Improved Means of Cooling and Drying Sausages, and Apparatus used therein.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 7th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 4th Dec., 1897
TROYIN
DI MULTICATION
An Improved Means of Cooling and Drying Sausages, and Apparatus
used therein.
We, CHARLES, HENRY, PALETHORPE, of Killiney, Rhyl, Manufacturer, and
PALETHORPES LIMITED of Dudley Port in the County of Stafford Manufactures, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates as hereinafter described to the improved means of cooling
and drying sausages, and apparatus used therein and has for its object to provide
an arrangement whereby the manufacture of sausages is improved which means
consist in preserving them and enabling them to be kept for a longer period than
heretofore. In the manufacture of sausages it is necessary for the skins to be
thoroughly dried so that their good appearance may be made lasting. It has been
usual to effect such drying in the open air which necessitates much trouble and
the drying not properly effected owing to the constant change of the weather.
By my invention these difficulties are overcome. My invention consists essen-
tially of two specially constructed chambers preferably running along the sides of
the inside of the building or workroom The said chambers are constructed of
wood or other material somewhat in the form of a counter. One of the chambers
is so arranged that a current of cold dry air is allowed to pass there-through from
the atmosphere. That is when such air is of a sufficiently dry and cold nature for
the purpose. The other chamber is for use when the air is not of a sufficiently
dry and cold nature, whereby air from an air compresser may be used instead.
The first mentioned chamber is constructed and arranged with a series of different
sized apertures at the back thereof communicating with the open air, such apertures
being covered with wire gauze are provided with trap doors worked by means of
levers or cords by which they may be opened or closed as desired so as to admit of
regulating the current of air through the entire chamber, if necessary a fan or air
propeller may be used for freezing the current. The said chamber is for use when
the ordinary air is of a sufficiently dry and cold nature for the purpose. In the
second chamber I dispense with these openings and fix at one end a suitable trap
which receives the dry cool air from the air compresser and discharges it into the
said chamber the air travelling from one end to the other finds eduction at the
opposite ends. The front of both chambers is divided into sections of a suitable
size to admit a specially constructed hand truck or trolley the openings continuing
throughout the entire length of the chamber and a truck or trolley being provided
for each. The said truck consists of a wood frame mounted on four wheels two
working on fixed axes and two on loose axes and capable of swelling. The two
sides of the said frame support two iron cross bars having U shaped recesses into
which fit the ends of circular wood rods and arranged to be lifted in or out upon
these rods the strings of sausages are hung for the purpose of drying. The front
of the said truck consists of a board fitted and held on a central screw pin which
is furnished with a fly nut the said board is capable of sliding therein vertically
the lowest edge beng provided with a rubber or felt pad the said board may be

page_text: lifted off the floor when the said truck is in use and when in its place on the
chamber aforesaid it may be lowered to the floor by means of the fly nut and screw
thus forming an air tight cover for the openings of the chamber. When an in-
sufficient number of trucks are at hand to fill each opening I use a simple board
as described for closing up the opening. The said trucks are provided with a suitable 5
handle by which they may be wheeled about for the purpose of conveying the
sausages to and from the chamber.
Dated thi 921
1900
An Improved Means of Cooling and Drying Sausages, and Apparatus
used therein.
We, CHARLES, HENRY, PALETHORPE of Killiney, Rhyl, and PALETHORPES
LIMITED, Dudley Port, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same to the performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement.
This invention relates as hereinafter described to the improved means of drying
and cooling sausages and apparatus used therein and has for its object to provide
an arrangement whereby the manufacture of sausages is improved which means
consist in drying and preserving them and enabling them to be kept for a longer
period than theretofore. In the manufacture of sausages it is necessary for the
skins to be thoroughly dried, so that their good appearance may be made to last.
It has been usual to effect such drying in the open air which necessitates much
trouble and the drying not being properly effected owing to the constant change
of the weather.. By our invention these difficulties are overcome. Our invention
consists essentially of two specially constructed chambers preferably running along
the sides of the inside of the building or workroom. The said chambers are con-
structed of wood or other material somewhat in the form of a counter. One of the
chambers is so arranged that a current of cold dry air is allowed to pass there-
through from the atmosphere. That is when such air is of a sufficiently dry and
cold nature for the purpose.
The other chamber is for use when the air is not of
or
a sufficiently dry and cold nature whereby air from an air compresser
refrigerating machine may be used instead. The first mentioned chamber is con-
structed and arranged with a series of different sized apertures at the back thereof
communicating with the open air, such apertures being covered with wire gauze,
are provided with trap doors worked by means of levers or cords by which they
may be opened and closed as desired so as to admit of regulating the current of
dried air through the entire chamber. If necessary a fan may be used for driving
the current of air. This said chamber is for use when the ordinary air is of a
sufficiently dry and cool nature for the purpose. In the second chamber we
dispense with these openings and fix at one end a suitable trap which receives
the dry cool air from the air compressor and discharges it into the said chamber
the air travelling from one end to the other finds eduction at the opposite ends.
The front of both chamber: are divided into sections of a suitabie size to admit a
specially constructed hand truck or trolley the openings continuing throughout
the entire length of the chamber and a truck or trolley being provided for each.
The said truck consists of a wood frame mounted on four wheels two working on
fixed axes and two on loose and capable of swivelling. The two sides of the said

page_text: frame support two iron cross bars having U shaped recesses into which fit the ends
of circular wood rods and arranged to be lifted in or out upon these rods the strings
of causages are hung for the purpose of drying. The front of the said truck
consists of a board fitted and held on a central screw pin which is furnished with
a fly-nut the said board is capable of sliding therein vertically the lowest edge
being provided with a rubber or felt pad the said board may be lifted off the floor
when the truck is in use and when in its place in the chamber aforesaid it may be
lowered to the floor by means of the fly-nut and screw thus forming an airtight
cover for the openings of the chamber. When an insufficient number of trucks
are at hand to fill each opening we use a simple board as described for closing up
the opening. The said trucks are provided with a suitable handle by which they
may be wheeled about for the purpose of conveying the sausages to or from the
chamber.
Our invention will be more clearly understood from the accompanying draw-
ings the same letters of reference indicating similar parts throughout.
Fig. 1. represents in front elevation one of the drying chambers showing the
subdivision.
Fig. 2. is a cross section showing one of the divisions open, and
Fig. 3. is a similar section showing a truck or trolley in its place.
Figs. 4. and 5. illustrate a side and elevation, and
Fig. 6. a plan of a truck or trolley, and
Fig. 7. shows the back of the front of the said trolley.
"A" represents one of the chambers divided by the two sections B² at the front
opening B. "D" is the top which takes the form of a counter. The said chambers
are constructed in sections along the wall "E" each in series of sections we
preferably close at each end. The sections are arranged to receive the truck
or trolley as shown at Figs. 3. 4. 5. and 6 which consists of the frame "F"
mounted on the two wheels "G" and working on fixed axes and the two
wheels "H. H." working on loose axes which are capable of swivelling. The two
sides of the said frame support the iron cross bars "I, I," which support the wood
rods "K" which may be readily lifted out upon these rods, the strings of sausages
are hung for the purpose of drying. The front of the trolley "L" is connected
by the slots "N" supported on the screw stud "M" and capable of sliding thereon
(and the rollers "P", Fig. 7) being held in position by the fly nut "0"
"R" represents a handle for wheeling the trucks and for raising the door of the
floor the door being held in its raised position by the fly nut 0, when the said
truck is in its place in the chamber "A" the door "L" is let down on the floor
and held by the fly nut O, as shown in Fig. 3. "S", Fig. 7 represents rubber or
other pads for making an air tight joint when the truck is in place in the chamber
the truck being held by the button "T". "V" is a plain door for use to cover
the opening B, when there are not a sufficient number of trucks to fill the space
in the chamber. A current of cool dry air passes from one end of the chamber to
the other either by the compresser or through openings in the wall "E" here-
inbefore described for drying the sausages.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be perforined we declare that what we
claim is:-
1. The improved means of cooling and drying sausages and the apparatus used
therein substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. In the chamber or chambers arranged to permit the passages of cool dry air
to pass from one end to the other either from an air compresser or from the external
atmosphere substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
3. In a truck or trolley adapted for the purpose of conveying the sausages to
and from the chamber claimed above substantially as described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
4. The combination in a chamber or chambers and trucks or trolleys arranged

page_text: for the purpose of cooling and drying sausages substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of October 1897.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH
36 Temple Street Birmingham Agent for the Applicants.