IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED AND OTHER BEVERAGES FOR RESTORATIVE AND MEDICINAL PURPOSES.
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to David Johnson, of Wrexham, in the County of Denbigh,
Manufacturing and Analytical Chemist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED AND OTHER BEVERAGES FOR RESTORATIVE
AND MEDICINAL PURPOSES.
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Sealed the 11th June 1878, and dated the 13th December 1877.
Sealed the 11th June 1878, and dated the 13th December 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by the said David Johnson at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th December 1877
DAVID JOHNSON, of Wrexham, in the County of Denbigh, Manufacturing and
Analytical Chemist. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED AND
OTHER BEVERAGES FOR RESTORATIVE AND MEDICINAL PURPOSES."
This Invention relates to liquids to which I apply the term "zoedone" or "life
giver," for the reason that they contain substances that are highly valuable as nerve
tonics, and are very effectual in supplying the waste of nervous power consequent
upon mental and physical labour and sickness.
My said Invention consists in the combination of the chemical substances or
preparations herein-after specified with any kind of medicine or medicinal substance,
or with wine, spirits, syrups, or other liquids used as beverages. The chemical
substances which I employ for the preparation of my improved beverages are the
soluble phosphates of lime, iron, potass, and soda; also the lacto-phosphates of lime
and iron, and unoxidized phosphorus.
The chief object of the said Invention is the production of aerated beverages
prepared by the addition of the said phosphates, or lacto-phosphates, or unoxidized
phosphorus (or all or any of these combined) to such substances as quinine, sarsa-
parilla, taraxitum, podophyllin, pepsine, lacto-pepsine, gentian, hops, cardamums, and
the like, or with any of the various forms of salicine, or with wine, or spirits, or
fruit juices, and syrups.
In practising my Invention I prefer to proceed as follows, that is to say .-I first
make a phosphorized or phosphuretted syrup, that is to say, the soluble phosphates
are combined in the manner ordinarily adopted by chemists and then mixed with

page_text: about ten times their bulk of strong saccharine liquid or syrup, which_may_be
flavoured or medicated as desired, and coloured with cochineal or any other harmless
pigment. It is important that this order of mixture should be observed, as if the
flavouring or medicaments are added before the syrup is mixed with the phosphates
the iron will be precipitated, and therefore much of the restorative or medicinal
value of the beverage will be lost, whereas when the above order or method of pro-
ceeding is observed the beverage will keep perfectly clear, and the full strength of
the phosphates will be retained.
The bottles or other vessels for containing the improved beverage are dosed with
a suitable quantity, say from 1 to 3 ounces, of this phosphorized or phosphuretted
syrup, which latter is then aërated in the manner usually employed for aerating
liquids, that is to say, by water charged with carbonic acid gas. I prefer that the
aerated water used for this purpose should be perfectly free from alkalinity, as I
have found by experiment that gaseous alkaline water tends to make the beverage
turbid after it has been kept a short time.
But although I consider that the most advantageous results may be obtained by
applying my Invention to the manufacture or preparation of aurated beverages, yet
I wish it understood that I may also prepare my improved beverages for restorative,
or medicinal, or curative purposes without aërating the same, the peculiar, novel,
and important feature of the said Invention being the combination or mixture of the
phosphates or phosphorus above specified with the liquid to form a beverage, whether
the same be aërated or otherwise.
In the addition of the aforesaid phosphorized syrup to wino, spirits, fruit syrup,
or fruit juice, care must be taken that these substances are at the time entirely free
from acetous fermentation. I therefore mix with them, to preserve them, a small
quantity of any suitable substance prior to the addition of the aforesaid phospho-
rized syrup. I have found salicilic acid very advantageous for this purpose. The
phosphorized syrup is added to or mixed with the wine, syrup, or juice in the pro-
portion of from 1 to 2 fluid drams of the phosphorized syrup to every wine glassfull
of the liquid to be phosphorized.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said David Johnson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th June
1878.
