Substances Ordinarily Used as Food.
Year: 1885

page_text: Substances Ordinarily Used as Food.
I, ALICE JONES of No 16 Rue de Berlin Paris in the Republic of France,
Operative Chemist, and also of No 300 Lynton Road South Bermondsey in the
County of Surrey, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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My improvements being applicable to such articles of food as manufactured,
sugar, ground flour, ground arrowroot, ground mustard, and such other, substances,
sufficiently analagous as to admit of their being properly submitted to the idéntical
treatment described below with similar results, I proceed as follows.
In a vessel or receptacle of convenient form and dimensions proportioned to the
nature and quantity of the particular article intended to be subjected to treatment,
I insert loosely one or several lengths of annealed Iron Wire of small guage, say
No 35 for example, preferentially twisted into spirals, and which wire has been
previously heated to redness, and not beyond, in the open air, or submitted to the
contact of watery vapour, at an elevated temperature; and then fill in lightly a
sufficient quantity of the pulverised sugar, flour, mustard or other matter com-
prehended in the class alluded to before, to bury the metal, with the exception of
the superior end or ends of the wire or wires, which should remain uncovered so as
to be exposed to free contact with the air.
I then by the ordinary mode well known and commonly adapted in Operative.
Chemistry (which I deem unnecessary to particularly describe) cause a strong
current of carbonic acid gas to be transmitted slowly through the mass of particles;
continueing such process until the substance under treatment becomes impregnated
more or less completely according to the duration of time devoted to the operation.
with the active properties of the Iron. In some cases, I substitute for the wires
(or I may use it in conjunction with metallic lengths or coils) Magnetic Oxide
thrown off as is usual, by the combustion of Iron in a vessel containing.
Oxygen gas:
The wire, where used, being then withdrawn the sugar is fit for table use, the
flour to be made up into dough, and the mustard to be prepared as a condiment in
the usual modes.

page_text: I may also add, before or after the subjection of the mass to the influence of the
current of carbonic acid gas, certain of the known alkaline neutral salts; and
phosphates, in small proportions, varying, say, from two and a half to ten per cent
in weight of the whole, as are adapted therapeutically by synthesis with saccharine
and farinaceous matter treated as above, to promote the hygienic end I have in
view of rendering such articles of food as I describe at once Homantinic and
curative in their tendency, especially in cases of nervous and atomic digestion.
Dated this seventeenth day of October 1885
Substances Ordinarily Used as Food.
I ALICE JONES of 800 Lynton Road South Bermondsey in the County of
Surry Operative Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
* IMPROVEMENTS IN MEDICATING SACCHARINE AND FARINACEOUS SUBSTANCES
ORDINARILY USED AS FOOD" and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My improvements being applicable to such articles of food as manufactured
sugar, ground flour, oatmeal, arrowroot and such like, and other analagous
substances usually classed as Food, properly admitting of the identical treatment
described substantially with similar results accrueing therefrom I proceed as
follows:
In a vessel or receptacle of convenient form and dimensions proportioned to the
nature and quantity of the particular article intended to be subjected to treatment
I deposit several lengths of annealed Iron wire of small guage preferentially twisted
into spirals, which wire should have been previously heated to redness and not
beyond and allowed to cool in a current of air or submitted to the contact of
watery vapour when at an elevated temperature in order the better to prepare it
for communicating in a desirable form the active properties of the metal.-I then
fill in lightly a sufficient quantity of the pulverised material intended to be treated
to bury the metal spiral coils with the exception of the superior ends of the wires
which should remain uncovered so as to be exposed to free contact with the air.
I then by the ordinary mode well known and usually adopted in operative
chemistry (which I deem unnecessary to particularly describe) cause a strong
current of carbonic acid gas to be transmitted as slowly as possible through the
mass of particles containing the wires, continuing such process until the substance
under treatment becomes impregnated more or less completely according to the
duration of time devoted to the operation with the active properties of the Iron.

page_text: In some cases I substitute for the wire (or I may employ in conjunction with the
same), a Magnetic Oxide thrown off as is usual by the combustion of Iron in a
vessel containing Oxygen Gas.
The wires being withdrawn at the proper time the sugar is fit for use, the
farinaceous matter to be made into breadstuffs or into any of the dietetic
varieties to which it may be adapted, and the mustard to be prepared in the
usual modes.
In some cases I also add, before or after the subjection of the mass to the
influence of the current of the carbonic acid gas a small percentage, say from five
to ten per cent or thereabouts of certain alkaline neutral salts and phosphates
adapted by synthesis with saccharine or farinaceous substances to promote the
hygienic end in view of rendering such articles of human consumption at once
Hoematinic and curative in their tendency especially in cases of nervous and atomic
digestion.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention I declare that what I claim is
1st. The manufacture of compound medicated preparations of saccharine and
farinaceous substances ordinarily used as food by the process and means sub-
stantially hereinbefore set forth and described.
2dly. The manufacture by the process and means also hereinbefore set forth and
described substantially of a medicated condiment intended to be consumed as such
in conjunction with main articles of food.
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