IMPROVEMENTS IN JELLY MOULDS AND PACKAGES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Francis Blackwell, of No. 21, Soho Square, in
the County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN JELLY
MOULDS AND PACKAGES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Francis Blackwell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 26th July 1880.
THOMAS FRANCIS BLACKWELL, of No. 21, Soho Square, in the County of
Middlesex.. IMPROVEMENTS IN JELLY MOULDS AND PACKAGES."
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This Invention has for its object improvements in jelly moulds and packages.
At the present time it is usual to pack dessert jelly for sale in glass bottles.
Before jelly so packed can be served to table it has to be melted, poured out of the
bottle into a jelly mould, allowed to set (a process which occupies much time), and
finally turned out of the mould in the shape for the table.
Now according to my Invention I form jelly moulds with a bottom of thin sheet
metal soldered in. There is a filling hole in the bottom, and when the jelly in a
melted state has been poured in, the filling hole is closed by a cap of sheet metal
soldered over it. The jelly is thus hermetically enclosed in a metal case, in which
it will keep good for an indefinite time. The bottom of the jelly mould is put on
in such a manner that it can readily be torn off when it is desired to open the
mould. The sheet metal forming the sides of the jelly mould is doubled inwards
all around the edge, and a projecting tail is left. In opening the jelly package the
tail is taken hold of by a suitable tool, and by pulling upon it the sheet metal is
torn through. Thus the bottom taken off, and the jelly is at once turned out in
shape ready for table.
These jelly packages, consisting of dessert jelly run in a liquid state into moulds
having bottoms soldered in, so that they can be readily torn away to admit of
the jelly being turned out in form, constitute new articles of commerce and
manufacture.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Thomas Francis Blackwell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
26th January 1881.
THOMAS FRANCIS BLACKWELL. of No. 21, Soho Square, in the County of
Middlesex. 'IMPROVEMENTS IN JELLY MOULDS AND PACKAGES."
This Invention has for its object improvements in jelly moulds and packages.
At the present time it is usual to pack dessert jelly for sale in glass bottles.
Before jelly so packed can be served to table it has to be melted, poured out of the
bottle into a jelly mould, allowed to set (a process which occupies much time), and
finally turned out of the mould in the shape for the table.
Now according to my Invention I form jelly moulds with a bottom of thin sheet
metal soldered in. There is a filling hole in the bottom, and when the jelly in a
melted state has been poured in, the filling hole is closed by a cap of sheet metal
soldered over it. The jelly is thus hermetically enclosed in a metal case, in which
it will keep good for an indefinite time. The bottom of the jelly mould is put on
in such a manner that it can readily be torn off when it is desired to open the
mould. The sheet metal forming the sides of the jelly mould is doubled inwards
all around the edge, and a projecting tail is left. In opening the jelly package the
tail is taken hold of by a suitable tool, and by pulling upon it the sheet metal is
torn through. Thus the bottom is tak off, and the jelly is at once turned out in
shape ready for table.
These jelly packages, consisting of dessert jelly run in a liquid state into moulds
having bottoms soldered in, so that they can be readily torn away to admit of
the jelly being turned out in form, constitute new articles of commerce and
manufacture.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and readily
· carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan, Figure 2 a side elevation, and Figure 3 an underside view of
one of my improved jelly moulds or packages.
This jelly mould or package at the upper part is stamped or raised to an
ornamental form, as is the case with an ordinary jelly mould, and its sides are of
tin plate, but the mould or package differs from an ordinary jelly mould, in that
it is provided with a thin sheet metal bottom, in which there is a filling hole a,
and this, when the mould or package is full, is closed by a metal cap soldered on.
The bottom of the mould or package also is put on in such a manner that it can
be easily removed by tearing through the metal of which the side is composed
immediately above the bottom plate.
To facilitate this the sheet of metal forming the side is doubled inwards around
the bottom edge, as is shown more clearly at Figure 4, which is a section of part
of the side and bottom of the mould or package. The portion of the edge which
is thus turned inwards is provided with a tail b, which projects out beyond the
vertical joint in the side of the mould or package, so that it may be taken hold of
and pulled, and the metal so torn through when the mould or package is to be
opened. This is best done by means of a key, such as is seen in Figure 5, upon
which the tail and afterwards the torn strip is wound.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim as constituting a
new article of manufacture my improved jelly packages, which are jelly moulds
having bottoms soldered in, so that they can be readily torn away, and which

page_text: moulds having received the dessert jelly in a liquid state, admit of the jelly
being turned out in form for the table when the bottom of the mould has been
removed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Francis Blackwell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty fourth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
THOS. F. BLACKWELL. (L.S.)