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 WILSON PACKING 00, V. CHICAGO PACKINO & PROVISION CO. 549 �by boiling it in water, so that all the bone and gristle eau be removed and the meat yet retain its natural grain and integrity. Wliile yet warm with cooking it must, by Bome suitable apparatus, be pressed into a box or case, previously prepared, with sufScient force to remove the air and all superfluous moisture, and make the meat form a solid cake. The box or case is then to be closed air-tight upon the meat. So that the invention contains these elements: �(1) Thoroughly cooking the meat by boilhig it in water, removing the bone and gristle. (2) Placing it, while yet warm with cooking, into a box or case, and pressing it by some suitable apparatus with sufficient force to remove the air and all superfluous moisture, and make the meat form a solid cake. (3) Closing the box or case air-tight upon the meat. �It will thus be observed that the first requisite is that the meat must be thoroughly cooked by boHing it in water, that mode of cook- ing called "stewing" not being necessarily excluded, unless the words declaring that "the meat yet retain its natural grain and integrity" have that effect. The patent limits the cooking to thia particular mode; baking, roasting, and steaming being excluded as modes of cooking meat. After the bone and gristle are removed there is no description given of any particular manner in which the meut is to be treated before it is put into the box or case, unless the «se of the language that "it is then wholesome and palatable" has that �effect. �And although the evidence shows that all the meat put up by the plaintiffs, and which has entered so extensively into the markets of the country for sale, is comed meat, that is not a part of the pat- ent ; and fresh meat, without antiseptics of any kind, if thoroughly cooked by boiling in water, with the bone and gristle removed, and if, while yet warm with cooking, put into a box or case, closed air-tight, would be within the description of the patent. Neither is anything said of the extent of the pressure to which the meat is to be subjected when placed in the box or case, except that it must be with sufficient force to remove the air and all superfluous moisture, so that the meat will form a solid cake; nor is the degree of warmth named which must exiet when the meat is put into the box or case; neither is any description given of the manner in which the box or case is to be closed air-tight upon the meat. It is claimed by the plaintiffs that this combination of the manner of cooking and preserving meats for transportation is new, and entitled William J. Wilson to a patent. It should be stated that in the original as well as in the reissued patent of William J. Wilson, it seems to be implied by the second claim. ��� �