THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW ALIMENTARY MATERIAL FROM WHICH A BEVERAGE MAY BE MADE
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James McWilliam, of 417, Mansion House Chambers,
Queen Victoria Street, in the City of London, for an Invention of "THE
PRODUCTION OF A NEW ALIMENTARY MATERIAL FROM WHICH A BEVERAGE
MAY BE MADE." A communication from abroad by Alfred William
Armstrong, of 27 and 29, Wall St., New York, in the United States of
America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James McWilliam at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th November 1880.
JAMES MCWILLIAM, of 417, Mansion House Chambers, Queen Victoria Street,
in the City of London. "THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW ALIMENTARY MATERIAL
FROM WHICH A BEVERAGE MAY BE MADE.' [A communication from abroad by
Alfred William Armstrong, of 27 and 29, Wall St., New York, in the United
States of America.]
This Invention bas for its object the production of a new alimentary material
from which a beverage may be made.
For this purpose bran is saturated with syrup, and dried by the aid of a gentle
heat.
Afterwards, when it has been thoroughly dried, it is roasted at a temperature
such as to cause it to assume a full brown colour.
During the roasting it is kept thoroughly stirred. A beverage is obtained by
making an infusion of the new material in the same way as when tea or coffee is
used.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said James McWilliam; in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th
May 1881.
JAMES MOWILLIAM, of 417, Mansion House Chambers, Queen Victoria Street,
in the City of London. "THE PRODUCTION OF A NEW ALIMENTARY MATERIAL
FROM WHICH A BEVERAGE MAY BE MADE." A communication from abroad by
Alfred William Armstrong, of 27 and 29, Wall St., New York, in the United
States of America.
This Invention has for its object the production of a new alimentary material
from which a beverage may be made.
For this purpose bran, or it might be pollards or middlings, are saturated with
syrup and dried by the aid of a gentle heat.
Afterwards, when it has been thoroughly dried, it is roasted at a temperature
such as to cause it to assume a full brown color.
During the roasting it is kept thoroughly stirred.
A beverage is obtained by making an infusion of the new material in the same
way as when tea or coffee is used.
For mixing the bran, pollards, or middlings with the syrup, I prefer to employ a
revolving cylindrical mixing apparatus, into which the bran, pollards, or middlings
and syrup are fed continuously at one end, and discharged in a perfectly mixed
state at the opposite end; the material being constantly turned over and over in its
passage through the cylinder as the cylinder rotates.
The syrup I employ contains by preference about 50 per cent. of sugar, and I
add to the bran, pollards, or middlings, about an equal weight of syrup. The mixed
material I afterwards dry by the aid of a gentle heat; this may be effected in a
similar revolving apparatus kept slightly heated, or in any suitable drying
machinery. Afterwards the dried material is roasted in a revolving or other
roasting machine, in the same way that coffee berries are now roasted. The roasted
material is afterwards ground, and may either be used alone in the same way as
tea or coffee is now used for making a beverage, or the material may have tea or
coffee ground in with it, or have these materials added to it in a ground state after
grinding, or the ground material might have other flavoring material admixed with
it. The bran, pollards, or middlings and sugar, may be roasted separately and
afterwards mixed.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I claim the production from
bran, pollards, or middlings, together with syrup of a new material, substantially
as herein before described, from which a beverage may be made.
In witness whereof, I, the said James McWilliam, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
JAMES MCWILLIAM. (LS.)