AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MOULDED SUGAR
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gerd Jacob Bensen, of Christian Street, St. George's-
in-the-East, Sugar Refiner, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF MOULDED SUGAR."
Sealed the 4th May 1858, and dated the 21st November 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gerd Jacob Bensen at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st November 1857.
I, GERD JACOB BENSEN, of Christian Street, St. George's-in-the-East, Sugar
Refiner, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MOULDED SUGAR," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improvement in the manufacture of
moulded sugar. For this purpose sugar having been crystallized in the
ordinary manner is placed in a pneumatic pan or apparatus in order to
have the syrup removed therefrom. The crytals of sugar thus obtained are
then mixed with a clear syrup, which I produce from refined sugar, and the
mixture is then placed in moulds and stoved.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Gerd Jacob Bensen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
19th May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GERD
JACOB BENSEN, of Christian Street, St. George's-in-the-East, Sugar Refiner,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Gerd Jacob Bensen, Her special licence that I, the said Gerd Jacob
Bensen, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Gerd Jacob Bensen, 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 "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF MOULDED SUGAR," upon the condition.
(amongst others) that I, the said Gerd Jacob Bensen, 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 Gerd Jacob Bensen do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner 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 an improvement in the manufacture of
moulded sugar.
For this purpose sugar having been crystallized in the
ordinary manner, is placed in a pneumatic pan or apparatus in order to have
the syrup removed therefrom. The crystals of sugar thus obtained are thon
mixed with a clear syrup, which I produce from refined sugar, and the
mixture is then placed in moulds and stoved.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed moro
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
The crystallized sugar having been separated from the syrups in which the

page_text: same has been crystallized, for which purpose I prefer the means described in
the Specification of my former Patent, a quantity of fine clear liquor or syrup
produced from refined sugar is to be added and well mixed with the crystals of
sugar, and the proportion of liquor or syrup is that the mixture will just run
from a spoon, and this may be done in a vacuum pan or ordinary open pan, or
a pan in which streams of air may be blown in order to mix the whole
intimately together. The whole is to be heated to a temperature of about
170° to 180° Fahrenheit, and then filled into moulds, the lower ends of which
are to be stopped. When the sugar is sufficiently set or hardened in the
moulds, the plugs or stoppers are to be removed from their lower ends, and the
sugar allowed to drain, the moulds for this purpose being supported in an upright
position, either by their lower ends passing through holes formed in an iron
plate, which is raised off the floor by legs or supports, or by other convenient
means. The syrup or liquor drained off from the sugar in the moulds is
received on to an inclined metal floor, and conducted into a suitable receiver
or vessel, and this syrup or liquor after being again filtered through charcoal,
may be again used for a like purpose. The in the moulds is then stoved
in the ordinary manner. The peculiarity of the Invention consists in removing
the syrups or liquors in which the crystals of sugar have been formed from the
crystallized sugar, and then substituting or mixing therewith clear liquor or
syrup, and at once finishing in moulds as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gerd Jacob Bensen, have hereunto set my
hand and scal, this Nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
GERD JACOB BENSEN (LS.)