IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING AND PREPARING TEA, to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: I, STEPHEN FRANCIS SMITH of Brunswick House No 309 Holloway Road in
the County of Middlesex Physician do hereby declare the nature of my Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING AND PREPARING TEA, to be as follows:-
"
This Invention relates to a new or improved method of treating and preparing
tea, so that its aroma is better preserved for a long time, and so that it is made
less bulky and better fitted for safe transit by land or shipments by sea, and so
that it takes less time in infusing.
According to my improvements the tea is first ground and then in certain
quantities is mixed with flour or meal (either cooked or raw) or other nutritious
inaterial, such as sago, rice, tapioca, wheat, oats, barley, rye, peas, beans, maize,
lentils potatoes or other ground material.
Then sufficient water or treacle or molasses or syrup is added to make the mass
of such consistence as to allow of its being kneaded and rolled out into a flat cake,
and thus dried by gentle heat, or the cake may be cut into pieces of various shapes
and sizes and then dried. The tea and the material with which it is to be mixed
may be both ground up together and then moistened as above mentioned.
The material with which the tea is to be mixed may be first made into a paste
and then the tea kneaded up with it and rolled out as mentioned before, or vice
versa.
The aroma which is lost from tea by exposure is taken up by the meal or other
material with which it is combined and preserved. The preparation is not so
bulky, weight for weight, as the unground tea, and if broken up finely it rapidly
imparts its virtues to hot water.
The compound may be used without moistening it to make it into cakes, as the
prime object of less bulk and preservation of aroma is obtained by the mixing
with some ground material, but it may be used either in powder or in cakes.
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TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I STEPHEN FRANCIS SMITH of Brunswick House Holloway Road in the County
of Middlesex Physician do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN TREATING AND PREPARING TEA " and in, what manner the
Baine is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement-
This invention relates to a new or improved method of treating and preparing
tea so that its aroma is better preserved for a long time and so that it is made less
bulky and better fitted for safe transit by land or shipment by sea and so that it
takes less time in infusing.
According to my improvements the tea is first ground and then in certain
quantities is mixed with flour or meal (either cooked or raw) or other nutritious
material such as sago, rice, tapioca, wheat, oats, barley, rye, peas, beans, maize,
lentils, potatoes or other ground material.
Then sufficient water or treacle or molasses or syrup is added to make the mass
of such consistence as to allow of its being kneaded and rolled out into a flat cake
and thus dried by gentle heat, or the cake may be cut into pieces of various shapes
and sizes and then dried. The tea and the material with which it is to be mixed
may be both ground up together and then moistened as above mentioned.
The material with which the tea is to be mixed may be first made into a paste
and then the tea kneaded up with it and rolled out as, mentioned before, or vice
versa.
The aroma which is lost from tea by exposure is taken up by the meal or other
material with which it is combined and preserved. The preparation is not so
bulky, weight for weight, as the unground tea, and if broken up finely it rapidly
imparts its virtues to hot water.
The compound may be used without moistening it to make it into cakes, as the
prime object of less bulk and preservation of aroma is obtained by the mixing
with some ground material, but it may be used either in powder or in cakes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The improved method of treating and preparing tea by mixing it with flour
meal or other ground nutritious material so as to preserve its aroma the compound
being made up into cakes ready for use or used in the form of powder substantially
as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Agents for the Patentce.