IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING AND PRESERVING FOOD
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John McCall, of Houndsditch, in the City of
London, Merchant, and Bevan George Sloper, of Walthamstow, in the
County of Essex, Chemist, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PREPARING AND PRESERVING FOOD."
Sealed the 28th October 1864, and dated the 29th April 1864,
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John McCall and Bevan
George Sloper at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition, on the 29th April 1864.
We, JOHN MCCALL, of Houndsditch, in the City of London, Merchant, and
BEVAN GEORGE SLOPER, of Walthamstow, in the County of Essex, Chemist,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PREPARING AND PRESERVING FOOD," to be as follows:
Our improvements consist in the preparation of solid concentrated food
tablets, as hereafter described.
We take meat, poultry, or game, desiccate it, and rasp or otherwise break
it down into small fibres; we also take solid concentrated essence of meat, and
reduce it into small particles. We mix one or more of these ingredients with
dried powdered vegetables and condiments in any desired proportions, and
subject them to strong pressure; after pressure we cover the tablets or cakes
with a gelatinous or other protecting coating, and when dry the food is ready

page_text: for the market. We prefer to enclose the tablets in tinfoil or paper. To use
the tablets, they simply require boiling in water, in which they dissolve or
become mixed, and form a nourishing and palatable soup.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John McCall and Bevan George Sloper in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 29th October 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOHN
MCCALL, of Houndsditch, in the City of London, Merchant, and BEVAN GEORGE
SLOPER, of Walthamstow, in the County of Essex, Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said John McCall and Bevan George Sloper, Her special licence that we, the
said John McCall and Bevan George Sloper, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said John McCall and Bevan George
Sloper, our executors, administrators, and 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 PREPARING AND
PRESERVING FOOD," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said John
McCall and Bevan George Sloper, or one of us, our executors or adminis-
trators, an instrument in writing under our, or one of our, 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 we, the said John McCall and Bevan George Sloper,
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 thereof, that is to say:-
Our improvements consist in the preparation of solid concentrated food
tablets, as hereafter described.
We take meat, poultry, or game, desiccate it, and rasp or otherwise break

page_text: it down into small fibres; we also take solid concentrated essence of meat, and
reduce it into small particles. We mix one or more of these ingredients with
dried powdered vegetables and condiments in any desired proportions, and
subject them to strong pressure; after pressure we cover the tablets or cakes
with a gelatinous or other protecting coating, and when dry the food is ready
for the market. We prefer to enclose the tablets in tinfoil or paper; to use
the tablets, they simply require boiling in water, in which they dissolve or
become mixed, and form a nourishing and palatable soup.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim preparing solid
concentrated food tablets, substantially in manner berein-before described.
In witness whereof, we, the said John McCall and Bevan George Sloper,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-seventh day of
October, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JOHN MCCALL. (L.S.)
B. G. SLOPER. (L.S.)
JOHN MCCALL. (L.S.)
B. G. SLOPER. (L.S.)