IMPROVEMENTS IN CONFECTIONERY
Year: 1885

page_text: ROBERT SERVICE Chemist, Bridgend House, Dalry, Ayrshire do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN CONFECTIONERY to be as
follows:-
To make artificial mixtures of the mineral ingredients found in milk, namely:
lime, magnesia, potash, soda and iron in chemical combination with phosphoric,
hydrochloric and sulphuric acids; and to incorporate varying proportions of these
mixtures with the ingredients used in the manufacture of all the ordinary varieties
of confections namely: sugars, gums, gelatine and the usual flavoring matters, and
thus form a class of confections capable of supplying all the mineral substances or
salts required by the bones and other parts or organs of the human body.

page_text: I, ROBERT SERVICE of Bridgend House, Dalry, in the County of Ayr, North
Britain do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
CONFECTIONERY and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
To make artificial mixtures of the mineral ingredients found in milk, namely,
lime, magnesia, potash, soda and iron in chemical combination with phosphoric,
hydrochloric, and sulphuric acids, and to incorporate varying proportions of these
mixtures with the ingredients used in the manufacture of all the ordinary varieties
of confections namely sugars, gums, gelatine and the usual flavouring matters, and
thus form a class of confections capable of supplying all the mineral substancescor
salts required by the bones and other parts or organs of the human body
My Invention.consists in preparing mixtures or combinations of all or part of
the mineral ingredients or salts found in milk, or the ash of milk, and incorporating
certain per centages of them with every. kind, form. and description of ordinary
confections or sweets made from sugars, gums, butter, gelatine, or other substances
or mixtures of these, with or without flavoring matters in the ordinary process of
manufacture, and in the manner hereinafter described, thus converting them into
foods capable of supplying all the mineral substances required by the bones and
other parts of the growing human body. Also in consequence of their being saturated'
with phosphates of lime and magnesia, rendering them less liable to act on the teeth
of those who-use them. According to distinguished chemists, the mineral ingredients
found in the ash of milk are:-lime, magnesia, potash, soda, and iron in chemical
combination with phosphoric, hydrochloric and sulphuric acids, and they are believed
to exist as phosphates of lime, magnesia, iron, potash and soda, chlorides of potassium
or sodium and sulphate of potash. I shall hereinafter in describing my Invention
refer to the aforementioned salts as "milk salts."
In the first place it is requisite to obtain quantities of the various "milk salts,"
which must be pure, as prepared for medical purposes, free from smell, perfectly
dry and ground to impalpable powder.
In the next place portions of them should be weighed off in the following
proportions :-

page_text: In the next place the weighed portions of "milk salts" should be thoroughly and
carefully mixed together. This may either be done by repeated turnings or by
some mechanical process of stirring.
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I shall hereinafter refer to the mixture so prepared as the "milk salt mixture."
Having decided as to the weight of the batch or boiling of confections intended
to be made, it is next requisite to weigh off a quantity of the "milk salt mixture
equal to one and a half per cent of it. This proportion may be lessened to one
half per cent or increased to three per cent, but I prefer a proportion of one and a
half per cent as being very suitable for the purpose of my Invention. In the next
place the weighed portion of the "milk salt mixture" should be added to the
sugar and other ingredients of the confections and very thoroughly and equally
incorporated with them by the ordinary methods of mixing the ingredients of
confections employed in the trade. Thereafter the manufacture of the confections
should proceed in the usual way.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I do not
confine myself to the use of the identical salts that I have hereinbefore named,
because I am aware that there are other salts well known to chemists which might
be used and which by re-acting on, and mutually decomposing, each other, would
yield the "milk salts" employed by me, nor do I confine myself to the proportions
of individual "milk salts" which I recommend, nor to the exact per centage of the
"milk salt mixture" which I have hereinbefore mentioned, although these are in
my opinion the cheapest, best, and most suitable that can be employed; nor do I
confine myself to using the whole of the "milk salts" which I have mentioned, but
reserve liberty to use a lesser number of them, as for instance phosphates of lime,
magnesia, iron, potash and soda omitting the chlorides and sulphate; or using only
the phosphates of lime and magnesia and omitting the others, but what I do
claim is
The making of artificial mixtures or combinations of all or part of the mineral
substances found in milk or the ash of milk and incorporating more or less of them
with the various forms, kinds and styles of ordinary or unmedicated confections
made from sugars, gums, butter, gelatine or other substances or mixtures of these
with or without flavouring matters, in the usual process of manufacture and
substantially in the manner herein before described.