IMPROVEMENTS IN AERATED BEVERAGES
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Solomon Wellcome at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th February 1881.
HENRY SOLOMON WELLCOME, of the Firm of Burroughs, Wellcome, and
Company, of Snow Hill, in the City of London, Manufacturing and Importing
Chemists. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AERATED BEVERAGES."
This Invention relates to that class of beverages in which are contained
substances of a medicinally invigorating or stimulating character, chiefly designed
to counteract the effects on the human body of excess of mental or physical
labour.
My improved beverage is prepared by combining with aërated water one (or a
combination of any one or all) of the following substances:-
First. Caffeia or caffiena, an alkaloid, the active crystallizable principle of and
which is obtainable from coffea arabica (Lin.) as also from other species of coffea
and from various other plants.
Second. Theobromina, an alkaloid, the active crystallizable principle of and
which is obtainable from theobroma cacao (Lin.), as also from other species of
theobroma and various other plants.
Third. Cocoina (also known as crythroxylina), an alkaloid, the active crystal-
lizable principle of and which is obtainable from erythroxylin coca (Sain.), also
from other species of erythroxylin and other plants.
Fourth. Guaranin, an alkaloid, the active crystallizable principle of and which
is obtainable from paullinia sorbilis (Martins), also from other species of paullinia
and other plants.
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Fifth. Ilixanthin, an active crystallizable principle, which is obtainable from
ilex paraguayensis (St. Hil.), also known as "terba mate" or "Paraguay tea," and
from other species of ilex and other plants.
To these crystallizable principles is due the active invigorating and stimulating
properties of the above named plants. The manner or method of preparing my
improved beverage is preferably as follows:
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A known or given quantity of one or all of the above named principles is
dissolved in an earthenware or porcelain vessel in slightly acidulated water, which
should be at a temperature of from 100 to 150 degrees Fahrenheit. To this
solution may then be added any suitable flavouring substances, such as fruit,
syrup, or juice, wine, or spirit, for the purpose of rendering the beverage more

page_text: palateable, also in certain cases other crystallizable principles, such as theine, and
substances of a medicinal character, such as quinine, the hypophosphite and bromide
salts may also be employed.
A known dose of the solution is then placed in a bottle and diluted by the
addition of water, which is subsequently charged with carbonic acid gas in the
ordinary manner.
The proportions and doses which it will be advantageous to use will be known
to persons skilled in the art to which this Invention pertains; but as an example it
may be stated that 1 grain of theine or 1/100 grain of theobromina to the pint of
beverage formed has been found an advantageous proportion.
I am aware that it has been before proposed to use decoctions and infusions of
tea, coffee, and chocolate, and similar substances, but in so far as I am aware the
before named alkaloids and active crystallizable principles have not been employed
in the manufacture of aërated beverages.