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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    The apparatus is fully described. This method is said to admit of the food being cooked “ at a very low temperature/5 a high temperature being “ a great detriment to articles of food.’5 [Printed, 5d. See Repertory of Arts, vol. X {enlarged series), p. 24; London Journal {Newton's), vol. 22 {conjoined series), p.375; Mechanics’Maga¬ zine, vol. 38, p, 59; and Record of Patent Inventions, vol. 1, p. 177.] A.D. 1842, August 3.—N° 9435. CARSON, Samuel,—First, “ Injecting u:c'-ding or preserva- “ tive liquids into pieces of meat or anima substances/’ Second, “ Causing pickling or preservative iquids to penetrate “ more quickly into meat or animal substances by atmospheric “ pressure, by means of a vacuum or partial exhaustion being “ obtained at some part of the piece of meat or animal substance, “ and any gases in the meat consequent on partial decomposition “ will be removed and replaced by atmospheric air or preservative “ materials.” Third, “ Causing preservative liquids to penetrate more quickly “ into meat or animal substances by means of pressure produced by centrifugal force.” Fourth, “Causing preservative liquids to penetrate more quickly “ into meat or animal substances by means of a weight of liquor u in motion being suddenly checked or stopped.” The apparatus to be employed is described at considerable length. . [Printed, Is. Id. See Repertory of Arts, vol. 2 (enlarged series), p. 134.] A.D. 1842, October 8.™N° 9487. DEUTSCHE, Claude Edward.—The title of this invention is, “ Improvements in combining materials to be used for cementing “ purposes, and for preventing the passage of fluids, and also for “ forming or constructing articles from such compositions or ma- “ terials.” A number of mixtures are made of different kinds of gums, resins, &c„ with turpentine, naphtha, alcohol, and essential oils, some of which it is said “ may also be employed to pre- “ serve provisions, by coating the vessels containing them in such “ manner as to exclude the atmospheric air.” [Printed, 4d. See Repertory of Arts, vol. 3 {enlarged series), p. 299.] A.D. 1843, March 24.—N° 96/7- NEVXLL, Alfred Hooper.'—First, Manufacturing “ a product of lentils separated from the husk, and thus rendered suitable
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