IMPROVEMENTS IN DISTILLING FATTY MATTERS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Baptiste Moinier, of Rue de Marseille,
and Charles Constant Boutigny, of Rue de Flandre, of La
Villette, France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN DISTILLING
FATTY MATTERS."
Sealed the 16th March 1853, and dated the 21st December 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Baptisto
Moinier and Charles Constant Boutigny at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 21st
December 1852.
We, JEAN BAPTISTE MOINIER, of Rue de Marselle, and CHARLES
CONSTANT BOUTIGNY, of Rue de Flandre, of la Villette, France, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN DISTILLING FATTY MATTERS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of distilling fatty matters, whether acid
or not, by causing them to descend or pass amongst portions of coke,
coal, stone, or other insoluble substances, within a suitable still or
vessel, by which very extensive surfaces are obtained, and the fatty
matters are thereby more largely exposed to the action of steam at
its natural temperature, introduced at the lower part of the still.

page_text: The distilled products pass into a suitable condenser, and are con-
densed. The novelty of the Invention consists in combining the
use of the hard insoluble materials with the use of steam in the
manner explained.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Jean Baptiste Moinier and Charles
Constant Boutigny in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
June 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
JEAN BAPTISTE MOINIER, of Rue de Marseille, and CHARLES CONSTANT
BOUTIGNY, of Rue de Flandre, of La Villette, France, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in
the sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Jean Baptiste Moinier and
Charles Constant Boutigny, Her special licence that we, the said
Jean Baptiste Moinier and Charles Constant Boutigny, our execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Jean Baptiste Moinier and Charles Constant Boutigny, our execu-
tors, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN DISTILLING FATTY MATTERS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Jean Baptiste Moinier and
Charles Constant Boutigny, or one of us, by an instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us,
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

page_text: six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Jean Baptiste Moinier and
Charles Constant Boutigny, 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 state-
ment thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists of distilling fatty matters, whether acid
or not, by causing them to descend or pass amongst portions of
coke, coal, stone, or other insoluble substances, within a suitable
still or vessel, by which very extensive surfaces are obtained, and
the fatty matters are thereby more largely exposed to the action of
steam at its natural temperature, introduced at the lower part of the
still. The distilled products pass into a suitable condenser, and are
condensed. The novelty of the Invention consists in combining the
use of the hard insoluble materials with the use of steam in the
manner explained. And in order that our Invention may be more
fully understood and readily carried into effect, we will proceed to
describe the Drawing hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING,
which shows the apparatus partly in section. A, is the body of
the still, which is heated externally in any convenient man-
ner; it has a perforated false bottom B, under which steam is
admitted by the tube C, and on which false bottom are placed
pieces of coke, or other suitable substance, exposing a large extent
of surface D, and over this layer of coke is placed wire gauze to
retain it in its proper position, and prevents it from floating on the
surface of the substance which is to be distilled, and which substance
is admitted in a fluid state by means of the tube E, the quantity
admitted being regulated by the cock F. The tube E, is terminated
in a circular perforated ring G, which causes the substance as it is
admitted to be distributed over the surface of the layer of coke D.
The volatilized matters pass off by the still head H, to a suitable
condenser. In this still head, is a glazed aperture I, through which
.

page_text: the progress of the process may be examined, and the admission of
the substance to the still be regulated accordingly.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, we would have it understood that
we do not confine ourselves to the precise details shewn, but what
we claim is, the improvements herein described in distilling fatty
matters.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Constant Boutigny, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of June, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three
Witness,
W. CARPMAEL, jun.
BOUTIGNY, (d'Evreux) (L.S.)
FILS.