IMPROVEMENTS IN TUR MANUFACTURE OF BISCUITS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Palmer, of Reading, in the County of
Berks, Biscuit Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN TUR MANUFACTURE OF BISCUITS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Palmer at:
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd July 1869.
I, GEORGE PALMER, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Biscuit
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BISCUITS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the manufacture of biscuits in which
extract or preparation of meat is made a part of the biscuit. A pre-
paration of cheese and biscuit may also be produced in a similar
manner.
In carrying out this Invention I first produce a thin biscuit of any
suitable biscuit material. I find an iron somewhat similar to what is
known as a "wafer iron" suitable for this purpose. Between two of
these thin biscuits I then place or spread over a suitable quantity of the

page_text: extract or other preparation of meat or cheese. The two biscuits so
prepared are then pressed together and further baked, when complete
biscuits ready for the market are produced.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Palmer in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd January 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
PALMER, of Reading, in the County of Berks, Biscuit Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Third day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said George Palmer, Her special license that
I, the said George Palmer, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said George Palmer, my executors, adminis-
trators, or 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 THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BISCUITS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said George Palmer, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and scal, 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 George Palmer, 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, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to the manufacture of biscuits in which
extract or preparation of meat or a preparation of cheese is made a part
of the biscuit.

page_text: According to my Invention I first produce a thin biscuit of any
suitable biscuit material. I find an iron somewhat similar to what is
known as a "wafer iron" suitable for this purpose. Upon two of these
thin biscuits or "wafers" I then place or spread over a suitable quantity
of the extract or other preparation of meat or cheese. The two biscuits
or wafers so prepared are then pressed together, so as to enclose between
them the preparation of meat or cheese, and then dried and further
baked, when biscuits complete and ready for the market are produced.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used
or carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
peculiar manufacture of meat or cheese biscuits, as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Palmer, have to this my
Specification set my hand and seal, the 30th day of December
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
GEORGE PALMER. (L.S.)