CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PROCESS OF PREPARING AND COOLING WORTS OR WASH FROM VEGETABLE SUB- STANCES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SPIRITS
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL
WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, KOBERT
MORE, of Underwood, Stirlingshire, in that part of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called Scotland, Distiller, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Robert More, in consequence of communications
made to me by certain Foreigners residing abroad, and discoveries made by
myself, am in possession of an Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PROCESS OF PREPARING AND COOLING WORTS OR WASH FROM VEGETABLE SUB-
STANCES FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SPIRITS ;" and whereas His present most Excel-
lent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His Letters Patent under the Great
Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster, the Eighteenth day of July,
in the eighth year of His reign, did, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Robert More, my exors, admors, and
assigns, His especial licence; full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said Robert More, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such other person
as I or they should agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, the said Invention of "Certain Improvements in the Process of
Preparing and Cooling Worts or Wash from Vegetable Substances for the
Production of Spirits;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that I, the said Robert More, within the space of six calendar months from

page_text: the date of the said Letters Patent, should cause a particular description of
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, as in
and by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert More, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention to consist,
first, in preparing worts from grain or the like vegetable substances, mashed
in the state in which it comes from the mill stones in a vessell without a
drainer bottom; and, secondly, in cooling worts or wash for the purpose of
fermentation by the addition of water at a low temperature. And in further
compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Robert More, do hereby describe
the manner in which the said Invention is to be performed by the following
descriptions thereof (that is to say):
First, of the said improved process of preparing worts, which is as follows:-
I place all the grain or other like vegetable substance that is to be used in the
state that it comes from the mill stones, with all the husky matter with it in a
vessel, without a drainer bottom, and mash it in such vessel, whereby I am
enabled to use grain yielding a better quality of spirit than in the ordinary
mode; the whole mixture, after being cooled down in manner herein-after
described as the second part of the said Invention, is then to be fermented
together and in that state, with the husky matter in it, and when the atténua-
tion is completed, sent to the still, in order to the separation of the spirits from
the wash.
And, secondly, of the said improved process of cooling worts or wash, which
is performed by the addition of such a quantity of water at a low temperature
immediately before the addition of yeast, in order to fermentation; as is
requisite to reduce the temperature of the whole to that best adapted for
fermentation, which is known to practical men, and depends on the density of
the worts or wash to be fermented. By this method there is not only a great
saving in the expence of utensils usually employed in cooling distillers' worts
or wash at present, but the process is thereby accelerated, and máy thus be
most successfully completed.
Now, whereas I do not claim the use of a vessel without a drainer bottom
generally, but I claim as the said Invention, first, the process herein-before
described of preparing the worts, namely, from grain or other the like vegetable
substances, put into a vessel without a drainer bottom, with all the husky matter
just as it leaves the millstones, and mashed in that state in such vessell; and,
secondly, the process herein-before described, of cooling worts or wash. And

page_text: such the said Invention being, to the best of my knowledge and belief, entirely
new and never before used in that part of His said Majesty's United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called England, His Dominion of Wales, or Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor in any of His said Majesty's Colonies or Planta-
tions abroad, I hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that
I do verily believe 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 the said Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert More, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.