IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO PREPARING VARIOUS VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES BY MINUTE DISINTEGRATION OF CELLULAR AND FIBROUS TISSUES, SO AS TO FURNISH A LARGELY INCREASED YIELD OF THEIR SPECIAL AND VALUABLE PROPERTIES, IN THE PROCESSES OF BREWING AND DISTILLING, AND IN DECOCTIONS, INFUSIONS, TINCTURES, AND EXTRACTS MADE THEREFROM
Year: 1881

page_text: THEIR
ETTERS PATENT to Robinson Gale Perry, of Rathdowney, in Queen's
County, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND RELATING TO PREPARING
VARIOUS VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES BY MINUTE DISINTEGRATION OF
CELLULAR AND FIBROUS TISSUES, SO AS TO FURNISH A LARGELY INCREASED
YIELD OF THEIR SPECIAL AND VALUABLE PROPERTIES, IN THE PROCESSES OF
BREWING AND DISTILLING, AND IN DECOCTIONS, INFUSIONS, TINCTURES, AND
EXTRACTS MADE THEREFROM."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robinson Gale Perry at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd July 1881.
ROBINSON GALE PERRY, of Rathdowney, in Queen's County. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN AND RELATING TO PREPARING VARIOUS VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES BY MINUTE
DISINTEGRATION OF THEIR CELLULAR AND FIBROUS TISSUES, SO AS TO FURNISH
A LARGELY INCREASED YIELD OF THEIR SPECIAL AND VALUABLE PROPERTIES, IN
THE PROCESSES OF BREWING AND DISTILLING, AND IN DECOCTIONS, INFUSIONS,
TINCTURES, AND EXTRACTS MADE THEREFROM."
I take the vegetable substance, whether root, bark, wood, fruit, seed, leaf, grain,
or flower, and having crushed or sliced it according to its nature and texture, I
place it in an exhausted receiver, and by the action of the air pump withdraw
from it all the latent air contained within its structure. I then cover it in vacuo
with a solution of some alkaline carbonate, preferably soda or potass, at a tempera-
ture at or a little above zero. The length of time this alkaline solution remains on
the material depends entirely upon its capacity for absorption, but on an average
fifteen minutes is sufficient in most cases. I then withdraw the alkaline solution,
and still in vacuo replace it with an acidulated solution of equivalent strength,
usually prepared from tartaric, citric, or phosphoric acid. A brisk effervescence is
thus produced, and the carbonic acid gas thus generated in its efforts to escape

page_text: disintegrates the minutest cells and fibres, and developes fully the special qualities
of the material.
The material may now be withdrawn from the exhausted receiver, and either air
dried for future use, or immediately employed in any of the processes already
specified. Barley, maize, rice, and all other cereals, as well as malt, may be treated
in this manner with increased developement of their qualities, and afterwards in
combination with the flowers of camomile, the leaves of roses, and horehound, the
stalks of rosemary, carraway seeds, the roots of ginger and sarsaparilla, and various
other vegetable substances treated similarly, subjected to the ordinary processes of
brewing or distillation, for the production of various kinds of refreshing, nutritious,
and medicinal beverages.

page_text: 2nd. The combination with brewed liquor of sarsaparilla and other materials so
as to form sarsæ beer, substantially as described.
3rd. The manufacture of beverages consisting of the following ingredients :-
(a.) Ale, beer, stout, porter, or other fermented liquor.
(b.) Sarsaparilla extract.
And preferably,-
(d.) Flavoring substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robinson Gale Perry, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Witness the signature of Robinson
Gale Perry,
JOHANN CARL COERTER,
LUDWIG JOHANN DÝCH.
ROBINSON GALE PERRY. (L.S.)