Improved Means of Effecting the Preservation of Materials of a Perishable Nature, and the Application thereof for Curative Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 15th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Effecting the Preservation of Materials of a
Perishable Nature, and the Application thereof for Curative
Purposes.
L. GEORGE DAVIS WHEATON, of Chicago Club, Chicago, in the United States of
America, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention to be as
follows:-
The primary object of this Invention is to effect the preservation of articles of food
and other materials of a perishable nature, the Invention can also be advantageously
applied for the purpose of restoring and preserving in a usable condition such
articles as may have exhibited a tendency to become decomposed, and for curative
purposes.
The Invention consists in the application and use of water or of sen or other
suitable saline compound of water which has been rendered antiseptic by being
subjected within a closed vessel to the action of the vapors or fumes of a composition
of sulphur, sugar, sassafras, cinnamon and potassium nitrate mixed in suitable pro-
portions, to which composition, however, no claim is herein made, for the purpose of
the Invention in effecting the preservation or the restoration and preservation of the
articles or materials aforesaid.
The said water may be rendered antiseptic and suitable for such purpose by such
means either by being placed in open containers in such closed vessel or chamber,
or it may be suitably agitated while therein and under treatment, or it may be suit-
ably sprayed while therein and under treatment, or allowed to fall in minute drops
through the fumes of the said compound, and be trapped and led to a suitable storage
chamber, or it may be in any other suitable way treated therein.
The water thus treated may then be used for the purpose of the Invention by being
mixed with the articles or materials required to be preserved or restored and preserved,
or by subjecting the latter to the vapor or steam of such water or by passing the
vapor or steam of such water through the substance under treatment, or in any other
suitable way subjecting the same thereto, depending upon the nature of the article
under treatment and upon its relative solidity, soni solidity, liquidity, semi-liquidity,
or whether it is in a plastic, powdered or other condition in which substances
materials or articles of such nature usually exist.
The Luvontion also consists in the like application and use of milk and other suit-
able liquids than water, and of other substances than water, which has or have been
rendered antiseptic by fumigation of the means and in the manner aforesaid, for the
purpose of the Invention in effecting the preservation or restoration and preservation
of other articles of the nature aforesaid.
Such other liquids or substances may also be rendered antiseptic and suitable for
the intended purpose by being subjected within a closed chamber to the action of
the vapors or fumes of the said compound, being subjected to the action thereof in
any suitable way depending upon the nature and condition of the substance under
treatment.
And likewise as aforesaid, such now antiseptic liquids or substances may be blended
with or otherwise suitably caused to act upon the articles or materials required to be
preserved or restored and preserved in any suitable way depending as aforesaid upon
the nature and condition of the articles under treatment. As an example, a quantity
of butter which has been directly fumigated as aforesaid may be churned or blended
with a larger quantity of butter in course of manufacture and will then be effective
in rendering the whole mass antiseptic.

page_text: The Invention also comprises the application and use of liquids, washes or ointments
or of substances which have been rendered antiseptic by being subjected to or
impregnated with the vapors of the said compound for application to the human hody
or to animal bodies for curative purposes.
Dated this 15th day of January 1889.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means of Effecting the Preservation of Materials of
a Perishable Nature, and the Application thereof for Curative
Purposes.
I, GEORGE DAVIS WHEATON, of Chicago Club, Chicago, in the United States of
America, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and uscer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
The primary object of this Invention is to effect, the preservation of articles of food
and other materials of a perishable nature, the Invention can also be advantageously
applied to the purpose of restoring and preserving in a usable condition such perish-
able materials as may have exhibited a tendency to become decomposed, and to
curative purposes.
The Invention relates, firstly, to the application and use for the aforesaid pre-
servative and restorative purposes of water or of sea or other suitable saline compound
of water which has been rendered antiseptic by being subjected for a sufficient period
within a closed vessel to the action of the vapors or fumes of a compound of sulphur,
sugar, sassafras, cinnamon and potassium nitrate, mixed in suitable proportions, to
which composition, however, no claim is herein made. The proportions of the said
several ingredients described in the Specification of Letters Patent, No. 17843 of 1888.
granted to William Hoskins Daniels may in some cases be used, but those described
in the Specification of the said William Hoskins Daniels' Letters Patent No. 2858
of 1889 will be found most advantageous.
