The Preservation of Fresh Eggs.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 29th Oct., 1892-Accepted, 31st Dec.. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
The Preservation of Fresh Eggs.
PATRICK MCARDLE 48 St. Alphonsus Road Drumcondra Dublin Gentleman
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A thick fluid mixture of lime and water poured over each layer of eggs placed in
a wooden box tin vessel or barrel the vessel &c. to be turned upside down or rolled
from one side to the other weekly or to remove the eggs from one vessel to another
will keep them fresh & well flavoured for ten months or more. (I have some treated
similarly.)
The eggs could be packed in tin cases to hold quantities suitable for purchasers
say from 1 dozen up to 12. If in tin cases they could be shipped in wooden boxes
like tinned meat or they could be shipped in barrels and used by purchasers as
required them.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1892.
PATRICK MCARDLE,
48, St. Alphonsus Road, Drumcondra, Dublin.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
The Preservation of Fresh Eggs.
I, PATRICK MCARDLE, of 48 St. Alphonsus Road, Drumcondra, Dublin, in
Ireland, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to the preserving of fresh eggs which consists of a mixture
of lime, powdered litmus, and water, made into a fluid to be poured over each layer
of eggs (until the vacant spaces be filled), placed in a metallic or wood barrel, box,
vessel or the like.
The vessel containing the eggs is to be turned upside down or rolled from one
side to the other once a month or so in order to keep the lime from setting on the
bottom or the yokes of the eggs from shifting. To remove the eggs from one
vessel to another would answer equally as well, thereby keeping the eggs fresh for
nine months and upwards.
The eggs could be packed for removal or keeping in metallic cases made air and
water tight or in wooden vessels made water tight or otherwise, in suitable
quantities, from a dozen upwards and the said metallic cases if necessary for
removal or shipment to be enclosed in wooden cases or barrels.
My composition consists of the following ingredients combined in the proportion
stated, viz.
Pure water 1 pounds. White slack lime 1 pound. Litmus powder 2 pounds,
and 1 cwt. of lime.
The above to be mingled by agitation into a thick pulp fluid and poured over
each layer of eggs placed in the metallic or wood vessel.
If preferable the composition of lime and litmus may be pounded together in a
dry state and sold in tins, bags or boxes, with instructions thereon for persons to
make the thick fluid by the addition of water, and mix the whole together by
agitation.

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. In a composition for preserving fresh eggs, the combination of litmus lime and
water mingled together by agitation into a thick fluid and poured over each layer
of eggs placed in barrels or boxes, substantially as herein described.
2. In a composition for preserving fresh eggs, the combination of litmus and
lime pounded together in a dry state to be sold in boxes, tins, barrels or bags, with
instructions thereon to mix same with a certain quantity of water, substantially as
herein described.
Dated this 29th day of October 1892.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.