Improvements in or relating to Beverages.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Beverages.
JOSEPH CASTLE HALL 2 Gresham Buildings, Basinghall Street E.C. London
Chartered Accountant, 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 relates to an improved method of blending drinks (to be known as
The Patent Blended Drinks) prior to the sale thereof to the customer and has for
its object the more perfect blending of spirits or wine with water and the securing to
the buyer of a guaranteed quantity or percentage of spirit and at the same time,
when required, a guaranteed quality of pure mineral or other water.
For example I prepare a drink of Scotch whisky and soda water (Patent Scotch
Blend) containing for example rd of a pint altogether including say 25 per cent.
of the whole, of spirit; or I make up a drink of brandy and Buxton mineral or
other water (Patent Brandy Blend) containing rd of a pint of liquid altogether,
30% of which may be brandy, and 70% Buxton mineral water, and so on.
not confine myself to quantities of either water or spirit nor to any particular
spirit or wine or mineral or other water.
I do
The novelty of my invention is in the sale of combined or blended drinks as
aforesaid, and the utility lies in the convenience to the buyer and the better security
afforded him of the purity of the liquids purchased.
The said blended drinks I arrange in any suitable bottles with suitable stoppers
seals and certificates of contents etcetera. Spirits may also be mixed with water as
aforesaid, and then subjected to either oxygen or carbonic acid or other gas or the
application of the gas may be effected with either of the liquids before they are
blended together.
Drinks blended in accordance with my invention also afford important advantages,
chemically and medicinally to the consumer this resulting from the liquids being
completely amalgamated as opposed to the sudden mixing and consuming hitherto
practised.
Having now described & particularly ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1) The blending of spirits or wines with water before the sale thereof and in
suitable proportions as commonly consumed substantially as set forth.
(2) The mixing or blending of spirits with water before the sale thereof in
proportions as usually consumed, and the application of any suitable gas to produce
aeration either before or after the 2 liquids are mixed together substantially as set
forth.
(3) The bottling of spirits or wines mixed with mineral or other waters in
proportions as generally consumed to secure complete amalgamation of the two
liquids with the attendant chemical and hygienic advantages to the consumer and
the method of selling or vending such bottles and contents in this compact and
convenient form and certified in any desirable manner as to percentages of strength
or quantities.
Dated this 27th day of Tune 1802
J. CASTLE HALL.