A METHOD OF PRESERVING GRAIN AND OTHER VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL SUBSTANCES AND LIQUIDS
Year: 1828

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DONALD
CURRIE, of Regent Street, Saint James', in the County of Middlesex, Esquire,
send 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 Thirty-first day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and twenty-eight, in the ninth year of His reign, give and grant unto
mc, the said Donald Curric, His special licence that I, the said Donald Currie,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Donald
Currie, my exors, adññiors, 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 His
said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A METHOD
OF PRESERVING GRAIN AND OTHER VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL SUBSTANCES AND
LIQUIDS," communicated to me by a certain Foreigner residing abroad; in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that I, the said Donald
Currie, 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
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Donald Currie, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, and particularly described and
ascertained as follows, that is to say:-
My said method of preserving grain and other vegetable and animal
substances is by inclosing them in air-tight vessels, vaults, or other proper
receptacles, from which I extract the atmospheric air as much as possible, and
replace it with carbonic acid gas, procured by any of the well known methods;
as for instance, by the combustion of charcoal or by fermentation, and thus I
prevent the tendency of the grain to vegetate, and greatly hinder the decom-
position of the other vegetable and animal matters, which is ordinarily so
greatly promoted by the action of the oxygen contained in atmospheric air.
The liquids must be put into tightly corked or otherwise closed bottles, or
other fit and proper vessels, and be then inclosed in a similar manner in air-
tight vessels, vaults, or other proper receptacles filled with carbonic acid gas,
which will hinder the usual destruction of the corks or other closures, and
consequently preserve the said liquids in a more complete manner than has
hitherto been effected.
In witness whereof, I, the said Donald Currie, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.
LDEN.
DONALD (L.s.) CURRIE.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of July, in
the year of our Lord 1828, the aforesaid Donald Currie came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification,
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 Statute made that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight
and two