An Improvement in the Purification of Alcohol, Spirits, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Mar., 1895-Accepted, 1st June, 1595
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Purification of Alcohol, Spirits,
and the like.
We, EUGENE HERMITE, EDWARD JAMES PATERSON and CHARLES FRIEND
COOPER all of European Works, Pownall Road, in the County of London,
Electrical Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to means of effecting the purification of alcohol, spirits.
and the like, so as to obviate the use of charcoal filters. For this purpose we mix
the phlegms or spirits obtained by fermentation and distillation with an electrolysed
solution of sodium chloride mixed with a little magnesium chloride in such
proportions as to leave a slight excess of chlorine, and the mixture is then subjected
to redistillation and rectification in the usual manner. In some cases it may be
desirable to further electrolyse the mixture before redistillation in which case we
prefer to pass it through apparatus such as described in our previous Specification.
No. 1993 of 1887. Or the phlegm may be mixed with a solution of sodium
chloride mixed with a little magnesium chloride and the mixture electrolysed in.
apparatus such as above described.
Dated this 6th day of July 1894.
ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants.
An Improvement in the Purification of Alcohol, Spirits,
and the like.
We, EUGENE HERMITE, EDWARD JAMES PATERSON, and CHARLES FRIEND
COOPER, all of European Works, Pownall Road, in the County of London,
Electrical Engineers, 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 :-
Our invention relates to means of effecting the purification of alcohol, spirits and
the like, so as to obviate the use of charcoal filters. For this purpose we mix the
phlegms or spirits obtained by fermentation and distillation with an electrolysed
solution of sodium chloride as described in our Specification No. 18370 of 1893
mixed with a little magnesium chloride and the mixture is then subjected to
redistillation and rectification in the usual manner.
In some cases it may be desirable to further electrolyse the mixture before
redistillation in which case we prefer to pass it through apparatus such as described
in our previous Specification No. 1993 of 1887. Or the phlegm may be mixed with
a solution of sodium chloride mixed with a little magnesium chloride and the
mixture electrolysed in apparatus such as above described.
The quantity of solution or electrolysed solution applied varies according to the
character of the phlegm treated. Practically we find that 100 gallons of raw

page_text: spirit can be purified in about 1 or 2 hours by admixture of 33 gallons of
electrolysed solution containing 400 lbs. of common salt and 40 lbs. of magnesium
.chloride.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
The herein described method of purifying crude spirit by mixing it with a
solution of sodium chloride and a little magnesium chloride electrolysed either
before or after the admixture.
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ABEL & IMRAY,
Agents for the Applicants