IMPROVEMENTS IN MALT LIQUORS AS TONICS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Adams Papps, of Bow, in County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MALT LIQUORS AS
TONICS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Adams Papps.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 12th November 1864.
* I, FRANCIS ADAMS PAPPS, of Bow, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MALT LIQUORS
AS TONICS," to be as follows:-
My Invention in the first place consists in dissolving a certain quantity, by
weight, of sulphate of quinine or other salts of quinine in sulphuric acid diluted
with, say, fourteen parts by measure of distilled water. The solution thus
obtained I add to the malt, wort, and hops in the copper or in the fermenting
tun at that stage of fermentation technically termed cleansing. I do not
confine myself to any particular quantity of the salts of quinine, but the
proportions I prefer may vary from half an ounce by weight to an ounce and
a hálf to the barrel of 36 gallons, mixed with an equivalent measure of
diluted sulphuric acid prepared as above described.
My Invention likewise refers to impregnating malt liquors intended for
bottling by charging the same with oxygen or carbonic acid gas by the process
usually employed in the manufacture of aerated waters, by which process such.

page_text: bottled malt liquors immediately become a marketable article, and are at
once ready for use.
Both the points embraced in my Invention add largely to the tonic
properties of malt liquors, thereby rendering them especially beneficial as
beverages for persons afflicted with nervous and dyspeptic complaints, or in
hot climates where intermittent fevers prevail.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francis Adams Papps in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 12th May 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
ADAMS PAPPS, of Bow, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the.
said Francis Adams Papps, Her special licence that I, the said Francis
Adams Papps, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Francis Adams Papps, 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 MALT LIQUORS AS TONICS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Francis Adams Papps, my executors or admini-
strators, 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 Francis Adams Papps, 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 :-
My Invention in the first place consists in dissolving a certain quantity,
by weight, of sulphate of quinine or other salts of quinine in sulphuric acid

page_text: diluted with, say, from nine to fourteen parts by measure of distilled water,
and adding the solution thus obtained to the malt and water in the mash tun,"
or to the wort and hops in the copper, or to. the fermenting tun at that stage®
technically termed cleansing. I do not confine myself to any particular:
quantity of the salts of quinine, but the proportions I prefer may vary from
balf.an ounce by weight to an ounce and a half to the barrel of thirty-six
gallons, mixed with a corresponding proportionate measure of sulphuric acid,:
diluted as herein-before described.
My Invention in the second place. refers to impregnating ale, porter, stout,.-
and such malt liquors, prepared as above described, enclosed in air-tight:
vessels by charging the same with oxygen or carbonic acid gas by any of the
processes usually employed in. the manufacture of aerated waters, by which
such liquors immediately become marketable, and are at once ready for
use.
- Having explained the nature and object of my Invention, I shall now
proceed to state the best manner I am acquainted with for carrying the same
into practical effect.
As relates to the first part of my Invention, I wish it to be understood that
I do not confine myself to the precise proportions herein mentioned, but those
I prefer to make use of are the following:-In preparing the solution of
quinine I prefer to employ either the sulphate of quinine, cinchonine, or
quinodine, and make use of the same proportions in either case, namely, from
half an ounce to an ounce and a half to the barrel of thirty-six gallons,
according to the purpose for which the liquid is to be used, either as a
beverage or as a tonic medicine. As a solvent I use sulphuric acid of
about the specific gravity 1-84, and I dilute the sulphuric acid with about
fourteen parts of distilled water. These solutions of quinine I add in the
mash tun to the malt and water, or in the copper to the wort and hops, or in
the fermenting tun to them at that stage of fermentation technically termed
cleansing, in order that the quinine or its salts may by fermentation become
fully incorporated therewith.
The second part of my Invention has for its object the production of malt
liquors prepared as aforesaid, aerated in a state fit for the market. To
accomplish this I impregnate such aforesaid liquors with carbonic acid or
oxygen gas by such processes as are known in the manufacture of ordinary
aerated liquors, as soda water or lemonade, which I need not explain. The
gases may be manufactured from any of the well-known sources, such as
carbonate of lime, oxide of manganese, or such other bodies.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said

page_text: Invention for "Improvements in Malt Liquors as Tonics," together with the
best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into practical effect, I
would remark in conclusion that I hereby declare my Invention to consist in
and I claim,-
First, the use in manner herein-before described of a solution of sulphate of
quinine or cinchonine, quinodine, or other salts of quinine in sulphuric acid as
an ingredient in the manufacture of malt liquors as tonics.
Secondly, the right to aerate or impregnate such malt liquors so prepared
with carbonic or oxygen gas by'any of the processes already employed in the
manufacture of aerated waters.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Adams Papps, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of May, in' the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
1
FRANCIS ADAMS PAPPS. (L.S.)
Witness,
CHARLES S. BAKER,
General Patent Company, Limited,
71, Fleet Street.