IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF MALT TO PRODUCE AN ARTICLE OF DIET, WHICH MAY BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFER
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Conroy and Michael Conroy, both of Liverpool,
in the County of Lancaster, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
TREATMENT OF MALT TO PRODUCE AN ARTICLE OF DIET, WHICH MAY BE
USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFER"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Conroy and Michael
Conroy at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th October
1881.
ARTHUR CONROY and MICHAEL CONROY, both of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF MALT TO PRODUCE AN
ARTICLE OF DIET, WHICH MAY BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE."
This Invention is designed with the object of forming a substitute for coffee that
shall be much more nutritious and digestive than pure coffee.
The mode of preparation is preferably as follows:-Roasted ground coffee is
exhausted by percolation with water at a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit,
and the resulting percolate is incorporated with a mixture in powder of raw malt
and malt that has been roasted in the same manner as ordinary coffee berries. The
product is then thinly spread on suitable trays and dried at a temperature not
exceeding 140 degrees Fahrenheit.
The proportion of coffee extract can be greatly varied, and if desirable the malt
already treated with extract and dried can be a second time so treated so as to
saturate the malt, the main object being to combine coffee and mixed, raw, and
roasted malt so that the one shall be saturated with the extract of the other.
This produces an article possessing the flavour and stimulating properties of coffee
combined with the nutritive and digestive properties of malt.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Arthur Conroy and Michael Conroy in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 27th April 1882.
ARTHUR CONROY and MICHAEL CONROY, both of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF MALT TO PRODUCE AN
ARTICLE OF DIET, WHICH MAY BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE."
This Invention is designed with the object of forming a substitute for coffee that
Bhall be much more nutritious and digestive than pure coffee. The mode of
preparation is preferably as follows:- Roasted ground coffee is exhausted by
percolation with water at a temperature of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and the
resulting percolate is incorporated with a mixture in powder of raw malt and malt
that has been roasted in the same manner as ordinary coffee berries. The product
is then thinly spread on suitable trays and dried at a temperature not exceeding
140 degrees Fahrenheit.
The proportion of coffee extract can be greatly varied, and if desirable the malt
already treated with extract and dried can be a second time so treated as to
saturate the malt, or an equivalent amount of roasted coffee can be added to the
malt instead of part of the coffee extract, the main object being to combine coffee
and mixed, raw, and roasted malt, so that the one shall be saturated with the
extract of the other. In actual manufacture we have found the following mode of
procedure gives as good results as any-To equal parts of raw and roasted malt
saturated with coffee extract obtained from a corresponding weight of coffee and
dried as described, add twice their weight of roasted coffee berries, and grind the
whole in a mill. This produces an article possessing the flavour and stimulating|
properties of coffee combined with the nutritive and digestive properties of
malt.
Having now described our Invention, and the best mode known to us of carrying
it into effect, we wish it to be understood that what we claim as our Invention to
be protected under Letters Patent is,―
First. The combination with raw or roasted malt, or both, of an extract of coffee,
substantially as described.
Second. The roasting of malt in a similar manner to coffee, and its mechanical
combination or mixture with raw malt and roasted coffee in the form of extract or
otherwise so as to form a coffee substitute possessing valuable, digestive, and
dietetic properties.
In witness whereof, we, the said Arthur Conroy and Michael Conroy, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty fifth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.