USRE6370E - Improvement in processes for preserving and packing cooked meats - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. WILSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO THE WILSON PACKING COMPANY;

IMPROVEMENT IN PROCESSES FOR PRESERVING AND PACKING COOKED MEATS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,276, dated March 31, 1874; reissue No. 6,370, datcd April 6, 1875; application filed April 2, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WM. J. \VILsoN, of Ohicago, in the county of (look and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Process for Preserving and Packing Cooked Meats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in a process for packing cooked meats for transportation in a compressed form into an air-tight package, so as to preserve the meat in its integrity and retain all the natural juices and nutritious qualities of the meat.

1n carrying first cooked thoroughly at a temperature of 212 Fahrenheit, so that all the bone and. gris-v tlc can be removed and the meat yet retainits natural grain and integrity. The meat is then in proper condition for eating, and is wholesome and palatable. A measured quantity of this cooked meat is then preferably, while yet warm with cooking, pressed by any suitable apparatus into a previously-prepared. box or case with suflicieut force to remove the air and all superfluous moisture, and make the meat form a solid cake. The box or case is then closed air-tight upon the meat.

The meat is thus packed and compressed in its natural state-that is, without disintegration or desiccation-and it retains all the juices and nutritious qualities of the meat, the compression only removing the superfluous moist- The meat thus put up is available at all times, even when cooking is impracticable, as it is alout my invention, the meat is mg a saving in cost of freight alone of nearly two-thirds.

The box or case'may beniade of wood or metal, or'both combined, of any suitable form or shape, and of any desired dimensions.

Having thus fully described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and, desire to secure by Letters Patent, is Y 1. The within-described process for packing cooked meats for transportation by compress- .ing the same into an air-tight package, so as to preserve the meat in its integrity and retain all the natural juices and nutritious qualities of the meat, substantially as set forth;

2. As a new article of merchandise, cooked meat put up in solid form, in its natural state, without disintegration or desiccation, in hermetically-sealed packages, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand. this 26th day of March, 1875.

, WILLIAM J WILSON. Witnesses:

IIARRY IKFULTON,

ready eookedbefore it is packed. It is more J. MCDOWELL.

only'one hundred'and ten pounds gross, mak-