An Improved Aperient Edible and Process of Mixing and Manufacturing same.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1899-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1900
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Aperient Edible and Process of Mixing and
Manufacturing same.
I, HENRI ELLIS D'ALBITES, of 265, Lygon Street, Carlton, in the Colony of
Victoria, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My said invention relates to a compound of jalap powder with certain aromatic
spices and other edible ingredients and treating and compounding same to serve
as a practically tasteless and painless aperient to be made into a little tablet or
confection which may be eaten.
The objects of my said invention are to provide an aperient agreeable to the
taste so as to obviate the nauseating effects frequently attending the taking of
a dose of medicine especially upon children and not infrequently adults, resulting
at times in retching and other disturbances of the stomach and nerves. I further
claim that the edible ingredients or aromatic spices I use and hereinafter describe
in the making of such compound serve also to counteract or neutralize the gripping
or painful effect of jalap powder when taken raw or unmixed in the ordinary
way by reason of which this otherwise valuable purgative has fallen into disuse.
I have selected jalap powder for my said compound as best suited to the purpose
because I have found by actual experiment as a practical chemist that, while it
does not leave any appreciable taste in the mouth (when mixed with aromatics)
its aperient properties are considerably augmented and improved by cooking.
I limit my invention and claim for novelty strictly to my compound as a whole
and the process of mixing and manufacturing same as hereafter set forth,
namely:-
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To make six pounds and a half weight of my improved aperient compound (to
be divided into 578 tablets or confections). To two pounds weight of flour add
six ounces (troy) of powdered jalap, one and a half ounce of powdered ginger,
one and a half ounce of ground pimento, one and a half ounce of ground coriander
seeds, half an ounce of ground foemigreek seeds. The whole of this dry compound
place in a mixing machine (such as used by manufacturing chemists) and operate
such machine for such time as will insure a thorough mixing of the several
ingredients named, then remove the mixed ingredients and tie up in a cloth
tightly and securely, now place the cloth containing the mixed ingredients into a
copper or other vessel containing water and boil for at least the space of six hours.
After which process the contents of the cloth are to be removed and dried in a
drying chamber as used in laboratories. When the mass is dry, it is to be placed
into a drug mill and ground to fine powder fine enough to go through a 60 meshes
to the inch sieve. Place this powder into a mixing machine and add two pounds
nine ounces of iceing sugar, one half pound of powdered gum acacia, and one
half pound of powdered gum tragacanth and rotate such machine for such time
as will insure a thorough mixing of the several ingredients named and an equal
distribution of the jalap powder through the whole. Then place same in a
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page_text: suitable vessel and add thereto four ounces of caramel dissolved in a sufficient
quantity of water to make the whole into a paste of suitable consistancy for
rolling roll the paste out in a thin layer and divide the layer with a mould
cutter into 578 tablets or confections--place them on suitable trays and allow them
to dry in a current of air, suitably arranged in racks, until they are fit for use.
When fit for use each tablet contains five grains of jalap (specially prepared). In
ordinary cases two may be eaten for a dose for an-adult and one or less for a child
according to its age. When made in quantities to keep, each tablet should be
enclosed in oiled paper or tin foil, as if left to the air they are apt to deteriorate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is: —
1. As a tasteless and painless aperient edible, a compound consisting of flour;
powdered sugar powdered gum acacia; powdered traganth; ground ginger;
pimento; coriander seeds; foemigreek seeds; jalap powder; caramel and water,
treated and divided into small tablets or confections, substantially in the relative
quantities or proportions and dried in the air for the purposes herein before
described.
Uated this 97th day of December 1899
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, 1899, Agents.