Improvements in the Manufacture of Whiskey and other Spirits.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th June, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Whiskey and other Spirits.
I, EDWARD JAMES TAYLOR, of 35, Carlyle Square, Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex, Distiller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of whiskey and
other spirits.
I apply a vessel or vessels, singly or in multiples as per drawings to ordinary stills
used for the production of whiskey, or any other spirit, for the purpose of separating
the coarse foul oils which pass over with the spirits in the distillation. The
intercepting vessels are made of wood, metal or any suitable material, of any width,
height or depth and may be used with or without gauze, perforated plates or any
material suitable for straining, or, if required, for filtering such as stones, sand,
charcoal. The vessel or vessels may be open or closed.
at A.
The.
The following is the method of working-The spirit from the still is conducted
to the inlet A, Figure 1 whence it falls into the vessel D gradually rising therein
till it reaches the level of the outlet C, which leads to the ordinary receiver.
liquid in D thus always remaining at that level but flowing away as it is supplied
The coarse foul oils, being mostly insoluble in the weak spirit, and lighter in
gravity, separate themselves from it and from the difference in gravity rise to the
top of the vessel D where they must always remain instead of passing direct into.
the receivers as in the ordinary way. They can be removed at any time by opening.
the manhole E or by emptying the vessel. B is a perforated false bottom upon
which to place any desired straining or filtering material and may be repeated any
number of times in D if required.
The drawings Figures 2 and 3 shew double or bent pipes which may be applied
for the purpose.
The form of vessel or apparatus to intercept the coarse oils in their passage to the
receivers or to separate them after may be much varied so long as it effects the
mechanical separation of these coarse oils, which, in the usual way pass into the low
wines or other receiver and thence by the spirit still, on second distillation, into the
whiskey or other spirit. The removal of these coarse oils renders the resulting
product far purer and more wholesome, as well as insures a very rapid maturity of
it through the absence of the oils which are present in all whiskey or other spirits
produced by the ordinary methods; and necessitate long keeping in casks to
eliminate or alter them.
Dated this Sixth day of June 1890.
EDWD. JAS. TAYLOR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Whiskey and other Spirits.
I, EDWARD JAMES TAYLOR, of 35, Carlyle Square, Chelsea, in the County of
Middlesex, Distiller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of whiskey and
other spirits.
I apply a vessel or vessels, singly or in multiples as per drawings to ordinary stills
used for the production of whiskey, or any other spirit, for the purpose of separating

page_text: the coarse foul oils which pass over with the spirits in the distillation. The
intercepting vessels are made of wood, metal or any suitable material, of any width
height or depth and may be used with or without gauze, perforated plates or any
material suitable for straining, or, if required, for filtering such as stones, sand,
charcoal. The vessel or vessels may be opened or closed.
The following is the method of working:-The spirit from the still is conducted
to the inlet A, Figure 1, whence it falls into the vessel D gradually rising therein
till it reaches the level of the outlet C, which leads to the ordinary receiver. The
liquid in D thus always remaining at that level but flowing away as it is supplied
at A. The coarse foul oils, being mostly insoluble in the weak spirit, and lighter in
gravity, separate themselves from it and from the difference in gravity rise to the
top of the vessel D where they must always remain instead of passing direct into
the receivers as in the ordinary way. They can be removed at any time by opening
the manhole E or by emptying the vessel. B is a perforated false bottom upon
.which to place any desired straining or filtering material and may be repeated any
number of times in D if required.
The drawings Figures 2 and 3 shew double or bent pipes which may be applied
for the purpose.
The form of vessel or apparatus to intercept the coarse oils in their passage to
the receivers or to separate them after may be much varied so long as it effects the
mechanical separation of these coarse oils, which, in the usual way pass into the low
wines or other receiver and thence by the spirit still, on second distillation, into the
whiskey or other spirit. The removal of these coarse oils renders the resulting
product far purer and more wholesome, as well as insures a very rapid maturity of
it through the absence of the oils which are present in all whiskey or other spirits
produced by the ordinary methods; and necessitate long keeping in casks to
eliminate or alter them.
The drawings referred to are those which accompany my Provisional Specification.
- Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In the manufacture of whiskey and other spirits, the interposition between the
still and the receiver, of any vessel or vessels through which the liquid delivered
from the still has to descend in order to reach the receiver and in which the coarse
foul oils of low specific gravity may be accumulated and drawn off separately from
time to time.
Dated this 4th day of March 1891.
EDWD. JAS. TAYLOR.