IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF PRESERVES AND IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RECIPIENTS FOR THE SAME
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Victor Manuel, of 32 Canterbury Road, Brixton, in the
County of Surrey, Gentleman for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Victor Manuel at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th May 1882.
VICTOR MANUEL, of 32 Canterbury Road, Brixton, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF PRESERVES AND IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF RECIPIENTS FOR THE SAME
ود
My Invention has for its object to render preserved liquid or semi-liquid
articles of diet or medicaments suitable for direct consumption without requiring
any kind of previous culinary process except that of heating, for which my
Invention also provides the necessary appliance. Instead of enclosing in tinplate
casings or recipients, in the manner hitherto in general use, condensed milk, coffee
and milk, chocolate and milk, or other description of condensed or concentrated
preserves, which, in order to become suited for consumption, require to be dissolved
in boiling water or otherwise submitted to culinary treatments, I enclose in similar
recipients or "tins," as they are commonly called, either milk in its natural
condition, coffee and milk, chocolate and milk, soups, pharmaceutical preparations
or any other articles of diet or medicaments ready for direct consumption, and
having sealed up the recipients or "tins" referred to, I place them in boiling water
for such a period of time as may be required to prevent the contents thereof from
losing their purity or dietetic virtues, however long they may be kept within the
"
tins or recipients before being used, and to whatever part of the globe they may
be conveyed. To each "tin or recipient I solder or otherwise fasten a second
hermetically sealed casing containing either cotton impregnated with liquid fuel or
any other suitable description of combustible matter sufficient in quantity to heat
the contents of the "tin or recipient; so that by cutting the second casing in one
or more places and having pulled out the impregnated cotton or other combustible
matter, kindling the same, I am enabled to heat the contents of the "tin
thereby render such contents suitable for immediate consumption on the spot,
without the necessity of submitting them to a previous preliminary process, which
in many instances is utterly impracticable owing to the absolute want of water or
of fuel or of both on the spot on which the article of diet or medicament is to be
consumed.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Victor Manuel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd November
1882.
VICTOR MANUEL, of 32 Canterbury Road, Brixton, in the County of Surrey,
Gentleman, "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATIONS OF PRESERVES AND IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF RECIPIENTS FOR THE SAME
"
My Invention has for its object to render preserved liquid or semi-liquid articles
of diet or medicaments suitable for direct consumption without requiring any kind
of previous culinary process except that of heating, for which my Invention also
provides the necessary appliance. Instead of enclosing in tinplate casings or
recipients, in the manner hitherto in general use, condensed milk, coffee and milk,
chocolate and milk, or other descriptions of condensed or concentrated preserves,
which, in order to become suited for consumption, require to be dissolved in boiling
water or otherwise submitted to culinary treatments, I enclose in similar, recipients
or " tins," as they are commonly called, either milk in its natural condition, coffee
and milk, chocolate and milk, soups, pharmaceutical preparations, or any other
articles of diet or medicaments ready for direct consumption, and having sealed up
the recipients or "tins " referred to, I place them in boiling water for such a period
of time as may be required to prevent the contents thereof from losing their purity
or dietetic virtues, however long they may be kept within the tins or recipients
before being used, and to whatever part of the globe they may be conveyed. To
each "tin" or recipient I solder or otherwise fasten a second hermetically sealed
casing, containing either cotton impregnated with liquid fuel or any other suitable
description of combustible matter sufficient in quantity to heat the contents of the
"tin
or recipient; so that by cutting the second casing in one or more places and
having pulled out the impregnated cotton or other combustible matter, kindling the
same, I am enabled to heat the contents of the tin" and thereby render such
contents suitable for immediate consumption on the spot, without the necessity of
submitting them to a previous culinary process, which in many instances is utterly
impracticable owing to the absolute want of water or of fuel or of both on the spot
on which the article of diet or medicament is to be consumed. Instead of the holes
required for pulling out the wick or impregnated material being cut at the moment
when it is intended to kindle the said wick or combustible matter, they may be
previously pierced and the ends of the wick or portions of the inflammable inatter
having been extracted, may be placed in suitable grooves provided in the sides of
the ancillary casing, a band or strip of tinplate or other appropriate material being
then soldered around the circumference of the said casing, and such band or strip
having been pulled off, the wick or combustible matter may be set fire to without
the necessity of previously piercing holes and extracting such wick or inflammable
matter.
"
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
In the accompany sheet of drawings I have illustrated the means by which I
purpose to attain the object aimed at by my Invention. Figure 1 is an elevation

page_text: the ancillary vessel, shewing the same furnished with diaphragms, in cross and
chord shape respectively, which prevent the inflammable or impregnated matter
from receding while it is being pulled out. Figure 7 is a longitudinal section and
Figure 8 a sectional plan of a small or ancillary vessel furnished with an annular
groove for the extremities of the wick or portions of the impregnated matter
contained in the said small vessel, and surrounded by a band or strip soldered
thereon and separable therefrom. Identical letters of reference denote identical
parts throughout.
"
A is the vessel or "tin" containing the preserved article of food or medi-
cament A'. B is the lid of such vessel or tin." C is the small ancillary vessel and D
denotes the contents thereof. E E are the holes pierced in the side of such small
vessel for extracting the ends of the wick or portions of the impregnated matter.
FF are the diaphragms shewn in Figure 5 in cross-shape and in Figure 6 in the
shape of chords. G is the circular groove in the side of the ancillary vessel C
Figures 7 and 8, for lodging the wick or inflammable matter, and H the band or
strip of tinplate or other suitable material soldered against and easily separable
from the side of such vessel.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and illustrated the same
in the accompanying sheet of drawings, I wish it to be understood that I do not
claim the construction of any particular description of vessel for holding preserved
food or medicaments, but What I Claim is :—
Firstly. The construction and use or employment of an ancillary vessel filled
with inflammable matter, in connexion with a vessel or "tin" containing preserved
articles of diet or medicaments, in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth
and illustrated in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Secondly. The use or employment of diaphragms within the ancillary vessel, ia
the manner herein set forth and illustrated in Figures 5 and 6 of the accompanying
sheet of drawings.
Thirdly. The construction, and use or employment of an ancillary vessel fitted
with grooves and furnished with an external band or strip, in the manner and for
the purpose herein set forth and illustrated in Figures 7 and 8 of the annexed
sheet of drawings.
In Witness Whereof I the said Victor Manuel have hereunto set my hand and
seal this first day of November in the year of our Lord One-thousand eight-
hundred and eighty-two.
(L.S.) VICTOR MANUEL.