IMPROVE MENTS IN VARIOUS BEVERAGES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Warry, of Oak Cottage, Parkstone, in
the County of Dorset, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE
MENTS IN VARIOUS BEVERAGES."
Sealed the 16th August 1872, and dated the 18th April 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Warry at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th April 1872.
I, HENRY WARRY, of Oak Cottage, Parkstone, in the County of
Dorset, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS BEVERAGES,” to be as follows:-
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The souluble extract of tea or coffee is obtained by evaporating to
dryness an infusion of either substance by any well-known -method, as
in evaporating pans, it is then intimately mixed with fine sugar and
milk (the latter in a dessiccated or powdered state, which state is pro-
duced by means similar to those employed in the preparation of the
extracts before mentioned) and described, the whole forming a con-
centrated, dry, soluble, and portable compound, it is then packed in

page_text: any convenient manner, so that either beverage may be used by the
mere addition of hot water to a portion of one or other of the compounds
or combinations above mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Warry in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th October 1872.
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TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL, COME, I, HENRY
WARRY, of Oak Cottage, Parkstone, in the County of Dorset, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her:
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
fifth year
of Her reign, did for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Henry Warry, Her special licence, that
I, the said Henry Warry, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, tho said Henry Warry, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN VARIOUS BEVerages,”
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Warry, my
exccutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and scals, 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 I, the said Henry Warry, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
The features of novelty claimed for this Invention of "Improvements
in various Beverages" are the following, viz., the production of a con-

page_text: contrated, dry, soluble, and portable compound or combination in a
state of powder, containing (according to the kind of extract used) all
the necessary ingredients for the immediate production of, say, for
example, tea or coffee (but cocoa or other beverages of an analogous
kind may be prepared in like manner) with milk and sugar in proper
proportion ready for use as a beverage by simply adding hot water to a
portion of one or the other of the aforesaid compounds or combinations.
The method of preparing these compounds is the same for both tea
and coffee, this description will therefore apply equally to both. Make
a strong infusion of good tea or coffee, in either case the material should
be finely ground, that the full flavor and virtues may be extracted more
readily; now pour the infusion into a steam jacketed evaporating pan,
turn on the steam (which should be of low pressure), the infusion gets
rapidly thicker in consequence of the moisture being driven off by heat.
When the material in the pan has become quite dry and brittle (which
may be known by taking out a small portion, allowing it to cool, and
seeing if it snaps in two when bent,) it must be removed into another
apartment, where the atmosphere is as dry as possible, allowed to cool
until brittle, and then reduced to fine powder either in a mortar or by
any suitable method; it must then be put into perfectly clean and air-
tight bottles or other receptacles, the object being to keep it from all
atmospheric action until wanted.
The milk powder is prepared in precisely the same manner by taking
any quantity of condensed milk as usually sold in tins, or by mixing
sugar with ordinary fresh milk, and treating it in the evaporating pan
as before described until it is dry enough to reduce to powder. Keep in
air-tight bottles or other receptacles. The sugar employed is simply
good loaf finely powdered, and kept free from dust, &c. in a dry
atmosphere.
These materials are now to be intimately mixed in any approved
proportion, which being a mere matter of taste is not subject to fixed
rules, but can be regulated by trying a portion of the compound and
correcting it accordingly, or they can be kept separate and distinct for
use without being mixed.
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This compound can either be kept in bulk or packed loosely or by
pressure into any convenient but air-tight receptacle; when required for
use a portion of the compound will immediately dissolve if hot water be

page_text: added to it, thus providing a ready means of using either beverage with
the usual adjuncts of milk and sugar.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Warry, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.