Improvements in or relating to Means for identifying Butter, Lard, and other similar Products.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1898-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1899
Improvements in or relating to Means for identifying Butter, Lard,
and other similar Products.
I, RICHARD PALMER, of 13, Memorial Road, Walkden, in the County of
Lancaster, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows: :-
The object of this invention is to provide a quantity of butter or similar product
(such as lard for example) with means, other than its cask or external casing or
wrapping, of identifying the dairyman or merchant whence or by whom the
product has been supplied.
The invention consists mainly in the insertion through the whole depth or
thickness of the butter, lard or other similar product in a cask for example before
completing its enclosure by the lid, of a strip or strips of paper of such slight
strength that it can easily be severed when cutting the butter.
Upon each strip a name or other mark or trade mark can be printed at inter-
vals and thus on removing a slice or layer of any appreciable thickness from the
bulk of the butter or lard, such slice or layer will contain one or more short
strips by which a dairyman or merchant can recognise his own production or
merchandise.
To insert each strip I make use of the following instrument which forms part
of my invention.
The instrument consists of two strips of metal wood or other suitable material
as thin as practicable, one of which is slightly narrower than the other and
can fit or slide between guiding flanges at the edge of the latter.
The bottom of the narrow strip is made about as thick and as wide as the
flanges on the other strip say for about one quarter of an inch (or more or less)
and tapered to a cutting or chisel edge, the thick end being inclined or bevelled
at the shoulders and the ends of the flanges of the broad strip being correspond-
ingly bevilled to form a locking joint between the two strips.
The broad strip is slightly recessed at the centre of its lower end, thus leaving
an opening at one side of the instrument when the two strips are fitted together.
A strip of the thin paper above described is inserted in the groove of the
flanged metal wooden or other strip and between the latter and the narrower
strip, and is made to project slightly through the recess or opening above
described.
The instrument is then inserted, (say) into the butter in a cask, until the
projecting end of the paper strip rests on the surface thereof where it is held,
and the further insertion of the instrument causes the paper to be dragged from
between the metal wooden or other strips until, when the instrument has reached
the bottom of the cask, the whole length of the paper has been withdrawn from
the said instrument.
The instrument can be pulled out and the paper strip will adhere to the butter,

page_text: which will soon close together, and thus firmly retain the paper strip which can
only be withdrawn by cutting up the butter, and each slice of the latter will
retain a short length of the paper, as above described.
The sides of the groove in the broader strip may be packed with india rubber
or other suitable material, or other means may be adopted to prevent water from
getting in and damping the paper strip which would cause it to break instead
of being withdrawn from the instrument.
Dated this 5th day of March 1898.
GEO. DAVIES & SON.
Agents for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
Improvements in or relating to Means for Identifying Butter, Lard,
and other similar Products.
I, RICHARD PALMER, of 13, Memorial Road, Walkden, in the County of
Lancaster, Commercial Traveller, 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide a quantity of butter or similar product
(such as lard for example) with means, other than its cask or external casing or
wrapping, of identifying the dairyman or merchant whence or by whom the
product has been supplied.
The invention consists mainly in the insertion through the whole depth of
thickness of the butter, lard or other similar product in a cask for example, before
completing its enclosure by the lid, of a strip or strips of paper such as parchment
paper, or other suitable material, of such slight strength that it can easily be
severed when cutting the butter.
Upon each strip a name or other mark or trade mark can be printed at inter-
vals by impression or perforation or otherwise, and thus on removing a slice or
layer of any appreciable thickness from the bulk of the butter or lard, such slice
or layer will contain one or more short strips by which a dairyman or merchant
can recognise his own production or merchandise.
To insert each strip I may make use of the following instrument which forms
part of my invention, and the construction and use of which will be readily under-
stood on reference to Figs. 1, 2, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
The instrument consists of two strips of metal, wood or other suitable material,
a and b (see detached enlarged plan view Fig. 3), as thin as practicable, one of
which (a) is slightly narrower than the other (b) and can fit or slide between
guiding flanges 6* at the edge of the latter.
The bottom a of the narrow strip a is made about as thick and as wide as the
flanges on the other strip b, say for about one quarter of an inch (or more
or less), and tapered to a cutting or chisel edge (see Figs. 1 and 2), the thick
end a being inclined or bevelled at the shoulders and the ends of the flanges
of the broad strip being correspondingly bevilled to form a locking joint between
the two strips.
The broad strip bis slightly recessed at the centre of its lower end, thus
leaving an opening 61 (see partial front view Fig. 2) at one side of the instru-
ment when the two strips are fitted together (see Fig. 1).
A strip of the thin paper or other material above described is inserted in the

page_text: groove of the flanged metal wooden or other strip band between the latter and
the narrower strip a, and is made to project slightly through the recess or opening
above described, as seen at a Fig. 1.
The instrument is then inserted (say) into the butter in a cask, until the pro-
jecting end of the paper strip a rests as seen at Fig. 1 on the surface thereof
where it is held, and the further insertion of the instrument causes the paper to
be dragged from between the metal wooden or other strips a and b until, when
the instrument has reached or nearly reached the bottom of the cask, see Fig. 2,
the whole length of the paper has been withdrawn from the said instrument.
The instrument can be pulled out and the paper strip will adhere to the butter;
which will soon close together, and thus firmly retain the paper strip which can
only be withdrawn by cutting up the butter, and each slice of the latter will
retain a short length of the paper, as above described. Fig. 4 shows a front
view of the strips left in the butter.
The sides of the groove in the broader strip b may be packed with india rubber
or other suitable material, or other means may be adopted to prevent water from
getting in and damping the paper strip which would cause it to break instead
of being withdrawn from the instrument.
I may use, for inserting the strip a in the butter, an instrument c like an
enlarged butter tester, as seen at Fig. 5, and enlarged section at Fig. 6. In such
case I first withdraw by the instrument c a long cylindrical plug d of the butter
to which the strip can be caused to adhere by being simply bent round the
plug of butter. I then replace the plug d in the hole from which it was taken
and the instrument c can be withdrawn.
Fig. 5 shows the plug d of butter part way replaced with the strip
thereto.
attached
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:-
1. The insertion into butter lard and similar products of a strip of suitable
light paper, parchment paper or similar material which bears a series of distinc-
tive marks so that the butter can be identified when cut (say for sale) substantially
as herein before described.
2. The instrument for inserting the aforesaid strip of material into the butter
substantially as described with reference to Figs. 1, 2, 2 and 3 of the drawings
hereunto annexed.
1000
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.