IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING LARD, OR PUTTING IT IN PACKAGES OR QUANTITIES FOR SALE
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Morgan-Brown, of the Firm of Brandon and
Morgan-Brown, Engineers and Patent Agents, of 38, Southampton Buildings,
London, and 1, Rue Laffitte, Paris, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PACKING LARD, OR PUTTING IT IN PACKAGES OR QUANTITIES FOR SALE." Λ
communication from abroad by Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, William Henry
Burnet, and Joseph Sears, all of 112, Dearborn Street, Chicago, United
States of America, Lard Refiners and Manufacturers of Lard Oil.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Morgan-Brown at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 22nd October 1878.
WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN, of the Firm of Brandon and Morgan-Brown, Engineers
and Patent Agents, of 38, Southampton Buildings, London, and 1, Rue Laffitte,
Paris. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING LARD, OR PUTTING IT IN PACKAGES OR
QUANTITIES FOR SALE" [A communication from abroad by Nathaniel Kellogg
Fairbank, William Henry Burnet, and Joseph Sears, all of 112, Dearborn Street,
Chicago, United States of America, Lard Refiners and Manufacturers of Lard
Oil.]
Heretofore lard in small packages for family use has been sometimes packed
in thin board or paper boxes, but these more or less absorbed the lard, and were
useless after the contents were used, and lard boxes have also been sometimes
internally lined with an artificial coating to prevent the absorption or penetration
of the lard, but still they were worthless after the lard had been used. Ordinary
tin cans have also been used, but not having a construction adapting them for
useful purposes in the household they were practically useless and valueless when
empty.
This Invention relates to a new kind of lard vessel adapted for holding refined
lard for family use, and which not only serves for the proper protection of the

page_text: lard for and during transportation, shipment, storage, &c., but is also so made that
when the lard shall have been used therefrom the vessel by reason of its con-
struction is adapted for kitchen, culinary, and other purposes, such as tea and
coffee pots, pint, quart, and other liquid ineasures, buckets, pails, mugs, drinking
cups, &c.; and the covers of the vessels are also in some cases adapted for use as
drinking cups, or as dough cutters for cake, biscuit, and cracker making, and
similar articles.
To effect these ends the prepared or refined lard is packed in tin vessels, each of
which is made for adaptation for some special well-known use in families, and
they are also generally made with a removable top or cover, which cover in some
of the vessels employed is also itself adapted for a special use, as, for instance, a
small measure or dipper, a drinking cup, a biscuit or cake cutter, &c., and those of
the vessels needing it are also provided with a bail or swinging handle.
In the accompanying Drawing which form part of this Specification Figure 1 A
illustrates a lard package, of which the lard-containing vessel is in the form of a tin
tea or coffee pot suitable for kitchen or ordinary use, and it has a removable
flanged cover b, provided with a central ring for the finger to facilitate its
removal. This cover being removable it can be used to cut dough for cakes,
crackers, biscuits, &c. The perforated portion or strainer leading to the spout may
if desired be covered temporarily by a small piece of tin or other material to
exclude the lard at that point from direct contact with the air, but this will
generally be found unnecessary. In Figures 1 and 2 the cover on its under side
is a cake cutter, and which may have an angular, zig-zag, or other patter b²,
instead of the circular one shown. The cover may be hinged to the body of the
vessel if desired, instead of being removable.
In the several Figures of the Drawings the lard is represented at X.
In Figure 3 is shown another form of lard package, the same being a pail C
suitable for, after use, to hold a laboring man's lunch or beverage. It is also pro-
vided with a close-fitting cover d (Figure 4), which is made of a sufficient depth to
answer as a drinking cup or small measure, or both, as desired, and is furnished
with a side handle d. This cup has preferably an annular swell or bead e to
limit the distance to which it may be pressed down upon the vessel; and the
vessol is also furnished with a wire bail or handle hung on ears f¹, f¹, secured to
the vessel.
In Figure 5 are shown lard packages G in the form of pint, quart, or other sized
measures, each having a flaring mouth or spout h extending half way or so around
the vessel, and a side handle i and close-fitting cover j, Figure 6, having a handle j¹.
The cover may of course in this as in any other of the covered vessels herein
described be made of a form adapted for a biscuit or dough cutter, and may be itself
deep enough to answer as a vessel or cup. After using the lard contents the
vessel and its cover will be found constantly useful as vessels, measures, cutters,
and cups.
In Figure 7 the package K is in the form of a pail, having a bail or handle 7,
and a cover m, the narrow rim or flange m¹ of which embraces the top of the pail
instead of entering it, that is, it is on the outside instead of the inside of the
pail.
In Figure 8 the package is in the form of a cup N, having a side handle, and
provided with a cover also, having a narrower rim or flange o adapted to hold
itself to place on the outside of the cup. These cups may be packed without
covers.
The cutter covers may have patterns of any desired shape on their under side,
as for instance, heart, lozenge, oval, or other shape, and they are made to fit tight
enough to hold themselves to place by frictional contact when the vessels have
been filled with lard, and without using solder or any adhesive or cementing
material. They are thus readily lifted or removed when the lard is to be used, and
without any damage to themselves or to the vessel, and consequently both the

