IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Esilman and John Henry Hassall, both of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Esilman and
John Henry Hassall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th
April 1880.
ALEXANDER ESILMAN and JOHN HENRY HASSALI, both of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD."
The object of this Invention is to make the bread "riso" better, and to improve
the binding and kneading properties of the flour, especially of new or weak flour.
It also makes the bread lighter and of better color, and improves the quality
generally.
The Invention consists in the use or addition to the ordinary ingredients of small
quantities of soluble salts of lime, or soluble salts of magnesia, more especially the
acid phosphates of these alkaline earths, and preferably the acid phosphate of
magnesia.
We prefer to add the above ingredient (or ingredients) to the "spongo" in the
form of a solution with the ordinary salt, and we use it in the proportion of about
from two to eight ounces to the sack of flour, but it may be added at any other
part of the process of bread making if preferred; or it may be mixed with the
yeast, or introduced into the flour in a dry state in the process of grinding.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Esilman and John Henry Hassall in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 11th October 1880.
ALEXANDER ESHMAN and JOHN HENRY HASSALL, both of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BREAD."
The object of this Invention is to make the bread "rise" better, and to improve
the binding and kneading properties of the flour, especially of new or weak flour.
It also makes the bread lighter and of better color, and improves its quality
generally.
The Invention consists in the use, in addition to the ordinary ingredients, of
small quantities of soluble salts of lime, or soluble salts of magnesia, moro especially
the acid phosphates of these alkaline earths, and preferably the acid phosphate of
magnesia. Free phosphoric acid may also be used in conjunction with the above
soluble salts of line and magnesia.
We prefer to add the above ingredient (or ingredients) to the "sponge" in the
form of a solution with the ordinary salt, and we use it in the proportion of about
from two to sixteen ounces to the sack of flour, but it may be added at any other
part of the process of bread-making if preferred; or it may be mixed with the
yeast-or-salt-before-mixing with the flour, or introduced into the flour in a dry
state in the process of grinding.
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Having now described the nature and object of our said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect, we wish it to be understood that we claim as our Invention the improvements
in the manufacture of bread as herein before described by the addition to the
ordinary ingredients of small quantities of soluble salts of lime or soluble salts of
maguesia, either alone or in conjunction with free phosphoric acid, substantially in
the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Henry Hassall (on behalf of myself
and the said Alexander Esilman), have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this Eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.
JOHN HENRY HASSALL.
(L.S.)