Improvements in the Method of Packing Salmon and other Fish, Vegetables, Fruit, Preserves, and other Edibles, Cooked or otherwise.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification. Left, 9th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 17th Apr., 1897.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
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Improvements in the Method of Packing Salmon and other Fish,
Vegetables, Fruit, Preserves, and other Edibles, Cooked or
otherwise.
I, ROBERT WILLIAM WARD of West Villa, British Columbia, Victoria, W.,
but now of the Commercial Hotel, Kendal in the County of Westmoreland,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the method of packing salmon, and
other fish, vegetables, fruit preserves, and other edibles, cooked or otherwise and
consists in packing the same in metallic vessels of any suitable, convenient or
desired size provided with a screwed lid or cover and means for making the said
vessel air tight to preserve the contents during transit and the like. The inside
of each metallic vessel is glazed, tinned, enamelled, or otherwise in any convenient
manner to prevent the contents being contaminated and destroyed or deteriorated.
By this system of packing the contents of the metallic vessels may be preserved or
kept for any reasonable length of time so long as they are kept air tight. The
metallic vessel is stamped and pressed out in one piece thereby dispensing with
soldering, as is also the lid or cover.
Dated the 16th day of October 1896
EDMUND CHADWICK,
Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Packing Salmon and other Fish,
Vegetables, Fruit, Preserves, and other Edibles, Cooked or
otherwise.
I, ROBERT WILLIAM WARD of West Villa, British Columbia, Victoria, W.,
but now of the Commercial Hotel, Kendal in the County of Westmoreland,
Engineer, 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in the method of packing salmon, and
other fish, vegetables, fruit, preserves, and other edibles, cooked or otherwise, and
consists in packing the same in metallic vessels of any suitable, convenient, or
desired size provided with a screwed lid or cover and means for making the said
vessel air tight to preserve the contents during transit and the like. The inside
of each metallic vessel is glazed, tinned, enamelled, or otherwise in any convenient
manner to prevent the contents being contaminated and destroyed or deteriorated.
By this system of packing the contents of the metallic vessels may be preserved or
kept for any reasonable length of time so long as they are kept air-tight. The

page_text: metallic vessel is stamped and pressed out in one piece thereby dispensing with
soldering, as is also the lid or cover.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved metallic vessel for packing
salmon and other fish, vegetables; fruit, preserves, and other edibles, cooked or
otherwise-Fig. 2 is a plan of Fig. 1 with cover removed, and Fig. 3 an enlarged
part section of the screwed top and cover.
A is a metallic vessel of any suitable, convenient, or desired size stamped and
pressed out of sheet metal in one piece to dispense with soldering, and the inside
of the said metallic vessel may be either glazed, tinned, enamelled or otherwise in
any convenient manner to prevent the contents packed therein being contaminated
and destroyed or deteriorated. The lid or cover B is also pressed or stamped out
in one piece of metal after which it is screwed at C to fit into the internal thread
at the upper end of the metallic, vessel A. The lid or cover B is provided with the
hole or holes D to allow of the escape of air when the vessel A and the contents
are heated before being finally screwed down and sealed. The joint between the
flanges H and K may be made by means of a thin layer of any substance that will
not injure the contents before being screwed down.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
Packing salmon and other fish, vegetables, fruit, preserves, and other edibles,
cooked or otherwise, in a metallic vessel provided with a screwed lid or cover with
the hole or holes D, the inside of each being either glazed, tinned, enamelled, or
otherwise to prevent contamination, substantially as described and illustrated for
the purpose specified.
Dated the 5th February 1897.
EDMUND CHADWICK, F.I.C.P.A.,
Agent.