AN IMPROVEMENT IN ALL PREPARATIONS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF MADDER ROOTS AND GROUND MADDER, IN OR FROM WHATEVER COUNTRY THE SAME ARE PRODUCED, ALSO OF MUNJEET IN THE ROOT AND STEM, FROM WHATEVER COUNTRY
Year: 1852

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CLEMENCE
AUGUSTUS KURTZ, of Manchaster, Manufacturing Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Seventeenth day of April, in the fifteenth year of Her
reign, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Clemence Augustus Kurtz, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege
and authority, that I, the said Clemence Augustus Kurtz, my exors, admors,
and assigns, and such others. as I, the said Clemence Augustus Kurtz, my
exors, admiors, 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
and Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN ALL PREPARATIONS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF MADDER ROOTS AND
GROUND MADDER, IN OR FROM WHATEVER COUNTRY THE SAME ARE PRODUCED, ALSO OF
MUNJEET IN THE ROOT AND STEM, FROM WHATEVER COUNTRY;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Clemence Augustus
Kurtz, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be enrolled in Her
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso,
Clemence Augustus Kurtz, do hereby declare that the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is
to say:
My Invention consists of preparing madders and munjeet by combining
therewith preparations of liquor which will tend to produce fermentation, as
hereafter explained.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
I first prepare liquor in the following manner:-I take at the rate of
twenty pounds of crushed malt to one hundred gallons of water and boil it
from twenty to thirty minutes, to which liquor I add, on stopping the
boiling, about forty-five pounds weight of bran, which is to be well stirred in.
The liquor is then allowed to stand till the malt and bran fall to the bottom;
the clear liquor is to be run off and the remainder filtered. To every sixty to
sixty-five gallons of such liquor I add about one hundred gallons of water, of
such a temperature that the mixture may be about one hundred and twelve
degrees Fahrenheit. This liquor is put into a vessel capable of containing two
hundred and sixty to three hundred gallons; about three hundred weight of
madder or munjeet are added to it, and stirred at intervals of ten to fifteen
minutes, until it becomes an homogeneous mass, which is to be left to rest till
symtons of fermentation present themselves, which are to be immediately
checked by repeated stirrings during a period of about sixteen or eighteen
hours. The mass is then to be filtered, pressed, dried, ground, and packed in
the usual way. I would remark, that in place of malt and bran other grain or
matters may be employed in producing a wash or liquor, which will tend to
produce fermentation in like manner, but I believe malt and bran are the best for
the purpose. And I would state, that although I have been particular in stating
the materials and exact quantities and temperatures, according to the best of
'my information, I do not confine myself thereto, as they may be varied without
'departing from my Invention so long as extraneous matter may be employed
to induce fermentation. But what I claim is, the mode of preparing madders
and munjeet herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Clemence Augustus Kurtz, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
CLEMENCE AUGUSTUS (L.s.) KURTZ.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of October, in the
year of our Lord 1852, the aforesaid Clemence Augustus Kurtz came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
Enrolled the Thirteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.