Year: 1885

page_text: I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of the firm of Wm Brookes & Son of 55 & 56
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex Fellow of the Institute of Patent
Agents do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the production of an acid base for aerated and other
beverages and tonics, which may be used by druggists in connection with soda-
water fountains, as well as by physicians in preparing a cooling acid drink, and by
the public generally.
It consists of lactic acid, containing from one to two per centum of lactate of
lime, with traces (less than one-fourth of one per centum each) of vegetable gluten,
vegetable coloring matter, gum, and sulphate of lime, combined with water and
sugar or plain syrups, to which may be added any desired fruit syrup, in any
particular case. The lactate of lime serves to take off the sharp edge of a
chemically pure lactic acid, and the gluten, gum, et cetera, named, serve to give
it a distinctive color and odor, and as they are present in such minute quantities,
are incapable of doing any injury to the human stomach, and at the same time
render the acid more palatable than pure acid would be.
In ordinary use the base may be used after the manner of acid phosphate, or
it may be combined with various ingredients, such as bitters, flavoring syrups,
liquors, et cetera, and will be found not only harmless, but beneficial and extremely
palatable, and particularly adapted for aerated beverages.

page_text: and Tonics..
I ALFRED GEORGE BROOKES of the firm of Wm Brookes & Son of 55 & 56
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent
Agents do hereby declare the nature of this invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN ACID
BASES FOR AERATED AND OTHER BEVERAGES AND TONICS (a communication from
abroad by Thomas Shepard Nowell of Boston in the County of Suffolk, and State
of Massachusetts, one of the United States of America, Manufacturer) and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the production of an acid base for Aerated and other
Beverages and Tonics, which may be used by druggists in connection with soda-
water fountains, as well as by physicians in preparing a cooling acid drink, and by
the public generally.
It consists of lactic acid, containing from one to two per centum of lactate of
lime, with traces (less than one-fourth of one per centum each) of vegetable gluten,
vegetable coloring matter, gum, and sulphate of lime, combined with water and
sugar or plain syrups, to which may be added any desired fruit syrup, in any
particular case. The lactate of lime serves to take off the sharp edge of a
chemically pure lactic acid, and the gluten, gum, etcetera, named, serve to give it
a distinctive color and odor, and as they are present in such minute quantities, are
incapable of doing any injury to the human stomach, and at the same time render
the acid more palatable than pure acid would be.
In ordinary use the base may be used after the manner of acid phosphate, or
it may be combined with various ingredients, such as bitters, flavoring syrups,
liquors, etcetera, and will be found not only harmless, but beneficial, and extremely
palatable, and particularly adapted for aerated beverages.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
An acid base for aerated and other beverages and tonics, consisting of lactic acid,
containing one to two per centum of lactate of lime, and traces of vegetable gluten,
vegetable coloring matter, gum, and sulphate of lime, with water, and sugar or
syrups, substantially as set forth.
.