Improvements in Food Preservation.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Food Preservation.
I HENRY WARRY of Ellenborough Cottage Upper Church Road, Weston-
super-Mare, in the County of Somerset Gentleman, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in food preservation, and its object is, to
provide a ready means for preserving flesh meat, fish, game, poultry, or any other
food of animal origin, in an aseptic condition, and protecting it from putrefaction,
while in transit, exposed for sale, or stored.
The object of my invention is accomplished, by wrapping, or enveloping, any
food such as above mentioned, with, or in, any suitable fabric of cotton, linen, or
other material, such as muslin, calico, cheese-cloth, canvas, and the like, or paper
of suitable character, such fabric, or paper, having been previously impregnated,
or charged, with boracic acid, or with salicylic acid, or with a mixture of them.
To practically carry out my invention, I take any required quantity of any
suitable fabric, or of paper, as before mentioned, say-for instance, muslin-and
pass it through, or steep it in, or sprinkle it, or otherwise conveniently impregnate,
or charge it, with a sufficient quantity of a solution, prepared in either of the
three ways following:
(1) Ordinary commercial boracic acid, one pound avoirdupois, water, five
imperial gallons; (2) ordinary commercial salicylic acid, one pound avoirdupois,
water, five imperial gallons; (3) ordinary commercial boracic acid, and ordinary
commercial salicylic acid, of each one pound avoirdupois, water, ten imperial
gallons: these three solutions may be prepared, or used, either warm, or cold; the
water employed should be that commonly known as soft water; rain water, or
distilled water, may also be used. The fabric, or paper, having been impregnated,
or charged, with either of the three foregoing solutions, as directed, may be dried
in the open air, or by exposure to a current of heated air, or in any other
convenient manner, and is then serviceable as an antiseptic wrapper, or envelope,
for food of animal origin, such as has been previously mentioned.
I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not bind myself to the use of any
particular fabric, or paper, nor to the particular proportions of the materials
employed for impregnating, or charging, the same, nor to any particular method of
impregnation, or charging, as herein set forth; but, I hold myself at liberty, to
make such choice of fabric, or paper, or to employ such proportions of the
materials before mentioned for impregnating, or charging, the same, or to adopt
such method, or manner, of impregnating, or charging, the particular fabric, or
paper, operated on, as fairly falls within the spirit and scope of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
(1) The impregnation, or charging, of any suitable fabric, or paper, with boracic
acid, or with salicylic acid, or with a mixture of them, substantially as herein
described and set forth, for the purpose of rendering such fabric, or paper, effective
and serviceable as an antiseptic wrapper, or envelope, for flesh meat, fish, game,
5 poultry, or any food of animal origin.
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