IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES AND OTHER LIQUIDS."
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, E. C., Editor of the Mechanics' Magazine, and
Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASES AND OTHER
LIQUIDS." A communication from André
VESSELS FOR CONTAINING
LIQUIDS."―A
Zoubschaninoff.
Sealed the 25th May 1858, and dated the 30th November 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th November 1857.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, E. C., Editor of the Mechanics' Magazine, and Patent Agent, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CASKS
AND OTHER VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS," (a communication from André
Zoubschaninoff,) to be as follows:-
There are several objections to casks for containing liquids as now made.
Oak is the wood chiefly employed, and is very costly as compared to other
woods. The casks and vessels are liable to leak even after the greatest care
has been taken to obtain close joints, and the wood imbibes a portion of the
liquid placed in the casks and vessels; and where metal casks are employed
they leak and impart more or less flavour to their contents.
Now, this Invention is intended to obviate the above objections, and con-

page_text: sists in coating the inside of the casks or vessels with an impermeable, tasteless,
and non-absorbing composition. The casks and vessels may be made of any
of the lighter and cheaper woods or of metal in the usual manner. Hot liquid
glue, sufficient to cover the whole interior surface of the cask or vessel, is
poured therein, and the cask or vessel turned and shaken to allow of the glue
running over every part thereof; any excess of glue is then run off, and the
conting is allowed to set and cool. After becoming cold, a second composition
of hot liquid glue and powdered charcoal or sawdust is run in over the interior
surface of the vessel in the same manner as the first coating.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Offico
on the 29th May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, E. C.,
Editor of the Mechanics' Magazine, and Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, 1er special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, excrcise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CASKS AND OTHER VESSELS FOR CONTAINING LIQUIDS," (a com-
munication from André Zoubschaninoff;) upon the condition (amongst others),
that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the samo
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months noxt
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
'
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what mannor the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
There are several objections to casks for containing liquids as now made;
for oak is the wood chiefly employed, and is very costly as compared to other
woods. Tho casks and vessels are liable to leak even after the greatest care
has been taken to obtain close joints, and the wood imbibes a portion of the
liquid placed in the casks and vessels; and where metal casks are employed
they leak and impart more or less flavor to their contents.
Now, this Invention is intended to obviate the above objections, and consists
in coating the insides of the casks or vessels with an impermeable, tasteless,
and non-absorbing composition. The casks and vessels may be made of any
of the lighter and cheaper woods or of metal, in the usual manner. Hot liquid
glue, sufficient to cover the whole interior surface of the cask or vessel, is
poured therein, and the cask or vessel turned and shaken to allow of the glue
running over every part thereof; any excess of the glue is then run off and the
coating is allowed to set and cool. After becoming cold, a second composition
of hot liquid glue and powdered charcoal or sawdust is run in over the interior
surface of the vessel, in the same manuer as the first coating; and still further
coatings of the like nature may be applied, if desired.
Casks and other vessels coated as before described may have their parts
made and put together with less accuracy than is essential in the ordinary
manufacture thereof, and may therefore be made more cheaply than before.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the coating of the
insides of casks and other vessels for containing liquids with liquid glue, and
also with composition formed of liquid glue and powdered charcoal, or sawdust,
or other similar and suitable material, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-seventh day of May, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.