A NEW PREPARATION OF FRUIT BEVERAGES OF A STIMULATING. CHARACTER
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Wright, of 38, High Street, Kensington,.
in the County of Middlesex, Chemist,, for the Invention of "A NEW
PREPARATION OF FRUIT BEVERAGES OF A STIMULATING. CHARACTER."
Sealed the 24th April 1866, and dated the 4th January 1866..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents,, with his Petition, on the
4th January 1866.
I, FRANCIS WRIGHT, of 38, High Street, Kensington, in the County of
Middlesex, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW PREPARATION OF FRUIT BEVERAGES OF A. STIMULATING CHARACTER,"
to be as follows:-
First, I sometimes take the clarified and boiled juice of raspberry,
strawberry, lemon, grape, or other suitable fruit, dilute it with water, and
add a sufficient quantity of white sugar to make a palatable beverage, and
to this I add an aqueous solution of theine, caffein,.or theobromine, in such
proportions that each part of the liquid shall contain a suitable quantity of
either of these alkaloids, and in this state serve it out for use. For ordi-
nary use I find from three to twenty grains per pint a suitable quantity, but
it may be made stronger or weaker if desired..

page_text: Second, I also take a pure fruit syrup of any kind, and to this I add a
solution of the above alkaloids of suitable strength, and bottle it while hot.
In this state the beverage keeps good in any climate and for any period,
and is made ready for use by a simple dilution with water to suit the
taste of the consumer.
Third, I also take a suitable quantity of the syrup prepared as described
in the last paragraph, and introduce it into a strongly made bottle, and
into this I pump, by means of any suitable engine, water ærated with
carbonic acid gas, and cork in the usual way of making ærated beverages.
If it is required that they shall be kept in a perfect condition for any
lengthened period, the syrup used should be either freshly made or raised
to the boiling point immediately before bottling, and the ærated water
used should be prepared from water from which all traces of oxygen have
been removed by any of the ordinary modes or by the new mode of feed-
ing, the condensing pump with water kept boiling in a tank close by, and
cooled by passing it through a coil of pipe surrounded by cold water, and
in the course of which is interposed a proper metal or earthenware box,
fitted with freshly burned charcoal and sand,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 3rd July 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
WRIGHT, of 16, High Street, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex,
Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Francis Wright, Her special licence that
I, the said Francis Wright, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Francis Wright, 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

page_text: Invention for "A NEW PREPARATION OF FRUIT BEVERAGES OF A STIMULATING
CHARACTER," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Francis
Wright, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly 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 Francis Wright, 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) :-
First, I sometimes take the clarified and boiled juice of raspberry,
strawberry, lemon, grape, or any other suitable fruit, dilute it with water,
and add a sufficient quantity of white sugar to make a palatable beverage,
and to this I add an aqueous solution of theine, caffein, or theobromine,
in such proportions that each part of the liquid shall contain a suitable
quantity of either of these alkaloids, and in this state serve it out for use.
For ordinary use I find from three to twenty grains per pint a suitable
quantity, but it may be made stronger or weaker if desired. Or,
Secondly, I take a pure fruit syrup of any kind, and to this I add a
solution of the above alkaloids of suitable strength, and bottle it while hot.
In this state the beverage keeps good in any climate and for any length of
time, and is made ready for use by a simple dilution with water to suit the
taste of the consumer. Or,
Thirdly, I take a suitable quantity of the syrup prepared as described
in the last paragraph, and introduce it into a strongly made bottle, and into
this I pump by means of any suitable engine, water aërated with carbonic
acid gas, and cork in the usual way of making aërated beverages. If it is
desired that it should be kept in perfect condition for any lengthened
period the syrup used should be either freshly made or raised to the boiling
point immediately before bottling, and the aërated water used should be
prepared from water from which all traces of free oxygen have been
removed by any of the ordinary modes, or by the new mode of feeding,
the condensing pump with water kept boiling in a tank close by, and
cooled by passing it through a coil of pipe surrounded by cold water, and
in the course of which is interposed a proper metal or earthenware box,
filled with partly burned charcoal and sand.

page_text: What I claim is, the employment of the solution of theine, caffein, or
theobromine in either of the methods above described, in combination
with fruit, juice, syrup, or essence.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Wright, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
FRANCIS WRIGHT. (L.S.),
Signed and sealed by the above-
named Francis Wright in the
presence of
F. FRUTHY,
Clerk to Messrs. Shaend & Roscoe,
Solicitors,
8, Bedford Row.