IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURING BRANDY, GIN, AND RUM, AND OTHER BRITISH SPIRITS AND COM- POUNDS
Year: 1845

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
BETTS, of Smithfield Bars, in the County of Middlesex, Distiller, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Sixteenth day of October, in the ninth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Betts, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial licence, full
power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said William Betts, my exors,
adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Betts, my exors,
adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times during the term of years therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and
the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURING BRANDY, GIN, AND RUM, AND OTHER BRITISH SPIRITS AND COM-
POUNDS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said
William Betts, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Betts, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following. statement thereof (that is to say):-
My Invention consists of applying sugar in combination with repeated dis-
tillations of the spirit diluted with water. And in order that my Invention
may be most fully understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to
describe the means pursued by me.
For each one thousand gallons of spirit of fifty per cent. under proof, I
employ about twenty hundredweight of refined sugar, I employ dissolved
with water for each re-distillation, and I distill the spirit diluted with water-
and mixed with sugar in any suitable still; and I repeat. such process of re-
listillation till I discover no flavour of the grain, or to such an extent as the
distiller may be satisfied with. Or, in place of mixing the sugar dissolved with
water together with diluted spirit in the still, I place the dissolved sugar in
vessels and cause the spirit in its passage to the worm tub or refrigerator to
pass into the sugar and water. The spirit thus obtained is then treated and
flavored for making brandy, gin, and rum, and other British spirits and
compounds, according to the judgment of the maker; and in making brandy
I prefer that the same flavoring material used by the French. makers should
be employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Betts, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-six.