Improvements in or relating to Beverages.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 11th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Beverages.
I, RICHARD EDWARD HARRISON trading as Christy and Company of
Smithfield Laboratory, Curzon Street, Leicester, Manufacturing Chemists do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce a beverage or an extract from which
a beverage can be made containing certain well known medicinal properties
hereinafter referred to and which can be put up in various different forms for
consumption.
The invention is mainly designed to supply a beverage which shall combine with
it the very valuable qualities of the coca plant or leaf so widely used as a brain
and nerve tonic and stimulus.
I may combine the coca leaves with either malt or hops or both of the same in
suitable proportions and add any flavoring or coloring substance thereto that I may
deem desirable.
In one form of the invention I may take a fluid extract of coca leaves which
may be made by adding water thereto and applying heat to boil and drive off the
superfluous moisture.
To this there may be added a certain proportion of extract of malt or hops or
both of such ingredients together with any flavoring or coloring substances
desired.
The beverage may be made by adding a sufficiency of water thereto so as to
produce a palatable stimulating and yet non alcoholic drink.
In another form I may add a certain proportion of the extract of coca to the
well known alcoholic drinks, ale, beer and stout, either during the process of
brewing or fermentation or after they are prepared for the market.
I may further, add the medicinal properties of the coca leaves to any of the
various forms of mineral or aerated waters now on the market.
In another form I may prepare an extract in a concentrated form of coca and
malt and hops which the public may purchase and by adding water thereto make a
beverage for their own consumption.
or
Dated this 10th day of March 1896.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.
I, RICHARD EDWARD HARRISON of 36 Wood Street, Ilkeston in the County
of Derby, (late of Smithfield Laboratory, Curzon Street, Leicester) Chemist'a
Assistant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner tho
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to produce a beverage or an extract from which
a beverage can be made containing certain well known medicinal properties

page_text: hereinafter referred to and which can be put in various different forms for
consumption.
The invention is mainly designed to provide a beverage which shall combine
with it the very valuable qualities of the coca plant or leaf which is generally
known for the valuable properties it contains medicinally as brain and nerve tonic
and stimulant.
I may combine the coca leaf with either malt or hops or both of the same in
suitable proportions and add any flavouring or colouring substance thereto that
I deem desirable.
In one form of the invention I take one and a half pounds of the coca leaves and
add to these about three gallons of water, boil gently in a suitable vessel for several
hours, I then draw off the liquor and wash the pulp with boiling water and squeeze
in a suitable press to extract all the valuable portions, I then evaporate this liquor
by placing in a suitable vessel and boiling down until the extract is considerably
concentrated.
I make an extract of hops in precisely the same way using lb. of the hops
and proceeding as stated in the last paragraph, getting the same measured
quantity.
I mix these two extracts together and with them the following:-"Concentrated
"Fresh
extract of malt prepared in vacuo 7 lbs." "Pure saccharine oz."
barm 1lb." "Colouring Ib." "Finings 1 pint." To this I add water to make
up to forty gallons and stand in a moderately warm place for about 18 hours, at a
temperature of from 80° to 85° Fahrenheit, until fermentation has taken place and
ceased; the various extracts having so blended themselves that they become an
agreeable beverage combining the properties of the malt and coca in a non-alcoholic
form which may be termed coca beer, or ale, or stout, coca malt and hop beer, or
ale, or stout.
In using coca as an admixture to herb beer, I take the extracts as given above
and mix with them the ordinary extract of any kind of herbs according to the
direction given and make the beverage according to those directions adding adding
unto herb beer extract the coca extract in the same proportion as hereinbefore
stated.
To make the foregoing beverages I may if so preferred make use of those
extracts of coca as are prepared by the wholesale manufacturing chemists
proceeding in the same manner with bought extracts as with those of my own
preparing.
To make coca non-alcoholic stout I proceed in precisely the same manner as
herein before stated for the beer leaving out the saccharine and substituting 1 lbs.
of liquorice juice.
In another form I may add a certain proportion of the extract of coca to the
well known alcoholic drinks, ale, beer and stout, either during the process of
brewing or fermentation or after they are prepared for the market.
I may further, add the medicinal properties of the coca leaves to any of the
various forms of mineral or aerated waters now on the market which are charged
with carbonic acid gas to aerate thein.
I am aware that coca extract has been used in combination with different wines
but to the best of my knowledge and belief never as herein described.
It will be understood that without departing from the spirit of my invention
I may slightly vary the proportions of ingredients of the herein before mentioned
extracts according to taste and different requirements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The use of coca extract in any form as an ingredient in the manufacture of
non-alcoholic beverages of the ale, beer or stout class, substantially as herein
described.

page_text: 2. The use of coca extract in any form as an ingredient in the manufacture of
intoxicating excisable liquors of the ale, beer or stout class, substantially as
described.
3. The use of coca extract in any form as an ingredient in the manufacture of
aerated waters in which carbonic acid gas is employed in the aeration thereof
substantially as herein described.
Dated this 9th day of January 1807
W. SWINDELL,
Agent for the Applicant.