AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHOCOLATE
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to François Honoré Lebaigue, of Little Titchfield
Street, in the County of Middlesex, Chocolate Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHOCOLATE.”
Sealed the 4th March 1856, and dated the 11th September 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said François Honoré Lebaigue
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th September 1855.
I, FRANÇOIS HONORÉ LEBAIGUE, of Little Titchfield Street, in the County
of Middlesex, Chocolate Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHOCOLATE" to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists of combining cod liver oil in the making up or
preparing chocolate. For this purpose the cod liver oil is mixed or ground
with the chocolate, and the compound is made into form in moulds, as here-
tofore. The chocolate compound may also be mixed with flavoring and other
matters, and, when desired, with other medicaments.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francois Honoré Lebaigue in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 10th March 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCOIS
HONORE LEBAIGUE, of Little Titchfield Street, in the County of Middlesex,
Chocolate Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Francois Honoré Lebaigue, Her special licence that I, the said
Francois Honoré Lebaigue, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Francois Honoré Lebaigue, my executors, administrators,
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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF CHOCOLATE," upon the
condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Francois Honoré Lebaigue, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and-seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Tuvention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 Francois Honoré Lebaigue, 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:-
This Invention consists of combining cod liver oil in the making up or
preparing chocolate. For this purpose the cod liver oil is mixed or ground
with the chocolate, and the compound is made into form in moulds, as here-
tofore. The chocolate compound may also be mixed with flavoring and other
matters, and, when desired, with other medicals.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe more fully the manner of performing the same. I prefer to employ
the best quality of cod liver oil, and I cause the same to be intimately and
uniformly mixed with chocolate. I usually employ at about the rate of twenty-

page_text: five per cent. by weight of cod liver oil to the chocolate paste with which it
is combined, though more or less may be used; and when the chocolate and
the cod liver oil have been intimately mixed, I mould or shape the compound
as heretofore, in making chocolate up for sale.
Other medicals
The preparations of chocolate and flavorings which I use are such as have
before been employed, to which separately I make no claim; and such pre-
parations and flavorings may be varied when they are to be used in carrying
out my Invention, viz, combining chocolate with cod liver oil.
may be also combined in preparing the chocolate, such as sulphate of iron
or carbonate of iron, the iodide of potassium, magnesia, tannin, and others,
in cases where such medicals are prescribed, and in such quantities as may be
advised.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francois Honoré Lebaigue, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JNO. ALCOCK.
FRANÇOIS HONORÉ LEBAIGUE. (L.S.)