AN IMPROVED PREPARATION TO BE USED WITH OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Challinor, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION TO BE USED
WITH OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Challinor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd March 1881.
JOHN CHALLINOR, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster. "AN IMPROVED
PREPARATION TO BE USED WITH OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE."
This Invention relates to the preparation of certain leguminous substances of
the "leguminosce" or pulse order, and of the sub-order "cisalpinece" as an article.
of food, either mixed with ordinary coffee instead of chicory, or used by itself as a
substitute for coffee.
The leguminous substances which I propose to employ for this purpose are the
pulse known as “carobs' or "algorbs," and are the legumes or seed pods of
the plant known as "ceratona siliqua" (called also "St. John's" or the "locust
tree").
Also the fruit or legume of the plant known as "gleditschia triacanthos," which
is called in North America the "honey locust." I take either of the above
separately, or a mixture of them, in the pod, and after thoroughly drying the same
I break or crush them into small pieces by means of rollers or otherwise, and in
this state I roast them in a similar manner to chicory or coffee, and afterwards
grind the same into a powder.
An infusion of this roasted leguminous powder will be found equal to the finest
coffee, possessing superior qualities as an article of food, and is not liable to the
same objections as coffee and chicory; or if the same is used mixed with ordinary
coffee it will be found very much to improve the flavor thereof, and also to
counteract many of the objectionable qualities possessed by coffee and chicory as a
constant article of food.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Challinor, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
September 1881.
"AN IMPROVED
JOHN CHALLINOR, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster.
PREPARATION TO BE USED WITH OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE."
This Invention relates to the preparation of certain leguminous substances of
the "leguminosce" or pulse order, and of the sub-order "coesalpinece" as an article
of food, either mixed with ordinary coffee instead of chicory, or used by itself as a
substitute for coffee.
The leguminous substances which I propose to employ for this purpose are the
pulse known as "carobs" or "algorbs," and are the legumes or seed pods of
the plant known as "ceratona siliqua" (called also "St. John's" or the "locust
tree").
Also the fruit or legume of the plant known as "gleditschia triancanthus,"
which is called in North America. the "honey locust," and pods of the "coesalpinia
coriaria," commonly known as "divi-divi."
I take either of the above separately, or a mixture of them, in the pod, and
after thoroughly drying the same I break or crush them into small pieces by
means of rollers or otherwise, and in this state I roast them in a similar manner
to chicory or coffee, and afterwards grind the same into a powder.
An infusion of this roasted leguminous powder will be found equal to the finest
coffee, possessing superior qualities as an article of food, and is not liable to the
same objections as coffee and chicory; or if the same is used mixed with ordinary
coffee it will be found very much to improve the flavor thereof, and also to
counteract many of the objectionable qualities possessed by coffee and chicory as a
constant article of food.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention, the use of
the above named leguminous substances (either separately or a mixture of them)
crushed, roasted, and ground, and either mixed with ordinary coffee instead of
chicory, or used by themselves as a substitute for coffee.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Challinor, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
TATTA
CALLINOR
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