IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING COD LIVER OIL AND OTHER OILY OR FATTY MATTERS TO RENDER THEM ACCEPTABLE TO THE PALATE
Year: 1868

page_text: LEITERS PATENT to Alfred Vincent Newton, of the Office for Patents,
66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical
Draughtsman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING COD
LIVER OIL AND OTHER OILY OR FATTY MATTERS TO RENDER THEM ACCEPTABLE
TO THE PALATE"-A communication from abroad by Thaddeus
Hyatt, of the City and State of New York, United States of
America.
Sealed the 4th May 1869, and dated the 23rd December 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Vincent Newton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd December 1868.
I, ALFRED VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery
Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING
COD LIVER OIL AND OTHER OILY OR FATTY MATTERS TO BENDER THEM ACCEPTABLE
TO THE PALATE," to be as follows:
GORW C

page_text: bination with oils and fatty substances, said combinations being either
chemical or mechanical or both. In order to sweeten oils and fatty
substances the rancid material is worked over into a vessel charged with
either carbonic acid gas or carbonated water, and to preserve them they
are sealed up in air-tight vessels charged with carbonic acid gas or
carbonated water. In general it is preferred to have a pressure of the
gas within the vessel so as to ensure the contents against any possible
entrance of the external air.
In preserving milk it is preferred to condense it by any known process
used for this purpose, and then to charge this condensed milk with gas
in a vessel completely air-tight. To make butter that will be always
sweet the churn containing the milk and cream is charged with carbonic
acid gas before commencing to churn; the butter is therefore produced
without ever coming in contact with the atmosphere. It is then taken
from the churn and packed in pound or larger quantities in suitable
vessels charged with gas or carbonated water.
In preparing cod liver and other medicinal oils for the double purpose
of preserving them sweet and to render them palatable and digestible,
the following course is adopted, viz.:-A syrup of gum arabic made after
the ordinary formula for making "syrup of gum," and mixed with a
small quantity of gelatine is added to the medicinal oil in any desired
quantity and well mixed by agitation. This mixture is put into the
air-tight vessel and then charged with water under gas pressure. Any
of the mineral waters such as "Vichy," Congress, or other similar waters
may be used in place of simple carbonated water, and any medicinal
substance such as iodine or other such element may be added to cod
liver oil prepared by the above described process without materially
changing its nature. Thus prepared the oil is put up in the ordinary
way of putting up mineral and soda, waters with suitable flavouring.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Vincent Newton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd June 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
VINCENT NEWTON, of the Office for Patents, 66, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, Mechanical Draughtsman, send greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and succes-
sors, give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, Her
special licence that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred
Vincent Newton, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING COD LIVER OIL AND OTHER OILY
OR FATTY MATTERS TO RENDER THEM ACCEPTABLE TO THE PALATE," being a
communication to me from abroad by Thaddeus Hyatt, of the City and
State of New York, United States of America, upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, 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 Alfred Vincent Newton, 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 (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to a new process of sweetening and preserving
oils and fatty substances, which process is particularly applicable to cod
liver and other medicinal oils, inasmuch as it not only sweetens and pre-
serves them as oils, but it likewise deprives them of their disagreeable
flavor, so that instead of being repulsive to the taste they become
positively agreeable. Another and not less important result is that the
process renders these oils digestible.
The Invention consists in the employment of carbonic acid gas, either
in a gaseous form or in the form of a carbonated water, in combination
with oils and fatty substances, said combinations being either chemical
or mechanical or both. In order to sweeten oils and fatty substances

page_text: the rancid material is worked over into a vessel charged with either
carbonic acid gas or carbonated water, and the plan of preserving these
substances is to seal them up in air-tight vessels charged with carbonic
acid gas or carbonated water. In general it is preferred to have a
pressure of the gas within the vessel, so as to insure the contents against
any possible entrance of the external air.
In preserving milk it is preferred first to condense it by any known
process used for this purpose, and then to charge the condensed milk
with gas in a vessel completely air-tight. To make butter that will
retain its sweetness, the churn containing the milk and cream is charged
with carbonic acid gas before commencing to churn; the butter is there-
fore produced without ever coming in contact with the atmosphere. It
is then taken from the churn and packed in pounds or larger quantities
in suitable vessels, which are to be charged with gas or carbonated water
as herein-before described.
In preparing cod liver and other medicinal oils for the double purpose
of preserving them sweet and to render them palatable and digestible,
the following course is adopted, viz.-A syrup of gum arabic made
after the ordinary formula for making "syrup of gum," and mixed with
a very small quantity of gelatine is added to the medicinal oil in any
desired quantity, and the whole are then well beaten together. This
mixture thus obtained is put into the air-tight vessel and then charged
with water under gas pressure. Any of the mineral waters such as
"Vichy," "Congress," or other similar waters may be used in place of
simple carbonated water, and any medicinal substance, such as iodine
or other such element, may be added to cod liver oil prepared by the above
described process without materially changing its nature. Thus pre-
pared the oil is to be put up in the ordinary way of putting up mineral
and soda waters with suitable flavoring.
Having now set forth the nature of the Invention of "Improvements
in Treating Cod Liver Oil and other Oils or Fatty Matters to Render
them Acceptable to the Palate, and explained the manner of carrying the
same into effect, I wish it to be understood that under the above in
part recited Letters Patent I claim,-
First. The method of sweetening and preserving oils and fatty sub-
stances, substantially as described.

page_text: Secondly. Combining cod liver oil and other medicinal oil with either
a mineral or a carbonated aerated water or with a combination of the
same, and securing such prepared oils in air-tight vessels under gas
pressure, substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Vincent Newton, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-third day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
nine
10
Witness,
J. W. MOFFATT,
66, Chancery Lane.
TON. (L.S.)
A. V. NEWTON.