A New or Improved Method of Treating and Preparing Hops and Blending the same, for Infusion, together with Tea, Coffee, Cocoa, and other substances for which such Prepared Hops are applicable. OF AND PREPARING HOPS AND BLENDING THE SAME FOR INFUSION TOGETHER WITH TEA, COFFEE, cocoa, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES FOR WHICH SUCH PREPARED HOPS ARE APPLICABLE to ass
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 6th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 6th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of Treating and Preparing Hops and
Blending the same, for Infusion, together with Tea, Coffee,
Cocoa, and other substances for which such Prepared Hops
are applicable.
I, HENRY AMBROSE SNELLING, of St. George's House, 6 and 8 Eastcheap, in the City
of London, Wholesale Tea Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF TREATING AND PREPARING HOPS AND BLENDING
THE SAME FOR INFUSION TOGETHER WITH TEA, COFFEE, cocoa, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
FOR WHICH SUCH PREPARED HOPS ARE APPLICABLE to be as follows:-
"
My invention relates principally to a preparation composed of tea and hops and to
the method of treating and preparing the hops therefor and blending the same and
to the further treatment of the prepared hops to fit them for mixing with cocoa
and coffee.
According to my invention I blend with the ordinary tea of commerce, or with
selected samples of it, a small quantity of hops or of some portion or extract thereof
in such manner as to blend or combine the two thoroughly, so as to preserve the
appearance of the tea as nearly unaltered as possible and so that the constituents may
not in actual practice separate from each other.
According to a method which. I have found most convenient for carrying this into
effect, I take the hops preferably fresh gathered and subject them to a process
including drying and rolling nearly or substantially the same as that to which the
fresh gathered leaves of the tea plant are subjected in order to convert them into the
tea of commerce.
By this means, and by colouring the hops if and when necessary, I am able to
bring them so nearly into the same condition as tea of commerce that they may
be readily blended therewith and when so blended skilfully an exceedingly agreeable
and wholesome beverage may be prepared by infusing the compound in the same
manner as is usual with ordinary tea.
The hops when treated and prepared according to my invention and further, if
intended to be combined with coffee or cocoa, ground or pulverized, may, it
is contemplated be also sold separately for the purpose of being blended by the
purchaser.
Dated the 7th day of February 1890.
NEWNDAM BROWNE,
Agent for the Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Method of Treating and Preparing Hops and
Blending the same, for Infusion, together with Tea, Coffee,
Cocoa, and other substances for which such Prepared Hops
are applicable.
I HENRY AMBROSE SNELLING of St. George's House, 6 and 8 Eastcheap, in the City
of London, Wholesale Tea Dealer do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED METHOD OF TREATING AND PREPARING HOPS AND BLENDING
THE SAME FOR INFUSION TOGETHER WITH TEA, COFFEE, COCOA, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES
and in what manner the same is
FOR WHICH SUCH PREPARED HOPS ARE APPLICABLE
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates principally to a preparation composed of tea and hops and

page_text: to the method of treating and preparing the hops therefor and blending the same,
and to the further treatment of the prepared hops to fit them for mixing with cocoa
and coffee.
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According to my invention I blend with the ordinary tea of commerce, or with
selected kinds of it, some hops prepared in the manner hereinafter described in such
manner as to blend or combine the two thoroughly so as to preserve the appearance of
the tea as nearly unaltered as possible and so that the constituents may not in actual
practice separate from each other.
According to a method which I have found most convenient for carrying this
into effect take the hops fresh gathered and subject them to a process of
withering, rolling, fermenting and drying, nearly or substantially the same as that
to which the fresh gathered leaves of the tea plant are subjected in order to convert
them into the tea of commerce.
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tea of commerce
By this means I am able to bring them so nearly into the same condition as
that they may be readily blended therewith, and, when so
blended skilfully an exceedingly agreeable and wholesome beverage may be
prepared by infusing the compound in the same manner as it is usual with
ordinary. tea.
