A NEW OR IMPROVED COM- POUND FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ANIMAL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Fisher Grier, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Chemist, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED COM-
POUND FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ANIMAL AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, THE SAME
BEING APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
Sealed the 14th October 1876, and dated the 4th August 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Fisher Grier at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th August 1876.
WILLIAM FISHER GRIER, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain,
Chemist. "A NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ANIMAL
AND OTHER SUBSTANCES, THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
This Invention, which relates to a new or improved compound for preserving
meat, fish, poultry, game, eggs, butter, milk, and cream, as well as vegetables, fruit,
fermented liquors, and other substances and liquids affected by age, by an increased
thermal condition, and by changes in the state of the atmosphere, consists of a com-
bination, in variable proportions, of hydric borate, sodic diborate, sugar, and glyce-
rine with, in some cases, the addition thereto of nitrate of potash and common salt.
For the preservation of fish, poultry, game, milk, cream, butter, and other similar
substances, hydric borate, sodic diborate, sugar, and glycerine only are used, but for
the preservation of meat nitrate of potash and common salt are added to the com-
pound.
For the preservation of eggs a solution of the compound with or without nitrate
of potash and common salt is made in water, with which the eggs are treated.
Besides being employed for the purposes herein-before enumerated, or for others
analogous thereto, the compound set forth may be used to protect or preserve the
human skin or the skins of animals from inclemencies of weather, and as a healing
medium for sores. When so employed the compound may be solved in water or
mixed with cetaceum and lard.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Fisher Grier in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd
February 1877.
WILLIAM FISHER GRIER, of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain.
"A NEW OR IMPROVED COMPOUND FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ANIMAL AND OTHER
SUBSTANCES, THE SAME BEING APPLICABLE FOR OTHER PURPOSES."
My said Invention, which relates to a new or improved compound for preserving
meat, fish, poultry, game, eggs, butter, milk, and cream, and also vegetables, fruit,
fermented liquors, and other substances and liquids affected by age, by an increased
thermal condition, by changes in the state of the atmosphere and otherwise, consists
of a combination of water, hydric borate, sodic diborate, glycerine, and in some cases
white sugar, nitrate of potash, and common salt. These ingredients may be com-
pounded together in variable proportions relatively with each other, but it is pre-
ferred that the following proportions be employed as best suited for the purposes of
this Invention, vizt. :-In each gallon of pure water, and which is employed at
atmospheric temperature, are dissolved of
Hydric borate
Sodic diborate
Glycerine
White
sugar
-
-
9 ounces avoirdupois.
41/, ounces
41, ounces
2
3 ounces
"
"
در
Or the sugar may in some cases be dispensed with.
This liquid 'preservative I call "glacialine," and its especial value consists in the
large proportion of hydric borate obtained in a solved or liquid state, the said sub-
stance being rendered much more soluble and more efficient by means of the other
antiseptic ingredients above mentioned.
In treating meat with the liquid compound the liquor is injected into the blood
vessels of the carcase before the entrails are removed, and after these are taken out
the cavity of the carcase is thoroughly brushed with the solution. Under another
method the carcase may be first disintegrated, and the separate joints or pieces
soaked in the liquid for from ten to twenty minutes, according to the season of the
year.
To preserve the colour of fresh meat two ounces each or thereabouts of nitrate
of potash and common salt may be added to each gallon of the glacialine or pre-
serving liquid.
In treating fish with the compound the offal is first removed and the fish other-
wise thoroughly cleaned, after which it is dipped or immersed in the glacialine or
preserving liquid for about five minutes, or the fish may be carefully brushed over
with the liquid.
Poultry and game are treated in a similar manner, the feathers, fur, or skin, and
the entrails being first removed.
In treating eggs they are dipped or immersed in the liquid for about one hour.
Milk and cream are preserved by the addition of from a dessert to a table spoon-
ful of the glacialine or preserving liquid to each pint, a greater or lesser quantity
being employed according to the atmospheric temperature.
Beer, wine, and fermented liquids are subjected to the same treatment in similar
proportions.
For the preservation of butter the milk must be washed out as completely as
possible with pure water, and the butter finally washed carefully with glacialine.
Vegetables and fruits to be preserved are dipped or immersed in the liquid or
glacialine, or sprinkled with it."
Besides being employed for the purposes herein-before enumerated, or for others
analogous thereto, the compound set forth may be used to protect or preserve the
human skin (or the skins of other animals) from inclemencies of weather, and as a
healing medium for sores. For these purposes the glacialine may either be used
as a lotion in the form of the liquid before described, or as an ointment prepared by

page_text: dissolving the ingredients, in the same relative or in other suitable proportions, in
cetaceum or lard.
In place of using the preservative in the form of a liquid or as an ointment, as
herein-before set forth, the water and glycerine may be dispensed with, and the
remaining ingredients (hydric borate and sodic diborate) prepared and used as a
salt.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and the system, mode, or mauner in or under which the same is or may be
used or practically carried into effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I
consider to be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to
me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the compound herein-
before described, and consisting of hydric borate, sodic diborate, and glycerine,
with or without the addition thereto of sugar, nitrate of potash, and common salt,
all dissolved in water, in the proportions before mentioned, or in other suitable pro-
portions; also the compound consisting of hydric borate, sodic diborate, glycerine,
and cetaceum or lard, and the employment of these compounds, or of the solid
ingredients thereof (hydric borate and sodic diborate) alone, as and for the purposes
herein before set forth, or for others analogous thereto.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Fisher Grier, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-seven.
WILLIAM FISHER GRIER. (L.S.)