AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPIRIT WHEN RICE IS USED
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Vincent Louis Cazimir Renou, of Jersey, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPIRIT WHEN
RICE IS USED."
Sealed the 5th May 1857, and dated the 17th December 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Vincent Louis Cazimir
Renou at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th December 1856.
I, VINCENT LOUIS CAZIMIR RENOU, of Jersey, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPIRIT WHEN
RICE IS USED," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
spirit when rice is used. For this purpose the rice is first boiled in water, to
which, when boiling, sulphuric acid is added to convert the rice into saccharine,
which is then made into a wash, fermented, and then distilled and rectified in
the ordinary manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Vincent Louis Cazimir Renou in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th June 1857.]
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, VINCENT
LOUIS CAZINIR RENOU, of Jersey, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Vincent Louis Cazimir Renou, Her special licence that I, the said Vincent
Louis Cazimir Renou, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Vincent Louis Cazimir Renou, 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 make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SPIRIT WHEN RICE IS USED," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Vincent Louis Cazimir Renou,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain 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.
1.1.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Vincent Louis Cazimir Renou, 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:
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
spirit when rice is used. For this purpose the rice is first boiled in water, to
which, when boiling,.sulphuric acid is added to convert the rice,into saccharine,
which is then made into a wash, fermented, and then distilled and rectified in
the ordinary manner
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And in order that my said Invention may be. most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the way in which I prefer
to conduct the process.
One hundred pounds weight of rice is put into a boiling copper with six
times its weight or sixty gallons of water; at the bottom of the boiling vessel

page_text: there is a coil of steam pipes, which is perforated all over with fine holes, from
which jets of steam issue; in this way the mixture of rice and water is brought
to a boiling temperature, and it is kept at this temperature for about one hour;
at the end of this time nine pounds of concentrated sulphuric acid is added,
but before adding, it is diluted with about ten times its bulk of water; after-
wards the boiling is continued for five hours, and then the steam is cut off, and
the excess of acid is partially neutralized by adding from soven to eight pounds
of chalk (according to its quality). The liquid is then run off, and cold water
is added to it to reduce it to a density suitable for the fermentation, which is
conducted in the ordinary manner, the liquid being cooled to a suitable extent
and yeast added. The fermentation is generally complete in about thirty hours,
and when this is the case the remainder of the acid is neutralized by a freshi
addition of chalk; and, lastly, the spirit is distilled off from tho liquid in the
ordinary way.
In witness whereof, I, the said Vincent Louis Cazimir Renou, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
D
20 Witness,
VINCENT LOUIS CAZIMIR RENOU. (L.S.)
J. W. DUPRE,
of St. Helier, Island of Jersey,
H. M. Attorney Gen'.