A NEW AND IMPROVED ALIMENTARY DRINK.
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henri Adrien Bonneville, of the British and
Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris,
France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent,
for the Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED ALIMENTARY DRINK."..
- A communication from Edouard Beckman-Olofson, residing
at Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, Swedish Gentleman.
Sealed the 26th July 1872, and dated the 5th February 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 5th February 1872.
I, HENRI ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent
5 Offices, 18, Rue de la Chaussée d'Antin, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED ALIMENTARY
DRINK," communicated to me by Edouard Beckman-Olofson, a person
t

page_text: resident at Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, Swedish Gentleman, to be as
follows:-
This Invention, communicated to me, relates to a new and improved
wholesome alimentary and economical drink, by which the infusion of
natural coffee now in use can be replaced with a greater economy, and
of which it has the savour and aroma without having its inconveniences,
and consists in using rye, or preferably rye malt and dried barley malt,
mixed together in the proportion of a twentieth of barley malt after
having been torrified or burnt and reduced to powder, or pounded in the
same manner as the natural coffee is torrified or burnt and reduced to to
powder, or pounded and combined with the aroma of a little torrified
coffee with a little burnt sugar in order to make an infusion called malt
coffee.
While the rye or rye malt herein mentioned are being torrified, the
vapour current arising from a very small quantity of natural coffee is.
made to pass through it, but the coffee must not be mixed with the rye
or rye malt. The vapour while passing through the rye or rye malt
leaves the aroma of the coffee in the said rye or rye malt, which becomes
impregnated of it.
To colour the infusion obtained by the malt coffee the little. burnt
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henri Adrien Bonneville in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 29th July 1872.
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· TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRI
ADRIEN BONNEVILLE, of the British and Foreign Patent Offices, 18, Rue
de la Chaussée, Paris, France, and 6, Piccadilly, in the County of
Middlesex, Patent Agent, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters 3
Patent, bearing-date the Fifth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-sixth

page_text: year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, Her special licence
that I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and 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 "A NEW AND IM-
PROVED ALIMENTARY DRINK," communicated to me by Edouard Beckman-
Olofson, a person resident at Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, Swedish
Gentleman, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Henri Adrien Bonneville, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
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 the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, do hereby
O 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 :-
This Invention, communicated to me, relates to a new and improved
wholesome alimentary and economical drink, by which the infusion of
5 natural coffee now in use can be replaced with greater economy, and of
which it has the savour and aroma without having its inconveniences,
and consists in using rye, or preferably rye malt and dried barley malt
mixed together in the proportion of a twentieth of barley malt after
having been torrefied or burnt and reduced to powder, or pounded in the
same manner as the natural coffee is torrefied or burnt and reduced to
powder, or pounded and combined with the aroma of a little torrefied
coffee with a little burnt sugar in order to make an infusion called malt
coffee.
While the rye or rye malt herein mentioned are being torrefied the
vapour current arising from a very small quantity of natural coffee is
made to pass through it, but the coffee must not be mixed with the rye
or rye malt. The vapour while passing through the rye or ryc malt

page_text: improved wholesome alimentary and economical drink which possesses
the taste and flavour of natural coffee, substantially in the manner above
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henri Adrien Bonneville, have
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hereto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two.
H. BONNEVILLE. (L.S.)