IMPROVED AERATED ALCOHOLIC DRINKS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred May Davis, of 3, Bexley Villas, Bromley,
in the County of Kent, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVED
AERATED ALCOHOLIC DRINKS."
Sealed the 4th February 1870, and dated the 1st September 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred May Davis at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 1st September 1869.
I, ALFRED MAY DAVIS, of 3, Bexley Villas, Bromley, in the County of
Kent, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVED AERATED ALCOHOLIC DRINKS," to be as follows, that is to
say:-
By aerated drinks I mean those drinks impregnated or charged with
fixed gases introduced either by sudden decomposition of chemical
substances within them, or by gases forced within them when they are
bottled and corked; and I do not include under that name those drinks
or liquids wherein the gas is produced within the liquor by vinous or
alcoholic fermentation.
Hitherto alcoholic drinks have been aerated simply by mixing them
at the moment of drinking with some previously acrated liquid, as for

page_text: instance, brandy with soda water. In this case the aeration of the brandy
is most imperfect, being simply mixed with the aerated water, the gas
escaping too quickly to allow it to mingle with or permeate the brandy.
In order to remedy this I propose to form aerated alcoholic drinks by
mixing the alcoholic liquor with the water, whether as soda water,
seltzer water, lemonade, or such like, in the required proportions prior to
aeration, so that the mixture is perfect and the aeration completed when
it is bottled up. I propose to do this with all kinds of spirits, so as to
produce an aerated drink of brandy and soda water or brandy and seltzer
water or lemonade, or a combination of any spirituous liquor with any
of the known artificially made waters.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred May Davis in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th February 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
MAY DAVIS, of 3, Bexley Villas, Bromley, in the County of Kent,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Alfred May Davis, Her special licence
that I, the said Alfred May Davis, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred May Davis, 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 "IMPROVED AERATED
ALCOHOLIC DRINKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Alfred May Davis, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Alfred May Davis, do hereby declaro
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, that is to say :-
By aerated alcoholic drinks I mean those drinks impregnated or
charged with fixed gases introduced either by sudden decomposition of
chemical substances within them or by gases forced within them or
liberated within them prior to or when they are bottled and corked;
and I do not include under that name those drinks or liquids wherein the
gas is produced within the liquor by vinous or alcoholic fermentation.
Hitherto alcoholic drinks, excepting those in which aeration is the
result of vinous or spirituous fermentation within them, have been
aerated simply by mixing them at the moment of drinking with some
previously aerated liquid, as for instance, brandy with soda water. In
this case the acration of the brandy is most imperfect, being effected by
intermixture with the aerated water or liquid, the gas escaping too quickly
to allow it to mingle with or permeate the brandy. In order to remedy
this I propose to form acrated alcoholic drinks by mixing the alcoholic
liquor with the water or liquid in the required proportions, whether as
soda water, seltzer water, lemonade, or such like, prior to or contempo-
raneous with the aeration, so that the mixture is perfect and the aeration
completed when it is bottled up. I propose to do this with all kinds of
spirits, so as to produce an aerated drink of brandy and soda water or
brandy and seltzer water or lemonade, or a combination of any spirituous
liquor with any of the known artificially made waters.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, I claim the
manufacture of aerated alcoholic drinks, after the manner described
and set forth in the foregoing Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred May Davis, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of February, in the
vear of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.