IMPROVEMENTS IN CONFECTIONERY OR SWEETMEATS.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Coombs, of Hackney Wick Confectionery
Works, Hackney Wick, in the County of Middlesex, of the Firm of
Clarke, Nickolls, and Coombs, Manufacturers of Confectionery, for
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IMPROVEMENTS IN CONFECTIONERY OR SWEETMEATS.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Coombs at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th June 1875.
I, ROBERT COOMBS, of Hackney Wick Confectionery Works, Hackney
Wick, in the County of Middlesex, of the Firm of Olarke, Nickolls, and
Coombs, Manufacturers of Confectionery, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CONFECTIONERY OR SWEETMEATS,"
to be as follows :-
This Invention consists firstly of a new description of confectionery,
sweetmeat, or comfit which I call "motto comfits," in each of which
is enclosed or contained printed or written matter, photographs, or other

page_text: articles which have hitherto been considered unsuitable for being
enclosed in sweetmeats or comfits.
The mode in which this new sweetmeat or comfit is manufactured is
as follows: The printed or written matter, photograph, or article to be
enclosed in the sweetmeat or comfit is enclosed in maccaroni, or covered
with paste, gum arabic, gelatine, or other suitablo substanco, and allowed.
to dry. When sufficiently dry the articles are placed in a comfit pan,
and syrup or sugar is thrown over them, while the pan is being rocked
or revolved in the ordinary modes of manufacturing this species of
confectionery.
The Invention consists, secondly, of another new description of con-
fectionery, sweetmeat, or comfit which I call "bead comfits.". Theso
are made in the following manner:-Picces of tubular maccaroni (or
other tubular substances) are placed in the comfit pan, and as the pan
is rocked or revolved syrup or sugar is thrown over them according to
the ordinary modes of manufacturing.comfits. The sugar consolidates
itself on all parts of the tubes, and thereby makes comfits in the form
of beads which may be strung like ordinary beads.
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SPECIFICATION. filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order, of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Robert
Coombs in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th December 1875.
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TO ALL TO WHOM-THESE-PRESENTS-SHALL-COME, I, ROBERT
COOMBS, of Hackney Wick Confectionery Works, Hackney Wick, in the.
County of Middlesex, of the Firm of Clarke, Nickolls, and Coombs,
Manufacturers of Confectionery, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most. Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Robert Coombs, Her special
licence that I, the said Robert Coombs, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Coombs, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no

page_text: 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
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IN CONFECTIONERY OR SWEETMEATS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Robert Coombs, my executors, or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
scals, 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 on or
before the Twenty-first day of December, One thousand cight hundred
and-seventy-five.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Coombs, 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) :—
This Invention consists firstly of a new description of confectionery,
sweetmeat, or comfit to which I have given the name of "motto,
comfits," in each of which said comfits is enclosed or contained printed.
or written matter, photographs, or other articles which have hitherto
been considered unsuitable for being enclosed in sweetmeats or comfits.
The mode in which this new sweetmeat or comfit is manufactured is
as follows: The printed or written matter, photograph, or article to bo
enclosed in the sweetmeat or comfit is first enclosed in or placed in the
interior of pieces of maccaroni, or the said printed or written matter,
photograph, or article to be enclosed in the sweetmeat or comfit may be
enclosed in boiled or hardened sugar, or covered with paste, gum arabic,
gelatine, or other suitable eatable substance, and allowed to dry. The
articles enclosed in the maccaroni, or boiled or hardened sugar, or the
articles covered with the paste, gum arabic, gelatine, or other suitable
eatable substance, when sufficiently dry are placed in a comfit pan, and
syrup or sugar is thrown over them while the pan is being rocked or
revolved in the ordinary mode of manufacturing this species of con-
fectionery, and in this manner the syrup or sugar will adhere to and
consolidate on the surface of the maccaroni or other covering, and so
form a comfit having in its interior the printed or written matter,
photograph, or other article.

page_text: This Invention consists secondly of another new description of
confectionery, sweetmeat, or comfit, to which I have given the name of
"bead comfits.". These are made in the following manner:-Pieces of
tubular maccaroni of the desired size (or other suitable tubular eatable
substances) are placed in the comfit pan, and as the pan is rocked or
revolved, sugar or syrup is thrown over them according to the ordinary
modes of manufacturing comfits. The sugar or syrup adheres to and
consolidates on all parts of the tubes, and thereby makes comfits in the
form of beads which may be strung like ordinary beads.
Having thus described and particularly ascertained the nature of my 1
said Invention, and the manner in which the same may be performed
or carried into effect, I do hereby declare that what I claim as the
Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is,―
First. The confectionery sweetmeats or comfits which I call "motto 1
comfits," herein-before described under the first head of my Invention.
Secondly. The confectionery sweetmeats or comfits which I call
"bead comfits," herein-before described under the second head of my
Invention.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Coombs, have hereunto set 2
my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.