Specification of John Graefer : preserving vegetable substances.

  • Graefer, John, -1802.
Date:
1855
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Credit: Specification of John Graefer : preserving vegetable substances. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Graefer s Improved Mode of Preserving Vegetable Substances. Navy,” for and during and unto the full end and term of fourteen years from the date thereof next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be comp]eat and ended; in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso or condition that if I, the said John Graefer, should not particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per- 5 formed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted, should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything |q therein-before declared to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the said in part recited Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Graefer, in obedience to and per¬ formance of the said proviso or condition contained in the said in part recited Letters Patent, do, by this present deed or instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and intended to be inrolled in the High Court of Chancery, hereby particularly describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, that is to say :— I ut about one pound of salt into twenty gallons of water, and so in propor- tion for any greater or less quantity required; boil the same, and then put in the vegetables, where they must remain for the space of a minute or there- abouts, and then taken out and hung by seperate plants on lines or small hooks fixed to laths in a room previously impregnated with heat or fumigation, by of a buzaglo oi an} other stove, or a steam issuing through funnels, 01 by the natural heat of the sun or atmosphere, where they must continue UntU they are Perfect,7 dlT* In order to compleat them for exportation they must, after they are dried as above, be removed into a damp room, in order to imbibe a sufficient degree of humidity to prevent their crumbling or falling to pieces in the packing. In witness whereof, I, the said John Graefer, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of our Kord One thousand seven hundred and eighty-one. SpnUl n, 1 i r , , J0HN (L-S-) GRAEFER. oealed and delivered, being first duly stampt, in the presence of 25 30 35 E. Foulkes. WM Cabel.