Improvements erages
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Mar., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 16th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 6th Feb., 1897
I HENRY CHURCH BACKHOUSE of The Retreat, Dundalk, Ireland, Wine
Merchant and Aërated Water Manufacturer, trading as Henry Backhouse & Co.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists in the improved manufacture of combined alcoholic and
aërated beverages such as "brandy and soda," "whisky and soda," and the
like.
The spirit, which is preferably of full strength or of a strength greater than
"proof" is added during the bottling process, whereby a permanent compound
is formed and amalgamated in bottles or other suitable vessels ready for
consumption.
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
Improvements
erages,
I, HENRY CHURCH BACKHOUSE of The Retreat, Dundalk, Ireland, Wine
Merchant and Aërated Water Manufacturer trading as Henry Backhouse & Co.
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 in the improved manufacture of combined alcoholic and
aërated beverages such as brandy and soda, whisky and soda and the like.
The spirit which is preferably of full strength, that is of equal or greater
strength than "proof," is added during the bottling process whereby a permament
alcoholic and aërated compound is formed and amalgamated in bottles or other
suitable vessels ready for consumption.
In practice the strengths of different brandies, whiskies, or other spirits vary
slightly, but it should be noted that the spirits to be mixed with an aërated
beverage should be of a certain strength as I have ascertained by careful
experiments that it is necessary that the spirits used should not have been
reduced beforehand by water or any other added ingredient whatever or by
anything save and except by being matured, that is to say I have found that the
use of full strength spirits is of the greatest importance if indeed it be not
absolutely necessary. If the spirits be not of full strength the resulting combined
alcoholic and aërated beverage will be of an unsatisfactory nature or at least two
large a quantity of spirits will be required in proportion to the soda water or the
like, and then the result is often not to be relied on.

page_text: In making for instance brandy and soda or whisky and soda according to my
invention I add 15 to 20 per cent. of spirits to 85 to 80 per cent. of soda water or
the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I am aware
that it has been proposed many times to combine, as a manufacture, spirits, wines,
ales, beers, cordials and the like with aërated beverages in varying proportions,
and I do not therefore broadly claim the use and employment of such a combination
or combinations but what I claim is :-
A beverage consisting of a spirit such as brandy, whisky or the like of full
strength or over proof combined with an aërated liquid substantially as set
forth.
Dated this Sixteenth day of December 1900
JENSEN & SON,
77 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.