Improvements in the Preparation of Food.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan.. 1896
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1896
Improvements in the Preparation of Food.
I, ILLIUS AUGUSTUS TIMMIS of No. 2 Great George Street, Westminster S. W.
Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The objects of my invention are:-
1. To prepare a complete meat food, which contains the bones & all the edible
parts of beast, bird, reptile, or fish & is in addition reduced to a smooth pasty
condition & to combine any of them.
2. To dessicate the food and then reduce it to a powder.
3. To mix it before cooking with any other ingredients, such as eggs, vegetables,
fruit, sauces or condiments.
4. To cook the food when it is reduced to a smooth paste in hermetically sealed
cases.
5. To mix the paste with flour and bake it into biscuits.
The main objects to be attained and which are new are the reducing all the edible
parts including the bones to a smooth paste.
With the above objects in view I disintegrate in any suitable and available
disintegrating macl.ine, the bodies of beasts, birds, reptiles or fish, including all
the edible parts and such of the bones as are advisable, hereinafter called
carcase.
I may use a machine such as Carter's or Carr's or other with strong rapidly
revolving arms or beaters or milling cutters, and in this case I have the carcase
frozen by preference so that it can be more thoroughly broken up.
Or I may break the carcase up between rollers which are fluted longitudinally or
grooved circumferentially, or one may be fluted and the other smooth, or in any way
suitable, and they may revolve at the same or at a differential speed.
The smashing or breaking up of frozen carcase is new.
When the carcase is sufficiently reduced or sinashed I pass (what I now call) the
material through rollers, fluted or grooved or smooth.
There may be more than one set and they may run at the same or a differential
speed.
But for the final operation to reduce the whole to a fine smooth paste I pass it
between two large diameter smooth rolls or with the surfaces roughened and which
run at the same or a differential speed. Or I pass it between two rolls fluted
longitudinally, so that the rounded projections of one roller fit properly into the
rounded flutes of the other. By this means, in conjunction with a regulated feed,
the whole of the material is reduced to a smooth paste.
Such a material is a new food containing phosphates and also all the organs and
parts of a carcase which are edible.
It is more nutritious and more digestible than any yet made.
Dated this 28th dox of January 1896

page_text: I, ILLIUS AUGUSTUS TIMMIS of 2 Great George Street, Westminster, S.W.,
Civil Engineer, 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 :-
The objects of the invention are to obtain a food which contains the bones,
sinews, tendons, &c., together with the flesh and all the edible parts of a beast,
bird, reptile or fish. And to prepare it, either in a wet or dry condition. Also to
mix them, singly or in combination, with vegetables, eggs fruit, condiments or
flour.
In order to obtain this complete food, I, by preference, treat it, after it is frozen,
though this is not absolutely essential I disintegrate it or crush it in a suitable
disintegrating machine-such as Carter's-or with heavy rough or smooth rollers,
or milling cutters.
I then pass it through sets of rollers, one of each pair being, by preference,
rough or fluted, and also, by preference, running faster than its fellow. By this
means I obtain a fine smooth paste in a more or less wet condition. This paste can
be frozen again and used as required for solid food or for making soup-or I
put it in suitable pots or cases and cook it and hermetically seal it, or I put it
in skins as sausages and treat it in the same way if for keeping. Or it may be
mixed with flour and baked into biscuits. Before being cooked it may be mixed
as above described with other ingredients.
Or I desiccate the wet material and to do this I find it convenient to convey it
through a long chamber, in a thin film, on an endless gauze band, over a heated
surface, and in any case having a current of hot air driven through the chamber, in
a contrary direction to that in which the material is travelling and either above or
below it, or forced through it. After desiccation the material is reduced to a
powder by disintegration.
Such a material is a new food and, unlike any animal food now existing, it can
be used in its entirety, containing in an edible form all the phosphates (in the
bone) all the albumenoids (in the bone, muscle &c.) all the gelatinoids (in the
sinewy tendons and ligaments) and all the soluble salts, so necessary to health, in
the combined material.
For these reasons it is more nutritious and more digestible than any yet
made.
Having
now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is:
(1.) An improved food in either a dry or wet condition containing the whole
of the edible portions of a carcase, including the flesh, bones, sinews, ligaments &c.,
substantially in the manner herein before described.
(2.) A clear soup or extract made from the finely ground complete carcase
substantially in the manner herein before described.
(3.) The treating of frozen carcase substantially in the manner herein before
described.
Dated this 28th day of Databer 1906
I. A. TIMMIS.