IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING AND KEEPING AERATED BEVERAGES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Pickford, of Fenchurch Street, in the City
of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING
AND KEEPING AERATED BEVERAGES."
Sealed the 27th June 1865, and dated the 5th January 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Pickford at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th
January 1865.
I, THOMAS PICKFORD, of Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRE-
PARING AND KEEPING AERATED BEVERAGES," to be as follows:-
Aerated beverages are frequently mixed with spirits, wines, ale, beer,
cordials, and other liquids at the time of drinking, that is to say, in drinking
soda and brandy, for instance, it is usual to put the brandy in a glass and
then draw the aerated liquid and pour it into the brandy.
Now according to my Invention I cork soda water and brandy in the same
bottle either by putting the quantity of brandy in the bottle before charging it
with the aerated liquid, or by forcing or mixing it in the pressure chamber of
the soda water machine, or it may be mixed with the water supplied to such
machine before aerating it. Aerated mixed beverages are thus at all times
ready for immediate use without adding anything to the contents of the bottle,
and should be labelled soda and brandy, lemonade and sherry, and so on, or
otherwise, to distinguish their contents. The liquids may be oxygenated or
otherwise aerated as may be required.
I prepare and keep ready bottled for use all other kinds of aerated liquids
mixed with spirits, wines, cordials, and other liquids in like manner.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Pickford in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th July 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
PICKFORD, of Fenchurch Street, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
'said 'Thomas Pickford, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas Pickford,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or 'such others as I, the said
Thomas Pickford, my 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING AND KEEPING AERATED BEVERAGES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Pickford, 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 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 Thomas Pickford, 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 following
statement (that is to say) :-
:-
Aerated 'liquids are frequently 'mixed with spirits, wines, ales, beer, cordials,
and other liquids at the time of drinking, that is to say, in drinking soda
water and brandy it is usual to put the brandy into a glass and then draw the
aerated liquid and pour it into the brandy.
Now according to my. Invention I mix the soda water and brandy, for
instance, and cork it up or confine it in the same bottle or other suitable
vessel in which it is kept and stored for use. I prepare such beverage either
by putting the quantity of brandy in the bottle before charging it with the
aerated liquid, or by forcing it into and mixing it in the pressure chamber of

page_text: the soda water machine in a measured and regulated quantity, according to
the quantity of water, or it may be mixed in suitable proportion with the
water supplied to such machine before aerating it.
By thus previously preparing and bottling mixed beverages they are at all
times ready for immediate use without adding anything to the contents of a
bottle when drawn. The bottles should be labelled soda and brandy, lemonade
and sherry, lemonade and gin, and so on, or otherwise distinguished so as to
indicate at a glance the nature of the contents, which in all cases is to be
aerated, that is to say, containing a gas or air which produces an effervescing
effect when the bottle is uncorked.
The liquids may be oxygenated or otherwise aerated as may be required. I
prepare and keep ready bottled for use all other kinds of aerated liquids
mixed with spirits, wines, cordials, or other liquors which may be deemed
suitable for drinking, and for preparing and storing in like manner.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that I make no claim to the
mixing of aerated liquids with brandy, wines, or other liquors, mixtures of
such kinds being prepared in common, but which have heretofore in all cases
been kept separate until the time of drinking; and I declare that what I
claim as my Invention to be protected by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, mixing and bottling or otherwise enclosing in order to keep
for subsequent use areated liquids and spirits, or other suitable liquors in
combination, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Pickford, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
WILLIAM CLARK,
Patent Agent,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
T. PICKFORD. (L.B.)