IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUIDS."
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward William Phibbs, of 10, Coleman Street,
in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUIDS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward William Phibbs
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th March 1874.
I, EDWARD WILLIAM PHIBBS, of 10, Coleman Street, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for “Im-
PROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLIC LIQUIDS," to be as follows:-
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The object of the Invention is to improve the flavor and generally to
produce the effect of age on the liquid treated. For this purpose I
subject the liquid to be treated to heat in closed vessels, and at a tem-
perature exceeding the boiling point of water, and I either place such
liquid in vessels of sufficient strength to resist the expansive force of the
liquid when heated, or I operate on it to the desired degree of heat when
the containing vessels are under corresponding external pressure.

page_text: I also find it an advantage to place the closed vessel containing the
liquid to be heated within another closed vessel containing fluid in order
that by the corresponding expansion of the fluid in such enclosing vessel
from the heat employed it may counteract the danger arising from the
bursting of the inner vessel containing the liquid to be treated.
The degree of heat employed as well as the time during which it is
exercised will vary the character of the flavour obtained. Generally I
reduce the temperature gradually after the operation.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Willian Phibbs in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 4th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
WILLIAM PHIBBS, of 10, Coleman Street, in the City of London, sond
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward William Phibbs, Her
special license that I, the said Edward William Phibbs, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward
William Phibbs, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times.
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
makc, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland; the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN the Treatment oF ALCOHOLIC LIQUIDS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward William Phibbs,
exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and scals, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward William Phibbs, 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, that is to say:--
The object of the Invention is to improve the flavor and generally to
produce the effect of age on the liquid treated. For this purpose I
subject the liquid to be treated to heat in closed vessels and at a tem-
perature exceeding the boiling point of water; and I either place such
liquid in vessels of sufficient strength to resist the expansive force of the
liquid when treated, or I operate on it to the desired degree of heat
when the containing vessels are under external pressure.
I find it an advantage to place the closed vessel containing the liquid
to be heated within another closed vessel containing fluid, which may
be pumped or otherwise forced therein in order to counteract the danger
arising from the bursting of the inner vessel containing the liquid to be
treated by the expansion of the alcoholic liquid in such inner vessel
through the heat employed.
The degree of heat employed as well as the time during which it is
exercised will vary the character of the flavor obtained. Generally I
reduce the temperature gradually after the operation.
The alcoholic liquid may be either treated separately or in combi-
nation with other liquid or solid substances.
Having thus described my Invention, and means which I adopt in
carrying the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the method of treating alcoholic liquids to improve the flavor
thereof and generally to produce the effect of age thereon by subjecting
such liquids to heat in closed vessels at a temperature exceeding the
boiling point of water, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward William Phibbs, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
foun