A NEW METHOD OF PREPARING PLANTS OF THE EUCALYPTUS FAMILY AND MYRTACEAN PLANTS, AND THE APPLICATION THEREOF. TO THE PURPOSES OF TOBACCO AND SNUFF
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street, 'in
the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "A NEW METHOD
OF PREPARING PLANTS OF THE EUCALYPTUS FAMILY AND MYRTACEAN PLANTS,
AND THE APPLICATION THEREOF. TO THE PURPOSES OF TOBACCO AND SNUFF."
A communication from abroad by Prosper Vincent Ramel, of Paris,
France.
Sealed the 1st June 1866, and dated the 9th December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th December 1865.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent; do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW METHOD OF PREPARING PLANTS OF THE EUCALYPTUS FAMILY AND
MYRTACEAN PLANTS, AND THE APPLICATION THEREOF TO THE PURPOSES OF TOBACCO
AND SNUFF," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the utilization of the leaves and bark of plants of
the eucalyptus family and myrtacean plants for all purposes for which the
tobacco plant is now used. These plants do not contain the injurious pro-
perties of tobacco, the vegetable elements of which they are composed being
altogether inoffensive. The juices expressed and the essences evaporated from
them are agreeable both to the taste and smell. Their ashes possess no
corrosive or astringent action, and do not affect either the mucous parts of the

page_text: palate and throat, or the gums or the enamel of the teeth. Their smoke
contains no injurious vapour. I may especially mention in the eucalyptus.
family the eucalyptus odoratu, eucalyptus globulus, eucalyptus gigantea, and
the myrtacean species of the same genus. After gathering the leaves I dry
them; I next submit them to a bleaching treatment by hot water or damp
steam, and I then desiccate them. In this state they are fit for the ordinary
operations tobacco usually undergoes to be manufactured into snuff, cigars,
cakes, rolls, or otherwise.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by Amelia Susannah Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
9th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AMELIA
SUSANNAH BROOMAN, of Twickenham, in the County of Middlesex, Widow and
Sole Executrix of Richard Archibald Brooman, late of 166, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Patent Agent, deceased, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, in the year. of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of: Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Amelia Susannah Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Amelia
Susannah Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Amelia Susannah Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time 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 "A NEW METHOD OF PREPARING PLANTS OF THE EUCALYPTUS FAMILY AND
MYRTACEAN PLANTS, AND THE APPLICATION THEREOF TO THE PURPOSES OF TOBACCO
AND SHUFF," (communicated to the said Richard Archibald Brooman from abroad
by Prosper Vincent Ramel, of Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Amelia Susannah Brooman, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Amelia Susannah Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
This Invention consists in the utilization of the leaves and bark of plants of
the eucalyptus family and myrtacean plants for all purposes for which the
tobacco plant is now used. These plants do not contain the injurious pro-
perties of tobacco, the vegetable elements of which they are composed being
altogether inoffensive. The juices expressed and the essences evaporated from
them are agreeable both to the taste and smell. Their ashes possess no
corrosive or astringent action, and do not affect either the mucous parts of the
palate and throat, or the gums or the enamel of the teeth. Their smoke
contains no injurious vapour. I may especially mention in the eucalyptus
family the eucalyptus odoratu, eucalyptus globulus, eucalyptus gigantea, and
the myrtacean species of the same genus. After gathering the leaves I dry
them; I next submit them to a bleaching treatment by hot water or damp
steam, I then desiccate them. In this state they are fit for the ordinary
operations tobacco usually undergoes to be manufactured into snuff, cigars,
cakes, rolls, or otherwise.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim preparing plants
of the eucalyptus family and myrtacean plants substantially as herein-before
described, and applying them to the purposes of tobacco and snuff.
In witness whereof, I, the said Amelia Susannah Brooman, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.