IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF COTTON SEED CAKE
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Joseph Badart, of No. 95, Bishopsgate Street,
in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
PREPARATION OF COTTON SEED CAKE,"
Sealed the 5th May 1863, and dated the 19th February 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Joseph Badart
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 19th February 1863.
JEAN JOSEPH BADART, of No. 95, Bishopsgate Street, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN.
THE PREPARATION OF COTTON SEED CAKE," to be as follows:-
Cakes of cotton seed obtained when pressing out the oil from cotton seed
are now used for feeding cattle, but the cakes after a few weeks rapidly
Inven-
deteriorate on account of the cakes "heating." Now, according to my
tion, I subject the cakes after they come from the press to heat for some time
in order to dry them thoroughly, the cakes may then be stored and kept for a
considerable time without any deterioration of their original fattening powers.
I prefer to dry the cakes by placing them in a rack in a drying chamber
heated to about 180° Fahrenheit; the cakes should remain in the drying.
chamber for about 24 hours.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Joseph Badart in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
JOSEPH BADART, of No. 95, Bishopsgate Street, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Jean Joseph Badart, Her special licence that I, the said
Jean Joseph Badart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Jean Joseph Badart, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF COTTON SEED CAKE," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jean Joseph Badart, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the.
nature of the said Invention; and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Joseph Badart, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:
Cakes of cotton seed obtained when pressing out the oil from cotton seed
are now used for feeding cattle, but the cakes after a few weeks rapidly.
deteriorate on account of the cakes "heating." Now, according to my,
Invention, I subject the cakes after they come from the press to heat for some
time in order to dry them thoroughly, the cakes may then be stored and kept
for a considerable time without any deterioration of their original fattening,
powers. I prefer to dry the cakes by placing them in a rack in a drying
chamber heated to about 180° Fahrenheit.

page_text: The Drawings hereunto annexed show a rack suitable for being used for
this purpose.
Figure 1 shows a section of one of the racks, and Figure 2 shows a front
view of part of the same; each rack is made of such length as to extend from
end to end of the drying chamber, and is formed in such manner that the
cakes are placed on edge between the bars of the rack.
a, a, a, are the upright bars, between which the oil cakes are set up on
edge; b, b, are the horizontal bars of the racks, on which the edges of the
cakes rest when piled between the upright bars a, a, a. The requisite heat is
obtained by horizontal steam pipes c, c, c, which are connected together by
the pipes d, d. The temperature of the drying chamber is preferred to be
kept to about 180 of Fahrenheit's thermometer, and the drying is usually
accomplished in about twenty-four hours.
In witness whereof the said Jean Joseph Badart have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
J. J. BADART. (L.B.)