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UNITED
STATES
PATENT OFFICE.
JOhN MARION STUKES, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
PACKING COMPOUND FOR EGGS, &c.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691,413, dated January 21, 1902.
Application filed November 13, 1901. Serial No, 82,098. (No specimens.)To all whoim it imay concern:
Be it known that I, JOHN MARION STUKES,
a citizen of the United States, residing at San
Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of
5 Texas, have invented certain new and useful
Improvements in Packing Compounds; and I
do hereby declare that the following is a full,
clear, and exact description of the same.
The present invention has for its object to
zo provide a compound to be used for packing
eggs, fruit, vegetables, and such perishable
products as would be required to exclude the
air to preserve the same during transportation
or when stored away for future use and also
15 for keeping field or garden seed in a good con-
dition for future use. This compound com-
prises a mixture of dry powdered clay, chalk,
and lime, and any suitable proportions, but
preferably as follows: dry powered clay, one
20 hundred parts; dry powdered chalk, fifty
parts, and fresh slaked dry lime, seven parts.
Mix well together to form a powdered com-
pound and use it to cover the object to be
preserved, which will effectually exclude the
25 air and has all the (reserving qualities of theclay and lime and all the absorbent qualities
of the chalk, which makes the compound a
perfect air-tight preservative, and also has
the properties of being a non-conductor of
heat and cold, which are the two things to 30
guard against in the preservation of eggs,
vegetables,, fruit, and like products. The
compound being a powder and very soft it
will run in and around every crevice and
packs itself tightly, and thus forms an abso- 35
lately air-tight packing to the exclusion of
air, moisture, heat, and cold.
Having now fully described my invention,
what I claim as new, and desire to secure by
Letters Patent, is- 40
A packing compound comprising powdered
clay, chalk and lime, in substantially the pro-
portions named.
In testimony that I claim the above I have
hereunto subscribed my name in the presence 45
of two witnesses.
JOHN MARION STUKES.
Witnesses:
NICKOLAUS WEVERBELE,
GOTTLIEB JELLWEGER.
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Stukes, John Marion. Packing Compound for Eggs, &c., patent, January 21, 1902; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth508573/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.