AN IMPROVED COMPOUND AND METHOD OR PROCESS FOR CURING OR SEASONING CASKS, VATS, AND OTHER WOODEN 'VESSELS OR UTENSILS, AND FOR DISINFECTING THE SAME WHEN THEY HAVE BECOME STINKING OR FUSTY
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Baxter, of Burton on Trent, in the County of
Stafford, Brower, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMPOUND AND METHOD
OR PROCESS FOR CURING OR SEASONING CASKS, VATS, AND OTHER WOODEN
'VESSELS OR UTENSILS, AND FOR DISINFECTING THE SAME WHEN THEY HAVE
BECOME STINKING OR FUSTY."
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Baxter at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th June 1880.
FREDERICK BAXTER, of Burton on Trent, in the County of Stafford, Brewer.
AN IMPROVED COMPOUND AND METHOD OR PROCESS FOR CURING OR SEASONING
CASKS, VATS, AND OTHER WOODEN VESSELS OR UTENSILS, AND FOR DISINFECTING
THE SAME WHEN THEY HAVE BECOME STINKING OR FUSTY."
My Invention consists in the application to the interior of casks, vats, and other
wooden vessels or utensils of a certain combination of materials, which compound
is applied in the manner hereinafter described.
In order that my Invention may be fully understood I will first describe
the process of manufacture of my improved compound, and then proceed to explain
the method or process employed in curing or disinfecting stinking or fusty casks
and other wooden utensils, as well as in seasoning now casks and other wooden
vessels or utensils.
I take sugar or other saccharine material, as free from moisture and extraneous
substances as possible, and apply heat to it in a furnace until it approaches to or
has just arrived at the carbonaceous point; this material is then mixed with water
of the same weight. Into the same or a similar furnace is placed one half of the
above quantity of sugar or other saccharine material; this new charge is treated
in the same manner as the other, except that the operation is not carried so far
and no water is added. I then dissolve sulphate of zinc of commerce, or any other
soluble salt possessing similar properties, in water, in the proportion of one thirtieth
to one fiftieth of sulphate of zine to the water, which should be about 8 times more
than the quantity above mentioned.
To the second named quantity of saccharine I add bi-sulphate of lime to the

page_text: extent of of one sixteenth of the whole. The three solutions are now mixed together
and are ready for use. I do not confine myself to the exact proportion of bi-sulphate
of lime mentioned.
The second part of my Invention consists in the application of this compound to
the interior of the cask or other wooden utensil to be disinfected, and this I carry
out in the following manner :-The cask to be treated must have both heads taken
out, and in the case of other receptacles means must be adopted to get at the
interior in such a way as to allow a free circulation of air through the utensil;
from such interior a thin shaving is to be taken off to a depth depending upon the
distance to which the decay has penetrated, and of which any ordinary cooper will
be a competent judge. A thin shaving is also to be taken off cach head in a similar
manner and to a like extent. A " cresset or stove containing slowly burning coke
or coopers' shavings is placed inside each cask or other receptacle, where it should
burn until the wood of the cask or other vessel is thoroughly heated through, caro
being taken that the top of the cask is left open during the process. When the
proper degree of heat is attained the compound above described is rapidly applied
to the interior by means of a mop or other suitable apparatus, which however must
not contain iron.
"
The cask or other receptacle is next replaced over a cresset or stove, where it
must remain until thoroughly dry and as hot as it was before.
The compound is applied a second time in the same manner, and the cask or other
utensil is again put over the cresset or stove.
When quite dry the operation is complete.
The heads are treated in the same way by means of another cresset or stove, and
when quite finished they may be put into the cask, which, when thoroughly cool,
will be ready for use.
The application of the compound to new casks or other utensils for the purpose
of seasoning them is made in the same way, except of course that shaving the.
interior thereof is not necessary.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederick Baxter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
December 1880.
FREDERICK BAXTER, of Burton on Trent, in the County of Stafford, Brewer.
"AN IMPROVED COMPOUND AND METHOD OR PROCESS FOR CURING OR SEASONING
CASKS, VATS, AND OTHER WOODEN VESSELS OR UTENSILS, AND FOR DISINFECTING
THE SAME WHEN THEY HAVE BECOME STINKING OR FUSTY."
My Invention consists in the application to the interior of casks, vats, and other
wooden vessels or utensils of a certain combination of materials, which compound is
applied in the manner hereinafter described.
In order that my Invention may be fully understood I will first describe the
process of manufacture of my improved compound, and then proceed to explain
the method or process employed in curing or disinfecting stinking or fusty casks
and other wooden utensils, as well as in seasoning now casks and other wooden
vessels or utensils.
I take sugar or other saccharine material, as freo from moisture and extraneous
substances as possible, and apply heat to it in a furnace until it approaches to or
has just arrived at the carbonaceous point; this material is then mixed with water
of the same weight. Into the same or a similar furnace is placed one half of the
above quantity of sugar or other saccharine material; this new charge is treated
in the same manner as the other, except that the operation is not carried so far and
no water is added. I then dissolve sulphate of zinc of commerce, or any other
soluble salt possessing similar properties, in water, in the proportion of one thirtieth
to one fifteenth of sulphate of zinc to the water, which should be about eight times
more than the quantity above mentioned. To the second named quantity of saccharine
I add bisulphate of lime to the extent of about one sixteenth of the whole. The
three solutions are now mixed together and are ready for use. I do not confine
myself to the exact proportion of bisulphate of lime mentioned.
"
carry
The second part of my Invention consists in the application of this compound to
the interior of the cask or other wooden utensil to be disinfected, and this
out in the following manner :-The cask to be treated must have both heads taken
out, and in the case of other receptacles means must be adopted to get at tho
interior in such a way as to allow a free circulation of air through the utensil ;
from such interior a thin shaving is to be taken off to a depth depending upon the
distance to which the decay has penetrated, and of which any ordinary cooper will
will be a competent judge. A thin shaving is also to be taken off each head in a
similar manner and to a like extent. A "cresset or stove containing slowly
burning coke or coopers' shavings is placed inside each cask or other receptacle,
where it should burn until the wood of the cask or other vessel is thoroughly heated
through, care being taken that the top of the cask is left open during the process.
When the proper degree of heat is attained the compound above described is rapidly
applied to the interior by means of a mop or other suitable apparatus, which how-
over must not contain iron. The cask or other receptacle is next replaced over a
cresset or stove, where it must remain until thoroughly dry and as hot as it was
before. The compound is applied a second time in the same manner, and the cask
or other utensil is again put over the cresset or stove. When quite dry the
operation is completo. The heads are treated in the same way by means of another
cresset or stove, and when quite finished they may be put into the cask, which,
when thoroughly cool, will be ready_for_use...
The application of the compound to new casks or other utensils for the purpose
of seasoning them is made in the same way, except of course that shaving the
interior thereof is not necessary.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the mode in which
I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood that what I claim is,-
The improved compound and method or process for curing or seasoning casks,
vats, and other wooden vessels or utensils, and for disinfecting the same when they
have become stinking or fusty, substantially as herein described.
-
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Baxter, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
BREDERICK DAYTED