AN IMPROVED BEVERAGE OR ARTIFICIAL APOLLINARIS WATER
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Smith, of Queen's Gate, Hyde Park, in
the County of Middlesex, Esquire, for the Invention of “AN
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Smith at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th January 1874.
I, GEORGE SMITH, of Queen's Gate, Hyde Park, in the County of
Middlesex, Esquire, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED BEVERAGE OR ARTIFICIAL APOLLINARIS WATER," to be as
follows:-
The object of my Invention is the manufacture of a beverage which
shall resemble in its qualitics the natural water known as apollinaris
water. For this purpose I combine certain ingredients or agents
herein-after mentioned by which I produce a salt or compound,
and this when dissolved in water forms an agreeable and wholesome
beverage.

page_text: For producing this salt I take the following ingredients in a state of
powder, and although I mention certain quantities or proportions which
may be used with practical advantage. I desire it to be understood that
I do not confine myself to them nor to the temperature or mode
herein explained of using the ingredients in order to produce the
compound-
Bi-carbonate of soda
Chloride of sodium
Sulphate of soda
Phosphate of soda
Carbonate of magnesia
Carbonate of lime
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150 grains.
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32.9 grains.
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21 grains.
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10 grains.
30 grains.
2 grains.
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175 grains.
32 grains.
Dried phosphate of soda
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10 grains.
Crystallized sulphate of magnesia
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40 grains.
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15 grains.
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2.5 grains.
Or the chemical equivalent formulæ, as for instance,
Bi-carbonate of soda
Chloride of sodium -
Carbonate of magnesia
Chloride of calcium
I sometimes omit the chloride of calcium.
I mix the powders together thoroughly and heat them in a suitable
vessel to a temperature ranging between 200° and 220° Fahrenheit, and
I then, when the particles begin to aggregate, stir or agitato until they
assume a granular form; I afterwards sift the granules.
In the formulæ in which chloride of calcium is used I first powder it
and then mix it very intimately with small quantities of the other
ingredients employed, I then mix the compound with the other
ingredients (also in a powdered state) very thoroughly.
When distilled water is not used chloride of calcium may be dispensed
with.
The proportions I have mentioned are sufficient for the production
of one gallon of the beverage.
After the salt or compound has been made and dissolved in a
gallon of water I charge it with carbonic acid gas or with oxide of
nitrogen.

page_text: Or instead of using carbonic acid gas I sometimes combine with the
mixture a mixture of tartaric acid and citric acid, say 35 grains of the
former and 25 grains of the latter.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 23rd July 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
SMITH, of Queen's Gate, Hyde Park, in the County of Middlesex,
Esquire, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said George Smith, Her special
license that I, the said George Smith, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Smith, 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, exercise; and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
BEVERAGE OR ARTIFICIAL APOLLINARIS WATER," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Smith, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, 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 George Smith, 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 :-
Toantion
the manufactum of a howoman which

page_text: The proportions I have mentioned are sufficient for the production of
one gallon of the beverage.
After the salt or compound has been made and dissolved in a
gallon of water I charge it with carbonic acid gas or with oxide of
nitrogen.
Or instead of using carbonic acid gas I sometimes combine with the
mixture a mixture of tartaric acid and citric acid, say 35 grains of the
former and 25 grains of the latter.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim the manu-
facture or production of a beverage or artificial apollinaris water,
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Smith, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Witness,
WILLIAM HOWARD,
Zetland Place,
High Road,
Lee.
GEORGE SMITH. (L.S.)