An Improved Apparatus for Covering Meat with a Thin Coating of Fat.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Dec., 1887
Complete Left, 15th May, 1888
Complete Accepted, 29th June, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Covering Meat with a Thin Coating
of Fat.
We ALFRED JOSEPH TRUEMAN, and FREDERICK WILLIAM TRUEMAN, both of
23 Finsbury Road, Ramsgate, in the County of Kent, Bakers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :--
The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus for covering meat with a
thin coating of fat, technically known in the butchering trade as "spouting."
In carrying out our invention, we employ a vessel of suitable size provided with a
short neck by which melted fat may be introduced. The mouth we close by a cap or
stopper provided with a means for attachment to a tube, and this cap we screw or
otherwise secure to the neck, so as to form a tight joint. Projecting laterally from
the top of this vessel is a short tube, and connected with the bottom is another tube,
which projects upwards in front of the lateral tube, similar to the arrangement of the
tubes in a spray diffuser.
The vessel thus fitted is enclosed in a jacket arranged to receive boiling water.
To the cap may be attached a piece of india rubber tube provided with a mouthpiece,
or connected with suitable means for forcing air into the vessel, as in a spray
diffuser.
In working the apparatus, the jacket is first filled with boiling water, and the vessel
is then about half filled with boiling fat. Air is forced into the vessel, either by
blowing through the tube, or pumping, and the melted fat is forced out onto the meat
in the form of a fine spray.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Covering Meat with a Thin Coating
of Fat.
We ALFRED JOSEPH TRUEMAN and FREDERICK WILLIAM TRUEMAN, both of
23 Finsbury Road, Ramsgate, in the County of Kent, Bakers, 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 an apparatus for covering meat with a
thin coating of fat, technically known in the butchering trade as "spouting."
In the accompanying drawing, we have shown, at Fig. 1, a side view, at Fig. 2
a plan view, and at Fig. 3 a cross section, of our improved "spouting" apparatus.
A is a cylindrical or other shaped vessel to contain hot water, and provided with a
filling nozzle A¹ and an air tube or hole. B is a cylindrical or other shaped vessel to
contain liquid fat, and which is secured inside the vessel A, which thus forms a jacket
for B. This vessel B is provided with an air pipe or spout B' and a filling hole B²,
which latter is closed by a screw cap or otherwise. If preferred, the whole of the
top B3 may be made to screw on and off, for convenience of cleaning out the vessel B.
a is a small air nozzle at the side of the upper part of the vessel B, and a small pipe
which is secured at one end to the bottom of the vessel B, while the other end projects
up to the nozzle a, as seen at Fig. 3. The pipe 6 is arranged outside the vessel B,
but inside the vessel A, so that it may be kept hot by the hot water when the
apparatus is in use.
When it is desired to use the apparatus, the jacket A is first filled with boiling
water, and into the vessel B is poured, through a strainer, a sufficient quantity of
boiling fat, the cap being then screwed onto the opening-The apparatus is held
with the nozzle a towards the joint to be "spouted," and the operator blows through
the pipe B. The pressure of air in the vessel B causes the fat to rise in, and run out
of the pipe b, and a current of air issuing by 4, distributes the fat in the form of
a fine spray on the meat.
It will be obvious that a pump of any suitable and convenient kind may be
adapted to the air pipe B¹, if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1st. The apparatus for "spouting" meat with fat herein shown and described.
2nd. In apparatus for spouting" meat with fat, the combination of a jacketted
vessel, as B, to contain the fat, an air pipe B, a nozzle a, and a pipe b, substantially
in the manner set forth.
Dated this 15th day of May 18SS