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The Repertory of Patent Inventions (1812)
The Repertory of Patent Inventions - 1812 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Specification of the Patent granted to Walter " of Bishopsgate-street, Grocer; for a new Method of preparing Coffee. Dated September 9, 1811. X O all to wh... more »om these presents shall come, andc Now Know Ye, that in compliance with the said proviso I the said Walter Rochfort do hereby declare that the nature of my said invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and ascertained as follows; that is to say, I roast the coffee in the usual manner, and whilst it is hot or warm, and the oil will bind, either grind, bruise, granulate or reduce it to a powder, in the usual way, but as- quick as possible. Then by a press, or other engine or machine, of sufficient force, ancj whilst the coffee ip hot or warm, I so compress it into a solid body as to expel and exclude the air as much as possible: it should, and more especially if intended for carriage, be pressed into tin boxes, earthenware, or other proper vessels of a, close firm texture, as it is of a friable nature, and then to be covered close down till wanted. In witness whereof, andc. Observations, By The Patentee. Government having thought it an object of import, ance to encourage a more general consumption of coffee in this country, the Legislature, about three years since, made a considerable' reduction, in the duty, with a view of promoting this object. Hitherto the consumption has not increased in the proportion that might have been D 2 expected expected from this measure; and, considering it as a subject of the highest interest, not only to the West In- dia merchants and planters, but to the public at large, in the present state of Europe, I have given the fullest attention to it. I have observed that foreigners, and gentlemen who had been on the Continent, spqke very...« less