CERTAIN PROCESSES POR RENDERING DISTILLERY REFUSE PRODUCTIVE OF SPIRITS
Year: 1827

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
MORE, of Underwood, Stirlingshire, in that part of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland called Scotland, Distiller, send greeting.
WHEREAS I, the said Robert More, in consequence of communicatios.
made to me by certain Foreigners residing abroad, and discoveries made by
myself, am in possession of an Invention of "CERTAIN PROCESSES POR RENDERING
DISTILLERY REFUSE PRODUCTIVE OF SPIRITS:" And whereas His present most
Excellent Majesty King George the Fourth, by His Letters Patent under
the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster the Eighteenth
day of July, in the eighth year of His reign, did, for himself, his heirs, and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert More, my exors, adiñors,
and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority,
that I, the said Robert More, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or such other
person as I or they should agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times, during the term of fourteen years therein expressed,. should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and sell, within England, Wales, and the
Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His said Majesty's Colonies
and Plantations abroad, the said Invention of "Certain Processes for
Rendering Distillery Refuse Productive of Spirits;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Robert More, within the space

page_text: of six calendar months from the date of the said Letters Patent, should cause a
particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of
Chancery, as in and by the said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Robert More, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention to consist
in adding about one third of what is called spent wash to the worts to be
distilled just before the yeast is added to it for fermentation; and in further
compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Robert More, do hereby describe
the manner in which the said Invention is to be performed by the following
description thereof (that is to say) :-
:-
I put what is termed by distillers spent wash as discharged from the still
into any suitable vessel, and allow the thick or mucilagenious and husky
matter to subside to the bottom; I then separate the thinnest or most liquid
part of this wash, and place it in a cooler to remain there till cooled down to
the temperature of the atmosphere, when the clearest and most limped part
only of the wash should be collected in a back for use. The wash being thus
prepared, and worts being fresh made and cooled down to the proper tempera-
ture, I put about one part of the said wash into the back where the process of
fermentation is to be carried on, and then add two parts of the said worts and
mix them well together; I then add the yeast and ferment the mixture in the
usual way.
Now, whereas I claim as the Invention the using of spent wash in the
manner aforesaid, and prepared as 'aforesaid, for the purpose of assisting in
the production of spirits, and such said Invention being, to the best of 'my
knowledge and belief, entirely new, and never before used in that part of His
said Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
His Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor in any of His
said Colonies and Plantations abroad, I hereby declare this to be my Specifica-
tion of the same; and that I do verily believe this, my said Specification, doth
comply in all respects, fully and 'without reserve and disguise with the provisó
in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I
hereby claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to the said' Invention.
In witness whereof, I,-the said Robert More, have hereunto set-my hand
and seal, this. Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
RO. (L.B.) MORE.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-fourth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1827, the aforesaid Robert More came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord Onc
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight.