Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1897-Accepted, 15th Jan.,
1898
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We, MAX DELAVIGNE, Schoolmaster, CARL HELMERICH, M.D., Medical
Practitioner, and ANDREAS KLÜGLEIN, Agricultural Proprietor, all of Sesslach,
n Upper Franconia, Germany, 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:
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The present invention concerns a process and apparatus for the preservation of
eggs, characterised by the circumstance that the eggs to be preserved are kept in
water, renewed either at intervals or unintermittently.
The apparatus to be applied for the carrying out of this process is illustrated in
the annexed-drawings,_in_two_modes of execution given by way of examples,
where
Fig. 1. is a front elevation of the first form of execution.
Fig. 2. is a section along line - in Fig. 1.
Fig. 3. is a front elevation of the second form of execution.
Fig. 4. is a section along line - in Fig. 2, and
Fig. 5. is a single part.
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The first form of execution consists essentially of a tank or receptacle a,
which a wheel intended for the reception of the eggs, is supported in bearings
so that it can freely revolve. This wheel consists of an iron skeleton frame-work,
so that the water contained in the tank has free access to the interior of the wheel.
The rim as well as the nave of the wheel is provided with slide rails c placed
parallel to the axis of the wheel and which serve for the reception of the gratings
or trays carrying the eggs d. These trays & consist of two metal plates e joined to
each other by a kind of hinge, and which are provided with an optional number
of circular holes f, so that in each case two such holes correspond to each other,
while the adjoining holes must be sufficiently far apart to render any contact,
between the eggs which are placed in these holes, impossible.
Above the tank there is a supply cock a¹. communicating with water supply
pipe or other source of water, while on the opposite side, in the bottom of the
tank a, a discharge cock a³. is arranged. Hence it will be apparent that, as soon
as the cocks a¹ and a². are opened a current will be set up, which at the same time
will cause the wheel b to revolve, thus making the water circulate round the eggs.
It may be mentioned, incidentally, that the water discharged from cock a². and
which is in no way rendered impure by this process, may still be used for domestic
purposes.
The second form of execution consists, like the first, of a tank a, provided on two
opposite sides with slide rails c serving for the reception of the trays carrying the
eggs. These trays, which likewise consist of metal plates e hinged to each other,
are placed in a vertical line above each other, so that no contact of the eggs can
take place. The slide-rails may be conveniently joined to each other by means
of a frame work arranged to take out, so that the position of all the eggs stored in
the apparatus may be changed simultaneously.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. An improved process for the preservation of eggs characterised by storing the
eggs to be preserved in water, renewed continually or at intervals.
2. In the process referred to in Claim 1. the application of an apparatus
characterised by the circumstance that the position of the eggs stored on trays in
a wheel 6 may be changed owing to the fact that when the water-cocks a¹, a². are
opened a current is set up which will cause the wheel b to revolve.
3. In the process referred to in Claim 1. the application of an apparatus
characterised by the circumstance that the trays carrying the eggs are placed, in a
vertical line above each other, in a tank or receptacle a, the position of the eggs
being changed by simply shifting the trays so as to substitute one for the other,
or by turning the whole of them at once.
Dated this 1st day of December 1897.
J. E. EVANS-JACKSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicants.