PRESERVING ANIMAL FOOD, VEGETABLE FOOD, AND OTHER PERISHABLE ARTICLES A LONG TIME FROM PERISHING OR BECOMING USELESS
Year: 1810

page_text: TO. ALL. TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
DURAND, of Hoxton Square, in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of
August, in the fiftieth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Peter Durand, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Peter Durand, my exors, adiñiors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, an Invention communicated to him by a certain foreigner
residing abroad, of the Method of "PRESERVING ANIMAL FOOD, VEGETABLE FOOD,
AND OTHER PERISHABLE ARTICLES A LONG TIME FROM PERISHING OR BECOMING USELESS;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Peter Durand, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause
a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto had,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Peter
Durand, do hereby declare that the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained as follows, that is to say :-

page_text: First, I place and inclose the said food or articles in bottles or other vessels
of glass, pottery, tin, or other metals or fit. materials; and I do close the aper-
ture of such containing vessels so as compleatly to cutt off and exclude all
communication with the external air; and as to the method of closing, I
do avail myself of the usual means of corking, airing, luting, or cementing,
and in large vessels I make use of corks formed of pieces glued together in
such a manner as that the pores of that substance shall be in à cross direction
with regard to the aperture into which such cocks-are to be driven; and I do
also in such vessels as may admit of or require the same, make use of stoppers
fitted or ground with einery, or screw caps with or without a ring of leather or
other soft substance between the faces of closure, and also of cocks or cross
plugs or covers of leather, cloth, parchment, bladder, and the like.
Secondly, when the vessels have been thus charged" and well closed, I do
place them in
boiler, each separately surrounded with straw or wrapped in
coarse cloth, or otherwise defended from striking against each other, and I fill
the said boiler so as to cover the vessels with cold water, which I gradually
heat to boiling, and continue the ebbulition for a certain time, which must
depend upon the nature of the substances included in the vessels, and the size of
the said vessels, and other obvious circumstances which will be easily appre-
hended by the operator without farther instruction. Vegetable substances are
to be put into the vessel in the raw or crude state, and animal substances partly
or half cooked, although these may also be put in raw. The food or other
articles thus prepared may be kept for a very long time in a state fit for use,
care being taken that the vessel shall not be opened until their said contents
shall be wanted for consumption.
And, lastly, I do declare, that although the application of the water bath,
as herein-before described, may be the most commodious and convenient, I do
likewise avail myself of the application of heat by placing the said vessels in
an oven, or a stove, or a steam bath, or any other fit situation for gradually
and uniformly raising the temperature of the same, and suffering them to cool
again; and farther, that I do, as the choice of the consumer or the nature of
the said food or other article may render preferable, leave the aperture of the
vessel, or a small portion thereof, open until the effect of the heat shall have
taken place, at which period I close the same.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Durand, have hereunto set my
band and seal, the Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and ten...
PETER DURAND. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1810, the aforesaid Peter Durand came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and ten.

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PETER
DURAND, of Hoxton Square, in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did,
by His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-fifth day of
August, in the fiftieth year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
Peter Durand, my exors, adiiors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power,
sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Peter Durand, my exors, admiors,
and assigns, during the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, an Invention communicated to him by a certain foreigner
residing abroad, of the Method of "PRESERVING ANIMAL FOOD, VEGETABLE FOOD,
AND OTHER PERISHABLE ARTICLES A LONG TIME FROM PERISHING OR BECOMING USELESS;"
in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said
Peter Durand, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause
a particular description of the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months after the date of the said
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto bad,
may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said Peter
Durand, do hereby declare that "the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained as follows, that is to say :-

page_text: First, I place and inclose the said food or articles in bottles or other vessels
of glass, pottery, tin, or other metals or fit materials; and I do close the aper-
ture of such containing vessels so as compleatly to cutt off and exclude all
communication with the external air; and as to the method of closing, I
do avail myself of the usual means of corking, airing, luting, or cementing,
and in large vessels I make use of corks formed of picces glued together in
such a manner as that the pores of that substance shall be in a cross direction
with regard to the aperture into which such cocks are to be driven; and I do
also in such vessels as may admit of or require the same, make use of stoppers
fitted or ground with emery, or screw caps with or without a ring of leather or
other soft substance between the faces of closure, and also of cocks or cross
plugs or covers of leather, cloth, parchment, bladder, and the like.
Secondly, when the vessels have been thus charged and well closed, I do
place them in a boiler, each separately surrounded with straw or wrapped in
coarse cloth, or otherwise defended from striking against each other, and I fill
the said boiler so as to cover the vessels with cold water, which I gradually
heat to boiling, and continue the ebbulition for a certain time, which must
depend upon the nature of the substances included in the vessels, and the size of
the said vessels, and other obvious circumstances which will be easily appre-
hended by the operator without farther instruction. Vegetable substances are
to be put into the vessel in the raw or crude state, and animal substances partly
or half cooked, although these may also be put in raw. The food or other
articles thus prepared may be kept for a very long time in a state fit for use,
care being taken that the vessel shall not be opened until their said contents
shall be wanted for consumption.
:
And, lastly; I do declare, that although the application of the water bath,
as herein-before described, may be the most commodious and convenient, I do
likewise avail myself of the application of heat by placing the said vessels in
an oven, or a stove, or a steam bath, or any other fit situation for gradually
and uniformly raising the temperature of the same, and suffering them to cool
again; and farther, that I do, as the choice of the consumer or the nature of
the said food or other article may render preferable, leave the aperture of the
vessel, or a small portion thereof, open until the effect of the heat shall have
taken place, at which period. I close the same.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Durand, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Thirtieth day of August, in tho year of our Lor
One thousand eight hundred and ten.
PETER DURAND. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Thirtieth day of August, in the
year of our Lord 1810, the aforesaid Peter Durand came before our said
Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification afore-
said, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above
written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
Inrolled the Thirtieth day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and ten.