A METHOD 02 METHODS OF FREEING, WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY, WOODEN OR OTHER POROUS VESSELS FROM CERTAIN FOREIGN MATTERS OR SUBSTANCES WHICH THEY ARE LIABLE TO ABSORB, AND OF TURNING TO A USEFUL ACCOUNT THE FOREIGN MATTERS OR SUBSTANCES BO LIBERATED OR EXTRACTED
Year: 1837

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ERNST
ADOLPH ORTMAN, of Stockholm, in the Kingdom of Sweden, now of Ebenezer
Place, in the Parish of Limehouse, and County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the Fourth day of
November, in the first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Ernst Adolph Ortman, Her
especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Ernst
Adolph Ortman, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Ernst Adolph Ortman, my exors, adñiors, 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 expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A METHOD 02 METHODS OF FREEING, WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY, WOODEN
OR OTHER POROUS VESSELS FROM CERTAIN FOREIGN MATTERS OR SUBSTANCES WHICH
THEY ARE LIABLE TO ABSORB, AND OF TURNING TO A USEFUL ACCOUNT THE FOREIGN
MATTERS OR SUBSTANCES BO LIBERATED OR EXTRACTED;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Ernst Adolph Ortman, 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 Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calenday months next and immediately after the

page_text: 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Ernst Adolph Ortman, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention
consists in freeing, by the heat and pressure of the steam, wooden casks and
other porous vessels employed for containing spirituous liquors, or other volatile
fluids, or fluids containing in combination a portion of any volatile fluid, of as
much of the said spirituous liquors or other volatile fluids as they may happen
to absorb, or at least of the greater portion thereof, and in reproducing the
portions of the said spirituous liquors or other volatile fluids so extracted and 1
let free in a state fit for use. And I declare that the manner in which my said
Invention is performed is particularly exemplified in the Drawing hereunto
annexed, and in the following description thereof, that is to say :-
The said Drawing represents a sectional view of the different mechanical
arrangements which I employ for extracting from a series of empty spirit casks 1
the alcohol, which in the process of use they have absorbed. A¹, A2, A³, A*, A³,
are the casks; B, B, B, B, B, funnels inserted into the bungholes of the said
casks, and made of a conical form that they may fit the more exactly. C, a
pipe, leading from a steam boiler, with a safety valve a. D is a bent pipe,
which is connected at the end D to the steam pipe C, passes down through the
funnel B of the cask A', and terminates at a short distance from the bottom of
the cask. E is another bent pipe, the end of the arm of which is inserted in
the funnel B of A', and the other arm of which passes down through the funnel
B of the cask A, and terminates also near to the bottom of its particular
cask. F and G are two other pipes, of the same form and length as the
pipe E, which are connected in like manner with the casks A', A³, and A*.
II is a pipe of the same description as E, F, and G, which connects the
cask A with A, but has the arm that passes down into the cask A³ some
inches longer than the other arm, so as to reach almost to the bottom of that
cask. The size of all these pipes D, E, G, and II, are so proportioned to the
necks of the funnels B, through which they pass down, that they shall leave a
small open space round each; and the tops of all the funnels are closed, except
at the apertures through which the entrance and exit pipes are inserted. A
continuous communication is thus effected between the steam pipe C and the
whole of the five casks, and between the whole of these casks themselves. Is
is a small pool of water, which is introduced into the bottom of the cask A°,
and into which the longer arm of the pipe F dips. The effect of the process
thus far is this:-The heat and pressure of the steam intro:luced into the series

page_text: of casks causes the spirituous liquors or other volatile fluids, wood, acids
coloring matters, settlings, &c., which each has absorbed, or is contained in the
wood, to liberate themselves, and pass off at the top in the form of vapour,
while the pool of water at the bottom of the last cask A' serves to intercept
the steam, and to allow of little else than the alcoholic vapours accumulated
from the different casks passing off through the exit pipe K, inserted in the
funnel B of the last cask A, which funnel, like the other funnels before
mentioned, is closed steam-tight at top, except at the apertures provided for
the entrance and exit pipes. The last-mentioned exit pipe K terminates in a
refrigerator L, where the alcoholic vapours are condensed. M is a vessel for
the reception of the condensed spirit; N, a cistern, with its pipe n for the
supply of cold water to the refrigerator L; O, a discharge pipe, for carrying off
the back water from the refrigerator L. The number of casks connected in
one series need not be limited to five, but may consist of any other number
proportioned to the quantity and pressure of the steam applied.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and particularly
the manner in which the same is to be performed, I declare that I do not
claim any of the mechanical contrivances or arrangements herein-before
described, separately considered as new and of my Invention; but what I claim
as new, and to the use of which I have, länder my said Letters Patent, an
exclusive right, as aforesaid, is the freeing, wholly or partially, wooden or other
porous vessels from such spirituous liquors or other volatile fluids as they may
happen to absorb, and reproducing the same in a state fit for use, and that
by means of the heat and pressure of steam applied in the manner herein-
before described, or in any other manner which shall be in principle and in
substance the same. And such my Invention being to the best of my know-
ledge and belief entirely new and never before used within that part of Her
said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
Her said Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,) I do hereby
declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe that
this my said Specification doth comply in all respects fully and without
reserve or disguise with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent contained; wherefore I hereby claim to maintain exclusive right
and privilege to my said Invention,
In witness whereof, I, the said Ernst Adolph Ortman, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
ERNST ADOLPH (L.S.) ORTMAN.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Second day of May, in the year
of our Lord 1888, the aforesaid Ernst Adolph Ortman came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourth day of Max in the year of our Lord One thousand