The best method I am acquainted with of carrying my invention into practice is to
take the fresh gathered hops and spread them in the air to wither, which is generally
accomplished in from four to twenty four hours according to the hygroscopic and other
atmospheric conditions and the tenperature.
They are next rolled, either by hand, if the services of persons skilled in the art
of rolling tea can be obtained, or, preferably, the rolling may be performed in a
rolling machine such as the "Rapid" Tea Rolling Machine invented by William
Jackson of Thorne Grove, Mannsfield, Aberdeen, North Britain, a Patent for which
is dated August 29th 1887 No. 11,721, and which machine is manufactured and
sold by Messrs. Marshall Sons & Co. Limited of Gainsborough in the County of
Lincoln.
This process occupies about twenty minutes and by it two objects are obtained:
riz. 1st the sap containing cells. or some of them are broken, and 2nd the hops
are rolled up and twisted in the same manner as are the leaves of the tea plant.
They are next allowed to ferment for which process the withering and subsequent
rolling has prepared them, the internal moisture of the leaf, which has been but
slightly affected by the withering process, is exposed by the rupture of the cells in
the rolling, and thus they are in a slightly humid condition and when made into
a heap or heaps and covered with a damp cloth soon begin to ferment, and may
be thus kept for from about eight to fourteen hours more or less according to the
weather, until they become of the proper colour which can be best described as
copper coloured."
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They are then spread on trays made of wire net and dried preferably in the apparatus
known as "Davidson's Patent Down Draft Sirocco" which may be purchased of
Messrs. Davidson & Co. of the Sirocco Works Belfast Ireland, and for which a
Patent was granted to him dated September 5th 1888, No. 12844.
The drying is continued until they become crisp. This occupies about, say from
fifteen to twenty five minutes more or less, at a temperature of say about 240° degrees
Fahrenheit and the process is then complete.
The article is then lighter in colour but otherwise closely resembles the tea usually
sold by tea dealers, and this similarity enables it, when mixed with tea, to blend
together. and not to be separated by any shaking which it may receive and which
is almost unavoidable both while it is in the grocer's shop and in the purchaser's
caddy and which shaking would cause any less perfectly arranged mixture
to separate more or less thoroughly, the one article or the other going to the
bottom.
Although fresh gathered hops produce the best result, hops which have been dried
and prepared for brewers' use in the usual manner may be used, hut these require to
he subjected to a preliminary damping which may be most effectually accomplished

page_text: by steaming them, whereby they may be brought so nearly into the mechanical
condition of fresh gathered bops that they may then be treated in the same manner as
are fresh gathered hops as herein described, the fermentation will then be much less in
degree and may even be omitted.
For the purpose of mixing with cocoa or coffee the hops prepared as above
described and very thoroughly dried are ground to a powder and are then ready to be
so mixed.
The proportion in which the prepared hops should be mixed with the articles named
varies between very wide limits according to the effect desired to be produced, the
quality and kind of the articles, and the taste of the consumer; but for commercial
purposes and for the production of a beverage for ordinary consumption in the same
way that tea, coffee, and cocoa are now commonly used, I find that about the following
proportions answer well, that is to say:
(1) Of tea 100 parts
Prepared hops 3 to 10 parts
(2) Of coffee 100 parts
Prepared and ground hops 3 to 12 parts
(3) Of cocoa 100 parts
Prepared and ground hops 2 to 8 parts.
The beverages produced by the infusion of these compounds are exceedingly
agreeable to the palate and are far more wholesome than the tea, coffee, or cocoa
alone, the valuable medicinal properties of the hops counteracting or neutralizing
certain injurious qualities in the tea, or other article, with which it is blended, and
thus produces a compound which is unique and distinct from and superior to anything
heretofore in the market.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
(1) Treating and preparing hops for the purpose of being blended with tea,
coffee, cocoa, and the like, substantially as described and set forth in the foregoing
Specification.
(2) The herein described compounds or new articles of manufacture respectively
produced by blending hops prepared as in the first claim mentioned with tea, coffee,
and cocoa.
Dated the Fifth day of November 1890.