IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMBINATION AND MODE OF TREATING AND EMPLOYING CERTAIN PREPARATIONS FOR VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD
Year: 1867

page_text: Sealed the 17th January 1868, and dated the 19th November 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Juby Coleman
and Alfred Coleman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 19th November 1867.
We, WILLIAM JUBY COLEMAN, of Bury St. Edmunds, in the County of
Suffolk, and ALFRED COLEMAN, of Lombard Street, in the City of London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
COMBINATION AND MODE OF TREATING AND EMPLOYING CERTAIN PREPARATIONS FOR
VARIOUS ARTICLES OF FOOD," to be as follows (that is to say):-
Our Invention has reference to the employment of extract of meat obtained
by Liebig's process for manufacturing into lozenges, biscuits, food for invalids,
[Price 87.1

page_text: cocoa, or other like culinary uses, whereby the nutritious properties of the said
extract are retained in union with farinaceous or other prepared substances or
combinations thereof in a solid and more agreeable form than at present, and
consist in forming the said lozenges in the proportion of about one part of
extract of meat, two parts of biscuit powder, and one part of powdered gum
acacia, mixing the gum and biscuit powder, passing the same through a sieve,
incorporating the extract, rolling into a mass, and finally cutting the same
with dies into separate lozenges, and drying the same by any convenient means
at a heat not exceeding 150°; cach lozenge is then dipped into a solution of
gelatin or other preparation for coating or rendering the same impervious to
moisture.
In like manner biscuits are prepared by employing the extract with the
biscuit mass in the proportion of about one part of the former and ten of
the latter, and baking the same in a hot-water oven.
Food for invalids we also prepare by the employment of the above extract
with biscuit powder in the proportion of one part of the extract to fourteen
of the biscuit powder, and drying in a water bath, powdering and passing
the resultant through a sieve.
We also employ the extract, as above described, with cocoa so as to
render the same more nutritious, and enable invalids to partake of the said
cocoa without feeling nausea or sickness.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Juby Coleman and Alfred Coleman in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 19th May 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
JUBY COLEMAN, of Bury St. Edmunds, in the County of Suffolk, and ALFRED
COLEMAN, of Lombard Street, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen
Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said William Juby Coleman and Alfred Coleman, Her special
licence, that we, the said William Juby Coleman and Alfred Coleman, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said William

page_text: Juby Coleman and Alfred Coleman, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMBINATION AND MODE
OF TREATING AND EMPLOYING CERTAIN PREPARATIONS FOR VARIOUS ARTICLES OF
FOOD," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William
Juby Coleman and Alfred Coleman, our cxecutors or administrators, by
or under
an instrument in writing under our or their hands and seals,
the hand and seal of one of us or them, 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 William Juby Coleman and Alfred
Coleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:-
At the present time an extract of meat is largely prepared in countries
where meat is cheap by a process known as "Liebig's process," and which
consists essentially in dissolving out from finely-divided flesh, free from fat, all
that is soluble in water by boiling for a short time, and then having strained
the solution evaporating it at a low temperature until a semi-solid mass is
obtained. The extract so made contains in a very portable form the more
nutritious parts of the meat. Up to this time, when required for use it has
been common to mix this extract with water, by which means a soup is
obtained.
The object of our Invention is to employ this extract in the manu-
facture of solid articles of food in the nature of biscuits and lozenges, and
consists in compounding the extract of meat, as is horein-after described.
with farinaceous materials, that is to say, with the flour of wheat or other
grain, either previously cooked or otherwise, and then rolling or pressing
the mixture together so as to form sheets or thiu pieces which are then dried
or baked,
And in order that our said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, we will proceed to describe in detail the processes
which we prefer

page_text: We mix these materials with water so as to make a dough, which we roll
out and bake into biscuits in the usual way; we grind these biscuits to a fine
powder, and we mix well together 4 parts of the biscuit powder and 1 part
of powdered gum acacia, and we pass the mixture through a fine sieve; we
then thoroughly incorporate with it 2 parts of the extract of meat and a little
water, just sufficient to make the ingredients adhere; we then roll out the
compound into a thin sheet, and having cut it into discs of convenient size
we dry the discs at a temperature of 150° Fahrenheit or thereabouts. The
lozenges thus made may be preserved in close cases so as to prevent them
from gathering moisture from the air, or they may with the same object be
coated with gelatine; this may be done by dipping them into a strong solu-
tion of gelatine kept at a temperature of 180 degrees. The solution should be
about as thick as treacle, the lozenges are stuck on needle points arranged in
a frame, they are dipped into the solution, and afterwards the frame is moved
about by hand to distribute the gelatine on the lozenges as it sets.
In making biscuits we prefer to proceed as follows:-We mix together the
following ingredients,―
Flour
Butter
Liebig's extract of meat
"
1
A
.
15 lbs.
2
13
15
+
"
2 oz.
oz.
Coleman's Warwickshire sauce
White sugar
"
And carbonate of soda
with water sufficient to make a dough. From this dough we cut out the
biscuits, and we bake them in an oven the temperature of which can be
accurately regulated; we use a hot-water oren and we keep the temperature
between 350 and 400 degrees Fahrenheit; we bake from 20 to 25 minutes.
These biscuits should be kept in air-tight cases.
We make a food for invalids by grinding the biscuits to a coarse powder;
when preparing biscuits to be ground as a food for invalids the sauce should
be omitted.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, we would have it understood that what we claim is the
manufacture of biscuits, lozenges, and similar articles of food by compounding
Liebig's extract of meat with farinaceous materials, then rolling or pressing
the mixture together so as to form sheets or thin pieces, and drying or baking
the same.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Juby Coleman and Alfred
Coleman, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Nineteenth day
of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight
W J. COLEMAN.
(L.S.)
ALFRED COLEMAN. (L.S.)