AN IMPROVED TREATMENT OF FLESH AND OTHER ANIMAL MATTER FOR ITS PRESERVATION, AND ANTISEPTIC MATERIAL FOR THAT PURPOSE
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Imray of No 28 Southampton Buildings in the
County of Middlesex for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED TREATMENT OF
FLESH AND OTHER ANIMAL MATTER FOR ITS PRESERVATION, AND ANTISEPTIC
MATERIAL FOR THAT PURPOSE." A communication from abroad by Filippo
AL TAT
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Imray at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 8th March 1882.
JOHN IMRAY of No 28 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex
"AN IMPROVED TREATMENT OF FLESH AND OTHER ANIMAL MATTER FOR ITS
PRESERVATION, AND ANTISEPTIC MATERIAL FOR THAT PURPOSE [A communi-
cation from abroad by Filippo Artimini of Florence in the Kingdom of Italy.]
"
This invention relates to the preparation and application of an antiseptic material
for the preservation of flesh and other animal matter. The preparation employed
is the solution of a compound of Boric acid and Malic acid. These acids should be
used as pure as possible and if necessary, should be purified by repeated solution
and crystallisation. The proportions in which the two acids are mixed may be
somewhat varied, but a good proportion is about 8 parts by weight of Boric acid
to 1 part by weight of Malic acid. These quantities are dissolved in pure or
distilled water heated but not to boiling temperature, the solution being maintained
for some time at a temperature of 50° to 60° Fahr. the acids manifest a certain
combining action which can be readily observed, and thereupon the solution is
ready for use. For preserving an entire animal or a large part of an animal the
solution is injected through an artery, the pump, pipes and valves employed being
of material that will not be acted on by the acids, such as glass, porcelain, vulcanite
and the like, or when metal is used the surfaces exposed to the solution should be
gilt. Small animals or parts of animals may be preserved by subjecting them to a
bath of the solution. Animal matter treated as above described being hung freely
exposed to the air will for a long period retain its freshness.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Imray in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th September
1882.
JOHN IMRAY of No. 28. Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex
"AN IMPROVED TREATMENT OF FLESH AND OTHER ANIMAL MATTER FOR ITS
PRESERVATION, AND ANTISEPTIC MATERIAL FOR THAT PURPOSE" A communication
from abroad by Filippo Artimini of Florence in the Kingdom of Italy.
This invention relates to the preparation and application of an antiseptic material
for the preservation of flesh and other animal matter. The preparation employed
is the solution of a compound of Boric acid and Malic acid. These acids should be
used as pure as possible and, if necessary, should be purified by repeated solution
and crystallisation. The proportions in which the two acids are mixed may be
somewhat varied, but a good proportion is about eleven parts by weight of Boric
acid to one part by weight of Malic acid.
These quantities are dissolved in pure or distilled water heated but not to boiling
temperature, the solution being maintained for some time at a temperature of 50°
to 60° Fahr, the acids manifest a certain combining action which can be readily
observed, and thereupon the solution is ready for use. For preserving an entire
animal or a large part of an animal the solution is injected through an artery, the
pump, pipes and valves employed being of material that will not be acted on by
the acids, such as glass, porcelain, vulcanite and the like, or when metal is used the
surfaces exposed to the solution should be gilt. Small animals or parts of animals
may be preserved by subjecting them to a bath of the solution. Animal matter
treated as above described being hung freely exposed to the air will for a long period
retain its freshness.
Having thus described the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, I
hereby declare that I make no general claim to the use of Boracic or Boric acid
alone or compounded otherwise than herein described as an antiseptic for preserving
meat, but I claim:-
First. The manufacture substantially as herein described of antiseptic material
for the preservation of flesh and other animal matter.
Second. Preserving meat and other animal matter by the use of antiseptic
material prepared and applied substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof I the said John Imray have hereunto set my hand and
seal this fourteenth day of August in the year of Our Lord One Thousand
. eight hundred and eighty-two.