A METHOD OF SEPARATING OR EXTRACTING THE MOLASSES OR SYRUP PROM MUSCOVADO OR OTHER SUGAR
Year: 1820

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MAJOR
ROHDE, of Leman Street, Goodman's Fields, in the County of Middlesex,
Sugar Refiner, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, on or about the Fifteenth day of April, in the first year of His
reign, did give and grant unto me, the said Major Rohde, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, this especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Major Rohde, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, during the term of fourteen years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend the Invention therein mentioned,
to wit, "A METHOD OF SEPARATING OR EXTRACTING THE MOLASSES OR SYRUP
PROM MUSCOVADO OR OTHER SUGAR," within that part of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland called England, the Dominion of Wales, and
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's Colonies
and Plantations abroad, in such manner as to me, the said Major Rohde,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, should seem meet;
to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges,
and advantages therein granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the
said Major Rhode, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and
during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the

page_text: said Letters Patent next and immediately ensuing, fully to be complete and
ended, according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which
said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso that if I, the said Major
Rohde, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in
the 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, should utterly
cease, determine, and become void, as in and by the said recited Letters Patent,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Major Rohde, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, as follows, (that
is to say):
It being now ascertained that a considerable proportion of the discoloured
matter and other substance which constitute molasses or syrup is formed on the
surface of the chrystal of the purer sugar, the method I employ for separating
or extracting the molasses or syrup from such chrystals is to absorb the
molasses or syrup, by using linen or some other substance of absorbing quality,
assisted by mechanical or manuel motion and friction, in manner following,
that is to say I break any lumps that may be in the sugar, so as to admit of
its passing through a sieve of sufficient texture or size without breaking the
grains or chrystals. I then spread the sugar so reduced in thin layers on
linen, or some other substance of absorbing quality, and having folded it, place
it in bags or other packages, and apply manual or other mechanical power
to put it in motion, so as to afford the friction necessary to separate the
molasses or syrup from the sugar. By these means the molasses or syrup is
absorbed by the linen or other absorbing substance, and the purer chrystals
remain on the surface, and are separated by brushing, shaking, or scraping
them off. The molasses or syrup is afterwards extracted from the linen
or other absorbing substance by means of water or steam, or I employ any
means by which an absorbing substance comes in contract with the sugar, so
as to allow of its absorbing the molasses or syrup, whilst it leaves the chrystals
on its surface.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fourth
day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and tranto
MAJ. ROHDE. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the same Fourth day of October,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid Major Rohde came before our
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained, in form above. written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of
the Statute in that case made and provided.