Abridgments of the specifications relating to preservation of food / printed by order of the Commissioners of Patents.

Date:
1857
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Credit: Abridgments of the specifications relating to preservation of food / printed by order of the Commissioners of Patents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with the addition of a force pump for “ supplying the liquor ” for salting. [Printed, 6eZ. See Repertory of Arts, vol. 17 {new series), p. 168; London Journal {Newton’s), vol. 21 {conjoined series), p. 104; Mechanics’ Maga¬ zine, vol. 34, p. 334; and Inventors’ Advocate, vol. 4, p. 261,] A.D. 1840, November 25.—N° 8717- GRELLET, Charles.—-The title of this Patent is as follows : “ New modes of treating potatoes in order to their being converted “ into various articles of food, and new apparatus for drying appli- •“ cable to that and other purposes,” And first, potatoes (with their skins pared off by a machine particularly described) are “ boiled and “ reduced to a paste; ” second, raw potatoes, with the skin pared off by the same machine, are-boiled, and dried in a new apparatus also particularly described, and reduced into a state of flour by another new machine, particulars of which are fully given; third, “ pulp of “ the potatoe, (deprived of the feculent parts,) and made into a moist “ paste; ” fourth, “ pulp of the potatoe (deprived of the feculent “ parts) boiled, dried, and reduced to a state of meal ” by the ma¬ chine before alluded to. “ These pastes and mealy parts are to be “ mixed together according to the article required to be made.” [Printed, Is. 8d. See Mechanics’ Magazine, vol. 34, p. 446: and Inventors’ Advocate, vol. 4, p. 357.] A.D. 1841, January 6.—N° 877b, GUNTER, Henry.—Treating animal and vegetable substances so as they “may be preserved for a great length of time and retain “their natural flavour.” The vessels containing these substances hermetically sealed, in preference in tin boxes, are placed in a boiler and covered with water and boiled for the proper time to cook their contents. They are then placed in a hot sand bath and a minute hole punctured on the top ; after the air is driven out the holes are closed “ by a soldering iron while the steam is flowing off.” “ By “ causing the process of heat to be carried on during the time the “ vessel is hermetically closed, all the flavor of the substances treated “ will be retained.” [Printed, 3d. See Repertory of Arts, vol. 16 (new series), p. 184; Me¬ chanics’ Magazine, vol.35, p, 77; and Inventors’ Advocate, vol. 5, p. 35.] A.D. 1841, March 8.—N° 88/3. GOLDNER, Stephan.-—Employing a chemical bath, which shall be above boiling water, and “ on the other hand not of so a
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