IMPROVEMENTS IN MEAT
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Daniel Tallerman, of Cannon Street, in the City
of London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEAT
Sealed the 25th November 1873, and dated the 31st May 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Daniel Tallerman at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 31st May 1873.
I, DANIEL TALLERMAN, of Cannon Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "Im-
PROVEMENTS IN MEAT STANDS AND DISHES FOR FACILITATING THE CARVING OF
PRESERVED OR POTTED MEATS," to be as follows:-
:-
Preserved meats are usually sold in cylindrical shaped tins containing
from two to six or more lbs. weight. In order to consume the meat
it is necessary to turn it out of the tins, and it has been found con-
venient to temporarily enclose it in another tin cylinder, arranged in

page_text: such a manner that the cylindrical piece of meat may be raised therein
as slices are taken off.
These cylinders are usually called meat dishes, and according to my
Invention the dish is formed of a deep ring of tin or other metal split
down the side, so that it may be opened to receive the meat and after-
wards collapsed close round it. The ring or cylinder is open at both
ends, and when the meat is placed therein and the cylinder is held
tightly round it by means of an enveloping elastic rubber band, the
mcat may be placed on the stand, which consists of a vertical pillar
or column provided at top with a circular table that will just fit
inside one sized tin, say a 4 lb. tin, and with a circular base which will
fit a larger sized tin, say a 6 lb. tin.
The circular top and bottom of the stand should by preference be
made of earthenware or porcelain, and they may be screwed on to the
ends of the vertical column.
Circular plates of different sizes may be screwed on to the pillar,
according to the size of the meat tin.
In place of the tin dish or ring being made in one piece the whole
length of the cylinder of meat, two rings, each of half the depth, may
be used, the one to fit over the other, so that the one can be slidden on
the other like the tubes of a telescope.
When the meat is placed on the stand, the tin or metal dish should be
pushed down sufficiently to admit of one or two slices being cut off the
meat, and the dish can then be lowered from time to time as the meat is
cut away. When all the meat is consumed, the tin or metal dish will have
been pushed down so as to bring the circular earthenware top or table
of the stand level with the top of the dish. The latter may then be
removed, and after cleaning, will be ready to be used again.
The apparatus may be surmounted by a cover of earthenware or metal,
which may be used as required for the purpose of keeping the meat
fresh and cool.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,.
filed by the said Daniel Tallerman in the Great Seal Patent Office.
on the 29th November 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, DANIEL
TALLERMAN, of Cannon Street, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Daniel Tallerman, Her
special licence that I, the said Daniel Tallerman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Daniel
Tallerman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might.
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEAT STANDS AND DISHES FOR FACILITATING THE
CARVING OF PRESERVED AND POTTED MEATS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Daniel Tallerman, my executors or admini-
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Daniel Tallerman, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, reference being had to the Drawing here-
unto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to
say):-
Preserved meats are usually sold in cylindrical shaped tins containing
:

page_text: convenient to temporarily enclose it in another tin cylinder arranged in
such a manner that the cylindrical piece of meat may be raised therein
as slices are taken off.
These cylinders are usually called meat dishes, and according to my
Invention the dish is formed of a deep ring of tin or other metal split
down the side, so that it may be opened to receive the meat and then
allowed to close round it. The metal ring or cylinder is open at both
ends, and when the meat is enclosed therein and the cylinder is held
tightly round it by means of an enveloping elastic rubber band or
metal or other spring, or by the elasticity of the metal cylinder itself,
the meat may be placed on my improved stand, two forms of which
are shewn in the accompanying Drawing. The stand consists of a
vertical pillar or column a, provided at top with a circular table 6 that
will just fit inside one sized tin, say a four pound tin, and with a circular
base c, which will fit a larger sized tin, say a six pound tin.
с
The circular top and bottom b and c of the stand should by preference.
be made of earthenware or porcelain, and they may be screwed or other-
wise secured to the ends of the vertical column a.
Circular plates of different sizes may be screwed or otherwise secured
to the pillar a, according the size of the meat tin.
2
The cylindrical meat tin or dish dis shewn at Figures 1 and 2 as
made in one single piece of the same depth as the cylinder of meat, but
instead of the cylindrical tin dish or ring & being thus made the whole
length of the cylinder of meat, as shewn at Figures 1 and 2, two rings,
each of half the depth, may be used, as shewn at d, d², Figures 3 and 4. 2
One of the cylinders & will be made to fit over the other d¹, so that the
one can be slidden on the other like the tube of a telescope, as shewn
at Fig. 4.
When the cylinder of meat enclosed in the metal elastic cylinder d is
placed on the stand, as shewn at Fig. 1, the tin or metal dish d should be 3
pushed down sufficiently to admit of the meat projecting a little above
the edge of the cylinder d, so that one or two slices may be cut off the
meat. The cylindrical dish d can then be lowered from time to time as
the meat is cut away. When all the meat is consumed the tin or metal
dish will have been pushed down so as to bring the circular earthenware 3
top or table 6 of the stand level with the top of the cylinder d, as
shewn at Fig. 2.

page_text: The cylindrical metal dish d is shewn in plan at Fig. 5. If this
cylindrical metal dish be carefully used and not strained by being pulled
open too widely, it will possess sufficient elasticity to clasp the cylinder
of meat, but if preferred or desired, it may be kept closed by means of
an india-rubber or other elastic band, or a metal or other spring, as
shewn at fin Figures 3 and 4.
In this latter arrangement, when the enveloping dish is divided into
two parts d and d¹, one is slidden into the other to expose the meat,
and therefore the height of the stand may be much reduced.
The apparatus may be surmounted by a cover of earthenware or metal
which may be used as required for the purpose of keeping the meat
fresh and cool.
Having now described my Invention of "Improvements in Meat
Stands and Dishes for Facilitating the Carving of Preserved or Potted
Meats," and having explained the manner of carrying the same into
effect, I claim as the Invention secured to me by Letters Patent as afore-
said, the combination of the split metallic cylinder or drum d (whether
made of one or two parts), with the stand a, b, c, as and for the purpose
herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Daniel Tallerman, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of November,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
D. TALLERMAN. (L.S.)