AN IMPROVEMENT IN FERMENTING SUBSTANCES, AND GERMINATING GRAIN AND SEEDS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical
Draughtsman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FERMENTING
SUBSTANCES, AND GERMINATING GRAIN AND SEEDS."-A communication
from abroad by Rudolph d'Heureuse, of San Francisco, in the State
of California, United States of America.
Scaled the 25th Juno 1869, and dated the 25th January 1809.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 25th January 1869.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FER-
MESTING SUBSTANCES, AND GERMINATING GRAIN AND SEEDS," to bo as
follows:-
This Invention relates to a modo of improving fermentation or germi
nation by the introduction of air of proper temperature and moisture into
the substance to be acted on at or near the bottom of the vessel con-

page_text: taining the same, The oxygen of the air nepessary for any fermention
or germination (in a mash for example) is thus brought more thoroughly
into contact with the mass and improves the process, while the tem
perature and quantity of the introduced air may tend to control the
progress of the fermentation or germination in part independently of 1
the climate or season of the year. The air enters the substance, for
instance, by way of perforated pipes or plates as much divided as possible
to penetrate every part of the substance, It may be impalled by
pumps, bellows, or other contrivances, and conveyed by pipes, hose, or
other arrangement to the perforated termination by which it enters the
substance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Lcttors Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd July 1869,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Ohancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting,
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her special licence
that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, 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 IMPRO.EMENT IN
FERMENTING SUBSTANCES, AND GERMINATING GRAIN AND SEEDS," being a com-
munication to me from Rudolph d'Heureuse, of San Francisco, in the
State of California, United States of America, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executora
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain

page_text: the nature of the said Invention, and in what; manner the same was -tó
bo performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Ofice within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, do hereby
declaro.the nature of the said Invention, and in what. mannor the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement. (that is to say)
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This Invention consists in an improved mode of facilitating formen-
tation, germination, or curing by the introduction of air of proper
temperature and moisture into the substance to be acted upon from
below, whereby the oxygen of the air nécessary for any fermentation,
germination, or conserving is brought more thorouglily into contact
with every part of the mass and facilitates the process, while the
temparature and quantity of the introduced air tend to control the
progress of the desired process in part independently of the climate or
season of the year. The introduced air rising upwards through a
fluid substance gently agitates the same, thereby exposing every
part of it to the oxydising action of the air more perfectly and
uniformly than in a quiescent state. Where yeast is used, which is
more or less uniformly distributed, the mixing will take place more
thoroughly by the introduction of air, which also stirs up and revives the
yeast, therefore the formation of alcohol will be assisted and otherwiso
the product materially improved.
The manner of carrying out the Invention is as follows:-Air of
proper temperature and moisture is introduced into the substance to
bo fermented, germinated, cured, or improved at or near the bottom
of the space in which it is confined to be operated upón in such
a manner that the air enters every part of the substance. The air is
to be impelled by a pump, bellows, or other contrivance, and conveyed
by pipe, hose, or other arrangement to the perforated termination by
which it enters the substance,
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "An Improve-
ment in Fermenting Substances and Germinating Grain and Soods,"
as communicated to me from abroad, and explained the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under
the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, treating mash,
vinous, or other substance susceptible of fermentation or germination

page_text: by the introduction of air of proper temperature and moisture at or
near the bottom of said substance, substantially as and for the purpose
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of July,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-nine.