AN IMPROVED METHOD OF PREPARING MALT AND OTHER GRAIN, AND IN EXTRACTING THE SACCHARINE MATTER THEREFROM, WHETHER FOR THE PURPOSES OF BREWING, DISTILLING, OR " OTHERWISE
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexandre Manbré, of Rathbone Place, in the County
of Middlesex, Brewer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF
PREPARING MALT AND OTHER GRAIN, AND IN EXTRACTING THE SACCHARINE
MATTER THEREFROM, WHETHER FOR THE PURPOSES OF BREWING, DISTILLING, OR
"
OTHERWISE."
Sealed the 30th November 1858, and dated the 5th June 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexandre Manbré at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
5th June 1858.
I, ALEXANDRE MANBRE, of Rathbone Place, in the County of Middlesex,
Brewer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF PREPARING MALT AND OTHER GRAIN, AND IN EXTRACTING THE SACCHARINE
MATTER THEREFROM, WHETHER FOR THE PURPOSES OF BREWING, DISTILLING, OR
OTHERWISE," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists,-
First, in the preparation of the malt or other grain to be employed in
brewing, distilling, vinegar making, or from which saccharine matter is to
be extracted for any other purpose.
Instead of using the grain more or less bruised as at present, I separate the
bran or husk from the grain by grinding or otherwise, and use only the flour
in the above-named operations.
And second, in improved processes and apparatus for extracting the
saccharine matter from the flour. I place in a vessel of any suitable kind and

page_text: capacity capable of being heated from a naked fire or otherwise the quantity of
water necessary for the required manufacture. The water is heated gradually
up to from 50° to 100° Fahrenheit, according to the temperature of the
external air, the grain in a state of flour is gradually poured in until thorough
mixture of the flour and water, the heating is then continued up to about 185°
Fahrenheit, stirring being maintained the whole time, in order that the heat
may be equally diffused throughout the mass, then is added a quantity of
hops, if beer or ale is to be produced, which vary with the beer or ale to be
produced; after thorough admixture the whole is allowed to settle, when
infusion and maceration only are required. Where deemed requisite, the
whole is made to boil for from one hour upwards, and then allowed to settle for
from 1 hour to 2 hours, and the clear liquor is drawn off into another vessel
to undergo a last boiling; hops are again added if necessary; the liquor is
drawn off into coolers, and used as required.
The boiling may be effected without drawing off the liquid. The whole
quantity of water necessary may be at once mixed with the flour and the
hops, where required, and boiled from two to three hours, and then drawn off
when clear into the coolers.
Another method of extracting saccharine matter from grain in flour consists
in the employment of a vessel capable of being hermetically closed, and
furnished with a perforated false bottom, upon which is placed wire gauze and
a layer or layers of felt or flannel or other suitable filtering medium. Supposing
the apparatus to be charged with the grain in flour resting upon the felt or
flannel, hops, where hops are to be used, are also placed with it. Water at
from 50° to 100° Fahrenheit is admitted through a cock provided for the
purpose, in order to moisten the contents of the vessel, after which water at
from about 175° to 185° Fahrenheit is added, and the whole is left for from 10
minutes to one hour; then air or steam or other agent is forced in over the
mass, when the clear liquid, carrying with it all the saccharine matter, will be
forced through the filter and perforated falso bottom to be drawn off and used
for the manufacture of beer, spirit, vinegar, sugar, &c.; or instead of intro-
ducing any agent from above to force the clear liquid through the filter, a pump
or vacuum may be employed to draw it through it.
The vessels employed in making the infusions in macerating and boiling
are also furnished with perforated false bottoms covered with wire gauze and a
layer or layers of felt, flannel, or wool; when the saccharification is effected,
the residues may be drawn up out of the vessel, and the clear liquor allowed to
remain therein.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alexandre Manbré in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
4th December 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDRE
MANBRE, of Rathbone Place, in the County of Middlesex, Brewer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Alexandre Manbré, Her special licence that I, the said Alexander
Manbré, my exécutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Alexandre Maubré, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, usc, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVED METHOD OF PREPARING MALT AND OTHER GRAIN, AND IN EXTRACTING
THE SACCHARINE MATTER THEREFROM, WHETHER FOR THE PURPOSES OF BREWING,
DISTILLING, OR OTHERWISE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Alexandre Manbré, my executors or administrators, by an instru
ment 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alexandre Manbré do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention consists,―
First, in the preparation of the malt or other grain to be employed in
brewing, distilling, vinegar making, or from which saccharine matter is to be
extracted for any other purpose.
Instead of using the grain more or less bruised as at present, I separate the
bran or husk from the grain by grinding or otherwise, and use only the flour in
the above-named operations.

page_text: And second, in improved processes and apparatus for extracting the
saccharine matter from the flour.
I place in a vessel of any suitable kind and capacity capable of being heated
from a naked fire or otherwise the quantity of water necessary for the required
manufacture. The water is heated gradually up from 50° to 100° Fahrenheit, 5
according to the temperature of the external air, the grain in a state of flour
is gradually poured in until thorough mixture of the flour and water, the
heating is then continued up to about 185° Fahrenheit, stirring being main-
tained the whole time, in order that the heat may be equally diffused throughout
the mass, then is added a quantity of hops, if beer or ale is to be produced, 1
which vary with the beer or ale to be produced; after thorough admixture
the whole is allowed to settle, when infusion and maceration only are
required.
to boil for from one hour
hour to 2 hours, and the 1
Where deemed requisite, the whole is made
upwards, and then allowed to settle for from 1
clear liquor is drawn off into another vessel, to undergo a last boiling; hops
are again added, if necessary, the liquor is drawn off' into coolers, and used as
required.
The boiling may be effected without drawing off the liquid. The wholo
quantity of water necessary may be at once mixed with the flour, and the 2
hops, where required, and boiled from two to three hours, and then drawn off
when clear into the coolers.
Another method of extracting saccharine matter from grain in flour consists
in the employment of a vessel capable of being hermetically closed and furnished
with a perforated false bottom upon which is placed wire gauzo and a layers
or layers of felt, or flannel, or other suitable filtering medium. Supposing the
apparatus to be charged with the grain in flour resting upon the felt or flannel,
hops, where hops are to be used, are also placed with it, water at from 50° to
100° Fahrenheit is admitted through a cock provided for the purpose, in order
to moisten the contents of the vessel, after which water at from about 175° to 3
185° Fahrenheit is added, and the whole is left for from 10 minutes to one hour.
Then air or steam or other agent is forced in over the mass, when the clear
liquid, carrying with it all the saccharine matter, will be forced through the
filter and perforated false bottom, to be drawn off and used for the manu-
facture of beer, spirit, vinegar, sugar, &c; or, instead of introducing any,
agent from above to force. the clear liquid through the filter, a pump or
vacuum may be employed to draw it. through it.
The vessels employed in making the infusions in macerating and boiling are

page_text: or can also be furnished with perforated falso bottoms covered with wire
gauze and a layer or layers of felt, flannel, or wool. When the saccharification
is effected, the residues may be drawn up out of the vessel, and the clear
liquor allowed to remain therein.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the method of
preparing malt and other grain, and extracting the saccharine matter there-
from, whether for the purposes of brewing, distilling, or otherwise, by first
separating the bran or husk from the grain by grinding or otherwise, and then
extracting the saccharine matter from the flour by means of the processes
and apparatus berein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexandre Manbré, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-eight.
ALEXANDRE MANBRE. (L.S.)