Improvements in Houses for Drying and Smoking Butchers' Products.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 12th Apr., 1890
Improvements in Houses for Drying and Smoking Butchers'
Products.
I, JOHN HENRY SCHAEFER, of Baltimore City, in the State of Maryland, United
States of America, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a house for drying and smoking Butchers' products, such
as meat, bologna, and sausages.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which
Figure 1 is a partial side and sectional view of the smoke house.
Figure 2, is a horizontal section of the house.
Figures 3 and 4 are views of the drawer.
The letter A designates the side walls of the house, e the bottom, the smoke room
being enclosed by the walls.
Suitable racks are provided in the smoke room from which to suspend the meat,
and doors i for affording access thereto.
In one side of the wall near the bottom is an opening ; for a drawer k to slide.
in and out. This drawer is for live or smothered coals or wood to produce the
smoke.
In the roof are one or more smoke flues L, opening directly through the roof
into the top of the smoke room, and each is provided with a damper having an
arm attached for operating it. A weight n on the arm serves to close it, and a
cord o, leading down the side of the house serves to open it.
Directly over the coal drawer k is a hood p, secured to a ledge p', adjoining
the wall, by binges q, so as to permit it to take a horizontal position entirely
over the drawer when it is desired to prevent the smoke from filling the chamber E,
or to turn up vertically, and be secured by a hook r, when it is desired that the
smoke of the coals shall fill the chamber. A smoke pipe S has its lower end
open through the horizontal ledge p¹, to which the hood is hinged, and said pipe
extends up and through the roof and is provided with a damper, which is operated
like the other dampers already mentioned. This construction and arrangement of
drawer k, hinged hood p, and smoke pipe S, gives control, as above stated, of the
smoke arising from smothered coals in the drawer.
Steam pipes t are suitably arranged in coils or stands at the bottom and sides
of the smoke chamber E; an inlet-pipe f connects with these pipes, and an outlet-
pipe g, leads off from the bottom. Cocks f¹ and g¹ control communication in
these pipes. The pipe f is to connect with a steam-boiler, (not shown), and
thereby the smoke-room may be kept heated to a temperature that will be effective
for drying the meat.
The preferred construction of the drawer is shown in Figs. 3 and 4. A grate u in
the drawer supports the coals, and a wire screen v covers the drawer and serves to
prevent sparks from flying from the coals.
By the combination and construction here described the meat, sausage, or other
butchers' products in the chamber E may be both dried and smoked. The drying
here contemplated is only that degree of drying that is an aid to the smoking process.
Meat and other like articles take smoke better when the surface which is exposed to
the smoke is dry..

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A house for smoking meat and like articles of provision, having the smoke-
chamber E, with an opening in its wall, the steam-heater provided with an inlet-
pipe and an outlet-pipe 9, a drawer in the said wall-opening, a hood p, secured by
hinges over the drawer, so as to have a horizontal or vertical position, and a smoke-
pipe S, having its lower end open directly over the drawer.
2. A house for smoking meat and like articles of provision, having the smoke-
chamber E; means for holding the coals to produce the smoke, steam-pipes arranged
within the smoke-chamber to produce heat, and an inlet-pipe and an outlet connected
with the steam pipes.
Dated this 19th day of February 1890.
JOHN HENRY SCHAEFER.