A: METHOD OF EMPLOYING BOTH RAW AND REFINED SUGARS IN THE COMPOSITION OF SUNDRY ARTICLES OF MERCHANDIZE IN GREAT DEMAND WHERE IT HAS NOT HERETOFORE BEEN USED
Year: 1811

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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
FREDERICK ALBERT WINSOR, of Shooter's Hill, in the County of Kent,
Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third
did, by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United King
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the
Fourth day of December, in the fifty-second year of His reign, give
and graut unto me, the said Frederick Albert Winsor, my exors,
admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole 'privilege and
authority, that I, the said Frederick Albert Winsor, my exors, admors,
and assigns, should and lawfully might during the term of years therein
mentioned, make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, my. Invention of "A: METHOD OF
EMPLOYING BOTH RAW AND REFINED SUGARS IN THE COMPOSITION OF
SUNDRY ARTICLES OF MERCHANDIZE IN GREAT DEMAND WHERE IT HAS
NOT HERETOFORE BEEN USED;." in which said Letters Patent there is
contained a proviso, that if I; the said Frederick Albert Winsor, 'shall

page_text: not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in
in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled
in His Majesty's 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 whatso-
ever thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void,
as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully
and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the
said Frederick Albert Winsor, do hereby declare that the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed,
are particularly described and ascertained as follows, that is to say,
The component parts of sugar being sixty-four parts in one hundred
part of oxigen, twenty-eight parts hydrogen, and only eight parts of
carbon, it will be allowed that next to nitre this salt possesses the most
inflammable and explosive qualities, excepting the oxigeneated muriat
of potash; hence if sugar, both raw and refined, are carefully dried and
reduced into fine powder by 3 or 4 hours trituration, and then mixed
up with the usual ingredients of which gunpowder is generally com-
posed, in the proportion of 25 parts in 100, or thereabouts, it will be
found to be equal to the force of such qualities of gunpowder as are
intended to be produced by the admixture of the various well known
ingredients of nitre, sulphur, and charcoal. As the goodness of gun-
powder depends chiefly on the careful trituration of 10 to 14 hours,
the same principal of trituration must be adopted with the admixture
of well dried sugar in proportion of 25 parts in 100, or thereabouts.
Sugar being apt to imbibe moisture as much as nitre, the principle of
drying it and keeping it well corked must be carefully attended too; or
if of gunpowder be well mixed and well triturated with well dryed
sugar, the inflammable and explosive effects will be the same as four
parts of powder. In cases of fire works sugar may be made to enter
from one half to one third into the admixture of gunpowder, or the
ingredients of which fire works are composed, by which means this
article of public and private amusement may be rendered much

page_text: cheaper, and at the same time increase the general consumption of
sugar. Sugar may be made to enter in certain proportions in all
combustibles whatsoever.
In witness whereof, the said Frederick Albert Winsor have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Third day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twelve.