The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1922-05-26
VACUUM PROCESS
FOR REFRIGERATION
J. w. Broomfeld Gets Federal
Approval on His Process
Which He Claims Will Up
turn Present Means of Re-
frieeration.

Discovery of a new process and
invention of a new device which will
revolutionize the packing and re-
frigerating industries and methods
now in use, was patented by a Jack
son citizen yesterday according to a
telegram received from him in Wash
ington yesterday The man is ]. w.
Broomfield widely known in this city
for many years as court stenogra-
pher.
Mr.. Broomfeld telegraphed to a
friend n Jackson yesterday that his
application papers for the patenting
of the new process and idea has been
approved by the patent Office. Mr..
Broomfield expects by a vacuum
process to be able to preserve fruits,
vegetables, meats and other organic
products in a perfect state indefi-
nitely The patent office reported
that no such idea or process had ever
been presented to the federal bureau
before.
The vacuum process will preserve
any food products but milk, Mr..
Broomfeld claims. By it he says
he can keep a tomato, peach, a
chicken, or any other piece of meat
or vegetable, lust as it is" indefi-
nitely. If the tomato is green when
it goes in it is still green when it is
taken out into the air again.
Mr.. Broomfeld has been expert
mentfng at his home with fruit and
vegetables in glass jar. He has per-
fected the means, he says, for Great
ing the desired vacuum in jars, tin
containers of all kinds. Moreover,
he says, this process allows the Great
ing the vacuum in refrigerator cars
and cold storage houses, and is so
practical and economical that the
old ice and refrigerating method will
be done away with.
If the newly patented idea and
process works out to a practical con-
clusion, as its author confidently be-
, heves, Mr.. Broomfield will, if so in
clined, in a few years be able to pay
the whole judgement against the in
surance companies out of weeks
royalties.
Mr.. Broomfield's theory on which
he bases his success in the new pro-
cess is contrary to the theory of de-
composition advanced by Pasteur
and generally accepted since his time.
He insists that any plant, flower
shrub, any vegetable or fruit, any
meat, fish, fowl, or eggs has nothing
inherently in its composition that of
itself causes decomposition. There
fore,", says Mr.. Broomfield, "The
elimination from any of those sub
stances of the elements of air or water
and the enclosing them in 9 perfect
and absolute vacuum will keep and
preserve them sound and in their
origional state as when placed in the
vacuum free from decomposition, rot
or decay. To illustrate, tomato can
be kept green or ripe, an orange, q
lemon, or a peach, pear, potato, like
wise, and upon being taken out OF
the vacuum will ripen in the natura
manner and have its origional
flavor.
"Upon breaking the vacuum there
is no fetid odor or Objectionable quail
tiles attached to the substance and
it will then keep in exposure to the
atmosphere as long as it would have
naturally without the interception OF
the vacuum"
With reference to the result and
object of the new process, Mr.
Broomfield says:
"This Will result in the construc-
ton of vacuum storage houses much
more cheaply than the installation OF
refrigeration plants and at only
nominal expense for ordinary build
ings of that size. Refrigerator cars
as presently constructed can be con
verted into vacuum storage, with nc
consequent iceing charges and much
better quality of food"
Merchants and jobbers can have
vacuum storage with little lnitia
expense and no overhead. Homes
can have vacuum storage put in in
stead of refrigerators, enabling
housewives to keep vegetables anC
fruit-green or ripe--in the ordinary
fruit jar now used, without cooking
or sweetening. All edibles and foods
except milk, can be kept in this man
ner indefinitely.
Pasteur gave us the theory that
bacteria exists in all the elements OF
air, water, earth. | contend thai
there is no such thing as putrefactivC
bacteria until it is created by th'
element of water on some exposed
surface or through the cells anC
pores of an organic substance. II
other words, putrefactive bacteria dC
not exist ferio naturii, but are Great
ed solely through and by the atmos
phere or water on organic substanc
es.