A NEW DESCRIPTION OF AERATED WATER OR WATERS, AND WHICH METHOD OF AERATING IS APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER FLUIDS
Year: 1838

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
SEARLE, of Fitzroy Street, London, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by IIer Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of that part of the United Kingdom
called England, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of
May, in the first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Searle, Her especial
licence, that I, the said Charles Searle, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Charles Searle, my exors, admors, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also within all Her Majesty's Colonies and
Plantations abroad, my Invention of "A NEW DESCRIPTION OF AERATED WATER
OR WATERS, AND WHICH METHOD OF AERATING IS APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER FLUIDS;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Charles Searle, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, par-
ticularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, and to cause the same to be
enrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,
as in and by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and
at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Searle, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are described and ascer-
tained in the words following, that is to say :-
I aerate water and other fluids, mineral, saline, saccharine, or spirituous, with
oxygen gas and the compounds of oxygen gas, with nitrogen, and more par-
ticularly as it exists in that combination of oxygen with nitrogen denominated
by chemists the protoxide of nitrogen, by the ordinary and well-known methods
of aerating fluids. The gases for the purpose of aerating water, or any other
fluid that it may be expedient to aerate, I make or obtain by the ordinary
methods of preparation or of procuring them well known to chemists. I
claim the exclusive right or privilege of aerating water and all other fluids
as above mentioned with the before-mentioned gases, namely, oxygen gas in
its simple state, or in combination with nitrogen, and more particularly as it
exists in that combination denominated protoxide of nitrogen, or the same
in various proportions as may be found useful.
The supersaturated and aerated solution of the protoxide of nitrogen in
pure water I denominate oxygenous aerated water, "or beverage," when the
same is variously colored or otherwise flavoured with citric or tartaric acid,
syrup, spice, alcohol, or other materials to render it more palatable; when,
too, it is sometimes found expedient to add to the protoxide of nitrogen, the
aerating gas, an equal proportion of oxygen or to aerate with oxygen exclu-
sively, or the latter with an equal proportion of nitrogen, according to the nature
and intentions held in view in the preparation. And when I mineralise
the said "oxygenous aerated water" with iron, I dissolve therein the oxide of
iron in the proportion of a grain (a little more or less) to the pint, accordingly
to the strength that may be required as a remedial agent, and which I call
oxygenous aerated chalybeate water," or to the water previous to aeration
is the iron added previously dissolved in one or other of the mineral or
vegetable acids, as may be desired or found expedient.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Searle, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eleventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Signed, sealed, and delivered by the within-
named Charles Searle, in the presence of
JEHOSAPHAT CASTELL,
18, Russell Place, Fitzroy Square.
C. SEARLE. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1888, the aforesaid Charles Searle came before our said
Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, 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 Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.