Year: 1886

page_text: I, JOHN NEWTON BEACH, of 24 Hart Street, Bloomsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and-by the following statement :—
The object of this invention is to provide an article of food suitable for invalids,
convalescents, persons in infirm health, and others requiring a food at once
nutritious and capable of easy assimilation. My said invention comprises a new
composition of matter composed of meat, gluten or wheat, and milk, either in the
plain non-peptonized condition or in the partially digested or peptonized condition
in which one or more of the said elements is in whole or in part digested or
converted into peptone.
The details of manufacturing or producing my said composition of matter may
be varied within wide limits; but that which I find most advantageous in practice
is as follows: I reduce milk to powder by evaporation either in vacuúm or by
any other suitable means, with or without the cream; or cream alone may be
reduced to dryness in the vacuum pan and then powdered. I reduce meat, prefer-
ably beef or mutton, to powder by first reducing it to a suitably divided state,
then cooking it either under pressure or in a rendering pan, or in any other
suitable manner, then evaporating the same to dryness, and then mechanically
reducing the same to a powdered condition by grinding or otherwise. I take
what is known commercially as gluten produced by any usual or suitable means,
or wheat in its ordinary or any appropriate condition, and reduce the same to
powder by grinding or other suitable means. The gluten or wheat may be boiled
or cooked under pressure or otherwise, either together with the meat or separately.
The finer the powder to which the several ingredients are reduced, the more
intimately will they commingle or associate in the production of my improved
composition of matter. I take of the said ingredients, namely, meat, gluten or
wheat and milk reduced to powder, as aforesaid, equal parts by weight and
commingle them together. Prior to mingling them, however, I preferably take of
the meat a quantity equal to say one-fifth of the weight thereof and add thereto
sufficient hydrochloric acid to slightly acidulate the same, preferably about twenty-
four fluid ounces of the acid at pharmacopeia strength to one hundred pounds of
the dried and powdered meat. I do this at a blood heat, that is to say, at about
08° Fahrenheit thermometer. At the same time that the hydrochloric acid is added

page_text: to this portion of the meat as aforesaid, I add pepsin in the proportion of say six
and one-half ounces to one hundred pounds of the powdered meat. I then subject
the meat thus treated, to frequent agitation during from four to six hours, the
result being that the meat thus treated is digested or converted into peptone.
When desired, a greater or less proportion of the meat may be thus digested or
converted into peptone, but the proportion above indicated will be found preferable
in practice.
When desired, instead of digesting a portion of the meat as aforesaid, a corre-
sponding portion of the milk powder may be digested in the same manner, or if
desired a corresponding portion of the gluten or wheat powder may be in like
manner digested; or if preferable the portion of the material to be digested may
comprise any two of the aforesaid elements, namely, meat, gluten or wheat, and
milk, or when desired, the powdered meat, gluten or wheat and milk having been
intimately mingled, as hereinbefore explained, a suitable proportion--say one and
two-thirds per cent. of the entire weight of the three commingled ingredients-
may be in like manner digested; or if preferred, a portion of each of the three
ingredients may be separately digested, and these afterwards mingled with each
other and with the undigested portion of said three ingredients, the digested
portion being preferably in the ratio hereinbefore set forth to the undigested
portion of said three ingredients.
It will be observed that while in my said composition of matter, when made as
preferred by me, something less than two per cent. of the composition is peptonized
yet this proportion of peptonized ingredient or ingredients may be varied within
very considerable limits without affecting the principle or scope of my said
invention, the latter being intended to supply a compound composed of meat,
gluten or wheat, and milk, either in an undigested or non-peptonized condition,
or incondition in which a sufficient proportion of one or more components is
digested or peptonized as to not only render the peptonized portion more readily
capable of assimilation, but also in order that by sustaining the progressive
fermentation or conversion into peptones of the remaining portion of said com-
position of matter, the complete digestion or assimilation of the other portious
of said compound is secured in such manner as to sustain and invigorate the
digestive organs, while relieving them of much of the effort required in the
ordinary processes of digestion.
After the operation herein before set forth, the peptonized portion will be in
a liquid condition. It may be either reduced to a powder by a further evaporation,
"and the composition containing the three ingredients as aforesaid, may be put up,
for use in a dry or powdered form, or when preferred, the peptonized portion may
be added to the other or non-peptonized portion, and the whole in a liquid
condition may be put up for use in bottles or other suitable vessels. It is to be
remarked that requisite proportion of the three combined ingredients may be
digested or converted into peptones by treating the same at the requisite tem-
perature, with a quantity of bydrochloric acid and pepsin sufficient to act upon
Baid proportion of the three ingredients, but not sufficient to exceed in its action,
the said proportion. This method, however, is not preferred by me.
In those cases where an intensely concentrated peptonized food is desired, the
whole, or nearly the whole, of the three ingredients, meat, gluten or wheat, and
milk may be treated with the requisite quantity of hydrochloric acid and pepsin.
When the components of the compound are wholly peptonized as aforesaid, the
compound may preferably be dissolved in wine, or suitably distilled alcohol, or
other suitable liquid for preservation or use. Any appropriate medicine or any
suitable nutritive food may be used at the same time or in conjunction with my
new and improved composition of matter herein described.
In lieu of hydrochloric acid and pepsin for digesting a portion of one or more
of the ingredients as above described, I may use a solution of pancreatine or fluid
extract or solution of the digestive principle of pancreas together with a smal
per cent of carbonate of soda,

page_text: It is to be understood that I intend to prepare the powdered mixture of meat,
gluten or wheat, and milk, in a non-peptonized condition and also in the peptonized
or partially digested condition, as above described, and that both forms of the
preparation fall within the scope of my invention covered by this patent.
I am aware that it has been proposed to use extract of meat and gluten with
vegetables and spices for making a sauce, but I make no claim to such a mixture.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. The new composition of matter composed of meat, gluten or wheat, and milk,
substantially as herein set forth.
2. The petonized composition of matter composed of meat, gluten or wheat, and
milk, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.