AN IMPROVED NITROGENOUS COMPOUND GASEOUS FLAVOURED BEVERAGE
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward William Allen, of Peckham, in the County of
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Surrey, Gentleman, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED NITROGENOUS
COMPOUND GASEOUS FLAVOURED BEVERAGE."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward William Allen at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th November 1880.
EDWARD WILLIAM ALLEN, of Peckham, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman.
"AN IMPROVED NITROGENOUS COMPOUND GASEOUS FLAVOURED BEVERAGE."
This Invention relates to the production of an improved nitrogenous compound
gaseous flavoured beverage, combining brain restoring, nerve invigorating, and
muscle producing properties in the form of a pleasant table drink by the-com-
bination of various brain renovating, nerve invigorating, and muscle producing
tonics and compounds, such as phosphorus, lupuli, and like ingredients, together
with a sedative, the whole being flavoured with various fruit syrups and essences
(in ordinary use for like purposes), and charged with nitrogen and carbonic acid
gases in such proportions as may be found to induce a healthful appetite. and a
vigorous constitution of the human body.
The following are the approximate proportions and properties of the ingredients
which I find it advantageous to employ in accordance with my Invention, viz.:
Lupuli, 1 dram (tonic and sedative); dilute phosphoric acid, 30 minims (brain and
nervine tonic and invigorator); diluto tartaric acid and cream of tartar, 25 minims
(refrigerant and antiscorbutic); lime juice syrup, 90 minims to five ounces of
water (antiscorbutic and liver stimulant).
The proportions of the gases which I find advantageous are from about twenty
per cent. of nitrogen to about eighty per cent. of carbonic acid.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward William Allen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th May 1881.
EDWARD WILLIAM ALLEN, of Peckham, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman.
"AN IMPROVED NITROGENOUS COMPOUND GASEOUS FLAVOURED BEVERAGE."
This Invention relates to the production of an improved nitrogenous compound
gaseous flavored beverage to be known as mystikon, combining brain restoring,
nerve invigorating, and muscle producing properties in the form of a pleasant table
drink by the combination of various brain renovating, nerve invigorating, and
muscle producing tonics and compounds, such as phosphorus, lupuli, and like
ingredients, together with a sedative, the whole being flavoured with various fruit
syrups and essences (in ordinary use for like purposes) and charged with nitrogen
and carbonic acid gases in such proportions as may be found to induce a healthful
appetite and a vigorous constitution of the human body.
The following are the approximate proportions and properties of the ingredients
which I find it advantageous to employ in accordance with my Invention, viz. :-
Lupuli or other suitable tonic, 1 dram (tonic and sedative); dilute phosphoric acid,
30 minims (brain and nervine tonic and invigorator); dilute tartaric acid and
cream of tartar, 25 minims (refrigerant and antiscorbutic); lime juice syrup,
90 minims to 5 ounces of water (anti-scorbutic and liver stimulant).
The proportions of the gases which I find advantageous are from about twenty
per cent. of nitrogen to about eighty per cent. of carbonic acid.
This improved beverage is charged with the gases and bottled in like manner to
other aërated liquids, as is well understood.
Having thus described the naturo of my Invention, and the manner of per-
forming or carrying the same into practice, I would remark that I do not claim
the use of any of the ingredients or gases separately, which are well known and in
common use, but what I claim is,―
First. The use of the two gases, carbonic acid and nitrogen, combined for the
purpose of aërating drinks or beverages, substantially such as hereinbefore
described.
Second. I claim the improved combination of the gases and compounds or any
modification thereof, substantially such as herein before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward William Allen, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane,
W.C.
E. W. ALLEN. (L.S.)