AN IMPROVED AERATED LIQUID
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Erasmus Bond, of Wharf Road, City Road, in the
County of Midlesex, Mineral Water Manufacturer, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED AERATED LIQUID."
Scaled the 25th November 1858, and dated the 28th May 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Erasmus Bond at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
28th May 1858.
I, ERASMUS BOND, of Wharf Road, City Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Mineral Water Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED AERATED LIQUID," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the preparation of an aerated liquid which has
been used hitherto as a tonic in an unaerated state. Aeration, as well.
understood, consists in the impregnation of the liquid with carbonic acid,
which I effect precisely in the manner adopted in the manufacture of soda
water and other aerated beverages.
:
The preparation consists of a mixture of quinine, salicine, sulphuric acid;.
distilled and other water, flavoured with any suitable flavouring ingredient to
suit the palate. The proportions for one bottle are about as follows:-
Quinine, five-eighths of a grain; salicine, five forty-eighths of a grain; sul-.
phuric acid, about a minum; distilled water, one drachm, flavoured and.
combined with aerated water, as before described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Erasmus Bond in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th November 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ERASMUS
BOND, of Wharf Road, City Road, in the County of Middlesex, Mineral
Water Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eight day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto I,
the said Erasmus Bond, Her special licence that I, the said Erasmus
Bond, my-executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Erasmus Bond, niy 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 Invention for "AN IMPROVED ÅERATED
LIQUID," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Erasmus Bond,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, 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 per-
formed, 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 Erasmus Bond, 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 fol-
lowing statement, that is to say:-
My Invention relates to the preparation of an aerated tonic liquid. "Aeration,
as well understood, consists in the impregnation of the liquid with carbonic
acid gas, which, in this manufacture, I effect precisely in the manner adopted
in the manufacture of soda water and other aerated beverages. The prepara-
tion consists of citrate of quinine and silicine, or quinine alone, dissolved in
water by the admixture of a little sulphuric acid, or it may be dissolved by
the carbonic acid gas; and I further add flavouring ingredients, if desired,' to
suit the palate. The proportions for one bottle are about as follows:-
Quinine, five-eights of a grain; salicine, five forty-eigths of a grain; sul-

page_text: phuric acid, about one minim; carbonic acid, seventy-two grains, or about
four times its volume in gas.
In this manufacture I use an apparatus the same as usual in the manufac-
ture of soda water. I mix the quinine and salicine in a vessel of water from
which the pump of the apparatus is to draw its supply; I also add and mix
with it any flavouring ingredients thought proper; if sulphuric acid is to be
used, I further add the proper proportion thereof; this addition of sulphuric
acid has the effect of perfectly dissolving the quinine, and rendering the fluid
pellucid before it enters the machine in which it is aerated, by mixing with it
carbonic acid gas while in agitation and under pressure, as well understood in
the manufacture of soda water. If the sulphuric acid be omitted, the solution
of quinine in water will enter the gas pressure chamber in a cloudy and
unpellucid state, but which will be so acted on by the gas as to render it clear
and pellucid when bottled. This aerated tonic is bottled, stored, and used in
manner precisely similar to soda water.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of the aerated
tonic water or liquid herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Erasmus Bond, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and lifty-eight.
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Witness,
W. CLARK, Patent Agent,
53, Chancery Lane, London.
ERASMUS BOND. (L.S.)