AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PREPARATION OF CHOCOLATE AND COCOA
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Riley, of 14, Victoria Terrace, Victoria Street,
Manchester, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PREPARATION
OF CHOCOLATE AND COCOA."
Sealed the 21st May 1858, and dated the 23rd November 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Riley at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd November
1857.
I, SAMUEL RILEY, of 14, Victoria Terrace, Victoria Street, Manchester, do
hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
PREPARATION OF CHOCOLATE AND CocoA," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the application of lentils in the manufacture of
chocolate or cocoa. They may be applied in the form of a decoction or
liquid produced from the seed or flour of lentils, or in the form of paste
produced from the seed or flour either by hot or cold water, milk, or any other
liquid, or by boiling, steaming, or seething, or in the form of flour or powder
produced from the seed of lentils.
I mix or compound the preparation from lentils with powdered cocoa in
various proportions, in the ordinary manner or mode of preparing chocolate
and cocoa for sale.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Riley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
May 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
RILEY, of 1, Victoria Terrace, Victoria Street, Manchester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Riley. Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Riley, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Riley, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRE-
PARATION OF CHOCOLATE AND COCOA," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Samuel Riley, 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 Samuel Riley, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention consists in the application of lentils in the manufacture of
chocolate or cocon. They may be applied in the form of a decoction or liquid
produced from the seed or flour of lentils, or in the form of paste produced
from the seed or flour, either by hot or cold water, milk or any other liquid,
or by boiling, steaming, or seething, or in the form of flour or powder produced
from the seeds of lentils. I mix or compound the preparation from lentils
with powdered cocoa in various proportions, in the ordinary manner or mode
of preparing chocolate and cocoa for sale.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same. The state in which I
prefer to employ the lentils is, when it is reduced to flour and free from husks

page_text: The proportions in which lentils may be combined with cocoa or
chocolate may be greatly varied, and the matters combined therewith for
flavoring or otherwise may also be greatly varied as heretofore. The pro-
portions which I prefer are as follows:-
or bran. The proportions in which lentils may be combined with cocoa or
chocolate may be greatly varied, and the matters combined therewith for
flavoring or otherwise may also be greatly varied as heretofore. The pro-
portions which I prefer are as follows:-
For one preparation I take at the rate of,-
Four parts by weight of lentil flour;
. One part by weight of sugar or saccharine matter;
Eleven parts by weight of cocoa reduced to powder.
For another preparation I take at the rate of,-
Four parts by weight of lentil flour;
Two parts by weight of sugar or saccharine matter;
One part by weight of the flour of sago, tapioca, rice, or arrowroot;
Nine parts by weight of cocoa reduced to powder.
For another preparation I take,-
Four parts by weight of lentil flour;
Two parts by weight of sugar or saccbarine matter;
Two parts by weight of the flour of sago, tapioca, rice, or arrowroot;
And eight parts of cocoa reduced to powder.
The above are the preparations most extensively used; but as before stated,
the proportions of the lentils may be further varied, and such is also the case
in regard to the other matters used therewith when combining lentils with
cocoa. The several matters having been mixed together in the desired
proportions, I crush or grind the mixture in the ordinary manner in which
cocoa or chocolate is generally prepared. I retain them when desired in a
state of powder after crushing and grinding, in which case I prefer to sift
the combined matters through a fine sieve.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the manner of
performing the same, I would bave it understood that what I claim is the
combining lentils in the preparation of chocolate and cocoa.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Riley, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
JOHN EVANS RILEY,
Lord Street, Oldham.
SAMUEL RILEY. (L.S.)