IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF INGREDIENTS FOR REMOVING ACIDITY FROM ALES, BEERS, PORTERS, WINES, &C., AND ALSO TO PRESERVE THEM FROM ACIDITY
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles William Sutton, of the Firm of Sutton
and Company, of Stowmarket, in the County of Suffolk, for the
Invention of "IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF INGREDIENTS FOR REMOVING
ACIDITY FROM ALES, BEERS, PORTERS, WINES, &C., AND ALSO TO PRESERVE
THEM FROM ACIDITY."
Sealed the 12th April 1873, and dated the 18th February 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles William Sutton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 18th February 1873.
I, CHARLES WILLIAM SUTTON, of the Firm of Sutton and Company,
3 of Stowmarket, in the County of Suffolk, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVED COMBINATIONS OF INGREDIENTS FOR
REMOVING ACIDITY FROM ALES, BEERS, PORTERS, WINES, &C., AND ALSO TO
PRESERVE THEM FROM ACIDITY," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to improved combinations of ingredients for
the treatment of beer, ale, porter, wine, and other liquids to restore them
when pricked or sour..

page_text: The Invention consists in the employment of hydrate of lime and
chloride of sodium in combination, or hydrate of lime and chloride of
ammonium, these being mixed in suitable quantities with distilled water
for depriving the above-mentioned liquids of excess of acid, and also for
preserving them from acidity.
The quantities we prefer to use are about one pound of hydrate of
lime and four ounces of chloride of sodium to a gallon of distilled water,
or hydrate of lime half a pound and two ounces of chloride of ammonium
to a gallon of distilled water. We do not confine ourselves to these
quantities, but alter them to meet the requirements of the liquids to be
acted upon.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Charles William Sutton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th August 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
WILLIAM SUTTON, of the Firm of Sutton and Company, of Stowmarket,
in the County of Suffolk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in tho
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors
give and grant unto me, the said Charles William Sutton, Her special
licence that I, the said Charles William Sutton, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles William Sutton,
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 "Im-
PROVED COMBINAtions of IngrediENTS FOR REMOVING ACIDITY FROM ALES, BEERS,
PORTERS, WINES, &C., AND ALSO TO PRESERVE THEM FROM ACIDITY," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles William Sutton, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals; should particularly describe and

page_text: 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 Charles William Sutton, do hereby
declare 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 thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to improved combinations of ingredients for
the treatment of beer, alc, porter, wine, and other liquids, to restore them
when pricked or sour, the same ingredients also serving to preserve them
from acidity.
The Invention consists in the employment of hydrate of lime (slaked
lime) and chloride of sodium (common salt) in combination, or hydrate
of lime and chloride of ammonium also in combination, mixed with a
suitable quantity of distilled water in order to deprive the liquids men-
tioned above of excess of acid, and to preserve them from acidity.
The proportions or quantities I prefer to use are about one pound
of hydrate of lime and four ounces of chloride of sodium to a gallon of
distilled water, or half a pound of hydrate of lime and two ounces of
chloride of ammonium to one gallon of distilled water. I wish it to be
understood that I do not confine myself to these exact proportions,
which are what I have found to answer well in practice, but I may
vary them to suit the requirements of the liquid to be treated.
The mode in which I prefer to manufacture the combination of
hydrate of lime and chloride of sodium is as follows:-I take carefully
burnt lime and subject it to a cleansing process by means of sieves, in
order to free it from cinders and other impurities as far as possible,
taking care to remove any particles that are not properly burned, and
› having weighed out the desired quantity I put it into a vat and sprinkle
water gradually upon it, and cover it down until the lime becomes con-
verted into a powder. When it has been thoroughly disintegrated I add
one half the quantity of water required and the necessary proportion of
chloride of sodium dissolved in one-fourth of the water is poured upon
the lime, which is now slaked lime or hydrate of lime, and after well
mixing I strain the mixture through a fine sieve into another vat,
from which after subsidence I draw off the mixture. The coarse pre-

page_text: cipitate which remains in the last-mentioned vat is then washed with the
remaining one-fourth of the water, when the mixturo thus formed is
added to and well mingled with the mixture already formed, after which
the total mixture is carefully strained through very fine sieves, and is
ready for use.
The mode in which I manufacture the combination of hydrate of
lime and chloride of ammonium is similar to the one just described.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim for
my Invention, the employment of hydrate of lime and chloride of sodium
conjointly or in combination, or hydrate of lime and chloride of
ammonium conjointly or in combination, for the purposes of removing
acidity from and preserving from acidity ales, beers, porters, wines, and
other such liquors, in the manner substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles William Sutton, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Fourteenth day of August One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
C. W. HUNTER.
CHAS, W. SUTTON. (L.S.)