AN IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICATED AND OTHER AERATED WATERS."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Owen Willis, of Monmouth, in the County of
Monmouth, Surgeon, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICATED
AND OTHER AERATED WATERS."
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Owen Willis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th July 1880.
GEORGE OWEN WILLIS, of Monmouth, in the County of Monmouth, Surgeon.
AN IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICATED AND OTHER AERATED WATERS."
This Invention relates to a new method of treating medicated and other aërated
waters, whereby aërated waters so treated are rendered bland and palatable, whilst
the flavour of the medicinal salts when employed, such, for example, as salts of
potash, soda, ammonia, and bromides of the above salts, and salts of iron, are
disguised and rendered more palatable, even when any of the said salts are exhibited
in full doses. The Invention consists essentially in the addition of glycerine or
other like bodies resulting from the distillation of fatty matters to medicated and
other acrated waters. The proportion which has given good results is about one.
drachm of glycerine to ten fluid ounces of water impregnated with gas by the
methods most commonly approved, but other proportions may be employed.
The advantages obtained by this Invention are as follows:-
1. The aërated water is rendered more palatable.
2. Aërated waters treated as above described keep longer than ordinary aërated
waters, and at the lapse of an indefinite period are free from any putrefactive change
in the water, or chemical alteration of the salt or salts with which such aërated
water was originally charged.
3. That the crude and mostly soapy taste of ordinary medicinal aërated soda,
potash, and other alkaline waters is removed, and the soapy taste is lost by the
introduction therein or addition thereto of this class of body.
4. The addition of aërated waters containing glycerine in accordance with this
Invention to spirits or wines renders the taste of the spirit or wine bland and
mild.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Owen Willis in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th
January 1881.
GEORGE OWEN WILLIS, of Monmouth, in the County of Monmouth, Surgeon.
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICATED AND OTHER AERATED WATERS."
My said Invention relates to a new mode or method of treating medicated and
other nerated waters, whereby aërated waters so treated are rendered bland and
palatable, whilst the favour of the medicinal salts when employed (such, for
example, as salts of potash, soda,-ammonia, and bromides of the above salts, and
salts of iron) is disguised and rendered more palatable, even when any-of-the-said
salts are exhibited in full doses. My Invention consists essentially in the addition
of glycerine or other like bodies resulting from the distillation of fatty matters
to medicated and other aërated waters. The proportions which I have found to
give the best results in practice are about one drachm of glycerine to ten fluid
ounces of water impregnated with gas by the methods most commonly approved, 1
but I do not contine or restrict myself to these proportions, as they may be varied
without departing from the essential feature of my said Invention.
The advantages obtained by my Invention are as follows:-
1. The aërated water is rendered more palatable.
2. Aërated waters treated as above described keep longer than ordinary aërated
waters, and after the lapse-of-an-indefinite period are free from any putrefactive
change in the water or chemical alteration of the salt or salts with which such
aërated water was originally charged.
3. The crude and soapy taste of ordinary medicinal aërated soda, potash, and
other alkaline waters is completely removed therefrom by the introduction therein
or addition thereto of the class of body hereinbefore described.
4. The addition of aërated waters containing glycerine in accordance with
this Invention to spirits or wines renders the taste of the spirit or wine bland
and mild.
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 mode or method of treating medicated and other aërated waters by the
addition thereto of glycerine or other like bodies resulting from the distillation of
fatty matters in or about the proportions hereinbefore set forth for the purposes
specified.
In witness whereof, I, tho said George Owen Willis, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.