OZONIZED OR OXYGENATED BREAD, BISCUITS, CAKES, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES.
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Welton, of 13, Grafton Street, Fitzroy.
Square, in the County of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs, for the.
Invention of "OZONIZED OR OXYGENATED BREAD, BISCUITS, CAKES, AND OTHER
SUBSTANCES.."
Sealed the 17th April 1868, and dated 'the 23rd October 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Welton at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd October
1867.
I, THOMAS WELTON, of 13, Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square, in the County
of Middlesex, Maker of Artificial Limbs, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "OZONIZED OR OXYGENATED BREAD, BISCUITS, CAKES, AND OTHER
SUBSTANCES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a new process for curing disease in man &
animals by means of charging the food with ozone, oxygen, or other gases as.
found most suitable, and also for rendering that food more nutritious and more.
capable of sustaining animal life, using by preference vegetable substances..
either in their raw or cooked state, and in, the following manner :-I take
the substance to be charged with ozone or gas (wheaten bread, for instance),
using oxygen gas in preference to others, and put it under the receiver of
an air pump or other vessel answering the same purpose and exhaust it and

page_text: the substance of the atmospheric air that they contain, when so. exhausted I
turn a stop-cock to which is attached a vessel containing oxygen or other gas,
which consequently rushes into the vacuum previously formed and fills. it with
the oxygen or other gas or ozone, and so charges the substance, whether solid
or liquid, or partially so. For these purposes I use suitable boxes of metal or
other material to contain the substance that I desire to be charged with ozone,
oxygen, or other gases so that I may be able to remove them.. The aforesaid boxes
containing the substance or substances may be exhausted of air separately or
in bulk by placing a number of them in a large and suitable receiver or vessel
answering the same purpose, which may be exhausted of air and afterwards
charged with ozone, oxygen, or other gas as before described, and if desirable
I will still further charge with ozone or gas the substance or substances in the
boxes and receiver by forcing into them a larger quantity than they
would otherwise hold of gas or ozone and securing it while there by suitable
appliances.
And I claim as part of my Invention the making of dough with wheaten or
other flour, and while in that state and previous to baking it to form bread
charge it with ozone, oxygen, or other gas (excepting only carbonic gas for
this purpose only), so as it or they may act as a ferment on the said dough,
either by forcing a stream of ozone or other gas through the aforesaid dough
or by exhausting and charging as before described.
And I further claim as my Invention the right to use ozone, oxygen, or
other gases in the causing of barley, or other grain to germinate in the process
of malting and in the following manner :-The barley or other grain is to be
steeped as usual in water, then drained of all the superfluous moisture and put
into a'vat, cistern, or other suitable vessel and closely covered; a stream of
oxygen or other gas is then to be forced by pressure from the bottom or other
part of the said vessel through a fit opening and into the whole mass of grain,
and allowed to stand at rest till it germinates or sprouts,, which it will do in a
few hours and with much more certainty than by the method now in common
use. I use such implements and machinery and motive power as may be
found necessary for the above, purposes...
And finally I do not confine myself to any specific mode of manufacturing or
obtaining the said ozone, oxygen, or other gases, but. use those in common use,
taking especial care to procure each one as pure as possible.