TREATING CERTAIN ANIMAL SUBSTANCES IN ORDER TO OBTAIN ALBUMINOUS, GUMMY, GLUTINOUS, AND GLAIRY PRODUCTS AND FAT
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "TREATING
CERTAIN ANIMAL SUBSTANCES IN ORDER TO OBTAIN ALBUMINOUS, GUMMY,
GLUTINOUS, AND GLAIRY PRODUCTS AND FAT."-A communication from
abroad by Benjamin Paraf-Javal, of Paris.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 26th May 1860.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "TREATING CERTAIN ANIMAL SUBSTANCES IN ORDER TO OBTAIN ALBUMINOUS,
GUMMY, GLUTINOUS, AND GLAIRY PRODUCTS AND FAT," (communicated to me
from abroad by Benjamin Paraf-Javal, of Paris,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in reducing all such animal matters, as flesh, brains,
pancreas and the soft roes of fish to a fine state of division or in disintegrating
them by mechanical means, such as forcing them under pressure through
sieves or by the agency of some chemical which has not the effect of materially
changing the composition of the substance acted upon, as, for example, ammonia.

page_text: When so disintegrated the above named animal substances yield a liquid more or
less viscous, gummy, or glairy, which may be used as as substitute for albumen
casein, lacterine, glutine, gluten, glue and gum. The process is as follows:-The
substance is first freed by washing and cleaning from blood and other im-
purities; it is then divided and disintegrated by means of presses, sieves, cutters
or otherwise, until the disintegrated mass assumes the desired viscous and
gummy aspect. The greater part of animal substances contains fat, which
would be prejudicial in the albuminous product, and part of this Invention
consists in extracting the fat and rendering it available for purposes for which
fat is used. The fat is extracted either by exposing the animal substance to
gentle heat, when the fat rises to the surface and is skimmed off, or otherwise
removed, or by the employment of a solvent, such as oil essence, sulphuret of
carbon, or benzine, centrifugal force is sometimes employed to arrange the
substances according to their respective densities. By any ordinary and
well-known means the fat is separated from the solvent used. The animal
substances which have been found to yield the best results are the brains and
the pancreas of all animals and the soft roes of fish. In some cases the
albuminous product is improved by being allowed to ferment, and in others
its action may be beneficially increased by the addition of a chemical agent,
such, for instance, as ammonia or chloride of sodium.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 26th November 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great

page_text: Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"TREATING CERTAIN ANIMAL SUBSTANCES IN ORDER TO OBTAIN ALBUMINOUS, GUMMY,
GLUTINOUS, AND GLAIRY PRODUCTS AND FAT," (communicated to me from abroad
from Benjamin Paraf-Javal of Paris,) upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-.
This Invention consists in reducing all such animal matters as flesh, brains,
pancreas, and the soft roes of fish to a fine state of division or in disintegrating
them by mechanical means, such as by forcing them under pressure through
sieves, or by employing the agency of some chemical, which has not the
effect of materially changing the composition of the substance acted upon, as,
for example, ammonia, when so disintegrated the said animal substances yield
a liquid more or less viscous, gummy, or glairy, which may be used as a
substitute for albumen, casein, lacterine, glutine, gluten, glue and gum. The
process is as follows:-The substance is first freed by washing and clean-
ing from blood and other impurities; it is then divided and disintegrated
by means of presses, sieves, cutters, or otherwise, until the disintegrated mass
assumes the desired viscous and gummy state. The greater part of animal
substances contains fat, which would be prejudicial in the alluminous product,
and part of this Invention consists in extracting the fat and rendering it
available for purposes for which fat is used. The fat is extracted either by
exposing the animal substance to gentle heat, when the fat rises to the
surface and is skimmed off, or otherwise removed, or by the employment of
a solvent, such as oil essence, sulphuret of carbon, or benzine; centrifugal
force is sometimes employed to arrange the substances according to their
respective densities. By any ordinary and well known means the fat is
separated from the solvent used. The animal substances which have been
found to yield the best results are the brains and the pancreas of all animals, and
the soft roes of fish. In some cases the albuminous product is improved by
being allowed to ferment, and in others its action may be beneficially increased

page_text: by the addition of a chemical agent, such, for instance, as ammonia or chloride
of sodium.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First, the methods of reducing all such animal matters, as flesh, brains,
pancreas, and the soft roes of fish to a fine state of division by mechanical or
chemical means, in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described.
Secondly, the employment of the viscous or other liquids so produced as
substitutes for albumen, casein, lactarine, glutine, gluten, glue and gum.
Thirdly, the methods of extracting the fat from the aforesaid animal matters
and of rendering it available for purposes for which fat is used as herein-
before described.
Fourthly, the method of improving the viscous or other product obtained
from the aforesaid animal matters by means of fermentation or of chemical
agents as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of November, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.