IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED AND MINERAL WATERS, AND IN THE TREATMENT OF NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL MINERAL WATERS, AND OF THE SALTS WHEREBY SUCH WATERS ARE PRODUCED
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Henry Bollmann Condy at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th October 1879.
HENRY BOLLMANN CONDY, of Battersea, in the County of Surrey. * IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF AERATED AND MINERAL WATERS, AND IN THE
TREATMENT OF NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL MINERAL WATERS, AND OF THE SALTS
WHEREBY SUCH WATERS ARE PRODUCED."
The primary object of this Invention relates to the manufacture of artificial
mineral waters in a concentrated and more portable form than that in which they
have hitherto been produced, and of such a strength as will admit of their being
diluted with a large volume of water in order to make them accord with those of
the natural springs; the analysis of which are well known. I prefer to make
these concentrated waters of a strength equal to 20 times that of the natural
waters.
These concentrated mineral waters differ from, and are superior to those produced
by the dry salts sometimes used to make mineral waters, by reason of their
containing not only all the soluble alkaline salts, but as much carbonate of lime
and magnesia as can be dissolved by an access of carbonic acid; whereas the
mineral waters made from the dry salts can only contain the merest trace of
bicarbonite of lime and magnesia, if any, and in quantity so small as to be of no
medicinal value.
A further improvement consists in imparting to artificial alkaline mineral waters,
or the salts employed in the production thereof, a peculiar condition which may be
called a "living condition," which treatment is moreover applicable to any alkaline
mineral water, after it is bottled, for the purpose of enhancing its medicinal
properties.
It is well known that alkaline mineral waters taken in the natural state at
their source possess invigorating, purifying, and stimulating properties, which are
not possessed by artificial mineral waters or bottled natural waters. These
properties arise from the force by which the waters have been driven through
the body of the earth, and from friction against natural objects with which they
have come in contact, by virtue of which they acquire a kind of electrical condition,
and in consequence possess a vitalizing and invigorating power which is entirely
absent from all artificial waters hitherto made, or from the natural waters after
being bottled.
To impart this peculiar quality to mineral salts intended to be used in making
artificial alkaline mineral waters, or to natural alkaline mineral water after

page_text: being bottled, I find the most efficacious means to be the addition of a substance
containing nascent (ozonic) oxygen, and the substances I prefer to use are salts of
permanganic acid, by preference those of magnesia and lime. By this addition I
acquire the vitalising and purifying effect to which I have referred, without having
to introduce any substance foreign to such mineral waters other than a small quantity
of peroxide of manganese which is the least hurtful and heating tonic known to
men of science, and which in itself enhances the effect of the use of such mineral
waters. I may remark it is a fact that in the waters of some of the most salubrious
springs manganese exists.