Improvements relating to the Preservation of Alimentary and other Organic Substances.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1894-Accepted, 18th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by FIRMIN DELANGLE, of 31, Rue de l'Hôtel-de-
Ville, Lyon, in the Republic of France, Gentleman.]
Improvements relating to the Preservation of Alimentary and other
Organic Substances.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the preservation of alimentary and other organic
substances.
According to this invention organic substances, principally those designed for
alimentary purposes, are preserved or at least their decomposition retarded by
ventilating the same.
This ventilating process may be employed alone or serve as a complement to
other known means of preservation.
any
The ventilation of the substances is effected either by a natural or an artificial
force, such as for instance steam, electricity, clockwork, traction.
In short I may apply any of the known systems of ventilation to the preservation
of organic substances from the various destructive agencies.
Dated this 22nd day of March 1894.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
Improvements relating to the Preservation of Alimentary and other
Organic Substances.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 preservation of alimentary and other organic
substances, but is chiefly designed for the preservation of meat.
According to this invention the meat is preserved, or at least the decomposition
thereof retarded, by ventilating or forcing air through the same.
The invention cousists in submitting the meat which it is desired to preserve
from corruption, in the fresh or raw state, to the action of a current of cold air,
which current of air may be produced by any blowing apparatus actuated by any
suitable means. The pieces of meat to be treated are suspended in a suitable
chamber into which the air is forced by the said blowing apparatus.
The advantage of the present invention is that the meat thus plunged into this
current of cold air is preserved for several months in an absolutely fresh state and
Price 8d71

page_text: is as easily digested as if it came from an animal just slaughtered. While the
meat is kept in this current of air it is dried but does not become spoiled at all and
retains absolutely all its nutritive properties.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is
The forcing of air into or through alimentary and other organic substances
for the purpose of preventing or retarding the decomposition of the same
substantially as herein set forth.
Dated this 21st day of December 1801
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.