A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF REFINING SUGARS
Year: 1805

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
BATLEY, of Queen Street, in the City of London, Sugar Refiner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster
the Eighth day of July, in the forty-fifth year of His reign, (reciting that I,
the said Benjamin Batley, had by my petition humbly represented unto His
Majesty that I had by great study invented "A NEW AND IMPROVED METHOD OF
REFINING SUGARS," which would be of public utility and advantage, and praying
His Majesty to grant to me, my executors, admors, and assigns, His Letters
Patent for the sole exercise of my said Invention, within England, and Wales,
and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of fourteen years from the
date of the said Letters Patent,) was graciously pleased to condescend to my
request, in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that if I, the said
Benjamin Batley, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an
instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be
inrolled in His Majesty's Court of Chancery within one month next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said Letters
Patent, relation being thereunto had, may and will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Batley, in compliance with
the said proviso contained in the said Letters Patent, do hereby describe and
ascertain the nature of my said Invention to be, as is herein-before set forth, a

page_text: new and improved method of refining sugars with milk, and that the process
is to be performed in manner following, that is to say:-
First, charge the sugar pans with the usual quantity of lime water, and for
each ton weight of sugar to be refined allow at the rate of ten gallons of
skimmed milk, more or less, as may be necessary, according to the quality of
the sugar; mix five gallons of such milk with the lime water, then skip the
sugar, and after the sugar is skipped let it remain in the pans till next morning,
when the whole, so mixed, is to be stirred together, and after taking off the
first, scum of the sugar, add more skimmed milk, and continue to repeat the
same after each scum of the sugar, until the liquor is perfectly cleared.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Batley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Third day of August, One thousand eight hundred
and five
Signed & sealed in the presence of
DAILPL
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JN° RICH BAKER, Lincoln's Inn Fields.
JOHN WILKINSON, Clk. to Mr. Baker.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and five, the aforesaid Benjamin
Batley came before our 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 was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the 3ª day of August, in the year of our Lord 1805.