CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT AND PREPARATION OF Cocoa
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Pearson, of the Firm of Henry Thorne
and Company, of Leeds, in the County of York, for the Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT AND PREPARATION OF
Cocoa."
Sealed the 29th December 1868, and dated the 23rd July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Pearson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd July 1868.
I, PETER PEARSON, of the Firm of Henry Thorne and Company, of
Leeds, in the County of York, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT AND PREPARATION
Or Cocoa," to be as follows:-
My Invention is designed to produce a concentrated essence or
preparation of cocoa which is vendible in a liquid or semi-liquid
state, and is always ready for instant use.
The improvements consist in combining a concentrated liquid extract
obtained from "cocoa nuts" or "nibs" with a certain portion of cocoa,

page_text: from which the fatty matter (or "cocoa butter") has been previously
extracted, and if desired alcohol or other preservative agent may be
added for the purpose of keeping such liquid compound.
For example, take one pint of a strong liquid extract of cocoa nuts or
nibs obtained by decoction, infusion, or other well-known means, and
add thereto about twenty-five per cent. (more or less as desired) of cocoa
nibs previously reduced to a pulpy soluble state, and from which the
fatty matter has been previously expressed, or such other quantities as
may be found suitable to taste and requirements, and add suitable
flavouring or preservative agents, if desired.
For use, take about one teaspoonful to a breakfast cup full of hot
water, and add sugar and cream if desired, which will yield a readily
made cup full of cocoa beverage.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Peter Pearson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
PEARSON, of the Firm of Henry Thorne and Company, of Leeds, in the
County of York, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Peter Pearson, Her special license that I,
the said Peter Pearson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Peter Pearson, my 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 Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE TREAT-
MENT OF COCOA," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Peter Pearson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-

page_text: ticularly 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 Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Peter Pearson, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say) :-
My Invention is designed to produce a concentrated essence or
preparation of cocoa which is vendible in a liquid or semi-liquid state,
and is always ready for instant use.
The Invention consists principally in combining a concentrated liquid
extract obtained from cocoa nuts or nibs with a certain portion of cocoa
from which the fatty matter (or "cocoa butter") has been wholly or in
part previously extracted, and if desired alcohol or other preservative
agent may be added for the purpose of preventing fermentation or other
deleterious action of such liquid compound.
For example, I take one pint of strong liquid extract of cocoa nuts or
nibs obtained by decoction, infusion, or other known means, and add
thereto about one-quarter of a pound (more or less as desired) of cocoa,
from which the fatty matter has been wholly or in part previously
expressed or extracted, and I then add (if desired) any suitable flavoring
matter (such as vanilla, for instance), and also a sufficient quantity of
alcohol or other suitable preservative agent. By these means I produce
a concentrated essence or preparation of cocoa in a liquid or semi-liquid
form, and which is always ready for instant use. This preparation so
obtained is perfectly soluble, and may be kept in bottles or other air-tight
vessels for a great length of time without loss or deterioration.
When desired for use, take about one desert spoonful of the prepara-
tion to a breakfast cup full of hot water, and add sugar and cream
according to the taste, if desired, the result being a readily made cup
full of cocoa beverage.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention for
"Certain Improvements in the Treatment of Cocoa," together with the
manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I do not intend to
limit myself to any particular way of obtaining the strong liquid extract

page_text: of cocoa above referred to, nor to the use of alcohol as a preservative agent,
or of any particular flavouring matter; but what I claim as my Invention
is, the preparation of cocoa in a fluid or semi-fluid state by combining a
concentrated liquid extract of cocoa nuts or nibs with cocoa from which
the fatty matter has been wholly or in part previously expressed or
extracted, and with the addition of flavoring or other matters if desired.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Pearson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.