Improvements in Means for Treating and Improving Grape Juice; Wines, Spirits, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 24th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 1st May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Treating and Improving Grape Juice;
Wines, Spirits, and the like.
We PETER WILSON MAY of St. Margarets, West Heath Road, Child's Hill;
in the County of Middlesex, Esquire and BENJAMIN EDWARD REINA NEWLANDS,
of 27 Mincing Lane, in the City of London, Analytical Chemist, do hereby,
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide means for treating grape juice;
wines, spirits, and the like, for ageing, improving their flavour, preventing their
acetification and loss of spirit and ethers, and in the case of sparkling wines for
retaining their sparkle. This we effect by subjecting the wine, grape juice, spirit,
or the like, to a high temperature such as is requisite for sterilizing the wine,
grape juice, spirit, or the like, under treatment, the said high temperature being
applied to the said wine, grape juice, spirit or the like, whilst contained in a vessel
which is hermetically closed. The temperature applied may vary within limits
but generally a temperature of 160° Fahrenheit will be sufficient. This heat
should be applied gradually and maintained for a sufficient time; usually say about
four hours. Afterwards the temperature is gradually lowered until it is normal.
During the heating operation in the closed vessel the spirit and ether and like
volatile matter disassociated are retained in the hermetically closed vessel and as
this is kept hermetically closed during the whole process until the liquor has been
cooled, the volatile matter so disassociated becomes again associated with the
liquor which therefore is not deprived of its desirable properties.
Deted this 28th day of July 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Means for Treating and Improving Grape Juice,
Wines, Spirits, and the like.
We, PETER WILSON MAY, of St. Margarets, West Heath Road, Child's Hill,
in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, and BENJAMIN EDWARD REINA NEWLANDS
of 27 Mincing Lane, in the City of London, Analytical Chemist, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object to provide means for treating grape juice,
wines, spirits and the like, for ageing, improving their flavour, preventing their
acetification and loss of spirit and ethers, and in the case of sparkling wines, for
retaining their sparkle. This we effect by subjecting the wine, grape juice, spirit,
or the like, to a high temperature such as is requisite for sterilizing the wine,

page_text: grape juice, spirit, or the like, under treatment, the said high temperature being
applied to the said wine, grape juice, spirit, or the like, whilst contained in a vessel
which is hermetically closed. The temperature applied may vary within limits
but generally a temperature of 160° Fahrenheit will be sufficient. This heat
should be applied gradually and maintained for a sufficient time; usually say about
four hours. Afterwards the temperature is gradually lowered until it is normal.
During the heating operation in the closed vessel the spirit and ether and like
volatile matter disassociated are retained in the hermetically closed vessel and as
this is kept hermetically closed during the whole process until the liquor has been
cooled the volatile matter so disassociated becomes again associated with the
liquor which therefore is not deprived of its desirable properties.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
The treatment of wine, grape juice, spirit, or the like, by subjecting it to the
gradual application of heat in a closed vessel and then cooling it, or allowing it to
cool, gradually; the vessel being maintained closed during the whole operation for
the purposes herein before described.
OI March 108
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.