AN IMPROVED COMPOUND, OR BREAKFAST MIXTURE.
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Thomas Sturley, of Church Street, South
Lynn, in the County of Norfolk, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
COMPOUND, OR BREAKFAST MIXTURE.
Sealed the 30th September 1856, and dated the 5th April 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Thomas Sturley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 5th April 1856.
I, HENRY THOMAS STURLEY, of Church Street, South Lynn, in the County
of Norfolk, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED COMPOUND, OR BREAKFAST MIXTURE" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in compounding into a mixture the following
ingredients, namely, prepared malt, prepared rice, and chicory; the malt and
rice each in about equal proportions, and the chicory in the proportion of
about one-eighth part thereof to seven-eighth parts of the malt and rice when
mixed together. The above ingredients, whilst dry, are well and thoroughly
mixed and incorporated together into a mixture, which is afterwards made up
into packages of convenient size for use.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Thomas Sturley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th October 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
THOMAS STURLEY, of Church Street, South Lynn, in the County of Norfolk,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry
Thomas Sturley, Her special licence, that I, the said Henry Thomas Sturley,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Thomas Sturley, 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 IMPROVED COMPOUND, OR BREAK-
FAST MIXTURE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry
Thomas Sturley, 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
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Thomas Sturley, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in compounding into a mixture the following
ingredients, namely, prepared malt, prepared rice and chicory; the malt
and chicory each in about equal proportions, and the rice in the proportion
of about one-eighth part thereof to seven-eighth parts of the malt and chicory
when mixed together. The above ingredients whilst dry are to be well and
thoroughly mixed and incorporated together into a mixture, which is afterwards
to be made up into packages of convenient size for use.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now pro-
ceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same
into practical effect, as follows:-I take one hundredweight of roasted chicory

page_text: one hundredweight of roasted malt, and half a hundredweight of roasted
rice; these ingredients, when dry, are separately ground by suitable machinery
of the ordinary kind, and afterwards sifted to separate extraneous matters
therefrom; they are then thoroughly mixed and incorporated together, and
the mixture made up into packages ready for use.
I would here remark, that the proportions of the above-mentioned ingredients
are such as to produce a palatable mixture or compound when mixed with
boiling water, or boiled therewith, as the case may be, and sweetened with
sugar according to taste; I do not, however, intend to limit or confine myself
to the above proportions, as they may be varied to suit the palates of different
persons; this, however, applies more particularly to the chicory, as I prefer in
all cases having the malt and chicory in about equal proportions.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention of "An
Improved Compound, or Breakfast Mixture," together with the best means I
am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I would remark,
in conclusion, that what I claim as my Invention intended to be secured to mo
by the above in part recited Letters Patent is, the compounding of chicory,
malt, and rice, into a mixture constituting an improved compound, or breakfast
mixture.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Thomas Sturley, have hereunto set
my hand and seal this Thirtieth day of September, in the year of our
Lord Ono thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
PETER PENTNEY,
Sedgeford Lane, Lynn.
HENRY THOMAS STURLEY. (L.S.)