CONSIST IN THE IMPREGNATING CHELTENHAM OR OTHER NATURAL MEDICINAL WATERS, OR SUCH AS ARE USUALLY DE- NOMINATED MINERAL WATERS," WITH ONE OR MORE OF THE DIFFERENT GASES OB AERIFORM FLUIDS, AND IN ADDING OTHER SUBSTANCES TO, OR COMBINING THE SAME WITH SUCH WATERS
Year: 1807

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
THOMPSON, of Tottenham, in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirtieth day of
October, in the forty-eighth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Thompson, my exors, adñiors, and assigns, His said Majesty's
especial licence, full power, and sole privilege and authority, that I, the said
Henry Thompson, my exors, admors, or assigns, during the term of years
therein expressed, should and lawfully might use, exercise, and vend, within
that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England,
the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention
which was therein recited or mentioned, "To CONSIST IN THE IMPREGNATING
CHELTENHAM OR OTHER NATURAL MEDICINAL WATERS, OR SUCH AS ARE USUALLY DE-
NOMINATED MINERAL WATERS," WITH ONE OR MORE OF THE DIFFERENT GASES OB
AERIFORM FLUIDS, AND IN ADDING OTHER SUBSTANCES TO, OR COMBINING THE
SAME WITH SUCH WATERS;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a
proviso, obliging me, the said Henry Thompson, particularly to describe and

page_text: ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and
cause the same to be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within one calendar month next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent, as in and by the said Letters-Patent, relation being thereunto
had, may and will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Henry Thompson, do hereby declare that my said Invention consists in the
impregnating Cheltenham or other natural medicinal waters, or such as aro
usually denominated "mineral waters," with one or more of the different
gases or aeriform fluids, and in adding other substances to, or combining the
same with such waters as is in the said Letters-Patent-and-herein-before
mentioned ; and that by so preparing or manufacturing the said Cheltenham
and other waters with such gas or gases and other substances, or one or more
of them, various improvements are and may be made in or on the same respec-
tively, and various purposes are and may be answered according to the nature
and degree of such impregnation, addition, or combination, and the kind of gases
or aeriform fluids or other substances with which they are and may be so
impregnated, united, or combined, and in particular that some of the said waters
(and for instance, that the said Cheltenham waters and waters of the same
nature therewith). by the impregnation of a considerable portion of carbonic
acid gas, and still more if (as after such impregnation will be practicable) an
additional quantity of some or all of the same ingredients as they naturally
contain respectively, be combined with the same, are-and may be ren-
dered proportionably less liable to undergo putrefaction or change, or to
suffer any injury or deterioration by keeping or removal, and are and may be,
by thus increasing their strength and concentration to a sufficient degree,
so prepared or manufactured as to have the same properties and efficacy
when drank or used at any distance from the 'natural springs or wells as when
drank or used at or near the said springs or wells. And, further, that the
same and others of the said waters by some such impregnation, addition,
or combination with a gas or gases or other substance or substances, according
to the nature and quality of the same waters respectively, are and may be
rendered, in divers cases, more efficacious in their medicinal properties, and in
divers cases more agreeable and useful as articles of diet, and that divers other
improvements and purposes may be effected by the manufacture or manu-
factures or Invention aforesaid.
And I hereby declare that the apparatus or contrivances which are

page_text: generally employed by me for effecting such impregnation, with a gas or
gases, or aeriform fluid or aeriform fluids, as aforesaid, are the same as those
which are ordinarily employed for impregnating common water or other liquids
with gases or acriform fluids, and which apparatus or contrivances are at present
in use by the manufacturers of artificial mineral waters and other persons
who have occasion to prepare such last-mentioned waters, and in particular
that the apparatus and contrivances I do use for such impregnation of
Cheltenham and other waters, of the same nature as Cheltenham waters, with
carbonic acid gas, so as to produce such improvements in, and answer such
purposes respecting the same waters as are above particularly described, are
the same apparatus and contrivance as are employed by the manufacturers
of artificial mineral waters for the impregnation of common water with such gas
in the greatest proportion and quantity in which it is usual so to impregnate the
same; but that it is not absolutely necessary, in cases where it is not required, to
impregnate the Cheltenham or other natural medicinal waters or mineral waters,
as aforesaid, with any considerable quantity of gas or gases, or aeriform
fluid or acriform fluids, to use apparatus or contrivances of so much power,
or which are capable of producing so great a degree of condensation as those
which are herein-before mentioned. And I declare that as well the
impregnation of the said Cheltenham and other medicinal waters or mineral
waters with a gas or gases, or aeriform fluid or aeriform fluids, as the
adding to or combining with the said Cheltenham and other natural medicinal
waters or mineral waters, any other substance or substances, so as to produce
or make such several compound or compounds, manufacture or manufactures,
as aforesaid, are or is, and may be effected by the ordinary processes, means,
and methods used or practised, or which are known and may be used or
practised in pharmacy, chemistry, or otherwise, for effecting such impregnation,
addition, or combination with or to common water, or for any other similar
or analogous purposes.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this
Thirtieth day of November, in the forty-eighth year of the reign
of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King. Defender of the
Faith, and in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
HENRY (L.S.) THOMPSON.
Signed, and sealed, in the presence of,

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of November,
in the year of our Lord 1807, the aforesaid Henry Thompson came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to
the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seven.