AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OF EGGS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Augustus La Mont, of the City, County,
and State of New York, in the United States of America,
Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OF
EGGS."
Sealed the 26th January 1869, and dated the 28th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Augustus La
Mont at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 28th July 1868.
I, CHARLES AUGUSTUS LA MONT, of the City, County, and State of
New York, in the United States of America, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OF
EGGs," to be as follows:-
The nature of my Invention consists in the production of a new and
improved preparation of eggs in small thin flakes, scales, or particles
readily soluble in cold water, of a bright clear color and fresh pure
quality, and which when properly dissolved in a suitable proportion of

page_text: water and beaten up thoroughly possesses the qualities and characteristics
of freshly beaten eggs. This new article of commerce may be most
readily produced by taking fresh eggs, beating them up thoroughly and
then immediately drying the resulting batter in a thin film upon
revolving metallic plates in a current of pure air. I prefer to heat the
current of air, but do not regard this as positively essential. Although
the flakes or scales are more readily obtained by drying the batter of
fresh eggs upon revolving metallic plates they may be produced upon
other forms of drying surfaces. Preservative chemicals not injurious to
health may be added to the egg batter before drying the same, so as to
ensure a more perfect preservation of the purity and freshness of the
prepared egg.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Augustus La Mont in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 27th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
AUGUSTUS LA MONT, of the City, County, and State of New York, in the
United States of America, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Charles Augustus La Mont, Her
special licence that I, the said Charles Augustus La Mont, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Augustus La Mont, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OF EGGs," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Charles Augustus La Mont, my exe-
cutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to

page_text: be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Augustus La Mont, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement. :—
The nature of my Invention consists in the production of a new and
improved preparation of egg in small thin flakes, scales, or particles
readily soluble in cold water, of a bright clear color and fresh pure
quality, and which when dissolved in water and beaten up possesses the
qualities and characteristics of freshly beaten eggs.
This new article of
commerce may be most readily produced by taking fresh eggs, beating
them up thoroughly, and then immediately drying the resulting batter
in a thin film upon revolving metallic plates in a current of pure air.
I prefer to heat the air, but do not regard this as positively essential.
The plates are coated with a film of the beaten egg by dipping them into
troughs or vats containing the same; when coated the plates are exposed
to the air in suitable drying chambers until the film has hardened and
dried, when it is readily removed from the plates in the form of thin
scales or flakes.
These scales or flakes of dried egg form the subject-matter of my
Invention; they differ from all other known preparations of egg in that
they retain more purely and freshly the flavor, quality, and color of the
fresh eggs, that they are soluble in cold water, and dissolve very quickly
therein; and in fact, that for cooking and for all purposes where broken
eggs are useful, they are when rightly dissolved in a proper proportion of
water the equivalent of eggs fresh from the shell. Although the flakes
or scales are more readily obtained by drying the batter of fresh eggs
upon revolving metallic plates they may be produced upon other forms
of drying surfaces. Sulphite of lime or other preservative chemicals not
injurious to health may be added to the egg batter before drying to
insure a more perfect preservation of the purity and freshness of the
prepared egg, but I do not regard this as absolutely essential.
I make no claim to dried or hardened eggs, but having described the
new preparation which I have invented, and the manner in which the
same may be produced, I claim as a new article of commerce, and desire
to secure by Letters Patcut, eggs dried and hardened into very thin

page_text: scales, flakes, or particles readily soluble in cold water, substantially as
herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Augustus La Mont, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Second day of January, in
the year of our Lord 1869.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS LA MONT. (L.S.)