IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ABRATED AND OTHER BEVERAGES FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES OR FOR REFRESHMENT, AND OF MATERIALS TO BE USED IN SUCH BEVERAGES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Maugham at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st November 1881.
THOMAS MAUGHAM, of 40, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex.
$$ IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ABRATED AND OTHER BEVERAGES
FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES OR FOR REFRESHMENT, AND OF MATERIALS TO BE
USED IN SUCH BEVERAGES OR FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
My Invention relates to improved methods of manufacturing beverages, aërated
or not, and containing in addition to other materials acetate of iron; so prepared as
not to be liable to decomposition or deterioration in the presence of alkalis or their
salts when mixed with or taken in conjunction with such beverages.
Iron in the form of per-acetate is very valuable as a tonic and as a refreshing
beverage, but it lies not hitherto been practicable to use it as a component part of
aerated water used as medicine or for refreshment on account of its unstable nature
and liability to decomposition under such circumstances; and my present Invention
bas for its objects improved methods of manufacturing aerated or other beverages
containing such acetate of iron, and of manufacturing and preparing the acetate of
iron so that it shall not be liable to decomposition when so used.
For this purpose I take carbonate of iron as ordinarily manufactured, and I
macerate it for a sufficiently long time in pure liquid acetic acid of ordinary
strength. To the resulting solution I add tartaric acid and citric acid in quantity
which may be varied according to the conditions under which the product is to be
used. The effect of such addition of tartaric and citric acids is to render the
solution of acetate of iron stable and not liable to decomposition when added to
aërated or other beverages, or when associated with alkalis, such as soda, aminonia,
potash, or their salts.
In order to manufacture aerated or other beverage containing per-acetate of iron,
I take a suitable quantity (which may be varied as desired) of the mixture
prepared as above described, and I add to it a quantity, the proportion of which
may also be varied, of syrup of lemon, vanilla, or any other desired fruit or other
suitable material, and I mix them together and add water, preferably filtered or
distilled, which may be aërated in the usual well understood way with carbonic
acid or other gas.

page_text: Acetate of iron is valuable as a tonic medicine, and is palatable as a beverage,
and beverages prepared according to my Invention as above described promote
digestion, the stimulating effect of the iron prepared as described enabling the
digestive organs to extract more nutritive matter from food, and causing a larger
quantity to become adapted for assimilation.
Other medicinal or other ingredients may be added to the compound prepared
as above described.
The acetate of iron, prepared as described, not being liable to decomposition or
change, alkalis or their salts used medicinally or otherwise may be taken at the
same time without interfering with its beneficial effects. It may be used for other
purposes where freedom from deterioration is required as well as for the manufacture
of aërated or other beverages as described.