CERTAIN COMPOSITIONS FOR PRESERVING CHEESE
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "CERTAIN
COMPOSITIONS FOR PRESERVING CHEESE."- A communication from abroad
Sealed the 18th March 1864, and dated the 22nd September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with bis Petition, on the
22nd September 1863.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "CERTAIN COMPOSITIONS FOR PRESERVING CHEESE," to be as follows:-
The objects of the compositions are to keep cheese sweet, and to preserve it
from mites or maggots.
Anti-putrid Composition.-This consists, 1st, of white salt in crystals or
flakes, or purified sea salt dried and pounded; 2nd, crude or purified saltpetre;
3rd, white wine vinegar or acetic acid obtained from the fermentation of honey,
or concentrated acetic acid made from the distillation of a mixture of three
parts of dried acetate of soda, and of nine and seven-tenth parts of concentrated
sulphuric acid; the product is crystallizable by cold, and marks eight degrees
five-tenths Beaumé; 4tb, rectified alcohol of 40 degrees; and, 5th, pure
white wine.
Manipulation. To preserve, for example, 4 cwt. of cheese for, say, one

page_text: month, dissolve 4 lbs. of salt and lb. of saltpetre in 4 lbs. of vinegar, pour
the solution over the cheese, and leave it to dry; when dry, turn it, pour the
solution over it, and leave it again to dry, and repeat the operation; next add
to 2 lbs. of salt and lb. of saltpetre, dissolved in 4 lbs. of vinegar, 1 lb. of
alcohol and 5 lbs. of white wine, and pour over the cheese, leave it to dry,
then turn it over, and pour on the opposite side or end. If the cheese is to
be preserved for a year or more, these operations must be repented during the
first two months.
Anti-Mite and Maggot Composition.-Spanish pepper 30 parts, black and
white pepper 15 parts each, cayenne pepper 15 parts, paradise seed 15 parts,
cinnamon 15 parts, ginger 15 parts, calamint 15 parts, and pennyroyal 15
parts. All these materials are dissolved in 600 parts of alcohol, and are
mixed with the anti-putrid composition, and the exterior surface of the cheese
is impregnated with the mixture.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 22nd March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "CERTAIN COMPOSITIONS FOR PRESERVING CHEESE,"
(communicated to me from abroad by Jean Neuenschwander, of Paris,
France,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly

page_text: 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 Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 :-
The objects of these compositions are to keep cheese sweet, and to preserve
it from mites or maggots.
Auti-putrid Composition.-This consists of white salt in crystals or flakes,
or purified sea salt dried and pounded; 2nd, crude or purified saltpetre; 3rd,
white wine vinegar or acetic acid obtained from the fermentation of honey, or
concentrated acetic acid made from the distillation of a mixture of three parts
of dried acetate of soda and of nine and seven-tenth parts of concentrated
sulphuric acid; the product is crystallizable by cold, and marks eight degrees
five-tenths Beaumé; 4th, rectified alcohol of 40 degrees; and, 5th, pure
white wine.
Manipulation. To preserve, for example, 4 cwt. (200 kilogrammes) of
cheese for (say) one month, dissolve about 4 lbs. (2 kilogrammes) of salt
and 1 oz. (50 grammes) of saltpetre in 14 ounces (400 grammes) of
vinegar, pour the solution over the cheese, and leave it to dry; when dry turn
it, pour the solution over it, and leave it again to dry, and repeat the operation.
Next add 2 lbs. (1 kilogramme of salt, and 1 ounces (50 grammes) of
saltpetre dissolved in 14 ounces (400 grammes) of vinegar, 3 ounces (100
grammes) of alcohol, and 17 ounces (500 grammes) of white wine, and pour
over the cheese, leave it to dry, then turn it over, and pour on the opposite
side or end. If the cheese is to be preserved for a year or more, these
operations must be repeated during the first two months.
Anti-Mite and Maggot Composition.-Spanish pepper 30 parts, black and
white
pepper 15 parts each, cayenne pepper 15 parts, paradise seed 15 parts,
cinnamon 15 parts, ginger 15 parts, calamint 15 parts, pennyroyal 15 parts,
and alcohol 600 parts. All these materials are dissolved in the alcohol, and
about oz. (20 grammes) of the composition are employed to preserve 4 cwt.
(200 kilogrammes) of cheese. This composition is mixed with the anti-putrid
composition, and the exterior surface of the cheese is impregnated with the
mixture.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the compositions

page_text: employed, either mixed or separately formed, substantially as herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of March, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)