Improvements in the Means of Transport for Live or Dead Fish, or Sea Animals, Meat, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 5th Jan., 1891-Accepted, 7th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means of Transport for Live or Dead Fish, or
Sea Animals, Meat, and the like.
I, CHARLES HUELSER, of the firm of Huelser & Co., of 142, Fleet Street, in
the City of London, Solicitors of Patents, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, a communication to me from abroad by August S. Ludt, of Copenhagen,
in the Kingdom of Denmark, Wholesale Fishmonger, to be as follows:
The object of this invention is a car or waggon for carrying live or dead fish or
other sea animals or animal food to their destination in a fresh condition. The
improved means of transport is provided with ventilating devices and has double
sides which are filled with sawdust or other suitable material. It is divided into
three compartments communicating with each other by doors, the middle compart-
ment serving to receive ice and suction- and pressure-pumps. The two other
spaces are either filled with suitable casks or barrels or with boxes or reservoirs.
The casks or barrels serving to convey live fish are placed and secured on rolls or
wheels for better handling and have each an inlet and outlet pipe and, secured on
the bottom, some upright rods adapted to receive a suitable number of superposed
hat-shaped receptacles provided with corresponding apertures in the rim and each
essentially consisting of a plate and a fish net, which latter is held up by means of
a suitable number of vertical rods or stays.
The space containing the casks or barrels, several of which may be placed upon
cach other to attain economy in space, also encloses a water reservoir. Water is
taken from the latter by means of a suction pump through a pipe at the bottom, and
conducted in a cooled state through a common pipe, adapted to be set in com-
munication with the inlets of the casks, from above into the latter. The waste or
sullied water is removed from the casks through a similar pipe by means of another
pump and conducted to the reservoir which has inside a filtering layer.
The boxes or reservoirs, which may also be placed upon each other, for the
transport of dead fish, have no solid sides but consist of frames connected by cross
stays, thereby admitting of the free passage of air; the bottom is made from water-
tight linen and provided with projecting rims. In these boxes the dead fish are
suspended from cross bars preferably head downwards to allow the dripping water
and blood to fall on the linen and flow down the rims without sullying the boxes
situated underneath.
The boxes for conveying meat dead poultry or the like have solid sides and
double bottoms. The upper bottom is perforated while the lower one is provided
with projecting rims. The space between the bottoms serves to receive ice and the
water dripping off the same flows, through lateral perforations in the sides, over the
projecting rim into the car. The meat or other material is placed on the upper
bottom.
The bottom of the compartments containing the casks and boxes is provided with
suitable grooves or drains for conducting the waste liquid into the middle compart
ment, whence it is from time to time let off through an opening or valve.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Means of Transport for Live or Dead Fish, or
Sea Animals, Meat, and the like.
I, CHARLES HUELSER, of the firm of Huelser & Co., of Temple Chambers,
London, International Patent Agency, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention, a communication to me from abroad by August S. Ludt, of Copenhagen,
in the Kingdom of Denmark, Wholesale Fishmonger, 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 the means of transport for live or dead fish, sea animals,
meat or similar material and has for its purpose to effectually preserve such food or
material during the journey to its destination.
The improved method and appliances may be used either in connection with
ordinary waggons, railway waggons, sailing ships, steamers or boats.
Reference being had to the accompanying drawings,
Figs. 1 to 8 illustrate the improved device in various applications and modifications
like letters denoting like or corresponding parts throughout the figures.
A waggon with the improvements applied thereto is in the main divided into two
compartments, between which is provided a cooling chamber E, adapted to be filled
with ice and from which the cold air is led through pipes round the compartments.
The latter are filled with double sides, the inner sides consisting of galvanized iron
plating or any equivalent material with respect to resistant capacity to the water.
The top is arranged in pieces to be capable of casy removal, while the double
floors, sides and tops are all lined with a suitable material having a low rate of
thermal conductivity.
Either of the two compartments mentioned above may be used for the transport
of live fish and animals living in water or for dead fish or one compartment can
be employed for live fish or animals and the other for dead.
In using one of the compartments for the conveyance of live fish or aquatic
animals, it may either be filled with water F Fig. 1. to allow the fish or animals to
swim freely about, in which case nets or pieces of linen would be hung from the
sides to prevent injury to the fish or animals. Or for the transport of flat fish, eels,
lobsters and such like, boxes G Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, immersed in the water, would be
used. Said boxes consist of a metal frame with network, sides and galvanized iron
bottoms. The boxes being stored one above the other, the bottom of the one acts
as a lid to the next lower box. The piles of boxes are held in position by the
vertical iron bars C.
Fig. 2 is an end view of a waggon fitted as described.
Fig. 3 a plan thereof.
Fig. 4 illustrates a single box. The circulating water is filtered and pumped
from the cistern B through a pipe to the compartments in which the fish or other
aquatic animals are kept. The pump may be drawn from the wheel axle or other-
wise, while a force pump is used to supply the requisite air, the oxygen of which is
demanded for the animals, the latter pump being likewise driven by the wheel axle
or in any other convenient manner.
The roof of the waggons is provided with ventilators for the discharge of the
foul air.
At the bottom of the waggon is provided at one end a patent or other convenient
stove D, which in the winter or cold weather is fired from the outside and imparts
to the water sufficient heat to keep the fish or other aquatic animals alive.
For the transport of dead fish or other animals and meat, boxes H as shewn in
Figs. 5 and 6 are used.
When applied to vessels or boats the improved appliances must be adapted in
shape and position to the vehicle fitted therewith.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
The method and appliances described in the foregoing Specification for the
transport of live and dead fish, or aquatic animals, meat and similar material for
the purpose of keeping the fish or other animals alive, or the meat or material in
good condition during transport, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1801
HUELSER & Co.,
Temple Chambers, London, Agents for Applicant.