IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMPOSITION OF LOZENGES AND OTHER CONFECTIONS
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Reyburn, of Greenock, in the County
of Renfrew, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMPOSITION
OF LOZENGES AND OTHER CONFECTIONS."
Scaled the 14th January 1853, and dated the 15th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Reyburn
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 15th November 1852.
I, ROBERT REYBURN, of Greenock, in the County of Renfrew, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE COMPOSITION OF LOZENGES AND OTHER CONFECTIONS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of applying milk, cream, and eggs in the
manufacture of lozenges and other confections.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, filed by the said Robert Keyburn in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
ROBERT REYBURN, of Greenock, in the County of Renfrew, send
greeting.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of November, in the
Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Robert Reyburn, Her special licence
that I, the said Robert Reyburn, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Robert Reyburn, 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, exer-
cise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMPOSITION OF LOZENGES AND OTHER CONFECTIONS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Robert Rey-
burn, by an instrument in writing under ny hand and seal, 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 Robert Reyburn, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention consists of applying milk, cream, and eggs in the
manufacture of lozenges and other confections.
And, in order that my said Invention may be more fully under-
stood, I will proceed to describe the means pursued by me.
I first concentrate the milk and eggs by evaporation, at a tem-
perature of not more than One hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit.
For this purpose, I use slate slabs, or copper plates, placed over a
cistern containing hot water or steam. On these slabs or plates the
milk or eggs is spread to the depth of a quarter of an inch, more or
less, adding an additional supply as it becomes thickened to the con-
sistency of thin treacle. When the several additions amount to

page_text: the thickness of a quarter of an inch, more or less, of the consistency
of thin treacle, it must be removed from the slab or plate with a
metal or wooden spatula, and (this concentrated milk and eggs,
either separately or together, in any proportion) mixed with an
equal weight, more or less, of finely pounded or ground sugar, and
about one-tenth, more or less, of the weight of this mixture of gum
arabic, or other mucilage used by confectioners in the manufacture
of lozenges and other confections; the flavouring substance, if any
is wanted, is then to be added to taste; and this compound is to be
made into lozenges, or any other form of confection that may be
required, in the usual way.
I claim the introduction of milk, cream, and eggs, either sepa-
rately or together, into lozenges or other confections.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Reyburn, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
ROBERT REYBURN. (L.S.)
Witness,
JOHN ROBINSON,
26, Cathcart Street, Greenock.