IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NUTRITIVE DRINKS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Tallerman and William Clarke, both of
Cannon Street, in the City of London, Australian Merchants, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NUTRITIVE
DRINKS."
Sealed the 15th June 1875, and dated the 16th December 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Tallerman and
William Clarke at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 16th December 1874.
We, DANIEL TALLERMAN and WILLIAM CLARKE, both of Cannon
Strect, in the City of London, Australian Merchants, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF NUTRITIVE DRINKS," to be as follows:-
. The object of this Invention is to provide a refreshing and nutritious
drink which while it possesses somo likeness to beer both in respect to
"

page_text: As a basis for this nutritive drink we take what is known as soluble
meat extract, whether obtained from mutton or beef. This we dissolve
in water and boil for a short time, and after boiling we subject the same
to filtration to remove the solid matters therefrom. To this limpid fluid
we add as a digestive an infinitesimal proportion of hydrochloric acid,
and having prepared an infusion of hops in the ordinary or any approved
manner, we mix the same with the solution of meat extract in such
proportions as may be determined by taste.
We may remark as a further indication of the proportions of materials
used that for making a pint of the drink about one ounce of the meat
extract as sold will be used, such extract having about the consistence
of honey. The drink thus prepared may be supplied to the markèt in
bottles or in casks.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by tho said Daniel Tallerman and William Clarke in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 16th June 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, DANIEL 2
TALLERMAN and WILLIAM CLARKE, both of Cannon Street, in the City
of London, Australian Merchants, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-eighth
year of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Daniel Tallerman and William Clarke, Her special
licence that we, the said Daniel Tallerman and William Clarke, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
Daniel Tallerman and William Clarke, our executors, administrators, and

page_text: assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to timo
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
NUTRITIVE DRINKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Daniel Tallerman and William Clarke, our executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and 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 we, the said Daniel Tallerman and William
Clarke, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to

page_text: herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Daniel Tallerman and William
Clarke, have hereunto set our hands and seals, the Fifteenth
day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.