Improvements in the Manufacture and Preparation of Mineral and Aerated Waters and Beverages.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 14th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture and Preparation of Mineral and
Aerated Waters and Beverages.
I, JAMES RUTHERFORD COCHRANE of the Firm of Bayliss and Cochrane of Cromac
Street Belfast in the County of Antrim Ireland Aerated and Mineral Water
Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My Improvements consist in introducing into the manufacture of Mineral and
Aerated Waters and Beverages the Seeds or nuts of the Kola Plant (Sterculia,
acuminata) alone or added to other ingredients.
In carrying out my Invention I prefer to use about the following proportions of
such ingredients.
In the first place I prepare an Extract of the Kola nut by macerating 12 lbs. of the
Kola nuts in one gallon of rectified spirits of wine I then proceed in the following
manner.
take 2 ounces of the Kola Extract and add 4 gallons of flavoured syrup which
flavoured syrup may be prepared in the usual way, a sufficient quantity of colouring
matter is then added and also a sufficient quantity of Acidulating Solution.
Two ounces of this mixture is added to each ten ounce bottle of carbonised water.
When used with carbonised water alone, I take two ounces of the Kola Extract as
previously described and mix with twenty gallons of water previous to the same
being Aërated.
This improved manufacture of mineral and Aërated water will be found a pleasant
and cooling drink added to which by the introduction of the Kola nut it is very
strengthening, assuages thirst, and rendors those using it capable of very prolonged
fatigue, moreover it is a very efficient remedy in cases of drunkeness and has
valuable stimulating and tonic properties.
Dated this 19th day of July 1889
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture and Preparation of Mineral and
Aërated Waters and Beverages.
I JAMES RUTHERFORD COCHRANE of the Firm of Bayliss and Cochrane of Cromac
Street Belfast in the County of Antrim Ireland Aerated and Mineral Water Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the saine
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement —
My Improvements consist in introducing into the manufacture of Mineral and
Aerated Waters and Beverages the Seeds or nuts of the Kola plant (Sterculia
acuminata) alone or added to other ingredients.
In carrying out my Invention I prefer to use about the following proportions of
such ingredients.
In the first place I prepare an extract of the Kola nuts by macerating 12 pounds of
the Kola nuts in one gallon of rectified spirits of wine I then proceed in the following
manner.
take 2 ounces of the Kola Extract and add 4 gallons of flavoured syrup which
flavoured syrup may be prepared in the usual way a sufficient quantity of colouring
matter is then added and also a sufficient, quantity of acidulating solution.

page_text: Two ounces of this mixture is added to each ten ounces bottle of carbonised
water.
When used with carbonised water alone I take two onnces of the Kola Extract as
previously described and mix with twenty gallons of water previous to the same
being aerated.
This improved manufacture of mineral and aerated water will be found a pleasant
and cooling drink added to which by the introduction of the Kola nut it is very
strengthening assuages thirst and renders those using it capable of very prolonged
fatigue morcover it is a very efficient remedy in casos of drunkeness and has valuable
stimulating and tonic properties.
I wish it to be understood that I do not confine myself to the precise proportions of
the ingredients herein contained as I may vary same according to requirements.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is.
1st The introduction of the seeds or nuts of the Kola plant (Sterculia acuminata)
into the manufacture and preparation of mineral and aerated waters and beverages.
2nd. The introduction into and use of Kola in mineral and aerated waters either alone
or in combination with the herein before mentioned ingredients or with any one or
more of such ingredients in about the quantities and for the purposes substantially as
herein set forth and specified.
Dated this 12th day of October 1880
EDWARD J. PAYNE & SON,
104, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.