Im- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR FROM THE CANE AND OTHER SUGAR YIELDING MATERIALS AND IN APPARATUS USED THEREIN, PARTLY APPLICABLE FOR PREPARING NOURISHMENT FOR ANIMALS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bristow Hunt, of Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in
the County of Middlesex, Gentleman, for the Invention of "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR FROM THE CANE AND OTHER SUGAR
YIELDING MATERIALS AND IN APPARATUS USED THEREIN, PARTLY APPLICABLE
FOR PREPARING NOURISHMENT FOR ANIMALS."-A communication from
abroad by Alvaro Francisco Carlos Reynoso, of Paris, France,
Chemist
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bristow Hunt at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th June 1874.
I, BRISTOW HUNT, of Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR FROM THE CANE AND OTHER
SUGAR YIELDING MATERIALS AND IN APPARATUS USED THEREIN, PARTLY APPLICABLE
FOR PREPARING NOURISHMENT FOR ANIMALS," (a communication to me from

page_text: abroad by Alvaro Francisco Carlos Reynoso, of Paris, France, Chemist,)
to be as follows:-
This improved process of manufacturing sugar from the cane, which is
materially different from all the processes now employed, and which
forms the subject of the present Invention, consists in the complete
extraction of the juice of the sugar cane or of the "sorgho." To effect
this object instead of crushing the canes they are first cut in pieces by
means of a knife formed in a suitable manner applicable for the purpose.
The pieces are then reduced to pulp by means of a rasp, millstone, roller,
turnplate, or other machines or mechanism adapted to rend or break up
the cells in order to obtain by complete pulverisation a homogeneous
paste. The pulp thus obtained is submitted to the action of the ordinary
press, hydraulic, continuous, spiral, or any other similar process
calculated to separate the juices from the pulp.
Instead of immediately pressing the pulp it can also be previously
mixed with lime and phosphate of lime, or with any other matter
suitable for causing defecation.
Without adding to the purification or defecation the pulp may be
boiled before extracting the juice.
These improved processes of manufacture and the machinery con- ;
nected therewith may be employed for reducing into fine parts or
particles the sugar cane, "sorgho," and maize (or Indian corn), and for
preparing with the stalks of the above named articles nourishment for
animals.

page_text: Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Bristow Hunt, Her special licence that
I, the said Bristow Hunt, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Bristow Hunt, my executors, admini-
strators, 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 THE MANU-
FACTURE OF SUGAR FROM THE CANE AND OTHER SUGAR YIELDING MATERIALS AND IN
APPARATUS USED THEREIN, PARTLY APPLICABLE FOR PREPARING NOURISHMENT FOR
ANIMALS," (a communication to me from abroad by Alvaro Francisco
Carlos Reynoso, of Paris, France, Chemist,) upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Bristow Hunt, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, 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 six calendar months next and immediately after the date

page_text: Instead of immediately pressing the pulp it can also be previously
mixed with lime, acid, phosphate of lime, or with any other matter
suitable for causing defecation.
Without adding to the defecation the pulp may be boiled before
extracting the juice.
These improved processes of manufacture and the machinery con-
nected therewith may be employed for reducing into fine parts or
particles, the sugar cane, the "sorgho," and maize (or Indian corn), and
for preparing with the stalks of the above-named articles nourishment
for animals.
Having now described the nature and object of the said Invention
together with the manner in which the same is to be or may be per-
formed or carried into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that
what I claim as the Invention communicated to me by the said Alvaro
Francisco Carlos Reynoso, is, the improved process or method and
apparatus to be employed in the manufacture of sugar from the cane,
substantially as herein-before described, and the application of part of
the same for preparing nourishment for animals.
In witness whereof, I, the said Bristow Hunt, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.