Specification of James Carson : slaughtering animals.

  • Carson, James.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Specification of James Carson : slaughtering animals. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Carsons Neiu Mode of Slaughtering Animals inte7idedfor Human Food, part sliould then be secured to rings in the floor; F is the spot where the perforation is to be made and the instrument of death is to be applied, and the arrow shows the direction it is to take. Figure 3 is a section of the cavity of the chest showing at J, where the point of the instrument enters to effect its purpose. Lambs, calves, pigs, or sheep 5 may be suffSciently secured by being placed upon an oblong shallow cradle, to each corner of which is fixed a perpendicular post; these posts are fitted with buckles at different heights, by which a limb of the animal is fastened to each post; by these means the animal, without being subjected to much pain, is secured against the power of making any movement or change of position. I 10 need not say that these cradles must be of different dimensions, suiting the bulk of the animals to be jilaced on them. Lut whereas the mode of securing the animal to be slaughtered may vary according to circumstances dependent on the locality where the operation is to be performed, the ingenuity of the operator, or the temper and power of the 15 animal. And I hereby claim as my Invention only the mode of slaughtering animals intended for human food by causing a pressure at least equal to and better if exceeding the pressure of the atmosphere upon the external surface of the lungs, and of the other viscera in the chest by an abundant and uninterrupted 20 free admission of air into both the cavities formed by the membrane lining the chest, and that forming the external covering of the lungs, thereby causing the lungs to collapse. And such my Invention being to the best of my knowledge and belief entirely new, and never before used within that part of Her said Majesty’s United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, Her 25 Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, or Her Colonies and Plantations abroad, I do hereby declare this to be my Specification of the same, and that I do verily believe this my said Specification doth comply in all respects fully and without reserve or disguise with the proviso in the said herein-before in part recited Letters Patent contained; wherefore I hereby 30 claim to maintain exclusive right and privilege to my said Invention. In witness whereof, I, the said James Carson, have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. JA8 CARSON. (l.s.) 35 Signed, sealed, and delivered by the above- named James Carson, in the presence of John Holden, Sob, Liverpool.