Improvements in Apparatus for Singeing Horses, or for analogous purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 1st Feb., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
.
Improvements in Apparatus for Singeing Horses, or for analogous
purposes.
I JOSEPH BOOTH Junior, of Ballymerigan House, Rathnew, Co. Wicklow,
Ireland, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for singeing horses, or for
analogous purposes; and in carrying such invention into practice, I construct the
apparatus with a reservoir of cylindrical or other suitable form, having a filling
inlet closed by a screw or other plug, having a small air inlet in the side of same,
said reservoir being provided with hooks or their equivalent to allow of attachment
to the operator's coat or to any other suitable place.
An india-rubber or other flexible tube connects the aforesaid reservoir, with a
handle preferably formed of wood, through which passes a metal tube upon one
end of which fits the flexible tube aforesaid, while the other end is screw-threaded
and designed to enter the tapped end of a pipe fixed to, or formed integral with the
burner, and communicating with the interior of same.
This burner, which is preferably of a flat shape, is filled with cotton-wool or
similar substance to constitute a wick which in operation becomes saturated with
the inflammable liquid (of which I preferably employ methylated spirit) contained
in the reservoir aforesaid, and which methylated spirit, for instance, reaches the
cotton-wool contained in the burner, by gravitation.
A suitable tap or cock is provided in the pipe or neck of the burner, for the
purpose of regulating the supply of spirit to the burner, which latter has a serrated
or toothed flange upon the under side of its mouth.
Dated this 7th day of March 1895.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Singeing Horses, or for analogous
purposes.
I JOSEPH BOOTH, Junior, of Ballymerigan House, Rathnew, Co. Wicklow,
Ireland, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
mannor the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement
This invention relates to improvements in apparatus for singoing horses, or for
analogous purposes, and has for object to provide an apparatus of this class that
shall be highly effectual, cleanly, safe, and economical in its operation.
And in order that this, my said invention may be the more readily understood,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
wherein :
Fio 1 is an elevation of the annaratus complete, and

page_text: The invention consists of a metal or other reservoir a, preferably of cylindrical
form, which reservoir is provided with an inlet a' for filling purposes, closed by a
screw or other plug or stopper a' having a small aperture a in same to admit
sufficient air into the reservoir for the purpose of allowing the liquid contents of
same to readily flow out.
When in use this plug or stopper a' is unscrewed or otherwise partially
withdrawn from the reservoir a a sufficient distance to expose the said
air-inlet a*.
The reservoir a is connected by means of the flexible tube c, to a tubular
wooden or other handle, though, as in the form shewn by the drawing, I prefer
to employ a wooden handle b through which passes a metal tube, to one end of
which the aforesaid flexible tube is connected, while the other end of the tube bl
is screw-threaded and designed to enter the tapped end of the tubular neck d¹ of
the burner d.
This burner which is preferably of the spatulated form shewn, is filled with
cotton-wool or similar absorbent material e to constitute a wick.
A cock d' is provided in the neck of the burner d, for the purpose of
regulating the supply of the liquid contents of the reservoir a, to the burner.
In operation, the reservoir a is filled with methylated' spirit or other inflammable
liquid and is suspended to the coat or other convenient part of the operator by
meaus of the hooks a', (though it may be conveniently suspended upon any
adjacent object) the cock d' is turned on to allow a sufficient quantity of the
methylated spirit, for instance, to reach the wick e by gravitation, and thoroughly.
saturate such wick, which is then ignited and the operation of singeing performed
in the usual manner. The under side of the burner d is serrated or provided with
teeth, which in operation, raise the hair of the animal being singed, and so
facilitate the process.
"
"Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim' is :-
:
1. In apparatus for singeing horses or the like, a cylindrical reservoir connected
by a flexible tube, with a spatulated burner to contaiù cotton wool, substantially as
described and illustrated.
2. In apparatus for singeing horses or the like, a reservoir having suspending
hooks and a filling inlet closed by a plug having an air-inlet; a flexible tube
connecting said reservoir with a metal tube passing through a handle and screwing
into the neck of the burner, together with a cock for regulating the supply of liquid
from the reservoir to the burner, substantially as specified and illustrated.
Dated this 7th dow of December 1905
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.