THE MANUfacture or TREATMENT OF DANGWAY BEANS OR SEED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CASSIA TORA, SO AS TO MAKE A BEVERAGE SIMILAR TO COFFEE OR LIKE DRINKS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Russell Carew, of Carpenters Park, Watford, in
the County of Herts, Esquire, for an Invention of "THE MANUfacture or
TREATMENT OF DANGWAY BEANS OR SEED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE
CASSIA TORA, SO AS TO MAKE A BEVERAGE SIMILAR TO COFFEE OR LIKE
DRINKS." A communication from abroad by Edward Bosc Sladen, Roderic
McLeod, and Charles Hailes White, all of Akyab, British Burma, India.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Russell Carew at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th February 1882.
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ROBERT RUSSELL CAREW, of Carpenders Park, Watford, in the County of Herts,
Esquire. THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF DANGWAY BEANS OR SEED
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CASSIA TORA SO AS TO MAKE A BEVERAGE SIMILAR
TO COFFEE OR LIKE DRINKS." (A communication from abroad by Edward Bosc
Sladen, Roderic McLeod and Charles Hailes White, all of Akyab, British Burma
India.)
Whereas dangway beans or seed otherwise known as the cassia tora has
hitherto been only kown as a jungle weed and used only as a medicine but has not
been prepared so as to render it applicable for use as an article of food:
Now this Invention consists in the manufacture or treatment of the said
dangway beans in such a manner as to adapt then for use in the production of a
wholesome and cheap beverage.
The process of conversion or treatment of the said raw material in order to adapt
it for use as a beverage is to submit it to the action of fire or heat in a cockle or
other suitable apparatus so as to produce upon it the effect of roasting and the
roasted seed is then reduced to powder by being bruised or pounded in a mortar or
ground in a suitable mill or grinding apparatus.
The said raw material being abundant in that part of British Burma above
referred to can by its treatment as aforesaid be utilised so as to become available
as a cheap substitute for coffee or like drinks.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Robert Russell Carew in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
2nd August 1882.
ROBERT RUSSELL CAREW of Carpenders Park Watford in the County of Herts
Esquire. "THE MANUFACTURE OR TREATMENT OF DANGWAY BEANS OR SEED
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CASSIA TORA SO AS TO MAKE A BEVERAGE SIMILAR
TO COFFEE OR LIKE DRINKS." A communication from abroad by Edward Bosc
Sladen, Roderic MoLeod, and Charles Hailes White all of Akyab British Burma
India.
Whereas dangway beans or seed otherwise known as the cassin tora has
hitherto been only known as a jungle weed, and used only as a medicine but has
not been prepared so as to render it applicable for use as an article of food.
Now this Invention consists in the manufacture or treatment of the said
dangway beans in such a manner as to adapt them for use in the production of a
wholesome and cheap beverage.
The process of conversion or treatment of the said raw material in order to
adapt it for use as a beverage, is to submit it to the action of fire or heat in a
cockle or other suitable apparatus so as to produce upon it the effect of roasting
and the roasted seed is then reduced to powder by being bruised or pounded in a
mortar or ground in a suitable nill or grinding apparatus.
The raid-raw-inaterial being abundant in that part of British Burmah above
referred to can by its treatment as aforesaid be utilized-so-as-to-become_available
as a cheap substitute for coffee or like drinks. I call the new product "cassophy."
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the
saine is to be performed communicated to me from abroad as aforesaid 1 hereby
declare that what I claim as of the said Invention is :-
The manufacture or treatment of dangway beans or seed otherwise known as the
cassia tora in such a manner as to make or produce a beverage of the kind
described.
In witness whereof I the said Robert Russell Carew have hereunto set my
hand and seal the Twenty ninth day of July in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Witness
G. W. R. WAINWRIGHT
Staple Inn
Solr.
R. R. CAREW. (L.S.)