AN IMPROVED AERATED LIQUID OR ARTIFICIAL CHAMPAGNE
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lauchlan Rose, of Leith, in the County of
Edinburgh, Lime and Lemon Juice Merchant, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED AERATED LIQUID OR ARTIFICIAL CHAMPAGNE."
Sealed the 19th January 1869, and dated the 20th July 1868.

page_text: then preserving this syrup with bi-sulphite of lime (say, for example,
two per centum), and afterwards aërating it. But I consider that
sufficient preserving power could be given the syrup by mixing, say,
twenty per centum of brandy with it in place of the bi-sulphite,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Lauchlan Rose in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LAUCHLAN
ROSE, of Leith, in the County of Edinburgh, Lime and Lemon Juice
Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Lauchlan Rose, Her special licence
that I, the said Lauchlan Rose, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Lauchlan Rose, 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 Invention for "AN IMPROVED
AERATED LIQUID OR ARTIFICIAL CHAMPAGNE," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Lauchlan Rose, 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 Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, 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 Lauchlan Rose, do hereby

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
The
process of preparation of this aĕrated liquid or artificial
champagne is as follows:-I first extract the mucilage from the raw lime
or lemon juice, which is placed in vats for this purpose, the mucilage
being thrown down by means of Spanish earth or isinglass. After the
juice has become perfectly clear it is drawn off from the refining vats
and mixed with cane or other sugar, using about six pounds
(avoirdupois) of sugar to each gallon of juice; this sweetened juice is
again refined by subjecting it to the same process as above described.
At this period two per cent. of sulphurous acid free or combined as in
the form of bi-sulphate of lime or otherwise, being mixed to prevent
fermentation by the action of the sugar on the juice, which being
accomplished the juice is drawn off into champagne bottles, filling the
bottles half full with this syrup, and afterwards it is aërated by any
suitable process, such, for instance, as the process adopted in making
lemonade. This champagne requires that the syrup or juice be
preserved, by using the two per cent. sulphurous acid free or combined
as above stated, though alcohol could be used in lieu thereof, when at
least twenty per cent. of alcohol would be required, which would
generally be an undesirable addition to the beverage, and therefore I do
not adopt the use of alcohol.
I may here remark that I am aware that both lime and lemon juice
have been used by manufacturers of lemonade, though in very small
quantities only, and with the view to give a fresher and fuller flavour
to that beverage than is given by essence of lemon, which is the
substance most commonly used for the manufacture of lemonade. The
effect however of using lime or lemon juice in that manner even in
small quantities mixed with the essence of lemon is generally to produce
a thick appearance in the beverage after it has been made a month or
two, this being caused by the vegetable matter in the raw juice thus
mixed fermenting or changing its form, all which is prevented by the
adoption of the process above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or put
in practical operation, I declare that I claim the improved aërated

page_text: liquid or artificial champagne prepared by the process herein-before
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lauchlan Rose, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
ALEX. BEVERIDGE, J.P.,
for the County of Edinbro'.
LAUCHLAN ROSE. (L.s.)