Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th May, 1837
Complete Left, 17th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1888
I, JOKICHI TAKAMINE, of the Government Department of Agriculture and
Commerce, Tokio, Japan, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to secure increased economy in the manu-
facture of alcoholic liquids, such increased economy being due to the fact that when
the Invention is practically applied a considerably increased quantity of alcohol can
be manufactured with apparatus of a given capacity as compared with the quantity
obtained by the ordinary method.
The Invention consists in using saké ferment either alone or combined with yeast
for promoting the alcoholic fermentation in a liquid containing glucose, the glucose
being obtained from any source by any of the known processes. The saké ferment
(which is a ferment well known in Japan) is to be applied in the same way as
ordinary yeast, but the liquid or solution may contain a much larger quantity of
glucose than that used in the ordinary process. The ferinentation with saké yields a
correspondingly increased percentage of alcohol as compared with that ordinarily
obtained; and the subsequent distilling process is thereby greatly facilitated, a much
increased quantity of alcohol being yielded in a given time by distilling apparatus of
a given capacity.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Alcoholio Liquids.
I, JOKICHI TAKAMINE, of the Government Department of Agriculture and
Commerce, Tokio, Japan, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My said Invention has for its object to secure increased economy in the manu-
facture of alcoholic liquids, such increased economy being due to the fact that when
the Invention is practically applied a considerably increased quantity of alcohol can
be manufactured with apparatus of a given capacity as compared with the quantity
obtained by the ordinary method.
My Invention consists in using saké ferment either alone or combined with yeast
for promoting the alcoholic fermentation in a liquid containing glucose, the glucose
being obtained from any source by any of the known processes. The saké ferment
(which is a ferment well known in Japan) is to be used or applied in the same way
as ordinary yeast, but the liquid may contain a much larger quantity of glucose than
that used in the ordinary process. Thus, whilst in the ordinary process, the glucose
in the liquid does not generally exceed eight per centum of the weight of the liquid,
there may be more than twice that percentage when saké ferment is used. The
fermentation with saké yields a correspondingly increased percentage of alcohol as
compared with that ordinarily obtained; and the subsequent distilling process is
thereby greatly facilitated, a much increased quantity of alcohol being yielded in a
given time by distilling apparatus of a given capacity.
In practically carrying out my Invention I do not restrict myself to precise
proportions but I believe that good and satisfactory results are obtainable with the
proportions hereinafter given. The actual fermentation may be carried out in the
plant commonly adopted for ordinary yeast. The proportion of saké ferment to be
added is about 1 per centum of moist ferment for every 6 per centum of alcohol
desired to be obtained in the liquid. Thus to obtain a fermented liquid containing
18 per centum of alcohol, 3 per centum of saké ferment must be employed. The
percentage of glucose in the liquid is adjusted beforehand to the strength of alcoholic
liquid which it is desired to produce.
The fermentation may be carried out at the ordinary temperature; a higher
temperature, however, materially accelerates the process. The temperature of
30 degrees, Centigrade, is a convenient one to employ, especially for the higher
alcoholic strengths.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The employment of saké ferment alone or combined with yeast for promoting the
alcoholic fermentation in a liquid containing glucose, substantially as herein before
described.
Dated this Sixteenth day of February 1888.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.