, did give and grant unto me, the said William Whitmore,
His special licence, full power, sole priviledge and authority, that I, the said
William Whitmore, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should and
lawfully might, during the term therein expressed, use, exercise, and vend,
throughout that part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales,
and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in His Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my "NEW-INVENTED METHOD OF STIRRING AND DIVIDING THE
PARTICLES OF MALT IN THE ART OR PROCESS OF BREWING COMMONLY CALLED STIRRING
THE MASH, BY WHICH THE STRENGTH AND VIRTUES OF THE MALT ARE MORE EASILY
AND FULLY EXTRACTED;" in which said recited Letters Patent. is contained a
proviso obliging me, the said William Whitmore, by writing under my hand
and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of the said. Invention
to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar
month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, and the Statute in that behalf. made, being thereunto
respectively had, may more fully and at large appear..
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, and in pursu-
ance of the said Statute, I, the said William Whitmore, do hereby declare

page_text: that the following is a particular description of the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and of the manner in which the same is to be performed, that is to say:-
My method of stirring the mash is by an engine or machine to be placed
partly within, and a part of it upon and above, the mash tun, tub, or vat. This
engine or machine I describe by the Figure in the margin and the explanation
following, that is to say:-A, the mash tub; B, a shaft or axle placed upright
in and upon the top of the pillar H, which is fixed in the center of the mash
tub, which shaft or axle is to be turned round upon its own center by the
power of steam, water, wind, horses, &c., as local circumstances may render
most convenient. The upright shaft has a cog or tooth wheel fastened upon
it, as at C. This cog or tooth wheel acts upon or in the teeth of another
wheel D, which is fastened upon the horizontal shaft E, one end of which runs
in a bed or coulster I, which turns round upon the top of the pillar H. I
also fasten another tooth wheel to the other end of the said horizontal shaft E,
at such a distance from the center of the shaft B as to be above and rest
upon the edge of the mash tun, which edge is furnished with teeth, as at G,
like a large contrate wheel. The teeth of the wheel F, acting in or upon the
stationary teeth G, on edge of the mash tun, the shaft E is not only turned
round its own center, but also is made to revolve round the center of the
mash tun and the shaft B. The horizontal shaft or, axle E is armed with a
number of strong arms or spikes placed in different parts thereof, and of such
a length as to go nearly to the bottom of the mash tun.
Those arms or
spikes which are farthest from the upright shaft act very near to the side or
interval circumference of the mash tun; and those arms or spikes which are
nearest the center of the mash tun act very near to the pillar that supports
the upright shaft in the center of the mash tun. When this machine is put
in action, the compound motion of the arms or spikes, and the great variety
of the directions of their motion among the malt and liquor, effectually stir
and mix the same. In some cases I apply a large horizontal wheel on the
top of the shaft B, and connect it to another wheel on the side of the mash
K is the section of the shaft E, with the spikes or arms.
tun.
In witness whereof, I, the above-named William Whitmore, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of June, in the thirty-
second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by
the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King,
Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Ninth day of June, in
the year above mentioned, the aforesaid William Whitmore came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.
Inrolled the Twelfth day of June, in the year above written.