The said water or compound thereof may be rendered antiseptic and suitable for
the purpose of the Invention either by being placed in open containers in a closed
vessel or chamber together with a suitable quantity of such compound which is
ignited and the water subjected to the fumes thereof, or the water may be suit-
ably agitated while in such chamber and under such trea'ment, or it may be
suitably sprayed while therein and under treatment, or allowed to fall in minute
drops through the fumes of the said compound, or it may he in any other suit-
able way treated therein so as to effect the required saturating action and such
chamber may be fitted with trapped outlets leading the treated water to a suitable
storage chamber.
The resulting antiseptic water or compound thereo, may then be used for the
purpose of the Invention, by heing mixed in suitable proportions with the liquid or
material required to be preserved or restored and preserved; or such purpose may be
effected by subjecting the perishable material to be treated to the vapor or steam of
such water or compound thereof, or by passing the vapor or steam of such water or
compound thereof through the liquid or material under treatment, or such materials
may be subjected to the action of such water or compound thereof in any other suit-
able way depending upon the nature of the material under treatment, and upon its
relative solidity, semi-solidity, liquidity, semi-liquidity, or whether it is in a plastic,
powdered or other condition."
The Invention also relates to the like or analogous application and use for the
aforesaid preservative and restorative purposes of milk and of other suitable liquids
other than water and of suitable semi-liquid substances which has or have been
rendered antiseptic by fumigation by the means and in the manner aforesaid,

page_text: Such other liquids or substances may also be rendered antiseptic and suitable for
the intended purpose by heing subjected within a closed chamber to the nction of
the vapors or fumes of the said compound, being subjected to the action thereof in any
suitable way depending upon the nature and condition of the substance under
treatment.
And, likewise, as aforesaid, such now antiseptic liquids or substances may be mixed
or blended with or otherwise suitably caused to act upon the materials required to
be preserved or restored and preserved in any suitable way depending as aforesaid
upon the nature and condition of the materials under treatment. As an example,
a quantity of butter which has been directly fumigated, as aforesaid, may be churned
or blended with a larger quantity of butter in course of manufacture and will then
be effective in rendering the whole mass antiseptic.
The Invention also relates to the rendering of curative liquids, washes and ointments
or the like, antiseptic by in like manner as aforesaid subjecting the same to or
impregnating the same with the vapors of the said compound, and the subsequent
application and use of such liquids, washos, ointments and the like to the human
body or to animal bodies for curative purposes.
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. The application and use for the aforesaid preservative and restorative purposes
in the manner hereinbefore described or in any equivalent manner, of water or of sea
or other suitable saline compound of water and of other suitable liquid or semi-liquid
substances which has or have been rendered antiseptic by being subjected within a
closed vessel to the action of the vapors or fuines of a compound of sulphur, sugar,
sassafras, cinnamon, and potassium nitrate mixed preferably in about the proportions
hereinbefore referred to.
2. The herein before described improved method of effecting the preservation of
articles of food and other materials of a perishable nature, and of restoring and
preserving in a usable condition such perishable materials as may have exhibited a
tendency to become decomposed, consisting in subjecting the same in the manner
bereinbefore described or in any equivalent manner to the action of water or of
sea or other suitable saline compound of water or of other suitable liquid or semi-
liquid substances which has or have been rendered antiseptic by being subjected
within a closed vessel to the action of the vapors or fumes of a compound of
sulphur, sugar, sassafras, cinnamon and potassium nitrate, mixed preferably in about
the proportions hereinbefore referred to.
3. As new products or products of a new character, perishable materials which have
been rendered antiseptic by being subjected in the manner herein before described or
in any equivalent manner to the action of water or of sea or other suitable saline
compound of water or of other suitable liquid or semi-liquid substances which has
or have been rendered antiseptic by being subjected within a closed vessel to the
action of the vapors or fumes of a compound of sulphur, sugar, sassafras, cinnamon
and potassium nitrate, mixed preferably in about the proportions hereinbefore
referred to.
4. The rendering antiseptic of curative liquids, washes, ointments and the like
intended to be applied to the human body or to animal bodies for curative purposes,
by subjecting the same to or impregnating the same with the vapors or fumes of
the aforesaid compound substantially in the manner hereinbefore referred to.
Dated this 15th day of October 1889.
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DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.