Improvements in and relating to the Treatment of Pickles, and Apparatus therefor.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st Jan., 1892-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Treatment of Pickles, and
Apparatus therefor.
We, Dewar Rowat, and John FULLERTON, both of 464 South York Street,
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Pickle Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to and comprises a new mode of, and apparatus for
washing and treating vegetable pickles, which will save much time, labour, and
expense over the system now in use.
The cut-up vegetables to form the pickles are first placed in bottles or jars which
are filled with water so as to wash them, and then the water emptied out.
Heretofore these bottles have had to be treated individually or one at a time, but
by our new system any number, such as a dozen bottles filled with pickles can be
treated at a time.
By our improvements we construct a box or vessel, preferably of rectangular
shape of wood or metal, with solid or sparred bottom and vertical sides and ends,
and sufficiently deep to hold the bottles, which are closely packed therein. The
ends would preferably be made higher than the sides of the box so as to be able to
adjust and secure the lid to suit for different sizes of bottles. The lid would be
formed of transverse spars of wood with narrow spaces between jointed to
longitudinal rails or spars, or of galvanized wire or rods, or of netting, or other
equivalent open or perforated material. The bottles with the pickle cut vegetables
in them would be closely packed within the box, and the lid put on and secured
over them, such as by pins passing through adjustable holes arranged at the ends of
the box and extending over part of lid. The box, which is preferably mounted portably
on wheels, would then be taken and immersed in a water tank, where the water would
enter through the perforated lid and fill the bottles with the vegetable pickles in them
to wash these. After the box has been removed from the water tank, it would be
reversed or turned over either by hand or by swivelling it on the wheeled or portable
frame, to empty and drain off all the water from the bottles, while the pickles
would be prevented from falling out by the solid parts of the lid. The pickles in
the bottles would or may get a further washing with a weak solution of vinegar in
the same improved manner as by the first washing with water. And the bottles
may afterwards be filled with vinegar by immersing the box in a tank or other
vessel filled with vinegar.
Dated d A 1001
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Treatment of Pickles, and
Apparatus therefor.
We, DEWAR ROWAT, and JOHN FULLERTON, both of 464 South York Street,
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Pickle Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing, that is
to say :-
This invention has reference to and comprises a new mode of and apparatus for
washing and treating vegetable pickles, which will save much time, labour, and
expense over the system now in use.

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The cut-up vegetables to form the pickles are first placed in bottles or jar
which are filled with water so as to wash them, and then the water emptied out
Heretofore these bottles have had to be treated individually or one at a time, but
by our new system any number, such as a dozen bottles filled with pickles can be
treated at a time.
And in order that our said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
the same into effect or practice may be properly understood we have hereunto
appended an explanatory sheet of drawings representing one arrangement of wooden
box or vessel as constructed in accordance with our improvements. Figure 1 is a
longitudinal or side elevation and Figure 2 a plan view of this new construction of
box Figure 3 is an end elevation and Figure 4 a transverse section as taken on
the line 1-1 Figure 1.
Referring to these drawings :-
By our improvements we construct a box or vessel A, A', preferably of
rectangular shape, of wood as shown, but it might be of metal, with open sparred
bottom A, as shown, but it might be with a solid bottom, and with vertical sides A,
and ends A and sufficiently deep to hold the bottles, which are closely packed
_vertically therein. The ends A¹ are preferably made higher than the sides A. of
the box so as to be able to adjust and secure the lid A2 to suit for different sizes of
bottles. The lid A is formed of longitudinal spars a, bound together by transverse
end bars a', and with narrow spaces a" between the spars a and jointed to
longitudinal vertical rails or spars a², or the lid A² may be formed of galvanized
wire or rods, or of netting or other equivalent open or perforated material. The
bottles with the pickle cut vegetables in them would be closely packed within the
box, over the sparred bottom A", and the sparred lid A2 put on and secured over
them, such as by pins B attached by chains B', and passing through adjustable
holes at B in a metal bar B² passed round the ends A' of the box and extending above
the lid A2, and the ends A' would be formed with hand holes A. The box, which
is preferably mounted portably on wheels A secured to the longitudinal bars A³ under
the sparred bottom A", would then be taken and immersed in a water tank, where the
water would enter through the sparred or perforated bottom A", and the perforated
lid A and fill the bottles with the vegetable pickles in them to wash these.
the box has been removed from the water tanks, it would be reversed or turned
over. either by hand or by swivelling it on the wheeled or portable frame; to
empty and draw off all the water from the bottles, while the pickles would be
prevented from falling out by the solid spar parts a of the lid A; and longitudinal
grooves are formed on the under surface of each of the spars a to assist in draining
away the water while retaining the pickles within the bottles. The pickles in the
bottles would or may get a further washing with a weak solution of vinegar in the
same improved manner as by the first washing with water. And the bottles may
afterwards be filled with vinegar by immersing the box in a tank or other vessel
filled with vinegar.
After
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
First. The mode and means or system of washing vegetable pickles, consisting
in packing the filled bottles or jars within a box or vessel with portable or
removable lid formed of open spars or other perforated or netting material, and
immersing said box in a water tank, and removing or draining off the water from
the pickles by inverting or reversing the position of the box with the heads of the
bottles downwards, substantially as and in the manner herein described in reference
to and by way of application shown in the accompanying drawings.
Second. The mode and means or system of treating vegetable pickles consisting
in packing the filled bottles or jars within a box or vessel with portable or
removable lid formed of open spars or other perforated or netting material, and
immersing said box in a tank of dilute vinegar and removing or draining off the

page_text: liquid from the pickles by inverting or reversing the position of box with the heads
of the bottles downwards, and subsequently refilling the bottles with vinegar by
immersing the box in a tank or vessel filled with vinegar, substantially as and in
the manner herein described in reference to and by way of application shown in the
accompanying drawings.
Third. The construction and use of a box or vessel with a portable or removable
lid formed of open spars or other perforated or netting material, to contain bottles
or jars of vegetable pickles for the purpose of washing and treating the same,
substantially as and in the manner herein described in reference to and by way of
application shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated the 31st December 1891.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,.
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.