Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1889
I, ALEXANDER HORN, of "The Confectionery Works" Hackney Wick, in the
County of Middlesex, Confectioner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows :-
Saccharometers for ascertaining the density of solutions of sugar are usually
furnished with a graduated scale indicating degrees of density according to what
is known as Beaume's scale. The instrument furnished with this scale is useful to
ascertain the density of the solution, but it is sometimes necessary to ascertain also
the weight of sugar contained in a definite quantity of the solution; this is usually
ascertained by means of a calculation based upon the degree of Beaumé indicated by
the Saccharometer. The object of my invention is to obviate the inconvenience of
having to make this calculation when it is required to ascertain the quantity of sugar
in a given solution. For this purpose I apply to the Saccharometer a second scale
preferably placed side by side with that showing degrees of Beaume's or other scale
of densities. This second scale has marked thereon the weight, for example, of sugar
in a given quantity of liquid, corresponding to each degree, or fraction of a degree, of
the scale of densities. By this means not only can the density of the solution be
ascertained but also the quantity of sugar contained in a given volume of solution by
simple inspection without the necessity of making any calculation whatever.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Saccharometers.
I, ALEXANDER HORN, of "The Confectionery Works," Hackney Wick, in the
County of Middlesex, Confectioner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the accom-
panying sheet of Drawings and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say :-
Saccharometers for ascertaining the density of solutions of sugar are usually
furnished with a graduated scale indicating degrees of density according to what
is known as Beaumés scale. The instrument furnished with this scale is useful to
ascertain the density of the saccharine solution; but it is sometimes necessary to
ascertain also the weight of sugar contained in a definite quantity of such solution,
this is usually ascertained by 'means of a calculation based upon the degree of Beaumé
indicated by the saccharometer. The object of my invention is to obviate the incon-
venience of having to 'make this 'calculation when it is required to ascertain the
quantity of sugar in a given solution. For this purpose I apply to the saccharometer
a second 'scale preferably placed side by side with that showing degrees of Beaumés
or other scale of densities. This second scale has marked thereon the weight of sugar
in'a given quantity of liquid corresponding to each degree or fraction of a degree of
the scale of densities. By this means not only can the density of the solution be
ascertained but also the quantity of sugar contained in a given weight of solution,
that is to say the percentage of sugar therein, by simple inspection without making
any calculation whatever.
In the drawings hereto annexed Figure 1 shows'a saccharometer furnished, with the
two scales above mentioned and Figure 2 shows the said two scales removed from the
stem of the saccharometer and opened out or developed. The scale to the left
represents the ordinary Beaumé scale of densities and that to the right the weight or
percentage of sugar in a definite quantity of the solution corresponding to the
degree of density on the Beaumé scale. For example the number 50 standing on
the right hand scale opposite to number 29 on the left hand scale indicates that a
saccharine solution of a density-of-29-degrees-on-the-Beaumé scale contains 50 pounds
of sugar per hundred pounds of solution, and so on for the other divisions of the
scale.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In saccharometers, the use in combination with the Beaumé or other scale of
density, of a second scale indicating the corresponding weight or percentage of sugar
in a saccharine solution, substantially as hereinbefore described, and illustrated in the
Drawings hereto annexed.
Dated this 19th day of February 1889.
A. HORN.
Per W. H. Beck,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C.,
Agent.