AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR COMBINING SALICYLIC ACID AND GLYCERINE FOR ADMIXTURE WITH WINES AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS TO BE USED IN COMBINATION WITH ESSENCES, SYRUPS OR THE LIKE AS AN AERATED OR NON AERATED DRINK
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Prosser of "The Cedars" Portland Avenue Upper
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Clapton in the County of Middlesex for an Invention of AN IMPROVED
PROCESS FOR COMBINING SALICYLIC ACID AND GLYCERINE FOR ADMIXTURE
WITH WINES AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS TO BE USED IN COMBINATION WITH
ESSENCES, SYRUPS OR THE LIKE AS AN AERATED OR NON AERATED DRINK
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Prosser at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st October 1882.
"
JOHN PROSSEC of "The Cedars' Portland Avenue Upper Clapton in the
County of Middlesex AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR COMBINING SALICYLIC ACID
AND GLYCERINE FOR ADMIXTURE WITH WINES AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS TO BE
USED IN COMBINATION WITH ESSENCES, SYRUPS, OR THE LIKE AS AN AERATED OR
NON AERATED DRINK
:
The object of this Invention is to treat or prepare Salicylic Acid and Glycerine
for admixture with wines and spirituous liquors to render them after filtration to
be bottled along with Lemonade, Soda water, essences, syrups, or the like to be sold
as nerated or as non aerated drink.
For the purpose of my Invention I take 16 ounces (more or less) of Salicylic
acid, 32 ounces of Glycerine and one gallon of pure spirit, and amalgamate them by
a grinding operation in a mortar or mill in order to bring the Salicylic acid into a
fit state to be absolutely dissolved without leaving a sediment.
The ingredients thus treated or prepared form sufficient for mixing with two
hundred and fifty gallons-of-wine-more or lessor of spirituous liquors.
After the mixing the liquid is passed through one or more charcoal filters to
keep back any flocculent matter that may be formed by the slight fermentation
that ensues.
The necessity for grinding the acid and Glycerine with pure spirit is to
thoroughly amalgamate the ingredients and to render them in a fit state to be
absolutely dissolved without leaving a sediment, the pure spirit also making the
| liquid perfectly bright.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Prosser in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st April
1883.
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JOHN PROSSER of The Cedars" Portland Avenue, Upper Clapton in the
county of Middlesex "AN IMPROVED PROCESS FOR COMBINING SALICYLIC ACID
AND GLYCERINE FOR ADMIXTURE WITH WINES AND SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS TO BE
USED IN COMBINATION WITH ESSENCES, SYRUPS OR THE LIKE AS AN AERATED OR
NON-AERATED DRINK,
"
My invention relates to an improved process for combining salicylic acid and
glycerine to be used in combination with wines or with spirituous liquors to
prepare or render the said wines or spirituous liquors fit after filtration and when
combined or mixed with lemonade soda water, essences, syrups or the like to be
bottled and ready to be sold as aerated or non-aerated drinks
According to my invention I mix in suitable quantities but by preference
sixteen ounces of salicylic acid and thirty two ounces of glycerine in a mortar or
mill and thoroughly amalgamate them by a grinding operation.
The above mixture is then treated in conjunction with one gallon of "pure
spirit" to dissolve the salicylic acid to bring the compound into liquid form.
This compound is sufficient for mixing with two hundred and fifty gallons of
wine more or less or of spirituous liquors and is then passed through one or more
charcoal filters to keep back any flocculent matter that may be formed by the
slight fermentation which ensues by the admixture of the ingredients
The necessity for grinding the acid and glycerine in a mortar or mill is to
thoroughly amalgamate the ingredients and to render them in a fit state to be
absolutely dissolved, without leaving a sediment, by the addition of spirit and
thereby become perfectly bright. This cannot be done to produce an article
commercially valuable without the grinding process.
Having now described the nature of my said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim.
The improved process for combining salicylic acid and glycerine for admixture
with wines and spirituous liquors to be used in combination with essences, syrups,
or the like as an aerated or non aerated drink as herein before described
In witness whereof I the said John Prosser have hereunto set my hand and
seal this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three