Improvements in Treating Frozen Meat and other Articles of Food.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Mar., 1896-Accepted, 11th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Treating Frozen Meat and other Articles of Food.
I JOSEPH AMOS LINLEY of 57 Ridgmount Gardens, Gower Street in the
County of London, Shipbroker do hereby declare the nature of my invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved process for treating frozen meat and other
articles of food (I will refer to them as meat) so as to prevent condensation of the
moisture in the atmosphere thercon when the thawing takes place. By this means
the meat when thawed is prevented from becoming sodden and otherwise deteriorated
by such condensation and the meat is obtained in a more marketable condition and
in a better state than hitherto.
According to my invention I coat the meat such as carcases or the like when
removed from the cold chamber with a suitable preparation such as fat or the like
so as to form a covering which hermetically seals and protects the said carcase or
the like from the atmosphere. I may effect this coating by dipping or immersing
the carcases in the fat or the like while in a liquid condition the said dipping being
repeated if found necessary for example I may first dip the carcase in boiling beef
fat and afterwards in mutton fat at a considerably lower temperature.
By this process any damp which may be on the surface of the meat at the time
of immersion will be evaporated by contact with the fat or the like an during the
subsequent thawing the moisture of the atmosphere will condense on the outer coat
of fat which hermetically closes the carcase.
When the meat has been sufficiently thawed the fatty substance or the like is
removed by heating or in any other convenient manner, and the meat may then, if
so required, be firmly set by chilling.
Dated this 17th day of July 1895.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
Improvements in Treating Frozen Meat and other Articles of Food.
I, JOSEPH AMOS LINLEY of 57 Ridgmount Gardens, Gower Street, in the
County of London, Shipbroker, 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 an improved process for treating frozen meat and other
articles of food (I will refer to them as meat) so as to prevent condensation of the
moisture in the atmosphere thereon when the thawing takes place. By this means
the meat when thawed is prevented from becoming sodden and otherwise deteriorated
by such condensation and the meat is obtained in a more marketable condition and
in a better state than hitherto.
According to my invention I coat the meat, such as carcases or the like when
removed from the cold chamber with a suitable preparation such as fat or the like

page_text: including oils so as to form a covering which hermetically seals and protects the
said carcase or the like from the atmosphere. I may effect this coating by dipping
or immersing the carcases in the fat or the like while in a liquid condition the said
dipping being repeated if found necessary for example I may first dip the carcase
in boiling beef fat and afterwards in mutton fat at a considerably lower
temperature.
By this process any damp which may be on the surface of the meat at the time
of immersion will be evaporated by contact with the fat or the like and during the
subsequent thawing the moisture of the atmosphere will condense on the outer coat
of fat which hermetically closes the carcase.
When the meat has been sufficiently thawed the fatty substance or the like is
reiroved by heating or in any other convenient manner, and the meat may then, if
so required, be firmly set by chilling.
In the case of employing oils I preferably use a highly refined oil which is
practically tasteless, colourless and free from any odour, and I treat the meat with
the said oil in the manner already described with reference to the fat.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
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Treating refrigerated or frozen meat and other articles of food with a suitable
preparation of a fat or oil or a fatty or oily substance so as to form an impermeable
coating on which the moisture from the atmosphere is deposited when the meat is
thawed, which coating may be afterwards readily removed when required
substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1896.
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JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.