Improvements in the Preservation of Condensed Milk, and of Milk either Condensed or in the Natural State, in Admixture with other Alimentary Matters and Medicinal Matters, or Mixtures or Preparations of such Matters.
Year: 1885

page_text: Improvements in the Preservation of Condensed Milk, and of
Milk either Condensed or in the Natural State, in Admixture
with other Alimentary Matters and Medicinal Matters, or
Mixtures or Preparations of such Matters.
I JOHN HOOKER of N° 104 Upper Thames Street in the City of London
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE PRESERVATION OF CONDENSED MILK AND OF MILK EITHER CONDENSED
OR IN THE NATURAL STATE IN ADMIXTURE WITH OTHER ALIMENTARY MATTERS
AND MEDICINAL MATTERS OR MIXTURES OR PREPARATIONS OF SUCH MATTERS
to be as follows:-
"
My invention consists of the improvements herein after described in the
preservation of condensed milk and of milk (condensed or otherwise) in admixture
with other alimentary matters and medicinal matters or mixtures or preparations
of alimentary matters or of medicinal matters the objects of my said invention
being to avoid the objections and inconveniences which attend the use of such
matters or mixtures or preparations when preserved in cases or jars or the like
and to facilitate the use of such matters or mixtures or preparations in the
preparation of beverages and in culinary operations.
According to my said Invention I take the matters or mixtures of matters to be
preserved preferably after they have been prepared in any suitable way which
will ensure the ready action of water thereon and I enclose or encase portions of
the matters so prepared in or I envelope or surround or coat or cover them with
sugar or any suitable or required alimentary matter or matters or mixture or
mixtures of alimentary matters capable of solution or disintegration in water and
capable of preserving the enclosed matters from the action of the atmosphere
sufficiently to protect them from being materially affected thereby.
In cases where the matters to be preserved are required to be coated or coverod
with or enclosed in matters of such nature as to be liable to act injuriously on or
to be injuriously acted on by the matters to be preserved I surround or enclose
the latter with or in a coating or envelope of any suitable matter capable of
solution or disintegration in water and which will not injuriously affect or act on
D

page_text: or be injuriously affected or acted on by either the matters to be preserved or the
matter required to be used for the outer covering or envelope and I then cover or
enclose the matters so coated or enclosed with or in the required outer covering
or envelope. Or I otherwise effect the separation of the matters to be preserved
from the matters required to form the outer protecting coating or envelope by the
interposition of suitable and unobjectionable matter.
In cases where the matter or matters required to be used for the outer coating
or covering or envelope is or are of such nature as to be liable to be decomposed
or injuriously affected by the action of the atmosphere I add any suitable anti-
septic or preservative to the said matter or matters or I otherwise treat the said
matter or matters with a suitable antiseptic or preservative.
'
Dated this fifteenth day of December 1885.
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page_text: with other Alimentary Matters and Medicinal Matters, or
Mixtures or Preparations of such Matters.
I JOHN HOOKER of N° 104 Upper Thames Street in the City of London
Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this Invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
My invention consists of the improvements herein after described as being
employed in the preservation of condensed milk and of milk (condensed or other-
wise) in admixture with other alimentary matters and medicinal matters or
mixtures or preparations of alimentary matters or of medicinal matters.
In preserving condensed milk according to my Invention I form a case or
capsule of sugar or of a composition consisting of other suitable alimentary matters
such as those hereinafter mentioned and I fill the said case or capsule with con-
densed milk and close the said case or capsule with a cover or plug or stopper of
sugar or of a composition similar to that from which the capsule is made or of
other matter which will not injuriously affect or act on the milk to be preserved
and which will not be otherwise objectionable and I seal the junction of the case
or capsule and its cover or plug or stopper with gum or syrup or other suitable
matter.
The alimentary matters other than sugar which are suitable for use in the
manufacture of the capsules are glucose and gum and starch and other farinaceous
matter. I use the said matters either in admixture with sugar or in admixture
with each other as hereinafter stated namely:
1. Sugar and Glucose.
2. Sugar and Starch or any other Farinaceous matter.
3. Sugar and Glucose and Starch or any other Farinaceous matter.
4. Gum and Sugar.
5. Gum and Starch or any other Farinaceous matter.
6. Gum and sugar and Starch or any other Farinaceous matter.
7. Glucose and starch or any other Farinaceous matter.
8. Gum and Glucose and starch or any other Farinaceous matter.
9. Gum and Glucose and sugar and starch or any other Farinaceous matter.
The glucose may be used in any proportion not sufficient to prevent the com-
position from becoming hard on cooling. The proportion of glucose may with
advantage be about one part by weight to nine parts by weight of the other
ingredients.
The sugar and gum and starch or other farinaceous matter may be used in any
proportions as may be found convenient in practice.
The said cases or capsules may be made by the methods ordinarily practised by
confectioners or by any convenient method.

