IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING MANGEL-WURZEL, AND IN MAKING DRINKS AND OTHER PREPARATIONS THEREFROM
Year: 1851

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HUCKVALE, of Choice Hill, in the County of Oxford, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Second day of April
(One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one), in the fourteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Thomas Huckvale, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial license,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Thomas Huckvale,
my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Thomas
Huckvale, my exors, adññors, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING MANGEL-WURZEL, AND IN MAKING DRINKS AND
OTHER PREPARATIONS THEREFROM;" in which said Letters Patent is contained
a proviso, that I, the said Thomas Huckvale, shall cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to
be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Huckvale, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and
ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say:
My Invention consists of treating mangel-wurzel according to the means
hereafter described.
First, I treat mangel-wurzel so as to be used as a substitute for or in
combination with coffee.
Secondly, I treat the leaves of mangel-wurzel in such manner that they
may be used as a beverage.
Thirdly, I treat mangel-wurzel in such manner as to obtain a fermented
beverage.
And, fourthly, I treat mangel-wurzel in such manner that it may be
employed in making wort.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
First, I take mangel-wurzel, and having washed it I cut it into small
picces, say to the size of beans or peas, and I dry the same, and roast and
grind it in like manner to that in which coffee is roasted and ground, and use
it either as a substitute for or in combination with coffee.
Secondly, I take the leaves of mangel-wurzel and cut them into shreds
or strips, and dry them; I then subject them to artificial heat, so as just to
cause them slightly to clear; this may be done in any convenient manner.
I use a heated plate or surface, and stir the dry cuttings on such heated surface
till they just begin to char, and such cuttings may then be converted into a
.beverage in like manner to tea.
Third, I take mangel-wurzel, and having cut it into small pieces, I put
them in a suitable vessel, and allow them to heat and ferment for two or three
days, when the temperature is about seventy degrees Fahrenheit; I then add
water, and allow it to stand a few hours, when it may be strained off and
tanned, thus producing a beverage of the character of cider or perry.
Fourth, I take mangel-wurzel, and having washed it, I cut it into small
pieces, as when for a substitute for coffee, and I dry such pieces, and then
subject them to the action of a kiln or heated surface so as slightly to char
the same; and the product thus obtained I mash and obtain wort, and employ
the same for various purposes in like manner to wort made from malt or other
material.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing the same. I would have it understood that I claim the four coveral