Improvements in Manufacturing and in Packing or Putting-up Foods for Animals, Poultry, or Game, and for Cage-birds.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 9th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 14th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Manufacturing and in Packing or Putting-up
Foods for Animals, Poultry, or Game, and for Cage-birds.
We ARTHUR THOMAS WARREN Gentleman, and WILLIAM FREDERICK
MIERS, Chemist, both of 41 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, London W.C.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to certain Improvements in Manufacturing and in Packing
or Putting-up Foods for Animals Poultry or Game and for Cage-birds.
In carrying this invention into effect we employ what are commercially known as
sausage-skins as containers for the foods.
The foods themselves are prepared in moist condition of chopped meat mixed
with farinaceous medium and are to be filled into skins of animal or vegetable
material according to one method of packing the foods. In such case the foods
will be then subjected to a slow drying process at normal or low temperature.
According to another method of packing the foods the same will be mixed and
dessicated and be put up in the skins in powdered or in granular form.
Dated 8th December 1893.
WALTER A. BARLOW,
7, John Street, Bedford Row, W.C.,
For the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Manufacturing and in Packing or Putting-up
Foods for Animals, Poultry, or Game, and for Cage-birds.
We ARTHUR THOMAS WARREN Gentleman, and WILLIAM FREDERICK
MIERS, Chemist both of 41, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, London E.C.
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 :-
This invention relates to certain improvements in manufacturing and in packing
or putting-up foods for animals, (other than human beings) poultry or game and
for cage-birds.
In carrying this invention into effect we employ what are commercially known
as "sausage-skins" and bladders, as containers for the foods.
The foods are prepared in moist condition of chopped meat mixed with farinaceous
or vegetable material or materials.
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To the chopped meat is added from 2 lbs. to 4 lbs. of salt to the hundred-weight
of chopped meat and this variation of quantity depends upon the meat itself as
some meat requires more salt than others."
The farinaceous or vegetable material to be employed in admixture with the
prepared chopped meat will be coru-flour pea-flour, bean flour, Indian meal, oat
meal and the like; also, vegetable roots such as beet root, carrot, potato and the
like. These ingredients are to be cooked before being brought into admixture
with the chopped meat.

page_text: Farina (potato flour) and rice flour may be used in raw state and water will be
mixed with these before mixing with the chopped meat, and these foods must be
cooked after being moulded or put up.
The proportions of farinaceous or vegetable material to the meat may be varied
from 25% of the farinaceous or vegetable material to about 75% according to the
animals or birds for which the food is intended.
For dogs and cats' food a good proportion is about 60% of the farinaceous or
vegetable ingredients to 40% of the chopped meat.
For further amplification of this example:-Take 38 lbs. of fresh raw horse-
beef, chop the same fine, mix therewith 2 lbs. of common salt in powdered state
(worked together by hand). For the farinaceous or vegetable material take either
of the following:-(1) Potato flour soaked in water until it can be worked into a
thin paste by hand. (2) One half, parts, potato flour soaked in water, to one half,
parts, of oatmeal in water (scalded or boiled to a porridge) until they can be
worked together into a thin paste by hand. (3) One half, parts, of boiled potato
tubers (from which the skins have been removed) to one half, parts, of rice flour
soaked in water until the boiled potato and the rice flour can be worked together
into a thin paste.
Mix 60 lbs. of any of these prepared farinaceous or vegetable material or
materials, together or separately, with 40 lbs. of the chopped meat. This mixing
may be effected by machinery or by hand but hand mixing is preferable.
When put-up the food is to be boiled and dried.
The moisture in the meat and the water introduced with the farinaceous and
vegetable material should be such that when admixture is complete (whether by
machinery or by hand work) a pasty mass will be produced of consistency somewhat
more moist than bread dough.
The mixed prepared foods are to be packed in skins of animal or vegetable
material. These skins may be continuous skins or bladders of length sufficient for
the package to be made and to allow of the ends being tied up, and the foods will
be filled into same by machine; or, the foods may be put into moulds and be cooked
in such moulds and afterwards be put into coverings.
The coverings for the moulded food may be sheets of "parchment paper" or
grease proof paper which will be of size to enwrap the food and overlap at the
edges, and the ends be gummed and twisted so as to render the covering
approximately airtight.
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The foods will be subjected to a slow drying process, together with smoke, from
the combustion of ligneous material in some cases, but at normal temperature or
low temperature above the normal when atmospheric conditions of heat and dryness
do not serve
In cases where greater rapidity of production is desired these foods will be
cooked by boiling and then drying.
According to another method of treating the foods, before packing the same,
they will be desiccated and mixed, or be mixed and then desiccated and be put-
up in the skins in powdered or in granulated form. This form is good for birds'
food.
In some cases the dried prepared foods may be put-up in tins, boxes or packages
after having been first packed with impervious covering.
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 :-
First. The manufacture and packing or putting-up of foods for animals, poultry
or game and for cage birds, in sausage form in skins bladders, or coverings of
animal or vegetable material in mixed moist condition and subsequently subjecting
the same to a slow drying process as herein specified.
Secondly. The manufacture and packing or putting-up of foods as herein set

page_text: forth and subjecting the same to a cooking process and a drying process as herein
described.
Thirdly. The manufacture and packing or putting-up of mixed foods for animals,.
poultry or game and for cage birds such mixed foods being desicated and powdered.
or granulated as set forth.
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WALTER A. BARLOW,
Consulting Engineer and Patent Expert,
7, John Street, Bedford Row, W.C.,
For the Applicants.