IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING BUTTER Ani
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Wotherspoon, Merchant, and James Coey,
Commission Agent, both of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING BUTTER
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Wotherspoon
and James Coey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 29th July 1878.
We, JAMES WOTHERSPOON, Merchant, and JAMES COFY, Commission
Agent, both of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN
PACKING BUTTER FOR PRESERVING IT DURING TRANSPORT OR WHEN STORED,” to be
as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object to so pack butter in order to preserve
it during transport or when stored; it consists in placing the butter in
small boxes or cases made of wood, earthenware, glass, or waterproofed
paper or bags of textile or fibrous material. These cases or bags are

page_text: placed in any desired numbers in a larger outer case containing pickle,
or a preserving liquid constituted of salt and water. When the butter
is placed in boxes or cases it is preferred that the pickle or preserving
liquid should have access to the butter contained in the aforesaid boxes
or cases to facilitate which they are constructed with openings for that
purpose, or they may be shut down with a piece of fibrous material, such
as cloth intervening, which permits the liquid to permeate to the
butter.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Wotherspoon and James Coey in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 24th January 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
WOTHERSPOON, Merchant, and JAMES COEY, Commission Agent, both of
Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the 37th year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said James Wotherspoon & James Coey, Her special
license that we, the said James Wotherspoon and James Coey, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said
James Wotherspoon and James Coey, our executors, administrators, or
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING BUTTER FOR PRE-
SERVING IT DURING TRANSPORT OR WHEN STORED," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said James Wotherspoon and James Coey, by an
instrument in writing under our hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said James Wotherspoon and James
Coey, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had
to the accompanying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon, that is to say :—
Our said Invention has for its object to so pack butter in order to
preserve it during transport or when stored; it consists in packing the
butter in small boxes or cases made of wood, earthenware, glass, or
waterproofed paper or bags of textile or fibrous material. These cases
or bags are placed in any desired number in a cask or larger outer case
containing pickle, or a preserving liquid constituted of salt and water.
And in order that our said Invention may be properly understood, we
now proceed more particularly to set forth the system, mode, or manner
in or under which the same is or may be used or practically carried into
effect, that is to say:—
On the Sheet of Drawings hereunto appended Figure 1 is a vertical
section on the line a, b, Figure 2, which is a horizontal section on the
line c, d, Figure 1, shewing the improvements in packing butter for
preserving it during transport or when stored. As shewn by these
Drawings the butter is placed in small boxes or cases A which are made
of wood, earthenware, glass, or waterproofed paper. The boxes or
cases A containing the butter are placed in any desired numbers in a
cask or large outer case B containing pickle, or a preserving liquid e
constituted of salt and water.
The boxes or cases A may be constructed of any convenient form or
shape, and of any required 'size, and when made of wood it is preferred
to form the boxes A. circular, as shown on the Drawings. The boxes
may be either turned in a lathe or the sides may be composed of thin
sheets of wood which are bent or curved, round, sewn, or pegged, or
otherwise suitably attached to a bottom piece. The tops of the boxes A
are also constructed of thin wood similar to the sides, and are formed to
overlap the upper part of the boxes, so as to be easily put on or removed
as required. In order to economize the space when packing the boxes
or cases A into the cask or outer case B, semicircular, rectangular, or
other suitably shaped boxes or cases A containing butter may be used to
fill up
the spaces which are not sufficiently large to admit of one of the

page_text: larger circular boxes or cases A. It is preferred that the pickle or
preserving liquid e should have access to the butter contained in the
aforesaid boxes or cases A to facilitate which they may be constructed
with perforations or openings for that purpose, or they may be shut
down with a piece of fibrous material, such as cloth, or a piece of fibrous |
material may be placed between the top of each of the boxes or cases A,
and the butter which as the fibrous material becomes saturated permits
the pickle or preserving liquid e to permeate to the butter.
When bags are used they are packed into the outer case a cask with
sufficient spaces left between them to allow the preserving liquid to
have free access to the several bags.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of our
said Invention, and the system, mode, or manner in or under which the
same is, or may be used, or practically carried into effect, we would
observe in conclusion that what we consider to be novel and original and 1
therefore claim as the Invention secured to us by the herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the packing of butter in small boxes,
cases, or bags contained in an outer case and charged with a preserving
liquid or pickle, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said James Wotherspoon and James :
Coey, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-third
day of January One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.