IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING BLOCKS OF ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS FOR MAKING SOUP OR OTHER LIQUID Food
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert Maquire Whitehead, of the Firm of
H. M. Whitehead and Company, of Lime Street Square, in the
City of London, and of Broadwater, Clarence River, New South
Wales; for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING BLOCKS OF
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS FOR MAKING SOUP OR OTHER LIQUID
Food."
Sealed the 12th April 1870, and dated the 22nd January 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert Maquire
Whitehead at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 22nd January 1870.
I, HERBERT MAQUIRE WHITEHEAD, of the Firm of H. M. Whitehead
and Company, of Lime Street Square, in the City of London, and of
Broadwater, Clarence River, New South Wales, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING BLOCKS OF
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS FOR MAKING SOUP OR OTHER LIQUID FOOD,” .
to be as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to produce compressed blocks of prepared
animal and vegetable materials in a cheap form for making soup and
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page_text: other liquid food. I take a certain quantity of any solid extract or of
essence of meat and mix it with the flour of grain of any kind or with
vermicelli, tapioca, or other similar substance properly prepared with
other ingredients for keeping them in any climate, and compress them
in moulds in a hydraulic or other powerful press to reduce their bulk.
I prefer that the shape of the blocks shall be rectangular like bricks,
but much smaller in size, and that each block shall contain sufficient
proportions of materials to form when boiled or warmed up one pint of
good soup or other liquid food.
I do not confine myself to any definite proportions of either the
extract or essence, or the flour, or other substances or ingredients, as they
would vary according to the quality or kind of either of them, but I
find in making blocks, say, of solid extract of beef, that one ounce of
that solid extract mixed with two ounces of prepared flour or other
vegetable substance is capable of making one pint of good palatable
soup.
"
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Herbert Maquire Whitehead in the Great Seal
... Patent Office on the 22nd July 1870..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HERBERT -
MAQUIRE WHITEHEAD, of the Firm of H. M. Whitehead and Company,
of Lime Street Square, in the City of London, and of Broadwater,
Clarence River, New South Wales, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of January, in 2
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Herbert Maquire Whitehead, Her
special licence that I, the said Herbert Maquire Whitehead, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said 3
Herbert Maquire Whitehead, my 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...

page_text: ANTILE
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OUTLET
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle-
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING BLOCKS OF ANIMAL
AND VEGETABLE MATERIALS, FOR MAKING SOUP OR OTHER LIQUID FOOD," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Herbert Maquire
Whitehead, executors or administrators, by an instrument 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 I, the said Herbert Maquire Whitehead, do
hereby declare the nature of my 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 :-
The object of my Invention is to produce compressed blocks of
prepared animal and vegetable materials in a cheap form for making
soup and other liquid food. I take a certain quantity of any solid
extract or of essence of meat and mix it with the flour of grain of any
kind or with vermicelli, tapioca, or other similar substance properly
prepared with other ingredients for keeping them in any climate, and
I compress them in moulds in a hydraulic or other powerful press to
reduce their bulk. I prefer that the shape of the blocks shall be
rectangular like bricks, but much smaller in size, and that each block
shall contain sufficient proportions of materials to form when boiled or
warmed up one pint of good soup or other liquid food.
I do not confine myself to any definite proportions of either the
extract or essence, or the flour, or other substances or ingredients, as
they would vary according to the quality or kind of either of them,
but I find in making blocks, say, of solid extract of beef, that one ounce
of that solid extract mixed with two ounces of prepared flour or other
vegetable substance is capable of making one pint of good palatable
soup.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim. the

page_text: meat and prepared flour or other vegetable substance for making liquid
soup in the manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert Maquire Whitehead,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day
of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy