A New or Improved Infusible Preparation to Form a Beverage.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1894-Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Infusible Preparation to Form a Beverage.
I, JOHN MITCHEL DOWLING WORSNOP, of 16, Harris Street, Bradford, in
the County of York, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved preparation from which an infusion
and beverage may be formed, and its object is to provide a cheap and pleasing
substitute for tea, coffee and similar beverages largely embodying the nutritious
and healthful properties of fruit.
For this purpose dried fruits such as apples, pears, currants, raisins and any other
suitable fruits, capable of being sufficiently dried without losing their nutritious
and healthful properties, together with the dried rinds of oranges and lemons and
the like are ground into powder and may be mixed into a dough with orange,
lemon and other fruit juices. This dough is then baked and afterwards broken up
aud mixed with currants, elder-berries and other thin-skinned fruits and the mixture
is dried, and when dried is roasted in a closed vessel.
For roasting the mixture I prefer to employ a rotating cylinder mounted
horizontally and heated below. A silver or silver-plated cylinder may be
advantageously used. A scraping bar is preferably employed mounted excen-
trically upon wire or other bearers and so arranged that the rotation of the
cylinder causes the bar to turn with it but each time it reaches the top its weight
causes the bar to over-run the cylinder and fall to the bottom thus scraping the
wall of the cylinder.
A scoop or scoops may be fitted to the cylinder adapted to be withdrawn with
a portion of the contents to show the condition of the latter.
Dated this 31st day of January 1894.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Infusible Preparation to Form a Beverage.
I, JOHN MITCHEL DOWLING WORSNOP, of 16, Harris Street, Bradford, in
the County of York, Inventor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a new or improved preparation from which an infusion
and beverage may be formed, and its object is to provide a cheap and pleasing
preparation largely embodying the nutritious and healthful properties of fruit.
For this purpose dried fruit such as apples, pears, currants, raisins and any other
suitable fruits, capable of being sufficiently dried without losing their nutritious
and healthful properties, together with the dried rinds of oranges and lemons and
the like are ground into powder and may be mixed into a dough with orange, lemon
and other fruit juices. This dough is then baked and afterwards broken up and
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page_text: mixed with currants, 'elder-berries and other thin-skinned fruits and the mixture is
dried and when dried is roasted in a closed vessel.
The preparation may be used as a food or it may be mixed with other food
stuffs.
For roasting the mixture I prefer to use the apparatus illustrated in the
accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of this Specification in which similar
letters of reference refer to similar parts in each of the figures.
Figure 1, represents an elevation of the roasting apparatus with the cover partly
in section.
Figure 2, represents a side view of the same.
Figure 3, represents a longitudinal section of the roasting cylinder shown
separately, and Figure 4, is a diametrical section of the same.
The copper cylinder A. which may be lined with silver or silver plated is pro-
vided with a lid A2 fitting on end of the cylinder. The cylinder is mounted in
the open bearings B, B formed in the end frames by means of the hollow
trunnions A3 and A4 respectively projecting from the end of the cylinder and
the centre of the lid and it is driven by the cog wheel A' fixed upon A³
engaging the toothed wheel C upon the driving shaft D which shaft may be driven
in any convenient manner.
A scraping bar E mounted upon the wire loops F, F is placed inside the cylinder
and as the cylinder rotates the bar is carried up by the contents, but each time it
reaches the top its weight causes it to over-run the cylinder and fall to the bottom,
thus scraping the wall of the cylinder.
The cylinder may be heated by a series of gas jets passing from the gas pipe H
and it is preferably boxed in by the casing J the semi-cylindrical top J of which
is hinged and may be lifted to enable the roasting cylinder to be removed.
A scoop K is fitted through each of the trunnions A3 and A', either of which
may be withdrawn to examine the contents of the cylinder.
The proportions of the different fruits used may be considerably varied without
very materially altering the nature of the preparation but equal quantities of dried
apples, pears, currants, raisins, orange and lemon rind may be ground together and
then mixed into a dough preferably with orange, lemon or other fruit juice. The
dough thus formed is then baked in any convenient manner into a cake, which is
afterwards broken up and mixed with half its weight, more or less, of grapes,
elder-berries or other thin skin skinned fruits. The mixture is then placed in the
roasting cylinder A and the latter is mounted in position and is made to revolve
over the gas jets so as to roast the mixture. The scraping action of the bar E
reduces the mixture more or less to a powder whilst it is being roasted but it may
be ground before use.
A beverage may be formed from the preparation by using it the same as tea or
coffee.
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 :
1. The improved preparation consisting of a mixture of fruit dried and roasted,
substantially as herein shown and described.
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2. A roasting cylinder provided with a scraper mounted substantially as herein
shown and described.
Dated this 30th day of October 1894
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.