A NEW OR IMPROVED CHALYBEATE WATER
Year: 1848

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
FIELDING PALMER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Druggist,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh
day of April One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, in the eleventh
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Charles Fielding Palmer, my exors, adñiors, and
assigns, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Charles Fielding Palmer, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Charles Fielding Palmer, my exors, admors, or assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED CHALYBEATE WATER;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said Charles
Fielding Palmer should cause a particular description of the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, by an instru-
ment in writing under my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's
High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Charles Fielding Palmer, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, that
is to say:-
My Invention consists of an artificial chalybeate water, in which a basic or
neutral salt of the protoxide of iron is held in solution by the means herein-after
particularly described. In carrying my Invention into effect, I sometimes
resort to methods differing more or less in detail from the method herein-after
particularly described, but I will explain the method by which I prefer
carrying into effect my said Invention. I take four parts by weight of
proto-sulphate of iron, one and a half parts by weight of citric acid, forty parts
by weight of water, and twenty parts by weight of syrup. I first dissolve the
citric acid in the water, and to that solution add the proto-sulphate of iron,
and afterwards the syrup. I then take a number of bottles, and put some of
this solution into each, the exact quantity being determined by the strength
which it is desired the chalybeate water should have. I usually prepare it
of two strengths, the one containing two grains of proto-sulphate of iron, and
the other containing double that quantity in each bottle of four fluid ounces.
I then prepare in an ordinary soda water machine a solution of carbonate of
soda and carbonate of potash in water of such a strength that four fluid
ounces of the said solution shall contain three grains of carbonate of soda and
three grains of carbonate of potash. The said solution of carbonate of soda
and carbonate of potash is impregnated with carbonic acid gas, and introduced
into the bottles in which the solution containing the proto-sulphate of iron and
citric acid has been previously introduced. The said bottles being nearly filled
with the solution of carbonate of soda and carbonate of potash charged with
carbonic acid are corked under pressure so as to retain the carbonic acid gas.
The method of impregnating the solution of carbonate of soda and carbonate of
potash with carbonic acid gas and filling the bottles therewith, and afterwards
corking the same, being well understood and commonly practised, I deem it
unnecessary to describe the said method.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise method of carrying my Invention into effect, herein-before
described, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
said Invention; for example, instead of citric acid tartaric acid may be
substituted, or the citrates or tartrates, together with several other acids and
salts; but I claim as my Invention the making of a solution in which any

page_text: neutral or basic protosalt of iron, in conjunction with any other salt, is held in
solution in water charged with carbonic acid gas, which said solution affords a
precipitate on the application of heat.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Fielding Palmer, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of October in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.
CHARLES FIELDING
(L.S.). PALMER.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-third day of October,
in the year of our Lord 1848, the aforesaid Charles Fielding Palmer came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord