A NEW PREPARATION OF COFFEE
Year: 1855

page_text: Sealed the 4th March 1856, and dated the 27th September 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Victor Théry at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th September 1855.
I, CHARLES VICTOR THERY, of London, Chocolate Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW PREPARATION OF COFFEE"
to be as follows:-
First, the coffee is first roasted and reduced to powder, and then ground like
cocoa, with the addition of sugar and some suitable fatty substance, preferably
butter of cocoa, and the paste thus obtained is put into moulds, as for chocolate;
second, the paste may be boiled in a water bath, with the addition of an
infusion of coffee, and of a quantity of sugar, so as to make a kind of liquid
confection; and, lastly, by further concentration it may be formed into drops
or "bonbons."

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Victor Thery in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
VICTOR THERY, of London, Chocolate Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Victor Thery, Her special licence that I, the said Charles
Victor Thery, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Charles Victor Thery, 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 "A
NEW PREPARATION OF COFFEE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Charles Victor Thery, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 Charles Victor Thery, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
Hitherto coffee has only been prepared in the form of a more or less
concentrated extract, and used as a beverage, or to flavor some other
substance.
Now, my Invention consists in preparing coffee as an article of food in the
form of a sweetmeat or otherwise, in such a manner as to render its constituent
principles available.
The preparation consists in rolling coffee (previously roasted and ground)
together with some fatty substance and sugar until it acquires a pasty con-
sistency, when it may be put in shapes or moulds, as is done with chocolate;
or it may be further treated, by placing the paste thus obtained in a vessel,

page_text: which is put into another vessel containing water, and leaving it over a fire to
simmer, adding water, coffee, and sugar till it forms into a semi-liquid sweet-
meat, which when cold may be eaten in that state; or rendered firmer and more
consistent, so as to be made up into bonbons, &c.
The manner in which I carry my Invention into effect is as follows:-To
make coffee into solid tablets or shapes, I first roast the coffee over a gentle
fire till it becomes of a brownish color, and the essential oil begins to separate,
which appears by the coffee becoming glossy on the top, when it is taken from
the fire and left to cool. I then grind it in a mill er pound it in a mortar (a
wooden mortar being preferable), adding to it about an equal quantity of sugar.
When the whole is ground or pounded into a fine powder, I take it from the
mill or mortar, add to it a quantity of butter of cocoa, or other suitable fatty
substance, in the proportion of about 3 parts butter of cocon to 5 coffee (more
or less), and place the mixture on a stone moderately heated (as in making
chocolate), and roll it gently with a roller until it acquires a semi-liquid pasty
consistency. I then add twice as much sugar as before, and go on rolling till
the paste becomes soft and yielding, when I pour it into tin moulds to shape
it into tablets or other suitable forms, and leave it to harden. It is then ready
for use.
To prepare it as a sweetmeat, I take the coffee mixed with sugar and butter
of cocoa or other fatty matter and rolled into a paste, as before (varying, how-
ever, the proportions; that is to say, to every 50 oz. coffee, I take 20 oz. sugar,
and 8 oz. butter of cocoa), and add a warm infusion of coffee, equal in weight
to the ground coffee, with about four times as much sugar. I then place the
mixture in a vessel, which I put into another vessel containing water, and
leave it to simmer over a gentle fire. After it has been on the fire for, say,
3 hours, another warm or lukewarm infusion of coffee with a little sugar is
added, and the whole is left to simmer for a couple of hours longer. It is
then taken off, and will be found to have acquired a semi-liquid consistency
like honey, and when cool it is to be poured into jars, which are tightly stop-
pered. Or I give greater firmness or consistency to the semi-fluid substance
thus obtained, and make it up into balls, lozenges, &c., which may be frosted
with crystallized sugar. I do not limit myself to the foregoing proportions,
but vary them, according to the use for which the coffee is intended, whether
as a sweetmeat, or for tablets to be dissolved as a beverage; and I add Bechie's
pectorals, essences, flavoring or sanitary ingredients in the course of pre-
paration, according to taste.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim preparing coffee
(with sugar and a fatty substance and other ingredients) in the manner herein-
before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Victor Théry, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
CH. ARMENGAUD, Ing* Civil,
Rue Filles du Calvaire, No. 6, à Paris.
CH. V. THERY. (L.S.)