CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FERMENTED LIQUORS, AND THE VARIOUS PRODUCTS TO BE OBTAINED THEREFROM
Year: 1824

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN LE
GRAND, of Lemon Street, Goodman's Fields in the County of Middlesex,
Vinegar Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, did, by
His Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, called England, bearing date at Westminster, the
Fifteenth day of January, 1824, in the fourth year of his reign, gave and
granted unto me, the said Jean le Grand, my exors, admors, and assigns, His
especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Jean
le Grand, my exors, admors, and assigns, 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, the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FERMENTED LIQUORS, AND THE VARIOUS PRODUCTS TO
BE OBTAINED THEREFROM," (being a communication made to me by a certain
foreigner residing abroad, and partly discoveries by myself;) in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that if I, the said Jean le Grand,
shall not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in his Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent,
and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, shall utterly cease,
determine and become void, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto.
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance of the said proviso, I, the said Jean
le Grand, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following description thereof (that is to say):-
The said improvements in furmented liquors, and the various products to be
obtained therefrom are as follows:-In order to give those wines and vinegars
which are not obtained from grapes the qualities which distinguish those made
from grapes, I employ the following substances, namely, the tartaric citric, and
oxalic acids, and which I add either separately or together, and either in the
crystallized state or diluted with water, to all kinds of fermented worts, wash, or
liquors, and either before, during, or after the vinous or acetous fermentations;
I likewise mix the said vegetablo acids either singly or together with all sorts
of spirituous liquors, either pure or diluted with water or other liquids, with
the design of converting those spirits by acidification into vinegar, similar to
that made from the wine of grapes, or by distillation or rectification to convert
them into brandy analagous to that obtained from grapes. I likewise employ
the same vegetable acids by mixing one or more of them with acetic acid or
any kind of vinegar to increase the strength of those liquids, or to impart to
them the qualities of the vinegars obtained from grapes or other fruit.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean le Grand, have hereunto set my
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out cool this Ninth day of July 1894.