The Manufacture of an Improved Jam or Preserve.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 23rd Oct., 1897
The Manufacture of an Improved Jam or Preserve.
We, WILLIAM HENRY PEARSON, and FRANK NICHOLAS MAINETTY, both of the
Firm of W. H. Pearson & Co., of 6, Fenchurch Buildings, in the City of London,
Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has for its object the manufacture of an improved jam or
preserve composed of figs and oranges.
In the manufacture of jam from figs as heretofore practised, the figs have either
been boiled whole or have been cut into pieces of comparatively large size and
then boiled; but owing to the nature of the skin or rind of figs, the pieces of the
skin or rind remain as hard lumps in jam made by such processes.
Now by our invention we entirely obviate this objection and make a jam
composed of figs and oranges which is entirely free from lumps and in which
the two kinds of fruit are very intimately mixed.
In the manufacture of our improved jam, we take dried figs and clean the same
well in water with which is mixed a suitable quantity of glycerine or other
suitable substance to prevent the figs becoming sugary. We then take a suitable
quantity of oranges, preferably Seville oranges, and divide the same into halves
or other suitable pieces and remove the pips therefrom, and we then mix them
with the cleaned figs, preferably in about equal proportions. We then reduce
the mixture to pulp in a suitable machine which will operate effectually upon
the skin or peel of the two kinds of fruit. For this purpose we find it
advantageous to use a machine in which the material as it is fed into the same
will be moved along and at the same time cut up or minced, and will then be
forced out through suitable perforations.
The pulp thus produced we mix with a suitable quantity of sugar and a small
proportion of salt and boil it for a suitable length of time, and, after it is cooled,
we put it into the jars or other receptacles.
It will be seen from the foregoing description that, by our invention, we utilize
every portion of the two kinds of fruit with the exception of the pips of the
oranges.
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cure or an improved Jam or Preserve.
We, WILLIAM HENRY PEARSON, and FRANK NICHOLAS MAINETTY, both of the
Firm of W. H. Pearson & Co., of 6, Fenchurch Buildings, in the City of London,
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page_text: Merchants, 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:-
Our invention has for its object the manufacture of an improved jam or
preserve from figs and oranges.
In the manufacture of jam from figs as heretofore practised, the figs have either
been boiled whole or have been cut into pieces of comparatively large size and
then boiled; but owing to the nature of the skin or rind of figs, the pieces of the
skin or rind remain as hard lumps in jam made by such processes.
Now by our invention we entirely obviate, this objection and make a jam
composed of figs and oranges which is entirely free from lumps and in which
the two kinds of fruit are very intimately mixed.
In the manufacture of our improved jam, we take dried figs and clean the same
well in water with which is mixed a suitable quantity of glycerine or other
suitable substance to prevent the figs becoming sugary. We then take a suitable
quantity of oranges, preferably Seville oranges, and divide the same into halves
or other suitable pieces and remove the pips therefrom, and we then mix them
with the cleaned figs, preferably in about equal proportions. We then reduce
the mixture to pulp in a suitable machine which will operate effectually upon
the skin or rind of the two kinds of fruit. For this purpose we find it
advantageous to use a machine in which the material as it is fed into the same
will be moved along and at the same time cut up or minced, and will then be
forced out through suitable perforations. For instance we use a mincing machine
wherein the outlet aperture is provided with a plate in which are formed a number
of perforations of suitable size.
The pulp thus produced we mix with a suitable quantity of sugar and a small
proportion of salt and boil it for a suitable length of time, and, after it is cooled,
we put it into the jars or other receptacles.
It will be seen from the foregoing description that, by our invention, we utilize
every portion of the two kinds of fruit with the exception of the pips of the
oranges.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
First. The herein described method of manufacturing a jam or preserve, which
method consists in mixing figs with oranges from which the pips have been
removed, and then cutting or mincing the mixture and forcing it through a
suitably perforated plate, substantially as described.
Second. The improved jam or preserve prepared from figs and oranges sub-
stantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated the 9th day of August 1897.
WILLIAM HENRY PEARSON.
FRANK NICHOLAS MAINETTY.
D. Young & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.