IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF TOBACCO LEAF FOR THE EXTRACTING OF JUICE OR LIQUOR THEREFROM
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Fleming, Customs, Bonding, Shipping, and
Forwarding Agent in Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, in Scotland,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF TOBACCO LEAF
FOR THE EXTRACTING OF JUICE OR LIQUOR THEREFROM."
Sealed the 22nd November 1864, and dated the 8th September 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Fleming at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th September 1864.
I, JAMES FLEMING, Customs, Bonding, Shipping, and Forwarding Agent
5 in Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, in Scotland, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF TOBACCO
LEAF FOR THE EXTRACTING OF JUICE OR LIQUOR THEREFROM," to be as
follows:-
The tobacco leaf, after having been ground or cut, is put into any given
0 number of cisterns, casks, or cylinders communicating with each other by
means of connecting pipes, and placed together in parallel or circular position

page_text: or otherwise. The leaf so prepared is then subjected to the action of
water, which may be either cold or hot, and which being applied to any one
of the cisterns, casks, or cylinders, passes gradually from one to another by
the connecting pipes throughout the whole. The juice or extraction in its
progress through the successivo vessels thus becomes more and more impreg-
nated with the tobacco, and acquires increased strength or specific gravity.
The liquor or juice thus extracted may be drawn off from any of the vessels
according to the strength of the solution which may be wanted.
When it is wished to apply hot water to any of the vessels, the heating
will be accomplished by subjecting the pipes communicating with such vessels
to the influence of heat from gas jets or steam or other heating appliances
placed under or around the pipes.
What I claim as my Invention is not the combination of vessels and water,
or the connection of the vessels by pipes above mentioned, but the appli-
cation of these to tobacco as a mode of preparing and extracting the juice
or liquor therefrom, and also the manner of beating the water, beforo
referred to.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Fleming in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th March 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
FLEMING, Customs, Bonding, Shipping, and Forwarding Agent in Glasgow,
in the County of Lanark, in Scotland, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said James Fleming, Her special license that I, the said
James Fleming, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said James Fleming, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agreo 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 TREATMENT OF TOBACCO LEAF FOR THE EXTRACTING OF

page_text: JUICE OF LIQUOR THEREFROM," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said James Fleming, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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
bo 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 James Fleming, do hereby declaro
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 :-
The tobacco leaf, after having been ground or cut, is put into any given
number of cisterns, casks, cylinders, or other suitable vessels, either open or
closed, communicating with each other by means of connecting pipes, and
placed conveniently for the transmission of the liquor, juice, solution, or
extraction from one to another by means of gravitation or by pressure of air,
forcing, or suction. The leaf so prepared is then subjected to the action of
water, which may be either cold or hot, and which being applied to the
tobacco in any one of the cisterns, casks, or cylinders or other suitable vessels,
passes gradually from one to another by the connecting pipes throughout the
whole or some of the whole series by means of gravitation. The water may
be caused to pass by pressure of air, forcing, or suction, and the extraction or
dissolving of the soluble constituents of the tobacco may be facilitated and
hastened by the said pressure, forcing, or suction. The liquor, juice, solution,
or extraction in its progress through the successive vessels becomes moro
and more impregnated with the soluble constituents of the tobacco, and
acquires increased strength and specific gravity. The liquor, juice, solution,
or extraction thus obtained may be drawn off by any usual apparatus from
any of the vessels according to the strength of the solution which may be
wanted.
When it is wished to subject the tobacco leaf to the action of heated or hot
water, heat may be applied to any or all of the vessels before mentioned, or
to the pipe or pipes communicating or in connection with such vessels by
means of gas jets or steam or other heating appliances placed under or in
connection with one or more of the vessels or of the pipes through which the
water, liquor, juice, solution, or extraction passes or is caused to pass.
What I claim as my Invention is not the combination of vessels and water
or the connection of the vessels by pipes as above mentioned, but the treat-
ment of tobacco by a combination of vessels and the application of water as
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page_text: above described, for the purpose of extracting the juice or liquor and soluble
constituents from tobacco.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Fleming, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.