A New or Improved Medicinal and Nutritive Compound or Preparation.
Year: 1894

page_text: The decision of the Comptroller-General, of the 31st day of December 1895, allowed,
under Section 18 of the Patents, &c. Act, 1883, an Amendment of this
Specification.
Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Medicinal and Nutritive Compound or
Preparation.
I, GEORGE ARCHIBALD CLOWES of Needham Market in the County of
Suffolk, Maltster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The invention has for its object a new or improved medicinal and nutritive
compound or preparation with a view principally to facilitate the taking and
administering of certain preparations or compounds which are otherwise difficult to
administer and produce nausea whilst taking the same.
According to my invention I combine malt extract, malto peptone and cod liver
oil with a solution of gelatine in such proportions as to form a soft, moist jelly
which can be easily cut or separated by a spoon or otherwise into the desired dose
and which on being taken will readily pass down the throat and leave only a very
trifling taste in the mouth.
I also prefer in some cases to combine with the above ingredients a suitable
preservative in the requisite proportions.
Dated November 30th 1894.
A New or Improved Medicinal and Nutritive Compound or
Preparation.
I, GEORGE ARCHIBALD CLOWES, of Needham Market, in the County of
Suffolk, Maltster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The invention has for its object a new or improved medicinal and nutritive
compound or preparation with a view principally to facilitate the taking and
administering of certain preparations or compounds which are otherwise difficult to
administer and produce nausea whilst taking the same.
According to my invention I combine malt extract, malto-peptone and cod liver
oil with a solution of gelatine in such proportions as to form a soft moist jelly
which can be easily cut or separated by a spoon or otherwise into the desired dose
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page_text: and which on being taken will readily pass down the throat and leave only a very
trifling taste in the mouth.
The proportions in which the above mentioned ingredients are preferably
combined are as follows, but I would here remark that such proportions may be
varied without departing from the peculiar character of my invention:-
Malt extract
Malto-peptone
Cod liver oil
Gelatine
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60 to 65 per cent.
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5 to 10
"
"
20 to 25
"
5 to 6
"
"
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soaked or dissolved in a suitable quantity of water as is well understood.
The various ingredients are mixed at a temperature of preferably from 70°
to 90° Fahrenheit in a centrifugal or other suitable form of mixing and stirring
machine until they form a perfectly even and homogeneous mixture, that is to say,
until the emulsion is complete.
Whilst the compound or preparation is still in a liquid state it is run into jars,
tins or other vessels, for wholesale or retail sale and in these allowed to cool and
set. The jelly compound or preparation may afterwards be covered with a thin
layer of paraffin wax or other suitable air-tight covering, which will keep the air
from it and protect it from mould or other forms of infection.
I would here remark that by combining malt extract and cod liver oil in the form
of a jelly as herein described, the oil cannot go out of emulsion as it is liable to do
when mixed with malt extract as a thin liquid or as a syrup.
I also prefer in some cases to combine with the above ingredients a suitable
preservative, such as boracic acid, in the requisite proportions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The new or improved medicinal and nutritive compound or preparation
substantially as herein described.
2. The combination of malt extract, malto-peptone and cod liver oil with a
solution of gelatine in such proportions as to form a soft moist jelly, substantially
as herein described and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 29th day of August 1895.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.
HARRIS & MILLS,
23 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.