A COMPOUND FOR MAKING TEA, Coffee, and Cocoa
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Donald Nicoll, of Saint Paul's Churchyard, in
the City of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "A COMPOUND
FOR MAKING TEA, Coffee, and Cocoa."
Sealed the 29th May 1874, and dated the 14th March 1874.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Donald Nicoll at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th March 1874.
I, DONALD NICOLL, of Saint Paul's Churchyard, in the City of
London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A COMPOUND for Making Tea, Coffee, and Cocoa, to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to provide an economical and facile
means of producing in a pure and wholesome condition the well known

page_text: beverages called tea, coffee, or cocoa, completely flavoured and ready
for use.
I prepare, of suitable size and substance, a tube or case of isinglass or
gelatine. I fill the said tube or case with a preparation of cream, or
milk, or sugar, alone or in combination. I then close up and make air-
tight the said tube or case, so that the contents may not decompose.
I then combine this by moderate pressure with a suitable quantity of
dried tea, or ground coffee, or crushed cocoa, taking care to moderate the
pressure so as not to crush the cells of the dried leaves of tea. The
compound so prepared and combined on the application of hot water in
the usual way will produce in a complete condition, and without the
ordinary waste of the several ingredients, the well known beverages
called tea, or coffee, or cocoa, as the said tube or case and its contents
will dissolve, and the compound prepared and combined in the manner
described will produce a beverage duly flavoured and ready for
consumption.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Donald Nicoll in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DONALD
NICOLL, of St. Paul's Churchyard, in the City of London, Merchant,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Donald Nicoll, Her special
license that I, the said Donald Nicoll, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Donald Nicoll, 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

page_text: Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A COMPOUND
OR MAKING TEA, Coffee, and Cocoa," upon the condition (amongst others)
hat I, the said Donald Nicoll, my executors or administrators, by an
nstrument 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

page_text: is, the manufacture of a compound for making tea, coffee, and cocoa, in
the manner herein-before described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Donald Nicoll, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy- 5
four.
DONALD NICOLL. (L.S.)
Witness to the signature of Donald Nicoll,
G. DE WINTON,
Major late 99th Regt.,
Clifton Road,
Selhurst,
in the County of Surrey.