THE PRODUCTION OF AN ALCOHOLIC, FERMENTED, DRY, SWEET, OR EPPERVESCENT DRINK, OF WHICH TEA, OR COFFEE, OR THEINE, OR CAFFEINE IS AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Adam Scott, of 3, Blomfield Crescent, Paddington,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "THE PRODUCTION
OF AN ALCOHOLIC, FERMENTED, DRY, SWEET, OR EPPERVESCENT DRINK, OF
WHICH TEA, OR COFFEE, OR THEINE, OR CAFFEINE IS AN ESSENTIAL
INGREDIENT."
Scaled the 25th September 1868, and dated the 27th March 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Adam Scott at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th March 1868.
I, ADAM SCOTT, of 3, Blomfield Crescent, Paddington, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"THE PRODUCTION OF AN ALCOHOLIC, FERMENTED, DRY, SWEET, OR EFFERVESCENT
DRINK, OF WHICH TEA, OR COFFEE, OR THEINE, OR CAFFEINE IS AN ESSENTIAL
INGREDIENT," to be as follows:-
I make an infusion of tea or coffee of any origin or quality; add
thereto a quantity of sugar, derived from any source (such as sugar
cane, maple, beet root, starch, lignite, cellulose, or malt), and further a

page_text: quantity of organic acid (such as tartaric, citric, or malic), and subject
the mixture to fermentation; I then fine the fermented liquid by means
of isinglass, gelatine, osseine, or other fining agents, and draw off the clear
liquid, or filter it through an apparatus containing paper pulp. I keep
the product either as dry wine or add thereto a certain quantity of sugar,
or sugar and alcohol, or alcohol only, or I transform the fermented liquid
into effervescent wine by re-fermenting it in strong bottles and clearing it
by rest and disgorgement of the deposit, in the same manner as wine
is treated in the Champagne in France. I also keep the wine in cask
in an effervescent state so that it can be drunk like perry or beer. I find
that this liquid prepared in any of the above ways has particular
hygienic and restorative properties similar to wine and beer in their
several varieties, but differs from all wines & beers by containing theine
or caffeine as an essential ingredient, together with a quantity of the
flavouring ingredients of tea.
I therefore declare the nature of this Invention to be the production of
an alcoholic, fermented, dry, sweet, or effervescent drink, of which tea, or
coffee, or theine, or caffeine is an essential ingredient.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance, of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Adam Scott in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2
26th September 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ADAM
SCOTT, of 3, Blomfield Crescent, Paddington, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto him, the said Adam Scott, Her special licence that
he, the said Adam Scott, executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as he, the said Adam Scott, his 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

page_text: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "THE PRODUCTION OF AN ALCOHOLIC,
FERMENTED, DRY, SWEET, OR EFFERVESCENT DRINK, OF WHICH TEA, OR COFFEE, OR
THEINE, OR CAFFEINE IS AN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT," upon the condition
(amongst others) that he, the said Adam Scott, his executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under his, 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:
NOW KNOW YE, that he, the said Adam Scott, do hereby declare the
nature of his said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
I describe the Invention to be for the production of an alcoholic fer-
mented, dry, sweet, or effervescent drink, of which tea, or coffee, or theine,
or caffeine is an essential ingredient.
I make an infusion of tea or coffee of any origin or quality; add
thereto a quantity of sugar, derived from any source (such as sugar
canc, grape, maple, beet root, starch, lignite, cellulose, or malt), and
further, a quantity of organic acid (such as tartaric, citric, or malic),
and subject the mixture to fermentation; I then fine the fermented
liquid by means of isinglass, gelatine, osseine, or other fining agents, and
5 draw off the clear liquid or filter it through an apparatus containing
paper pulp. I keep the product either as dry wine or add thereto a
quantity of sugar, or sugar and alcohol, or alcohol only, or alcoholic
liquid of any kind, or I transform the fermented liquid into effervescent
wine by re-fermenting it in strong bottles, and clearing it by rest and
disgorgement of the deposit in the same manner as wine is treated
in the Champagne in France. I also keep the wine in cask in an
effervescent state, so that it can be drunk like perry or beer. I find
that this liquid prepared in any of the above ways has particular
hygienic and restorative properties similar to wine and beer in their
several varieties, but differs from all wines and beers, by containing
theine or caffeine as an essential ingredient together with a quantity of
the flavoring ingredients of tea.

page_text: I therefore declare the nature of this Invention to be the production
of an alcoholic, dry, sweet, or effervescent drink, of which tea, or coffee,
or theine, or caffeine is an essential ingredient.
In witness whereof, I, the said Adam Scott, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of September, in thic
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
ADAM SCOTT. (L.S.)