page_text: In preserving mixtures or preparations of milk and other matters capable of
solution or disintegration in water such as mixtures of essence of coffee and milk
and mixtures of cocoa and milk and preparations consisting of milk treated with
medicinal matters or other matters I take the said mixtures or preparations in
any of the forms in which they are ordinarily manufactured and enclose portions
thereof in cases or capsules formed of sugar or of any of the mixtures of ingredients
herein before described as suitable and I close the said cases or capsules as herein
before described.
Or I take portions of the mixtures or preparations to be preserved and roll
them into balls or mould them into any desired form and coat the said portions
with sugar or with a composition consisting of any of the mixtures of ingredients
herein before described as suitable for the manufacture of the capsules. I apply the
coating matters in a plastic state to the said portions or I apply the said coating
matters to the said portions in a revolving pan as in the coating of pills or I dip
the said portions into a fluid or semi fluid preparation of the coating matters or
I apply the said coating matters by any of the processes known to confectioners
and practised in the manufacture of sugar coated goods.
Where as in the case of tea and coffee the matters to be preserved are required
to be used in the preparation of infusions in which the presence of starch or other
farinaceous matter would be objectionable on account of the appearance or flavour
which the presence of such matters would produce I use only sugar or sugar and
glucose or sugar and gum or sugar and gum and glucose in the manufacture of the
cases or capsules or of the coating composition.
In preserving mixtures of milk and cocoa I in some cases coat them by dipping
portions of the said mixtures into melted cocoa (termed by confectioners "neat
work") or into a mixture of melted cocoa and sugar or by otherwise applying
melted cocoa or a mixture of melted cocoa and sugar thereto.
In preserving ground coffee or tea or other like matters together with milk
I mix the said matters and the milk together and coat or encase the mixture as
herein before described.
Where the matters required to be preserved with the milk are (like tea and
coffee) of such nature that they will not dissolve in water and infusions only of
the said matters are required I mix them with milk and then enclose them in a
bag or envelope of permeable fabric or material and then encase the whole in or
with the protecting covering. The object of using the said bag of permeable
material is to admit of the ready removal of the insoluble matter from the
infusion.
In preserving as hereinbefore described condensed milk and mixtures of milk
and cocoa or coffee and other mixtures which are required to be used in the same
way as cocoa and coffee I prefer to divide the milk or mixtures into portions of
about the quantity likely to be required for use at one time. For instance in
preserving a mixture of cocoa and milk with a coating of sugar the said mixture
may be divided into portions each of which will be sufficient for the preparation
of an ordinary cup of the beverage and the quantity of sugar used for the coating
may be that which will be required for sweetening that quantity of the beverage
consequently when a cup of the beverage is required it is only necessary to pour a
sufficient quantity of boiling water upon one of the coated portions of the mixture.
In like manner larger quantities of the matters may be preserved together in
suitable proportions to produce any reasonable quantity of the beverage by the
addition of a definite quantity of boiling water.
In cases where for convenience in use it is desirable to enclose in the protecting
case or coating enclosing the milk any other matter which is required to be used
conjointly with the milk and it is necessary or desirable that the milk and the
said other matter should not come in contact until they are required for use or
until they are enclosed in or coated with the protecting covering I place together
a bag or envelope containing the milk and another bag or envelope containing
the other matter and enclose the said bags in a single capsule or envelope of the

page_text: protecting matter or I coat or cover the said bags or envelopes jointly with the
protecting matter in any of the ways herein before described. Or I surround a bag
or envelope containing the said other matter with condensed milk and then enclose
the whole in a case or capsule of the protecting matter or I apply the coating of
protecting matter thereto in any of the ways hereinbefore described. The said
bags or envelopes may be made of gelatine or other soluble matter or of textile
material or other suitable permeable material and where bags or envelopes of
textile material are used for enclosing matters or mixtures so fluid or so moist as
to be liable to pass through the said material and it is desired to prevent the
enclosed matter from so passing through I size the said bags or envelopes or treat
them with any unobjectionable matter which will prevent the enclosed matter
from penetrating the said material of which they are made.
The kinds of sugar which I use are cane sugar beet sugar maple sugar and milk
sugar which may in some cases be used alone or mixed with grape sugar or glucose.
Condensed milk prepared by any process in which sugar or other saccharine
matter or antiseptics are used may be preserved as hereinbefore described.
I would observe that I make no claim to the preservation as hereinbefore
described of any matter other than milk or mixtures or preparations consisting in
part of milk as herein before described.
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To prevent misapprehension I would also observe that the manufacture known
"chocolate creams "
which consist of a moist preparation or composition
enclosed in shells or cases formed of cocoa is essentially dissimilar from the
manufacture herein before described as the said moist preparation or composition
does not consist of or contain any of the matter to which the term cream is
correctly applied namely the oily constituents of milk but consists of a preparation
of sugar with or without certain flavouring matter no cream of milk or milk
being used in the said preparation and the materials used being of such a nature as
not to be liable to be decomposed by contact with the atmosphere as are milk and
mixtures or preparations consisting in part of milk.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be or may be performed I wish
it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details hereinbefore
described as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention but I claim
First The manufacture herein before described of alimentary articles consisting
wholly or partly of condensed milk protected from the action of the atmosphere by
means of envelopes or coatings consisting of any of the matters or mixtures herein-
before described as suitable for the purpose indicated.
Secondly-The manufacture herein before described of alimentary articles con-
sisting wholly or partly of moist mixtures of milk (whether condensed or in the
natural state) and other alimentary matter or medicinal matter protected from the
action of the atmosphere by means of envelopes or coatings consisting of any of
the matters or mixtures hereinbefore described as suitable for the purpose.
Thirdly The manufacture herein before described of alimentary articles con-
sisting of moist mixtures of milk and cocoa protected from the action of the
atmosphere by coating portions of such mixtures with melted cocoa or with a
composition consisting of melted cocoa and sugar,
Dated thio fifth dess of Amand 1000
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.