A NEW OR IMPROVED DESCRIPTION. OF BISCUIT MANUFACTURED PROM THE CACAO BEAN
Year: 1869

page_text: Sealed the 5th November 1869, and dated the 8th May 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Cadbury, George
Cadbury, and John Murly Rendall at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 8th May 1869.
WC, RICHARD CADBURY and GEORGE CADBURY, of Birmingham, in.
the County of Warwick, Cocoa Manufacturers and Copartners, and
JOHN MURLY RENDALL, of Torquay, in the County of Devon, Cocoa
Manufacturer and Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said:
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED DESCRIPTION. OF BISCUIT MANUFACTURED
PROM THE CACAO BEAN," to be as follows:-

page_text: The object of this Invention is to manufacture a new or improved
kind of biscuit in which the principal constituent part shall be the
cacao bean. For the purpose of being so used the cacao bean is ground
in the customary manner, and when ground there is associated with it
farinaceous matter, sugar, and butter. The whole is then mixed and
prepared in the usual manner to form the biscuit. By preference the
mixer employed is heated with steam, gas, or by some other equivalent
means.
Our Invention is designed to provide in the form of a biscuit
those substantial and nourishing qualities which are now only afforded
by a meat biscuit, and to combine with this the invigorating
properties and delicious flavour the cacao bean affords without the
disadvantages of the former kind of biscuit, such as the tendency
to decompose, the unpleasant taste it possesses, and the like; and
our Invention is designed especially for travellers and others who are
unable to take their regular meals, and for invalids.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard Cadbury, George Cadbury, and John
Murly Rendall in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th November
1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, RICHARD
CADBURY and GEORGE CADBURY, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Cocoa Manufacturers and Copartners, and JOHN MURLY
RENDALL, of Torquay, in the County of Devon, Cocoa Manufacturer and
Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-first year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Richard Cadbury, George Cadbury, and John
Murly Rendall, Her special licence that we, the said Richard Cadbury,
George Cadbury, and John Murly Rendall, our executors, adminis-
trators, or assigns, or such others as we, the said Richard Cadbury,
George Cadbury, and John Murly Rendall, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time

page_text: 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 OR IMPROVED
DESCRIPTION OF BISCUIT MANUFACTURED FROM THE CACAO BEAN," upon the
condition (amongst others) that we, the said Richard Cadbury, George
Cadbury, and John Murly Rendall, our executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under our, 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 we, the said Richard Cadbury, George
Cadbury, and John Murly Rendall, do hereby declare the nature of
our 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) :-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture a new or improved kind
of biscuit in which the essential constituent part shall be the cacao bean.
For the purpose of being so used the cacao bean is ground in the
customary manner, and when ground there is associated with it farina-
ceous matter, sugar, and butter. The whole is then mixed and prepared
in the usual manner to form the biscuit. By preference the mixer
employed is heated with steam, gas, or by some other equivalent
means.
Our Invention is designed to provide in the form of a biscuit those
substantial and nourishing qualities which are now only afforded by a
meat biscuit, and to combine with this the invigorating properties
and delicious flavour the cacao bean affords without the disadvantages
of the former kind of biscuit, such as the tendency to decompose, the
unpleasant taste it possesses, and the like; and our Invention is designed
especially for travellers and others who are unable to take their regular
meals, and for invalids.
We have already explained that the constituent parts of our improved
biscuit are mixed and prepared in the usual manner, it being understood
from what has been said that instead of the biscuit consisting wholly of

page_text: farinaceous matter, sugar, and butter, the essential ingredient will be the
cacao bean.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention and the
manner in which the same may be carried into effect, we desire it to
be understood that what we claim as the Invention to be protected
by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, a new or improved
description of biscuit in which the essential constituent part shall
be the cacao bean prepared in the manner herein-before set forth and
described.
In witness whereof, we, the said Richard Cadbury, George Cadbury,
and John Murly Rendall, have hereunto set our hands and seals,
this Sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord 1869.
Witness,
G. R. HOLLAND,
Patent Office,
Birmingham.
RICHARD CADBURY. (L.S.)
GEORGE CADBURY.
J, M. RENDALL.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)