IMPROVED VALVE AND APPARATUS FOR CLOSE FERMENTING AND CLEANSING PORTER, BEER, ALE, WINE, SPIRITS, CIDER, AND ALL OTHER SACCHARINE AND FERMENTABLE FLUIDS
Year: 1834

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
KEELE, of Titchfield, in the County of Southampton, Brewer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent King William the Fourth, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Seventh day of June, in the fourth year of His reign, did, for Himself,
Ilis heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Keele,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said Edward Keele, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Edward Keele, my executors,
administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England,
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of an "IMPROVED
VALVE AND APPARATUS FOR CLOSE FERMENTING AND CLEANSING PORTER, BEER,
ALE, WINE, SPIRITS, CIDER, AND ALL OTHER SACCHARINE AND FERMENTABLE
FLUIDS;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging
me, the said Edward Keele, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, particularly to describe and ascertain the, nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same

page_text: to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Edward Keele, do hereby declare that the nature of my said luvention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained by the Drawings in the margin of these Presents,
and the description and references following (that is to say):—
That my Invention is an Improved Valve and Apparatus for close Fer-
menting, and likewise the same Valve and Apparatus for the Purpose and
Use of Cleansing Porter, Beer, Ale, Wine, Cider, and all other Saccharine and
Fermentable Fluids, by which the same may be conducted with more certainty
than heretofore through the various process of fermentation and cleansing, by
making the following additions to what is now commonly called a valve; that
is to say, a wire in a half circular form is to rivetted across the bottom of
the valve, and two holes are to be made at the bottom of the valve. On the
top of the valve is added a stem of about three inches and a half in heighth
to receive the cap and weights herein-after mentioned, which said improved
valve is shewn by the Drawing in the margin of these Presents marked A;
also à cap and four round weights, each of them having a hole through the
middle for the purpose of placing them on the stem of the valve. The cap
markod B, and the weights marked C, D, E, F, are shown in the Drawing in
the margin hereof; the weights C, D, E, are shown as placed on the valve;
tho weight F is also placed on the valvo in the case. The four weights for
the valve to be eight ounces, twelve ounces, sixteen ounces, and forty-ciglit
ounces each; also a case for receiving the valve, as shewn in the Drawing
marked G, which is to be made of metal, which last-mentioned Drawing,
marked G, shews the ease in which is fixed the valve, with the cap, and a
weight oii the stem of the valve. Under the lip of the case is to be placed a
small vessel for the purpose of receiving any of the fermenting fluid in case
any should escape through the valve, which said improved valve and case are
for the purpose of being fixed into the top of the closed tuns. while fermenting
porter, beer, ale, wine, spirits, cider, and all other saccharine and fermentable
fluids; and the said improved valve is also for the purpose of fixing into casks
while fermentiiig and cleansing porter, leer, ale, wine, cider, and all other
saccharine and fermentable fluids, by which process the same saccharine and
fornientablo fluids are much improved in flavour, quality, and strength.
While fermenting and cleansing the cap is to be placed downwards on the

page_text: stein of the valve for guiding the yeast, and one or more of the weiglits
are to be placed on the stem of the valve, as the high or low state of the
fermentation may require, to keep down the valve for confining and com-
pressing the gas and spirituous particles generated by the fermenting fluid,
and for keeping out the atmospheric air:
Also the following apparatus; that is to say; a cast-iron frame, as shewn
in the Drawing in the margin of these Presents; about two feet and one inch
square, marked H, is to be well fixed by screws on the top of the fermenting
tun for an improved man hole. Round the groove of the man hole is to be
placed a small cord line, on which the cast-iron coverlid, shewn in the margin
hereof, marked I, is to be placed and screwed down with four screw bolts and
washers, so as to be air-tight. The coverlid to be suspended from a cast-
iron swing lever, with a shifting balance weight, for the convenience of easily
guiding the lid to and from the man hole, which lever and balance weight I
do not claim as my Invention.
Also two steel rummagers, as shewn by the Drawing in the margin hereof,
marked K, K, for the purpose of removing yeast inside of casks at the latter
part of cleansing. The valve is to be made of brass, or any hard metal.
The cap and weights also of metal.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Keele, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the First day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four.
RICH WILLIAMS, Solicitor,
Took's Court, Chancery Lane.
Richard Williams, of Took's Court, Chancery Lane, in the County of
Middlesex, Solicitor, maketh oath and saith, that he was present at Titchfield,
in the County of Southampton, on the First day of November, in the year of
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and did see the
Specification or Instrument in Writing hereunto annexed duly taken, signed,
sealed, and acknowledged by Edward Keele, at Titchfield, in the said County
of Southampton, Brewer, in the said Specification or Instrument in Writing

page_text: mentioned, and that the name or signaturo "Edwd Keele," set and subscribed
at the foot of the said Specification or Instrument in Writing hereunto
annexed, is of the proper handwriting of the said Edward Keele, and that tho
the said Edward Keele did sign, scal, and acknowledge the same in the
presence of this Deponent; and that the name or signature "Rich Williams,"
set and subscribed as a witness to the taking and acknowledging thereof, is of
the proper handwriting of this Deponent.