Improved Means for Facilitating the Separation of Portions of Solid Preserved Food.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Facilitating the Separation of Portions of Solid
Preserved Food.
A communication from abroad by FABRIK VON MAGGI'S NAHRUNGSMITTELN A.G.
(The Maggi Food Works), of Kemptthal, Switzerland, Manufacturers.-
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of 46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of London,
Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to rolls or lengths of preserved food, for example the
so-called soup-rolls, consisting of preserved food in the form of rolls and intended
for the preparation of soups, in which the mass of the preserved food is in the
form of a roll or cylinder of considerable length enclosed in a suitable envelope
which at the parts at which the mass is divided into portions is weakened by
perforations or indentations or by other means with the object of effecting the
rapid breaking of the envelope when a portion is being separated.
Now this invention has for object to still further facilitate the breaking off of
the several portions, that is to say, the breaking of the envelope in removing a
portion. The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention applied, by way
of example, to a soup roll on Maggi's patent system. Fig. 1 is an elevation
showing part of a soup-roll. Fig. 2 is a plan thereof. According to the present
invention there is arranged, between each two adjacent portions of the roll R,
a thread or wire d underneath the envelope u of the roll at the place
where the separation of the two portions is to be effected. The
ends of this wire or thread pass through perforations 1 in the envelope
of the roll, to the outside and preferably through the adjacent holes 1 of the
perforations which, as already stated, are arranged at the place of contact
of two adjacent portions, that is to say, on a level with the thread.
In order to break the envelope u by means of the thread or wire, the left hand
is pulled to the left while the other is pulled to the right, in an outward direc-
tion, so that the envelope u is cut by the thread at those parts which are weakened
by the perforations.
The portion of food can now be readily removed from the roll, together with
the corresponding part of the envelope, upon which the style of the firm and the
instructions for use are printed in the usual manner.
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W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Chartered Patent Agent.

page_text: Improved means or facilitating the separation of Fortions of Solla
Preserved Food.
A communication from abroad by FABRIK VON MAGGI'S NAHRUNGSMITTELN A.G.
(The Maggi Food Works), of Kemptthal, Switzerland, Manufacturers.
I, WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of 46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the County of London,
.Consulting Engineer and Chartered Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to the so-called soup rolls and other rolls of preserved
food on the Maggi system-i.e., preserved food intended for the preparation of
soups or other dishes and made up into rolls, in which (as described in the Specifi-
cation of Letters Patent previously granted to me and numbered 6013 of 1888)
the mass of the preserved food is enclosed in a suitable envelope which at the
transverse planes at which the mass is divided into portions is weakened, as by
perforations or indentations, with the object of effecting the rapid breaking of
the envelope when a portion is being separated.
Now this invention has for object to facilitate still further the breaking of the
envelope in removing a portion. The drawings filed with my Provisional
Specification illustrate the invention, applied, by way of example, to a soup-roll,
Fig. 1 being a broken elevation and Fig. 2 a plan thereof. According to the
present invention a thread of wire d is arranged around, and underneath the
envelope of, the roll R at the place of contact of each two adjacent portions
of the roll. The ends of this wire or thread pass to the outside through per-
forations in the envelope of the roll-preferably through adjacent holes
of the perforations 2, which, as already stated, are arranged at the place of con-
tact of two adjacent portions--that is to say, opposite to the wire or thread.
In order to break the envelope u by means of the thread or wire, the left hand
end is pulled to the left, whilst the other is pulled to the right, in an outward
direction, so that the envelope u is cut by the thread at the part that is weakened
by the perforations.
The portion of food can now be readily removed from the roll, together with
the corresponding part of the envelope, upon which the style of the firm and the
instructions for use are printed in the usual manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. In a roll of preserved food, such, for example, as a soup-roll, consisting of
several portions enclosed in an envelope (u) that is weakened at the transverse
planes of division between the said portions, the provision around, and within the
envelope of, the roll, at each of the said planes of division, of a thread or wire ()
the ends of which pass outwards through the envelope so that the envelope can
be quickly and easily severed along its lines of weakness and the several portions
of food with the corresponding parts of the envelope readily removed by means
of these threads or wires, substantially as described.
2. Means for facilitating the separation of portions of solid preserved food
according to the preceding claim, in which the lines of weakness in the

page_text: envelope u are produced by means of perforations 7 and the ends of the wire or
thread d pass outwards through adjacent perforations p substantially as described
and shown.
Dated th: 20th In.. of ... 1900
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Chartered Patent Agent.