IM- PROVEMENTS IN TREATING SUGAR CANES AND OTHER CANES CONTAINING SACCHARINE MATTER IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR ANIMALS, ALSO IN MANUFACTURING SUGAR AND WORTS OR WASH FOR BREWING, DISTILLING, AND VINEGAR MAKING, AND IN APPLYING THE RESULTING FIBRE IN THE MANU- PACTURE OF PAPER
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Philip Davies Margesson, of Woolwich, in the
County of Kent, Captain Royal Artillery, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN TREATING SUGAR CANES AND OTHER CANES CONTAINING
SACCHARINE MATTER IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR ANIMALS, ALSO IN
MANUFACTURING SUGAR AND WORTS OR WASH FOR BREWING, DISTILLING, AND
VINEGAR MAKING, AND IN APPLYING THE RESULTING FIBRE IN THE MANU-
PACTURE OF PAPER."
Sealed the 25th February 1859, and.dated the 31st August 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Philip Davies Margesson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st August 1858.
I, PHILIP DAVIES MARGESSON, of Woolwich, in the County of Kent,
Captain Royal Artillery, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING SUGAR CANES AND OTHER CANES CONTAINING
SACCHARINE MATTER IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR ANIMALS, ALSO IN MANU-
FACTURING SUGAR AND WORTS OR WASH FOR BREWING, DISTILLING, AND VINEGAR
MAKING, AND IN APPLYING THE RESULTING FIBRE IN THE MANUFACTURE of Paper,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in treating sugar canes and
other canes containing saccharine matter in the preparation of food for animals,
also in manufacturing sugar and worts or wash for brewing, distilling, and
vinegar making, and in applying the resulting fibre in the manufacture of

page_text: paper. For these purposes the sugar or other cane containing saccharine
matter is, as soon as ripe, cut into thin slices or cuttings, and then dried by
preference by the sun in the open air, which can in most cases be readily
done in the countries where such canes grow. The dry cane is then reduced
or ground to a fine powder in a suitable mill, and the powder is made into
cakes or moulded forms by pressure or impact, and in this state the preparation
is suitable for the food of animals. Or the preparation or powder before or
after being subjected to pressure. is applicable for the manufacture-of sugar or
for the preparation of worts or wash for brewing, distilling, and vinegar
making by dissolving out the saccharine matter therefrom, and then treating
such solutions in the ordinary manner of sugar making or refining, or by
fermentation, to render such solutions suitable for brewing, distilling, and
vinegar making. The ground vegetable fibre resulting from either of such
processes is suitable for paper making, and in some cases for the manufacture
of food for animals.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Philip Davies Margesson in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 26th February 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILIP
DAVIES MARGESSON, of Woolwich, in the County of Kent, Captain Royal
Artillery, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters.
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Philip Davies Margesson; Her special licence that I, the said Philip
Davies Margesson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such other's
as I, the said Philip Davies Margesson, my executors, adininistrators," "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 TREATING SUGAR CANES AND OTHER CANES CONTAINING
SACCHARINE MATTER IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR ANIMALS, ALSO IN MANU-
FACTURING SUGAR AND WORTS OR WASH FOR BREWING, DISTILLING, AND VINEGAR
MAKING, AND IN APPLYING THE RESULTING FIBRE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF

page_text: PAPER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Philip Davies
Margesson, 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 Philip Davies Margesson; do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what mauner the same is-
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:
This Invention has for its object improvements in treating sugar cane, and
other canes containing saccharine matter in the preparation of food for animals,
also in manufacturing sugar and worts or wash for brewing, distilling, and!
vinegar making, and in applying the resulting fibre in the manufacture-of
paper. For these purposes the sugar or other cane containing saccharine
matter is, as soon as ripe, cut into thin slices or cuttings, and then dried by
preference by the sun in the open air, which can in most cases be readily done
in the countries where such canes grow. The dried cane is then reduced or
ground to a fine powder in a suitable mill, and the powder is made into, cakes
or moulded forms by pressure or impact, and in this state the preparation is
suitable for the food of animals. Or the preparation or powder before or
after being subjected to pressure is applicable for the manufacture of sugar or
for the preparation of worts or wash for brewing, distilling, and vinegar making
by dissolving out the sacharine matter therefrom, and then treating such
solutions in the ordinary manner of sugar making or refining, or by fermentation,
to render such solutions suitable for brewing, distilling, and vinegar making.
The ground vegetable fibre resulting from either of such processes is suitable
for paper making, and in some cases for the manufacture of food for animals.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, I will proceed more fully
to describe the manner of performing the same.
The sugar or other canes containing saccharine matter are to be first cut
into very thin slices, or reduced or cut by rasps or otherwise into a granular
form, to neither of which processes separately do I make any claim, but in
place of then separating the saccharine matter therefrom, I cause the cut or
reduced cane to be dried in the open air or by artificial means, and having
very completely dried the same, I reduce the cut or rasped product by any
suitable mill to powder; it is, however, not necessary to reduce the dry cane
to a very fine powder. In order to reduce the bulk, and to facilitate carriage,

page_text: I subject the powder to pressure into suitable casks or vessels or moulds. In
some cases, however, when the dry powder is to be used for the food of
animals, I form the powder of cane into cakes by pressing the same in moulds
either alone or in combination with the meal of oil seeds or other matters
suitable for the food of animals, in like manner to that resorted to in making
oil cake. The saccharine matter contained in the compressed powder of cane
may, when about to be used, be dissolved out of the powder by water, and the
solution or syrups thus obtained may be used for crystallizing into sugar, or
in the preparation of worts or wash for brewing, or for distillation, or for
vinegar making, all which processes are well known, and therefore require no
description in this my Specification. The resulting fibrous substances after
the saccharine matters have been dissolved out will be found useful in the
manufacture of paper by ordinary well-known processes. What I claim is the
preparation of sugar and other canes as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Philip Davies Margesson, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of February, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-ninė.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
P. D. MARGESSON. (L.S.)