Specification of Thaddeus Hyatt : preparing and preserving substances for dietary and medicinal uses.

  • Hyatt, Thaddeus.
Date:
1875
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    Myatfs Impts. in Preparing ^ Sfc. Substances for Dietary Uses, ^c. the sand being afterwards screened out; but I prefer in genera;! to roast it in a food absorbent, such for example as dried sweetened bran, the coffee of preference being first partially dried out, the bran under these circumstances becoming caramelized while imbibing the flavor of the 5 roasting coffee; B, Pig. 2, represents the coffee, and c, c, the absorbent. In the desiccation of human bodies B, Pig. 2, represents such body; c, c, represents baked or dried earth; this earth being in some cases impregnated with disinfectants or mixed with charcoal. The body may be kept from mingling its dust with the earth by wrapping it in an 10 asbestos sheet, or in wire cloth, or in thin perforated metal, or otherwise. The heat which is admitted into the lower part d, d, of the desiccating chamber A through a pipe e, e, Fig. 2, communicates with a furnace C, passing upwards through perforations in the table b, b, into and through the absorbent layer c, c, the moisture or juices of the body B in this way 16 being gradually withdrawn. In some cases I prefer to additionally employ an air pump D to facilitate the drying process, which is effected by drawing off any escaped gases or vapours through a pipe f, /. Bodies thus treated I propose to reduce either to the condition of mummies or to dust and ashes,” and as one means of preserving this 20 d^st I propose to consolidate it by pressure into medallion form, or into busts, or otherwise, in some cases fashioning the dust so as to represent the deceased as in life. Pulverizing, Collecting, and Compressing Pood and other Substances. —According to this part of my Invention my improvement consists in 26 a dry method of preparing biscuit and other food, as opposed to the wet method of biscuit and bread making commonly employed, the flour by my method being cooked or baked in its dry state before being made up. All that is required by this plan for^ reducing the flour to form for marketable purposes is to compress it in suitable moulds into any 30 required shapes and sizes, a form of biscuit consisting in combining with such cooked flour the dried fish, flesh, vegetable, or fruit flour, herein-above mentioned, another form of biscuit made as aforesaid, consisting in mixing sugar with the flour before compression, and then caramelizing the same by heat. This form of farinaceous ‘‘ sweet ’’ I 86 also make by soaking ordinary bread or biscuit in sweetened water, then drying and caramelizing it by the heat of an oven or otherwise. According to another part of my Invention I make biscuits of all kinds from flour prepared in the usual manner of making bread. This