US197314A - Improvement in processes for preserving meats during transportation and storage - Google Patents

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J. J. BATE. Prooess for Preserving Meats during Transportation and Storage.

N0'. 197,314. fatented Nov. 20,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. BATE, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN PROCESSES FOR PRESERVING MEATS DURING TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,314, dated November 20, 1877; application filed December` 1, 1876.

To all 'whom -z't may concern:

VBe it known that I, JOHN J. BATE, in the city of Brooklyn, in the county Aof Kings and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in .Processes for Preserving Meats During .lransportatiou and Storage, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to the transportation and storage of meats in large pieces-as, for example, in quarters-either by railway or steamer; and its object is to prevent the discoloration of the surface of the meat and the taint to the enternal portions of the meat, which, by mtthods hitherto adopted for preserving the same during transportation, fre quently occur.

My said invention is based upon the discovery that fibrous or woven material has the power of absorbing from the atmospheric air the germs which provoke incipient decay ou the surface of the meat, as aforesaid and my said invention consists in the process of preserving meat during transportation and storage by'enveloping the same in a fibrous or woven material-suela for instance, as the fabric commonly termed burlapsand when thus enveloped subject the same to a current ot' air chilled or brought either by natural or artiticial agencies to a suitably low temperature, maintaining the meat at the low temperatnre necessary to prevent decay, the envelope or burlaps or equivalent fibrous or woven material at the same time straining from the air the germs which provoke the incipientdecomposition by which the surface discoloration aml taintin g ordinarily experienced are produced.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specitication, Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view, representing a refrigerating apparatus as employed in carrying my herein-described process into effect; and Fig. 2 is a side view, indicating aquarter of beefenveloped in fibrous or woven mater ial, as in the practice of my said process.

1n the practice of my said invention I provide any suitable chill-room or ret'rigeratingchamber, within or through which a current of air is produced. Such current may be either from the external atmosphere through said chill-room or refrigerating-chamber, and thence out again; or the said chamber or room may be closed against, access of the external atmosphere, and its contained air be caused to pass over and over again through a suitable ice-box or equivalent means of reducing the temperature thereof; and this causing ot the air. to pass repeatedly through the said ice-box or the like may be either by achange in the density of the air, as in the well-known Lyman refrigerator, or the said circulation of the air through the ice-box may be produced by means of a faublower arranged in any suitable manner-as, for instance, in the drawing, Fig. 1.

Having thus provided the apparatus, the use of which is involved in one part or element of myinvention, I take the meat-as, for example, quarters ot' beefand wrap them around with burlaps or other like fibrous or woven material, preferably sewing the burlaps or tying the same to hold it in place. The'meat being thus surrounded with the aforesaid materialin other words, having its surface covered thereby-I then place or hang the quarters of beef or the other pieces of meat, enveloped as just herein set forth, within the chillroom-as, for example, in Fig. 1, above referred to, in which the chill-room is represented at A, and the quarters of beef enveloped or covered, as described, by the reference-letter The air,

room, as hereinbefore explained, passes through the interstices of the 'fibrous material in which the meatis wrapped, and thereby chills the same and keeps the entire mass at the low temperature requisite to its preservation; and the circulating air thus passing to and in contact with the meat has the germs of disease or decay eft'ectually sitted or strained therefrom, the envelope not interfering with the access of air to the meat and the consequent requisite refrigeration thereof, but, as hereinhet'ore set forth, eliminating from the air as it comes in contact with the meat those causes of decomposition and decay which, without this covering to the meat, cause the surface ot' the meat to lose what is termed by butchers its bloom-in other words, the crisp and fresh appearance-upon which its highest market value depends. The said covering also prevents that further decay which, in ordinary practice, often destroys the taste and tlavor,

being caused to circulate through the chillo a l97-3lfl and even reaclesncomlition of incipient putrerent of nir of suitably low and regulated 176m-,

faction in the surface portions ot' the luc-(1t. pernture, substantially :is and for the purpose I claim as my inventionset forth. e The berein-desc1bed process of' preservinff i t, nient during transportntlon and storage by en- JOHN, J BATE veloping the same in n covering oi' fibrous or Witnesses:

Il'. WELLS, Jr., EDWARD HOLLY.

woven mnterinl, and subjecting; it when tlins enveloped to the continuons action of a cnr- Letters Potent No. 197,314, grunted November 20, 1377, upon the application ot' John J. tinte, of 'Brooklyn7 New York, for nn improvement in Processes for I resorvinggl i Monts duringr Trunslmrttttion :unl Storage, hnvng issued witinmt lnnitnizion, :is re quired by section 18S? ofthe Revised Statutes, anni n-iiidnvts hau-'ing` been tiled in the lutent Uliee thntsnid liet-ters Patent have been lost, :unl therefore eninnot be returned t'er uorreetion, in eoxnplinnee with the request ofthe porties in interest, I hereby append n eertilente to :t er x tiiei copy of said Lettere` lntent limiting, the terni thereof', so thnt it shall expire with n. patent obtained b v the pntentee in (Jammin, No.ib, dat-ted J'nnunry S), 1577, for the suine invention.

Itis hereby oertiiied that t-he proper entries und corrections have been nnule in the tiles und record t." ink; lnhnt Olee.

In testimony whereof I hnve hereunto set my hund und unused the Seul of the lzti'ent Ottice to be ni'tixed this third day of July, A. D. 1853.

[SEAL] E. )L MARBLE,

Commissioner of Patents. Approved H. M. TELLER,

Secretary ofthe Interior.

It is found that the following certificate has beenattaehedto a certified copy of Letters Patent granted to John J. Bate, for Improvements in P for Preserving Meats during Transportation and Storage, No. 197,314, dated November 20, 1877 Letters Patent No. 197,314, granted November 20, 1877, upon the application of John "13ste, of Brooklyn, New York, for an improvement in for Preserving Meats during Transportation and Storage," having issued without limitation, as required by section 4887 of the Revised Statutes, and adavits having been led in the Patent Ofiee that sai? Letters Patent have been lost, and therefore can not be returned for' correction; in compliance with the request of the parties in interest, I hereby append eertcate to a. oertied copy of said Letters Patent limiting the term thereof', so that it shall expire with a patent obtained by the patenten in Canada, No. 6,938, dated January 9, 1877, for the same invention.

It is hereby certified sat the proper entries and corrections have been made in the files and records of the Patent Oiee.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Patent Ofliee to be aix this 3d day of July, A. D. 1883.

[SEAL] E. M. MARBLE, 4 Oommsmomr qf Patents. Approved:

H. M: TELLER,

Sanary of un Inman Y `An affidavit having been filed` in the Patent Oice showing that said certified copy, bearing said certieate, been lost and therefore cannot be returned for correction;

Now, in :compliance with the request of the parties in interest, said certificate is hereby canceled and it is hereby certified that. said Letters Patent are issued for the' term of seventeen years, from and after the date of November 20, 187 7, subject to the limitation, if any, prescribed by section 4887 of the Revised Statutes, by reason of a patent obtained by the patentes in Canada, No. 6,938, dated January 9, 1877. v

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Patent Ofee to be affixed this 8th la of January, 1892,

[SML] W. E. sIMoNDs, Approved: Oommtesmter.

Crans Busser,

Assia am Secretary of the Interior.

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