Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 7th Sept., 1895
A communication from ARTHUR DELCROIX, of Nivelles, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Manufacturer.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, 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 :--
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For some time past a large number of what are known as Simili-cafés" have
been manufactured in imitation of genuine coffee.
These products have been manufactured from cercals, grain etc., roasted with or
without the addition of coffee, of the extract of coffee obtained during the roasting
of the beans, of extracts of waste from raw coffee-beans, of extract from the hulls
or husks of coffee, of "mate-leaves" (i.e. Paraguay tea), of acorns, of nut-shells,
of Gouda nuts, and even of tannin etc.
Being desirous of procuring a beverage both stimulating and nutritious as well
as containing the essential principles of colonial coffee, numerous researches
and practical experiments have been made, based on the well-known fact that
coffee loses a considerable proportion of its essential principles, during the process
of roasting. These principles are recovered in various ways, but these experiments
have led to the conclusion that the best method of doing so consists in their
absorption from the coffee, roasted or being roasted, by some alimentary product,
artificial or natural, but apt to absorb these principles and capable of being used
therewith.
The alimentary materials to be employed concurrently may for instance be
the grain of cereals and be mixed with the coffee either before or during roasting
or they may form an intimate mixture with the coffee, to be obtained by bruising
or trituration of the raw coffee together with the product which is to be
added to it. I do not limit my invention to any particular proportion of the
coffee to the other alimentary material added thereto. Equal parts of each, for
example make a good mixture.
In this latter operation, the raw coffee may be replaced by any one of the
substances designated above in the first introductory paragraph, as well as by
a large number of other products having more or less the taste of coffee.
The bruising and trituration of the substances to be used may also be effected
separately, the mixture being made subsequently.
The materials may be roasted as they are and may form a stiff paste divisible
into particles of any desired form e.g. in grains affecting the form of genuine coffee
beans.
For the production of such a paste it matters not what may be (a) the name
or the form given to this paste, or (b) the materials which may be added thereto
for the purpose of improving or altering the quality as well as to facilitate its
manipulation. It may be obtained by mixing its ingredients with water or any
other liquid in desired quantity.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is ;-
1. The trituration or bruising of coffee raw or roasted mixed with cereal grain
or fruit which has or has not undergone preliminary preparation and is destined to
absorb the essential principles of the coffee.
2. The trituration and bruising separately effected of
a) Coffee raw or roasted
b) Any cereals grain or fruits intended as products to be mixed together
before or during roasting.
3. The manufacture of a paste of any cereal grain or fruit or of meal farina
fecula or other substances derived from the said cereals grain or fruits and of
coffee raw or roasted bruised and triturated either together with or separately from
the above named materials.
4. The herein described preparation of coffee whether roasted or unroasted.
Dated this 11th day of March 1895.
BOULT & WADE,
Agents for the Applicant.