IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING EPPERVESCING POWDERS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Whaley Sanderson, of Cable Street,
Lancaster, in the County of Lancaster, Tea, Coffee, and Spice
Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING
EPPERVESCING POWDERS."
Sealed the 28th November 1853, and dated the 28th May 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Whaley
Sanderson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 28th May 1853.
I, ALFRED WHALEY SANDERSON, of Cable Street, Lancaster, in the
County of Lancaster, Tea, Coffee, and Spice Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRE-
PARING EFFERVESCING POWDERS" to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the preparation or making up of the
powders or component materials used in the production of lemonade,
ginger beer, and other aerated or effervescing drinks, and consists in
the primary mixture of such materials in a single packet, so that they
merely require the addition of a liquid to a single mass to produce the
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page_text: intended beverage. In making lemonade, for example, the proper pro-
portions of the two chief ingredients, with their flavoring matters, are
first mixed together, and the combined mass is then made up in small
rectangular or other shaped cases, each containing the required
amount for the intended extent of the draught. The advantage of this
system of preparation is, that the user has all the ingredients in a firm
compact form, ready for at once mixing with water without the trouble
of handling separate papers, or taking from a loose mass of the mate-
rials. The cases or packets are preferred to be of a rectangular form,
with the materials closely packed up and defended by tinfoil in the
usual way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Whaley Sanderson in the Great Seal
Patent Office, on the 28th November 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ALFRED WHALEY SANDERSON, of Cable Street, Lancaster, in the County
of Lancaster, Tea, Coffee, and Spice Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Whaley Sanderson, Her
special licence that I, the said Alfred Whaley Sanderson, my execu-
tors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred
Whaley Sanderson, my executors, administrators, or 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 law-
fully 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING EFFERVESCING POWDERS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Whaley
Sanderson, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and

page_text: 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 Alfred Whaley Sanderson, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement, that is to say:
My said Invention relates to the preparation or making up of the
powders or component materials used in the production of lemonade,
ginger beer, and other aerated or effervescing drinks, and consists in
the primary mixture of such materials in a single packet, so that they
merely require the addition of a liquid to a single mass, of predeter-
mined size, to produce the intended beverage. In making lemonade,
for example, the proper proportions of the necessary ingredients, as car-
bonate of soda, tartaric acid, and white sugar candy, are separately re-
duced to powder and dried by a gradual heat; the flavouring matter,
essence of lemon, in this instance being first added to the carbonate of
soda or sugar candy. These powders are then well mixed together,
and the combined mass is finally made up in small rectangular or other
shaped packets, each containing about half an ounce, this quantity
being sufficient to make half a pint of the beverage by the addition of
The packets are neatly wrapped in tinfoil to defend the pow-
ders from atmospheric influences, and a label is pasted on externally in
such a manner as to secure the ends of the tinfoil wrapper. Ginger
beer, seidlitz, soda, or other effervescing powders are prepared in pre-
cisely the same manner, the ingredients being varied in each case, as is
well known to the practical chemist. The advantage of this system of
preparation is, that the user has all the ingredients in a firm compact
form, ready for at once mixing with water, without the trouble of
handling separate papers, or taking an uncertain portion from a loose
mass of the materials.
water.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or
carried into effect, I may observe, in conclusion, that I do not confine
or restrict myself to the precise details or arrangements which I have

page_text: had occasion to describe or refor to, as many variations may be made
therefrom without deviating from the principles or main features of my
Invention; but what I consider to be novel and original, and therefore
claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in part
recited Letters Patent, is,-
First, the system or mode of preparing powders for the production of
aerated or effervescing beverages, as herein-before described.
Second, the system or mode of mixing together, in a dry state, large
quantities of the several ingredients of effervescing powders, and then
making up the combined mass in small packets, each packet containing
an amount sufficient for a glassful or draught of the beverage, and
requiring the addition of water only when being used as herein-before
described.
Third, the preparation of effervescing powders by placing the re-
quired quantities of the necessary ingredients in separate and in-
dividual cases or packages to the amount intended for individual
drinking.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Whaley Sanderson, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of No-
vember, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-three.
ALFRED WHALEY SANDERSON. (L.s.)