AN IMPROVEMENT IN AERATED WATERS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Hineson, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN AERATED
WATERS."
Sealed the 25th September 1866, and dated the 31st March 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Hineson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st March 1866.
I, ROBERT HINESON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
AERATED WATERS," to be as follows:-
Both natural and artificial aerated waters, that is to say, waters containing
or charged with carbonic acid gas, when exposed or subjected to climatic or
other variations of temperature lose to a great extent their effervescing
properties and become flat and musty flavoured. Great inconvenience is
experienced in ships making long voyages, and in the colonies and other
distant places supplied with these beverages from this country, from the effects
above named, for it not unfrequently happens that the whole, or nearly the
whole stock becomes useless, and this even when the best bottles or vessels
are employed.
By my Invention, which consists of combining with any aerated water a
small quantity (one-eighth more or less) of alcohol or spirit, say brandy, rum,
whiskey, or gin, before or at the time of bottling, I am enabled to produce

page_text: these beverages in such a condition that they will retain their briskness for a
greater length of time than as now manufactured, and possess their medicinal
qualities as well as an agreeable and desired flavour. I would have it under-
stood that my Invention relates only to a combination or simple mixture of the
fluids named, and does not embrace any of those beverages, such as sparkling
cider and perry, in which fermentation has been allowed to take place.
In carrying my Invention into effect, when artificially prepared aerated
waters, such as soda water and lemonade, are used, I add the desired alcohol
or spirit to the water before it is surcharged with the carbonic acid gas, or I
place the alcohol or spirit in the bottle or vessel and then add the water and
carbonic acid gas thereto by the bottling apparatus ordinarily employed, the
bottles being afterwards closed by the usual means. To natural aerated
waters I add the alcohol or spirit and close the bottles in the ordinary
manner..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Hineson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
28th September 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
HINESON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Robert Hineson, Her special license that I, the said Robert Hineson,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Robert Hineson, my executors, administrators, "and 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
AERATED WATERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Robert Hineson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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

page_text: Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Hineson, 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):-
Both natural and artificial aerated waters, that is to say, waters containing
or charged with carbonic acid gas, when exposed or subjected to climatic or
other variations of temperature lose to a great extent their effervescing
properties and become flat and musty flavoured. Great inconvenience is
experienced in ships making long voyages, and in the colonies and other
distant places supplied with these beverages from this country, from the effects
above named, for it not unfrequently happens that the whole, or nearly the
whole, stock becomes useless, and this even when the best bottles or vessels
are employed.
By my Invention, which consists of combining with any aerated water a
small quantity (one-eighth more or less) of alcohol or spirit, say brandy, rum,
whiskey, or gin, before or at the time of bottling, I am enabled to produce
these beverages in such a condition that they will retain their briskness for a
greater length of time than as now manufactured, and possess their medicinal
qualities as well as an agreeable and desired flavour. I would have it under-
stood that my Invention relates only to a combination or simple mixture of the
fluids named, and does not embrace any of those beverages, such as sparkling
cider and perry, in which fermentation has been allowed to take place, nor to
artificial cordials or wines.
In carrying my Invention into effect, when artificially prepared aerated
waters, such as soda water and lemonade, are used, I add the desired alcohol
or spirit to the water before it is surcharged with the carbonic acid gas, or I
place the alcohol or spirit in the bottle or vessel and then add the water and
carbonic acid
gas thereto by the bottling apparatus ordinarily employed, the
bottles being afterwards closed by the usual means. To natural aerated
waters, such as Vichy waters, I add the alcohol or spirit and close the bottles
in the ordinary manner.
Having now set forth the nature and particulars of my said Invention in
such terms that any person acquainted with the preparation of aerated waters
will be enabled to carry the same into effect, and having also mentioned some
of the advantages secured by its use, I would have it understood that what I
claim as a new manufacture is, combining or mixing a small quantity of
any kind of alcohol or spirit with a larger quantity of aerated water, be

page_text: the latter either natural, that is mineral, or artificial, substantially as herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Hineson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
In the presence of
JOHN T. KING,
Patent Agent,
Liverpool.
ROBERT, HINESON. (L.S.)