US50526A

US50526A - Improved apparatus for making vinegar

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Publication number: US50526A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1865-10-17
Anticipated expiration: 1882-10-17

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C. WESENER. I

Apparatus for Making Vinegar.

No. 50,525. Patented Oct. 17, 1865.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHRISTOPHER WESENER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR MAKING VINEGAR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,526, dated October 17, 1865.

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, the undersigned, CHRIS- TOPHER WESENER, of the city of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton, in the State of Ohio, have invented anew and useful Apparatus called the Self-Acting Acidilier,77 for making vinegar from cider and other liquids possessing the necessary elements for producing vinegar, ot which the following is a full and exact description.

An oblong cask, described in the drawing accompanying this specification, (marked A,) is filled with close-curled shavings, D, made from beech or other non-resinous wood. The upper half ot' each head of the cask is pierced with six holes, C.

The acidifier, thus constructed, is placed in an equable temperature ot' 750 or S0O Fahrenheit. Clearand somewhat hard cideris poured through the bung-hole B, until the cask is tilled to the air-line E. The shavings by capillary action induce a slow and continuous circulation of the cider into the upper part of the aciditier, where it is exposed over the surface ot' the shavings to the atmosphere, from which itabsorbs oxygen and gradually becomes acidied. The atmosphere is renewed in the aciditier by a current ot' air passing through holes C and B, and through the same apertures the impure air generated during the process of acidification obtains egress. After a period of from two to three weeks, (more or less,) owing to temperature, atmosphericinfluA ences, &c., the cider is converted into good, strong, clear, vinegar, possessing in a more eminent degree the color, aroma, flavor, Ste., than when made by the old and tedious process of slow fermentation, requiring` from two to three years to accomplish.

It may occur from adverse circumstances that the acidier may partially1 cease to act. A good. remedy in such a case is to turn the aciditier once in twenty-four hours, alternatelyto the right and left, as far over each way as the bung-hole will permit without the escape of the liquid. While doing this all air-holes C must be closed by inserting a plug, except the upper one. Two or three gallons ot' the liquid may be Withdrawn, heated to S50 or 900 Fahren heit, and returned as a means to restore suspended acidification.

I do not claim beech shavings as originating with me, neither do I confine myself to their particular use, as many other substances yielding surface and c.1pable of producing capillary motion in liquids may be substituted to produce the same principle of action essential to a self-acting aciditler.

I do not limit my claim lo any particular form or size of vessel used to contain shavings or other substance, or apparatus used to produce the desired effect, nor `to the position in which the aciditier may be placed, whether perpendicular or horizontal.

Although this acidier was invented more particularly for making vinegar from cider, yet

it is equally adapted for converting into vinegar any other liquid possessing the elements for producing vinegar, and I claim for it such an extended use.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as original and my invention, is-

The manner ot' constructing a self-acting aciditier and its principle ot' action by capillary attraction.

In testimony \vhereot' I, the said CHRISTO- PHERWESENER, hereto subscribe my name, in the presence ot' the Witnesses whose names are hereto subscribed, on the 1st day of September, A. D. 1865.

CHRISTOPHER WESENER.

Witnesses J AMES H. LAWS, C. F. HANsELM/IN.