A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OR MEANS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Griffith Brewer, of Chancery Lanc,
London, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A
NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OR MEANS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ALIMENTARY
SUBSTANCES."—A communication from abroad by Albert Emmanuel
Aubert, fils, of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Griffith
Brewer at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 6th September 1875.
I, EDWARD GRIFFITH BREWER, of Chancery Lane, London, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for ." A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OR MEANS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF
ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES," (a communication to me from abroad by Albert
Emmanuel Aubert, fils, of Paris, France,) to be as follows:-
According to this Invention the articles to be preserved, such as
meat, poultry, game, fish, or whatever they may be, are suspended in a'
receiver or chamber, in the lower part of which there is a metal plate on
which the following ingredients in or about the following approximate
proportions are placed :-5 per cent. of marinc salt or chloride of sodium,

page_text: 2 per cent. of fine pepper, and 95 per cent. of powdered sulphur. This
mixture being ignited the fumes penetrate the materials to be preserved
without communicating to them any sulphurous or other disagreeable
smell, and the materials thus treated are preserved for a considerable
-time even if exposed to the action of the atmosphere and sun.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Griffith Brewer in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 6th March 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
GRIFFITH BREWER, of Chancery Lane, London, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Edward Griffith Brewer,
Her special licence, that I, the said Edward Griffith Brewer, my.
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Griffith Brewer, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OR MEANS FOR THE
PRESERVATION OF ALIMENTARY SUBSTANCES," (a communication to me from.
abroad by Albert Emmanuel Aubert, fils, of Paris, France,) upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Griffith Brewer, my
executors or administrators; by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the naturo 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 Edward Griffith Brewer; do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :-
According to this Invention the articles to be preserved, such as
meat, poultry, game, fish, or whatever they may be, are suspended in
an air-tight receiver or chamber, in the lower part of which there is a
metal plate on which the following ingredients, in or about the following
approximate proportions, are placed:-5 per cent. of marine salt or
chloride of sodium, 2 per cent. of fine pepper, and 95 per cent. of
powdered sulphur. This mixture being ignited the fumes penetrate the
materials to be preserved without communicating to them any sulphurous
or other disagreeable smell; the parts which have been touched or cut
are covered with a thin layer of salt. Materials treated as aforesaid are
preserved for a considerable time even if exposed to the action of the
atmosphere and sun.
By means of the treatment aforesaid large quantities of meat can be
perfectly preserved at small expense, and besides the ingredients used in
the process are well known as being wholesome. The very expensive
process of preservation by means of ice cannot be compared to it, as
meat treated by the latter means completely loses its flavour, and also
almost all its nutritive property, while at the same time all the blood
runs out and the meat is left flabby and flavourless.
This Invention will be found very serviceable to the army and navy,
hotels, restaurants, and butchers, who incur great losses during hot
weather, for it is well known that the best of meat may turn bad in less
than a couple of hours.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the pre-
servation of alimentary substances, substantially in and by the mode and
means herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Griffith Brewer, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of March, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
siv