Improvements in and relating to Tea Essences.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Tea Essences.
We, ROBERT RUSHTON BELL, Manufacturing Chemist, of 41, Buchan Street,
and ALEXANDER CAMPBELL BUTLER, Insurance Agent, of 189, Pitt Street, both in
the County of the City of Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of our invention
to be as follows: —
This invention has reference to a new essence or extract of tea.
According to our improvements we take bicarbonate of soda, glycerine, salicylic
acid, sugar and water and mix and concentrate them into a hot solution.
We place the tea or tea leaf in an earthenware vessel and pour the aforesaid
hot solution on to same, and we immediately place the vessel in a bath of
boiling water and allow this to stand there for say 10 minutes, and after being
removed the infused extract is pressed and strained ready for being placed in
bottles or receiving vessels.
Instead of bicarbonate of soda, and salicylic acid, salicylate of soda may be
substituted.
10th day of November 1897.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
Improvements in and relating to Tea Essences.
We, ROBERT RUSHTON BELL, Manufacturing Chemist, and ALEXANDER CAMP-
BELL BUTLER, Insurance Agent, late of 189, Pitt Street, both of 41, Buchan
Street, in the County of the City of Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of
our said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing,
that is to say:-
This invention has reference to a new essence or extract of tea.
According to our improvements. we make a boiling solution of bicarbonate of
soda, glycerine, salicylic acid, sugar and water preferably in the relative pro-
portions by weight of bicarbonate of soda 1 part, glycerine 256 parts, salicylic
acid 1 part, sugar 128 parts and water 256 parts.
We place a proportionate quantity of tea say 160 parts by weight in an
earthenware vessel and pour the aforesaid hot solution on to same and immediately
place the vessel in a bath of boiling water and allow it to infuse for from 3 to 10
minutes, and after being removed the infused extract is pressed and strained

page_text: or simply strained without pressure ready for filling in to bottles or. other
storing vessels.
In some cases the bath of boiling water can be dispensed with.
Instead of using bicarbonate of soda and salicylic acid a proportionate amount
of say 2 parts of salicylate of soda may be used.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is:-
First. An essence or extract of tea prepared all substantially as herein
described.
Second. An essence or extract of tea prepared by infusing tea in a hot solution
of bicarbonate of soda, 'glycerine, salicylic acid, sugar and water all substantially
as herein described.
Third. The process of preparing an essence or extract of tea by infusing same
in a hot solution of glycerine, sugar, water, bicarbonate of soda and salicylic acid
or salicylate of soda in the relative proportions mentioned all substantially as
herein described.
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