A PROCESS FOR PRESERVING AND CURING, BY SALTING THE FLESH AND HIDES OF ANIMALS IN AN ENTIRE STATE
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Tooth, of Number Fourteen, Mincing Lane,
in the City of London, Merchant, for the invention Of A PROCESS FOR
PRESERVING AND CURING, BY SALTING THE FLESH AND HIDES OF ANIMALS IN
AN ENTIRE STATE."
City London, Merchant,
RUCESS FUK
PRESERVING AND CURING, BY SALTING THE FLESH AND HIDES OF ANIMALS IN
AN ENTIRE STATE."
Sealed the 18th December 1855, and dated the 21st July 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Tooth at tho Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st July
1855.
I, ALFRED TOOTH, of No. 14, Mincing Lane, in the City of London, Mer-
chant, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A PROCESS FOR
PRESERVING AND CURING, BY SALTING THE FLESH AND HIDES OF ANIMALS IN AN
ENTIRE STATE" to be as follows:-
I effect these objects by preparing a solution of saline substances, which I
cause to be forced into the veins and arteries of animals within a short period
after they are slaughtered, and which when so saturated will keep the flesh fit
for food and the bides for use for a very lengthened period of time, and render
them incapable of becoming putrid.
The mechanical means I employ for injecting the veins and arteries aforesaid
are such as are used in anatomical schools to inject animal bodies.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Alfred Tooth in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th
December 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
TOOTH, of No. 14, Mincing Lane, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Alfred Tooth, Her special licence that I, the said Alfred Tooth, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred
Tooth, 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 Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention of "A PROCESS FOR PRE-
SERVING AND CURING, BY SALTING THE FLESH AND HIDES OF ANIMALS IN AN ENTIRE
STATE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Tooth,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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 Alfred Tooth, 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,
that is to say:-
My Invention consists of a process for preserving and curing, by salting
the flesh and hides of animals in an entire state. I effect these objects by
preparing a solution of saline substances, which I cause to be forced into the
veins and arteries of animals within a short period after they are slaughtered,
and which when so saturated will preserve the flesh fit for food, and the hides
fit for use for a very lengthened period of time, and render them incapable of
be coming putrid.
The mechanical means I employ for injecting the veins and arteries aforesaid
are such as are used in anatomical schools to 'inject animal bodies.

page_text: Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same may be performed, I would have it understood that what I
claim is, the preserving and curing by salting the flesh and hides of animals in
an entire state.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Tooth, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-fourth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
HENRY DINN, Sol'.
Doctors' Commons.
ALFRED TOOTH. (L.S.)