Improvements in the Manufacture of Gelatine.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Dec., 1893-Accepted, 27th July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Gelatine.
I, ERNEST SAMUEL SPENCER, Managing Director of The Rizine Food Company,
Limited, of 41, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of gelatine; its principal objects
being to reduce the cost of production, and to render the product better adapted.
for, resisting climatic influences.
According to the ordinary method of preparing gelatine, it is formed into sheets,
which are dried and cut into strips or crushed to a powder.
By my improved mode of manufacture, gelatine in the form of sheets or other
solid state is granulated and then rolled in such a manner that each granule is
flattened into a thin flake.
The flaked gelatine is as soluble as the powdered gelatine, but is neither so
troublesome nor so expensive to manufacture. It is, moreover, free from the
tendency to agglutinate, to which powdered gelatine is so liable.
Dated the 27th day of July 1893
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Gelatine.
1, ERNEST SAMUEL SPENCER, Managing Director of The Rizine Food Company,
Limited, of 41, Gracechurch Street, in the City of London, 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 the manufacture or treatment of gelatine; its principal
objects being to reduce the cost of producing gelatine in a readily soluble form
for general use and to render the product better adapted for resisting climatic
influences.
According to the ordinary methods of preparing gelatine, it is formed into
granules or sheets, the latter being dried and cut into strips or crushed to a
powder.
By my improved mode of manufacture or treatment, gelatine in the form of
sheets or other solid dry state is granulated or crushed, and, after the fine powder
has been separated therefrom, the coarse granules are rolled between smooth
rollers or other appliances in such a manner that each of the coarse granules is
flattened into a thin flake or film.
The flaked gelatine is as readily soluble as or even more soluble than the
powdered gelatine, but is neither so troublesome nor so expensive to manufacture,
owing to the elaborate process of grinding, sifting, regrinding, etc., being dispensed
with. Unlike powdered gelatine, it is, moreover, free from any tendency to
agglutinate or form a gelatinous mass before dissolving, and, owing to its freedom
from dirt or foreign matter, it does not impart a milky appearance to the liquid in
which it is dissolved.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
1. The manufacture of gelatine in the form of flakes substantially as herein
described
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I claim :-
1. The manufacture of gelatine in the form of flakes substantially as herein
described
2. The manufacture of gelatine in the form of flakes produced by crushing and
rolling solid gelatine substantially as herein described. .
Dated the 19th day of December 1893.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Chartered Patent Agent.