Specification of William Symington : preparation of peas and barley for culinary purposes.

  • Symington, William.
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of William Symington : preparation of peas and barley for culinary purposes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    « i A.D. 1855 .N° 920. Preparation of Peas and Barley for Culinary Purposes. LETTERS PATENT to William Symington, of Little Bowden, in the County of Northampton, Coffee Roaster, for the Invention of “An Improvement in Preparing Peas and Pearl and Scotch Barley eor Culinary Purposes.” Sealed the 26th June 1855, and dated the 25th April 1855. COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said William Symington, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration, on the 25th April 1855, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852. 5 TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, William Symington, of Little Bowden, in the County of Northampton, Coffee Roaster, send greeting. WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for “ An Improvement in Preparing Peas and Pearl and Scotch Barley eor Culinary Purposes,” and 10 have petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn declaration that I verily believe myself to be the first and true Inventor thereof: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Symington, do hereby declare 15 that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, in and by the following statement, viz.:— The nature of my said Invention consists in a method of preparing peas and pearl and Scotch barley for soups, puddings, and other culinary purposes. It is 20 well known that peas, as ordinarily used for the purpose of making soups and puddings, require, according to the process heretofore employed, to be boiled