page_text: empty vessel and the cutter remain in perfect condition for any future uses to
which their individual special construction adapts them.
In all cases whatever the form of the packing utensil or vessel used the tin keeps
the lard pure and clean, and the lard keeps the interior of the vessel in the same
5 condition, so that upon being properly washed after removing the lard it is at once
fitted for its new use or uses.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Morgan-Brown in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
10th April 1879.
WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN, of the Firm of Brandon and Morgan-Brown, Engineers
and Patent Agents, of 38, Southampton Buildings, London, and 1, Rue Lafitte,
Paris. "IMPROVEMENTS IN PACKING LARD, OR PUTTING IT IN PACKAGES OR
QUANTITIES FOR SALE." A communication from abroad by Nathaniel Kellogg
Fairbank, William Henry Burnet, and Joseph Sears, all of 112, Dearborn Street,
Chicago, United States of America, Lard Refiners and Manufacturers of Lard Oil.
Heretofore lard in small packages for family use has been sometimes packed in
thin board or paper boxes, but these more or less absorbed the lard, and were use-
less after the contents were used, and lard boxes have also been sometimes
internally lined with an artificial coating to prevent the absorption or penetration
of the lard, but still they were worthless after the lard had been used. Ordinary
tin cans have also been used, but not having a construction adapting them for
useful purposes in the household they were practically useless and valueless when
empty.
This Invention relates to a new kind of lard vessel adapted for holding refined
lard for family use, and which not only serves for the proper protection of the lard
for and during transportation, shipment, storage, &c., but is also so made that when
the lard shall have been used therefrom the vessel by reason of its construction
is adapted for kitchen, culinary, and other purposes, such as tea and coffee pots,
pint, quart, and other liquid measures, buckets, pails, mugs, drinking cups, &c.;
and the covers of the vessels are also in some cases adapted for use as drinking
cups, or as dough cutters for cake, biscuit, and cracker making, and similar
articles.
To effect these ends the prepared or refined lard is packed in tin vessels, each of
which is made for adaptation for some special well-known use in families, and they
are also generally made with a removable top or cover, which cover in some of the
vessels employed is also itself adapted for a special use, as for instance, a small
measure or dipper, a drinking cup, a biscuit or cake cutter, &c., and those of the
vessels needing it are also provided with a bail or swinging handle.
.
In the accompanying Drawings which form part of this Specification Figure 1 A
illustrates a lard package, of which the lard-containing vessel is in the form of a tin
tea or coffee pot suitable for kitchen or ordinary use, and it has a removable
flange cover b, provided with a central ring for the finger to facilitate its removal.
This cover being removable it can be used to cut dough for cakes, cracker biscuits,
&c. The perforated portion or strainer leading to the spout may if desired be
covered temporarily by a small piece of tin or other material to exclude the lard at
that point from direct contact with the air, but this will generally be found
unnecessary. In Figures 1 and 2 the cover on its under side is a cake cutter, and

page_text: which may have an angular, zig-zag, or other pattern b¹, instead of the circular one
shown. The cover may be hinged to the body of the vessel if desired instead of
being removable.
In the several Figures of the Drawings the lard is represented at x.
In Figure 3 is shown another form of lard package, the same being a pail C
suitable for, after use, to hold a laboring man's lunch or beverage. It is also pro-
vided with a close-fitting cover d (Figure 4), which is made of a sufficient depth to
answer as a drinking cup or small measure, or both, as desired, and is furnished
with a side handle d'. This cup has preferably an annular swell or bead e to limit
the distance to which it may be pressed down upon the vessel, and the vessel
is also furnished with a wire bail or handle hung on bars f¹, f¹, secured to the
vessel.
In Figure 5 are shown lard packages G in the form of pint, quart, or other sized
measures, each having a flaring mouth or spout h extending half way or so around
the vessel, and a side handle i and close-fitting cover j (Figure 6), having a handle j'. 1
The cover may of course in this, as in any other of the covered vessels herein
described, be made of a form adapted for a biscuit or dough cutter, and may be
itself deep enough to answer as a vessel or cup. After using the lard contents
the vessel and its cover will be found constantly useful as vessels, measures, cutters,
and cups
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In Figure 7 the package is in the form of a pail, having a bail or handle
and a cover m¹, the narrow rim or flange m' of which embraces the top of the pail
instead of entering it, that is, it is on the outside, instead of on the inside of the
pail.
In Figure 8 the package is in the form of a cup N, having a side handle, and
provided with a cover, also having a narrow rim or flange o adapted to hold
itself to place on the outside of the cup. These cups may be packed without
covers.
The cutter covers may have patterns of any desired shape on their under side,
as for instance, heart, lozenge, oval, or other shape, and they are made to fit tight
enough to hold themselves to place by frictional contact when the vessels have
been filled with lard, and without using solder or any adhesive or cementing
material. They are thus readily lifted or removed when the lard is to be used, and
without any damage to themselves or to the vessel, and consequently both the
empty vessel and the cutter remain in perfect condition for any further uses to
which their individual special construction adapts them.
In all cases whatever the form of the packing utensil or vessel used the tin keeps
the lard pure and clean, and the lard keeps the interior of the vessel in the same
condition, so that upon being properly washed after removing the lard it is at once
fitted for its new use or uses.
Having thus fully described the Invention, what I claim as new and desire
secured by Letters Patent is,—
The improved package of lard, substantially as described, consisting of a vessel
of the useful form and character above named, adapted not only for the purpose of
preserving and for transporting the lard contained therein, but also for the sub-4
sequent domestic and other uses, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Morgan-Brown, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine.
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