A NEW INSTRUMENT TO RENDER TENDER AND DISINTEGRATE THE TISSUE OF MEAT BEFORE COOKING
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William McEwen, M.D., J.P., of 26, Nicholas
Street, Chester, for the Invention of "A NEW INSTRUMENT TO RENDER
TENDER AND DISINTEGRATE THE TISSUE OF MEAT BEFORE COOKING."
Bealed the 5th September 1878, and dated the 13th March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William MEwen at tho
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
18th March 1878.
I, WILLIAM MEWEN, M.D., J.P., of 26, Nicholas Street, Chester, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW INSTRUMENT
TO RENDER TENDER AND DISINTEGRATE THE TISSUE OF MEAT BEFORE COOKING,"
to be as follows :—
This instrument to render tender and disintegrate the tissue of ment
before cooking is formed of wood or metal, or a combination of both
materials, and is made similar in shape to an ordinary trowel or a shield,
with any suitable or convenient handle. The part not used as a handle
is thickly studded with toothed spikes for disintegrating the fibres of
meat. The meat is laid on a board or table and then beaten on all

page_text: accessible parts, the toothed spikes will thus thoroughly disintegrate the
fibres of the meat and liberate its juices, which with the gravy will in
the process of cooking permeate its entire substance and render tender
what would otherwise be tough.
accessible parts, the toothed spikes will thus thoroughly disintegrate the
fibres of the meat and liberate its juices, which with the gravy will in
the process of cooking permeate its entire substance and render tender
what would otherwise be tough.
"
Meat subjected to the operation of this simple instrument retains its
shape and is not jagged and rendered a shapeless mass as by the methods
commonly omplo
to effect the same results.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William M'Ewen in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th September 1878.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
M'EWEN, M.D., J.P., of 26, Nicholas Street, Chester, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the 1
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said William M.Ewen, Her special licence
that I, the said William M'Ewen, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said William M'Ewen, my executors
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, 2
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 "▲ NEW INSTRUMENT TO
RENDER TENDER AND DISINTEGRATE THE TISSUE OF MEAT BEFORE COOKING," upon :
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William M'Ewen,' 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 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William M'Ewen, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
This instrument to render tender and disintegrate the tissue of meat
before cooking is formed of wood or metal, or a combination of both
materials, and is made similar in shape to an ordinary trowel or a shield,
with any suitable or convenient handle. The part not used as a handle
is thickly studded with toothed spikes for disintegrating the fibres of
ment. The meat is laid on a board or table and then beaten on all
accessible parts, the toothed spikes will thus thoroughly disintegrate
the fibres of the meat and liberate its juices, which with the gravy will
in the process of cooking permento its entire substance and render tender
what would otherwise be tough.
Moat subjected to the operation of this simple instrument retains its
shape and is not jagged and rendered a shapeless mass as by the methods
commonly employed to effect the same results.
.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, I declare
that what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the new instrument to render tender and
disintegrate the tissue of meat before cooking, substantially as herein-
before described, or any mere modification or imitation thoreof.
In witness whereof, I, the said William M'Ewen, havo hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.