IM- PROVEMENTS IN ENVELOPING MEDICINAL AND OTHER LIQUIDS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jules Joseph Denoual, of New Cross, in the
County of Surrey, Chemist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
"
Scaled the 18th November 1870, and dated the 20th May 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jules Joseph Denoual
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 20th May 1870...
I, JULES JOSEPH DENOUAL, of New Cross, in the County of Surrey,
Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN ENVELOPING MEDICINAL AND OTHER LIQUIDS," to be as follows,
that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to enable medicinal and refreshing or
stimulating liquids to be taken under the form of sweetmeats, and in
larger quantities than hitherto effected in the form of dragées (sugar
plums), or other sweetmeats, and whereby the disagrecable taste and

page_text: odour of medicinal agents are rendered imperceptible;
and my
Invention
consists in covering such medicinal liquid, or a syrup, liqueur, ratifia, or
other refreshing or stimulating liquid contained in an envelope or
covering of gelatine or gold beater's skin with a coat of sugar, sugar
candy, or other sugar confectionery, or with chocolate by the usual
process.
Liqueur bon-bons may be made by this process in the form of straw-
berries, cherries, plums, or pears, so as to be useful as a refreshment or
for nutrition for travellers by land or water.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Jules Joseph Denoual in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 18th November 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JULES
JOSEPH DENOUAL, of New Cross, in the County of Surrcy, Chemist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of May, in 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 Jules Joseph Denoual, Her special licence
that I, the said Jules Joseph Denoual, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Jules Joseph Denoual, 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 Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN ENVELOPING MEDICINAL AND OTHER LIQUIDS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jules Joseph Denoual,
my 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jules Joseph Denoual, 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:-
Until now only a few drops of oil, syrup, or other medicinal or
refreshing liquids or a small quantity of a medicament in a state of
soft paste have been enclosed in a more or less large quantity of
sugar in the form of sugar plums.
The object of my Invention is to allow of a larger quantity of
ancdicinal and refreshing, nourishing, or stimulating liquids to be taken
at once under the form of sugar plums (dragées and pralines), or other
sweetmeats, whereby the disagreeable taste and odour of medicinal
agents are avoided, and the required quantities of refreshing or
stimulating liquids may be enclosed and carried about in a small and
convenient volume for swallowing; and my Invention consists in
covering liquid medicinal substances, or a syrup, liqueur, ratifia, or
other refreshing or stimulating liquid first enclosed in an envelope'
or covering of gelatine or goldbeater's skin, or other like substance
susceptible of containing them, with a coat of sugar, chocolate, sugar
candy, or other sugar confectionery.
To carry out my improvements I commence by enclosing the
medicinal or other liquid in an envelope of gelatine or goldbeater's
skin which I then close air-tight by means of gum or gelatine.
For anhydrous liquids the first envelope is formed by preference of
gelatine sweetened and gummed over or not, and for non-caustic
hydrated liquids the envelope should be formed of goldbeater's skin.
I afterwards cover the envelope enclosing the liquid with sugar, sugar-
candy, chocolate, or other sugar confectionery. By this means the
odour and taste which might exude through the first envelope will be
isolated by the second casing.
Ether and chloroform may be enclosed in an envelope of goldbeater's
skin and afterwards in one of sugar, and thus protected from the action
of the air and light may be preserved for a considerable time ready
for usc.
Bon-bons may be made by this process in the form of strawberries,
cherries, plums, or pears to enclose a refreshing or a nutritious liquid
for the use of travellers by land or sea.

page_text: Medicaments enclosed in the ordinary capsules may be covered by
this process, and may thus be administered without giving rise to a
disagrecable taste and smell, which result until now has not been
attained.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner of carrying the
same into effect, what I claim is, the covering with a second casing or
envelope of sugar or chocolate medicinal and other liquids already
enclosed in a first envelope, substantially in the manner and for the
purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jules Joseph Denoual, have hereto 1
set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.