IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL WINES, OR BEVERAGES TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR WINES, AND IN APPARATUB FOR AIDING FERMENTATION
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL WINES, OR BEVERAGES TO BE SUBSTITUTED
FOR WINES, AND IN APPARATUB FOR AIDING FERMENTATION."-A com-
'munication.
Sealed the 19th May 1857, and dated the 22nd November 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 22nd November 1856.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL WINES, OR BEVERAGES
TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR WINES, AND IN APPARATUS POR AIDING FERMENTATION,"
(communicated to me by a foreigner residing abroad,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in mixing with water, as a basis, sugar, cream of
tartar, tartaric acid, and yeast, with iris, coriander, elder, cloves, or other
similar vegetable flavoring matters, and a light or dark vegetable coloring
matter; and in raising the mixture to such a temperature as will keep it
at a state of vinous fermentation; and when the fermentation is about to cease,
in allowing the temperature to fall gradually.

page_text: The Invention also consists in an apparatus for aiding or inducing fer-
mentation in fermentable liquors. At and through the bottom of the vessel
containing the liquor to be fermentod, I introduco a steam chest with two
pipes, one leading to the atmosphere and the other from a vessel containing
water or other liquid from which steam is evaporated.
To make a light wine, I take, for example, water, sugar, tartaric acid,
cream of tartar, iris, coriander, elder, cloves, yeast, and color it with cashoo
(cachou).
For a red wine, water, sugar, tartaric acid, cream of tartar, cashoo (cachou),
gall-nut, iris, coriander, elder, cloves, yeast, and danewort.
1 place one or other of these sets of ingredients in a suitable vessel, assist
the vinous fermentation therein in the manner herein-before described, or
by heat otherwise applied, filter, draw off into casks, keep at a gentle tem-
perature, which is allowed gradually to diminish, when the wine or drink
is bottled off. For any one of the substances mentioned as employed any cor-
responding equivalent may be used.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st May 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
tho said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, tho said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any timo 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, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Juvention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL WINES, OR
BEVERAGES TO BE SUBSTITUTED FOR WINES, AND IN APPARATUS FOR AIDING
FERMENTATION," (communicated to me by a foreigner residing abroad,) upon

page_text: 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 Invention, and in what manner the same was to be
performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next 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 manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in mixing with water, as a basis, sugar, cream of
tartar, tartaric acid, and yeast, with iris, coriander, elder, cloves, or other
similar flavoring matters, and a light or dark vegetable coloring matter; and
in raising the mixture to such a temperature as will keep it at a state of
vinous fermentation; and when the fermentation is about to cease, allowing
the temperature to fall gradually.
The Invention also consists in an apparatus for aiding or inducing fer-
mentation in fermentable liquors.
To make a light wine, I take, for example, the following materials, and
in the following proportions:-To every twenty gallons of water I add of sugar
(white or coarse) about 30 lbs.; tartaric acid, 31 oz.; cream of tartar, 7 oz. ;
iris, coriander, elder, and cloves, 1 oz.; brewers' yeast, 7 oz.; and cachoo
(cachou), 1 oz.
To make a red wine, I add to overy twenty gallons of water, sugar (white
or coarse), about 30 lbs; tartaric acid, 3½ oz.; cream of tartar, 7 oz. ; cachoo
(cachou) and gall nuts, 1 oz.; iris, coriander, elder, and cloves, 1 oz.;
brewers' yeast, 7 oz.; and elder berries, 2 lbs.
In both cases the quantity of sugar should be varied according to the.
quantity of alcohol required in the wine, the quantity of flavouring materials
according to the kind of wine which it is desired to imitate, and the quantity
of yeast according as a sweet or a rough wine is desired.
In the Drawing hereunto annexed is represented the improved apparatus
which constitutes part of this Invention.
Figuro is a sectional elevation; and Figure 2 a horizontal view. At the
bottom of the vessel A, which rests upon the supports B, B, and which is to
contain the mixed materials, is introduced the steam chest C, into which the
two pipes D and D' open; the first, D opening at the other end into the

page_text: atmosphere, and the second, D', having let into its other end the pipo E,
Jeading from the steam boiler F, heated by the furnace G. Steam being
generated in the boiler F, passes through the pipe E into the steam chest C,
and there transmitting its heat to the mixture in the vessel A, raises the
same to and keeps it at about 112° Fahrenheit, which may be ascertained
and maintained by any known means. When the fermentation has nearly
ceased, the liquor is drawn and bottled for usc.
Any one or more of the substances herein-before mentioned as constituents
of the improved wines or beverages may have another or others of like qualities
substituted for it or them, and the mode of heating the fermenting liquor may
be replaced by any other suitable method.
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,-
First, the manufacture of artificial wines or beverages to be substituted for
wines, as herein-before described.
Second, the apparatus for aiding fermentation, herein-before described, and
represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven.