AN IMPROVED INVIGO- RATING BEVERAGE OR LIQUOR
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Pattinson Eccles, of Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED INVIGO-
RATING BEVERAGE OR LIQUOR.”
Sealed the 7th March 1876, and dated the 27th September 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Pattinson Eccles
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 27th September 1875.
I, JOHN PATTINSON ECOLES, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
INVIGORATING BEVERAGE OR LIQUOR," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of a liquor which
will combine the febrifugic qualities of cinchona with the strengthening
ones of wine and meat, and at the same time one that will keep good
in all weathers and climates and that will be agreeable to the palate.
Numerous attempts have been made in this direction, a favourite plan
being to employ the antiseptic qualities of sugar in conjunction with
alcohol to prevent the animal portion from decomposing. This plan

page_text: however introduces a new evil, namely, vinous fermentation of the
sugar, syrup, or other saccharine matter added, the result being that
the liquor soon becomes sour and unpalatable while its nutritive properties
are seriously impaired. Now one of the main points in which my improved
beverage differs from all others of the same class is that it contains
no sugar or saccharine matter of any kind, and will therefore keep in
any climate without vinous fermentation taking place. I have found
in fact that the alcohol in the wine and the cinchona liquor are of
themselves sufficient to keep the nitrogenous matters from decomposing,
and that the addition of a very considerable amount of glycerine still
further aids the keeping qualities of the liquor besides sweetening it
and making it more palatable.
further aids the keeping qualities of the liquor besides sweetening it
and making it more palatable.
My improved liquor is usually constituted as follows, the pro-
portions and indeed the ingredients being occasionally considerably
varied :-
Wine, preferably the heavy red wines of Spain
Extract of beef or other meat
Cinchona tincture
Chirata infusion
-
-
1 pipe.
-
1 stone.
-
1 quart.
-
1 quart.
3', gallons.
Glycerine
The liquor will be found extremely valuable as a strengthening
beverage for invalids, and as a antiscorbutic and febrifuge at sea and
in hot countries. It is not however as a medecine but as a means of
strengthening the system and for maintaining rather than restoring
the health when severly tried by climate, exposure, &c., that this my
Invention is designed.
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page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of September in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in
the thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
5 successors, give and grant unto me, the said John Pattinson Eccles,
Her special licence, that I, the said John Pattinson Eccles, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Pattinson Eccles, 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 Ohannel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for." AN IMPROVED INVIGORATING BEVERAGE OR LIQUOR," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Pattinson Eccles,
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 John Pattinson Eccles, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement :—
This Invention has for its object the manufacture of a liquor which
will combine tho febrifugic qualities of cinchona with the strengthening
ones of wine and meat, and at the same time one that will keep good in
all weathers and climates, and that will be agreeable to the palate.
Numerous attempts have been made in this direction, a favourite plan
being to employ the antiseptic qualities of sugar in conjunction with
alcohol to prevent the animal portion from decomposing. This plan
however introduces a new evil, namely, vinous fermentation of the
sugar, syrup, or other saccharine matter added, the result being that
the liquor soon becomes sour and unpalatable while its nutritive
properties are seriously impaired. Now one of the main points in
which my improved beverage differs from all others of the same class is
that it contains no sugar or saccharine matter of any kind, and will
therefore keep in any climate without vinous fermentation taking place.

page_text: I have found in fact that the alcohol in the wine and the cinchona
liquor are of themselves sufficient to keep the nitrogenous matters from
decomposing, and that the addition of a very considerable amount of
glycerine still further aids the keeping qualities of the liquor, besides
sweetening it and making it more palatable.
My improved liquor is usually constituted as follows, the pro-
portions and indeed the ingredients being occasionally considerably
variod:-
Wine, preferably the heavy red wines of Spain - 1 pipe.
Extract of beef or other meat
Cinchona tincture
Cherata infusion
Glycerine
105
1 stone.
-
1 quart.
"
1 quart.
3½, gallons.
The liquor will be found extremely valuable as a strengthening
beverage for persons in feeble health, and as an antiscorbutic and
febrifuge at sea and in hot countries. It is not however as a
medecine, but as a beverage and also as a means of strengthening the
system, and for maintaining rather than restoring the health when
severely tried by climate, exposure, et cetera, that this my Invention is
designed.
Now I am well aware that cinchona in one form or another has
repeatedly been added to alcohol or wine as a medecine or even as a
tonic wine, but it has either been purely as a medecine, or if used as a
strengthening beverage it has been largely flavoured with saccharine
matters or other impurities that are apt to cause fermentation and
decomposition.
As stated before I do not bind myself down to using tho special
ingredients and quantities herein set forth, as these can be greatly
varied without departing from the principles of my Invention, but what
I clain as new undor the horein-before in part recited Lotters Patent
is,—
A beverage consisting of a compound of; 1st, Liebig's extract of beef
or other soluble animal nitrogenous matter; 2nd, wine or other agreeable
alcoholic liquor; 3rd, glycerine; and 4th, soluble extract of cinchona
bark or other similar vegetable alkaloid with or without cherata or other
bitter principle, or other flavouring, but destitute of any appreciable

page_text: amount of saccharine matter (such for instance, as 2 and a half per
cent. of syrup), except such glucose or other saccharum naturally
found by analysis in the alcoholic liquor forming one of the ingredients
of the composition.
amount of saccharine matter (such for instance, as 2 and a half per
cent. of syrup), except such glucose or other saccharum naturally
found by analysis in the alcoholic liquor forming one of the ingredients
of the composition.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Pattinson Eccles, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1876.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Pattinson Eccles, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of March, in
the year of our Lord 1876.
JOHN PATTINSON ECOLES. (L.s.)