THE TREATMENT OF CERTAIN ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Weekes, of Bolney, in the County of
Sussex, for the Invention of "THE TREATMENT OF CERTAIN ALCOHOLIC
PRODUCTS."
Sealed the 24th June 1859, and dated the 26th February 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Weekes at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
26th February 1859.
I, FREDERICK WEEKES, of Bolney, in the County of Sussex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "THE TREATMENT OF CERTAIN
ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
My Invention, which has reference to the treatment of certain alcoholic
products obtained from beet root, mangel wurzel, or other roots containing
saccharine matter by the process of distillation; either alone or in conjunction
with corn spirit, consists in adding to the products thus obtained essence of
cogniac or other essential oils or flavouring matters capable of imparting to
the raw spirit the taste and character of brandy, rum,, whisky, hollands,
or gin.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Frederick Weekes in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th August 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
WEEKES, of Bolney, in the County of Sussex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of
Iller reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Frederick Weekes, Her special licence that I, the said Frederick
Weekes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Frederick Weekes, 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
"THE TREATMENT OF CERTAIN ALCOHOLIC PRODUCTS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Weekes, 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 of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Weekes, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what, manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following.
statement (that is to say):→
:
My Invention, which has reference to the treatment of certain alcoholic
products or spirits obtained from beet root, mangel wurzel, or other, roots con-
staining saccharine matter by the ordinary process of distillation, either alone
or in conjunction with corn spirit, consists in adding, in proportionate quantities,
to the products or spirits thus obtained, either in; bulk or otherwise, essence. of
.cogniac or other suitable essential oils or. flavouring matters capable of
imparting to the raw or root spirit the taste and character of brandy, rum,
whisky, hollands, or gin, so as to produce a closer approximation to foreign
spirits than any hitherto manufactured-corn-spirits, -the combination (from the
:

page_text: root spirit or product having an affinity to that obtained from fruit) being
much more palatable than is otherwise produced.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed and readily carried into
effect, I would have it clearly understood that I do not intend to confine
myself to the precise details herein-before given, as the same might be varied
in practise without departing from the general principle of this my said
Invention; but that which I do claim as new and of my said Invention is,
the admixture of root spirits with essential oils or flavouring matters in the
manner and for the purposes herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Weekes, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.