DAVID JOHNSON, of Wrexham, in the County of Denbigh, Manufacturing and
Analytical Chemist. " IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED AND
OTHER BEVERAGES FOR RESTORATIVE AND MEDICINAL PURPOSES."
"
or "life
This Invention relates to liquids to which I apply the term "zoedone
giver," for the reason that they contain substances that are highly valuable as nerve
tonics, and are very effectual in supplying the waste of nervous power consequent
upon mental and physical labour and sickness
My said Invention consists in the combination of the chemical substances or
preparations herein-after specified with water, wine, spirit, malt liquor, syrup, or
other liquids used as beverages, which beverages may or may not contain any
desirable bitter or tonic substances The chemical substances which I employ for
the preparation of my improved beverages are the soluble phosphates of lime, iron,
potass, and soda, also the lacto-phosphates of lime and iron, and unoxidized
phosphorus.
The chief object of the said Invention is the production of aerated beverages
prepared by the addition of the said phosphates, or lacto-phosphates, or unoxidized
phosphorus (or all or any of them combined), to a suitable liquid, which may in
some instances contain such substances as quinine, sarsaparilla, taraxicum, podophylin,
pepsine, lacto-pepsine, gentian, hops, cardamums, and the like, or any of the various
forins of salicine.
In practising my Invention I prefer to proceed as follows, that is to say:-I first
make a phosphorized or phosphuretted syrup by combining the soluble phosphates
in the manner ordinarily adopted by chemists, and then mixing with about ten
times their bulk of strong saccharine liquid or syrup, which may be flavored or
medicated as desired, and colored with cochineal or other harmless pigment. It is
important that this order of mixture should be observed, as if the flavoring or medi-
caments are added before the syrup is mixed with the phosphates the iron will be
precipitated, and therefore much of the restorative or medicinal value of the
beverage will be lost, whereas when the above order or method of proceeding is
observed the beverage will keep perfectly clear, and the full strength of the
phosphates will be retained.
The bottles or other vessels for containing the improved beverage are dosed with
a suitable quantity, say from one (1) to three (3) ounces of this phosphorised or
phosphuretted syrup, which is then aerated in the manner usually employed in
nerating liquids, that is to say, by the use of water charged with carbonic acid gas.
I prefer that the aerated water used for this purpose should be perfectly free from
alkalinity, as I have found by experiment that gaseous alkaline water tends to
make the beverage turbid after it has been kept a short time.
But although I consider that the most advantageous results may be obtained by
applying my Invention to the manufacture or preparation of aerated beverages yet
I wish it understood that I may also prepare my improved beverages for restorative,
medicinal, or curative purposes without aerating the same, the peculiar, novel, and
important feature of the said Invention being the combination or mixture of the
phosphates or phosphorus above specified with the liquid to form a beverage,
whether the same be aërated or otherwise.
In the addition of the aforesaid phosphorized syrup to wine, spirits, fruit syrup,
or fruit juice, care must be taken that these substances are at the time entirely free
from acetuous fermentation. I therefore mix with them for their preservation a
small quantity of any suitable substance prior to the addition of the aforesaid
phosphorized syrup. I have found salicylic acid very advantageous for this purpose.
The phosphorized syrup is added to or mixed with the wine syrup or juice in the

page_text: proportion of from one (1) to two (2) fluid drams of the phosphorized syrup to every
wine glassfull of the liquid to be phosphorized.
Having thus fully described my said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I wish it understood that I claim, the manufacture of aerated or
other beverages by the combination or mixture of the soluble phosphates of lime,
iron, potass, and soda, or the lacto-phosphates or unoxidized phosphorus (or any or
all of these substances), with water, wine, malt liquor, spirit, fruit or other syrup,
or other liquid, and either with or without other substances, for the purpose
specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said David Johnson, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight.
DAVID JOHNSON. (LS.)