Year: 1898

page_text: AHMED SUREYA BEY EMIN, Merchant, Dikranian Han, and PASCAL RAHGI,
Chemist, Mamout Pasha, Constantinople, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as folows:-
Ahmed Sureya Bey Emin's & Pascal Rahgi's improved tea paste is prepared
as follows:
Take tea leaves in coarse powder of sufficient quantity.
Pour upon the tea twice its weight of distilled water mixed with sufficient
quantity of alcohol, macerate it about ten days occasionally agitating, pack in
perculator & let it drain, press the marc in a pressing machine, unite the two
liquids & filter, after warming it with mild heat in a hot water bath, till the
evaporation and odour of the alcohol cease the remainder concentrates in vacuum
the tea paste is obtained without loosing its chemical & physical properties.
Ahmed Sureya Bey Emin & Pascal Rahgi's improved condensed tea paste
can be sold to the public in the above state or in tabloides of different shapes,
or before concentrating in vacuum it can be mixed with sugar & made into a
kind of preserve of different models, such as granular syrups, or reduced into
powder or mad into tabloides of different shapes & sizes, or without sugar in a
liquid or syrup consistence or dense extract or dried extract in tabloides of different
forms and sizes, all these kinds of forms can be mixed with vanilia or with different
kinds of aromatic substances, it can also be mixed with milk or with other kinds
of nutritive substances, all these kinds of states & properties are to be in our
invention.
Use and directions: According to the preparation (for instance) in the tabloid
state from 6-10 and in the granular state 3 teaspoonfuls in a tea cup of boiling
water is quite sufficient to prepare a cup of tea clear & without sediment & with-
out loosing (according to the qualities of tea) its physical & chemical properties.
This preparation is very useful to travellers, for they can take it, in any, of
the above mentioned states by placing a quantity in their mouths, for it will
melt & replace a liquid cup of tea.

page_text: manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
Ahmed Sureya Bey Emin & Pascal Rahgi's improved condensed tea is prepared
as follows:
Take a sufficient quantity of tea leaves in coarse powder. Pour upon the tea
twice its weight of distilled water mixed with sufficient quantity of alcohol, accord-
ing to the quality of tea macerate it about ten days occasionally agitating, pack
in percolator and let it drain, then press the remaining marc in a pressing
machine to extract the liquid contained in the marc unite this liquid with the
liquid obtained by the first operation, and filter, after warming it with mild
heat in a hot water bath, till the evaporation and odour of the alcohol cease, the
remainder concentrate in vacuum the condensed tea is obtained without losing
its chemical and physical properties.
Ahmed Sureya Bey Emin & Pascal Rahgi's improved .condensed tea can be
sold to the public in the above state or in tabloides of different shapes or before
concentrating in vacuum it can be mixed with sugar and made into a kind of
preserve of different models such as granular syrups or reduced into powder and
made into tabloides of different shapes and sizes, or without sugar in a liquid
or a syrup consistence or dense or extract or dried extract in tabloids of different
forms and sizes, all these kinds of forms can be mixed' with vanilla or with
different kinds of aromatic substances, it can also be mixed with milk or with
other kinds of nutritive substances, all these kinds of states and properties are to
be our invention.
Use and direction: According to the preparation (for instance) in the tabloide
state from 6-10 and in the granular state 3 teaspoonfuls in a tea cup of boiling
water is quite sufficient to prepare a cup of tea clear and without sediment and
without losing (according to the quality of tea) its physical and chemical proper-
ties. .
This preparation is very useful to travellers for they can take it in any of the
above mentioned states by placing a quantity in their mouth, for it will melt
and replace a liquid cup of tea.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
That our invention consists in mixing condensed tea made in the above described
manner pure or mixed with, say, milk or any other aromatic or other substance,
as above stated and hot water, by the combination of which is thus produced
instantly a usual cup of pure or mixed with other substances tea, fit for drinking
or any other use, and that we are thus entitled to all the rights of the above
particularly described invention,
Dated this day of January 24th 1800.