Improvements in Appliances for the Administration of Electricity to Horses for Curative Purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 24th May, 1892--Accepted, 2nd July, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for the Administration of Electricity
to Horses for Curative Purposes.
We MOSES HUMM and ARTHUR EGBERT HUMM of Leslie House Westbourne
Road Forest Hill in the County of Kent Electricians do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to leg baths made in the form of a boot, bands, pads, knee
caps or similar devices for administring electricity to horses for curative purposes;
and to electrodes to be used in such devices or appliances.
Out said invention consists in making the said appliances or a part or parts of the
same of leather or canvas on the outside and rubber covered cloth or other suitable
insulating material on the inside, to which are fastened metal plates joined together
by conducting cords or metal wires in such a manner as to allow one set of metals
to be attached to the positive pole of a battery or induction coil as may be required,
and the other set of metals to be attached to the negative pole of the battery or
induction coil.
In making an electric leg bath according to this our invention we sometimes use
solid india rubber, or rubber covered cloth or canvas so that it may be water-tight
and insulating, for the top part of the bath to which is sewn a leather bottom
somewhat in the shape of a horse's hoof. On the inside of the bath we make two
or more pockets the whole length of the bath, of canvas or other suitable material
which will allow a current of electricity to pass through it when wet. In these
pockets are placed metal electrodes attached by wires to the battery or induction
coil.
By this means a current of electricity is caused to pass through the leg of the
animal; or by means of a pad and the bath the current can be made to pass from
the spine or any other part of the body to the leg.
Dated this Twenty-fourth day of August. 1891.
MOSES HUMM.
ARTHUR EGBERT HUMM.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for the Administration of Electricity
to Horses for Curative Purposes.
We MOSES HUMM and ARTHUR EGBERT HUMм, of Leslie House, Westbourne
Road, Forest Hill, in the County of Kent, Electricians, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to he performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to leg baths made in the form of a boot, bands, pads, knee
caps, or similar devices for administering electricity to horses for curative purposes;
and to electrodes to be used in such devices or appliances.
Our said invention consists in making the said appliances, or a part, or parts of
the same of leather or canvas on the outside and rubber covered cloth, or other
suitable insulating material on the inside, to which are fastened metal plates joined
together by conducting cords or metal wires in such a manner as to allow one set
of metals to be attached to the positive pole of a battery or induction coil as may
be required, and the other set of metals to be attached to the negative pole of the
battery or induction coil.
In making an electric leg bath according to this our invention we sometimes use

page_text: solid india rubber or rubber covered cloth or canvas, so that it may be water
tight and insulating for the top part of the bath to which is sewn a leather bottom
somewhat in the shape of a horse's hoof. On the inside of the bath, we make two
or more pockets the whole length of the bath of canvas or other suitable material
which will allow a current of electricity to pass through it when wet. In these
pockets are placed metal electrodes attached by wires to the battery or induction
coil. By this means a current of electricity is caused to pass through the leg of
the animal, or by means of a pad and the bath the current can be made to pass
from the spine or any other part of the body to the leg.
Our invention will be understood by referring to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 sectional elevation of leg bath to knee only as exemplified by Figure 2.
Figure 3 inside view of knee cap.
Figure 4 inside of hockham pad.
Figure 5 inside of neck or belly pad.
Figure 6 represents a horse with knee pad, and neck pad in position for local
treatment by electric current.
Figure 7 illustrates a bath A like a horse box, into which the animal can be
placed so that its four legs standing on the electrodes DD can be simultaneously
treated, or so much of its body as desired by the height to which water can be
arranged, the current either passing through the electrodes D D or through the
electrode D and the vertical electrode D' according to the arrangement of the
contact wires.
By the views, Figures 1 and 2, it will be seen that the bath is composed of stiff
bottom A with water proof canvas upper B in which are pockets C, C, for holding
the electrodes D, D, these being by the wires E, E, put in communication with
some electric generator, in order that the current passes into and through the water
in the bath, as the wet treatment, as will also be understood by inspection of
Figure 7.
The knee pad, Figure 3, hock pad, Figure 4, and the neck or belly pad, Figure 5,
may be termed the dry treatment. In all cases we employ electrodes D, D, either
in single pairs, as at Figures 1, 3, and 4, or in multiple as at Figures 5 and 7, these
being coupled up in any desired manner for the distribution of the current.
In the case of the water bath shown at Figure 7, the electrodes may be in the
bottom of the bath for the animal to stand on, or at some other convenient part,
and to make the bath water tight, we fit india rubber strips or rubber cloth in the
meeting seams or joints, and secure them by screws and nuts as at Figures 8 and 9
which show side view and plan of such a bath on a reduced scale.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. As a means of applying electric currents to horses for curative purposes,
the construction of pads and baths in the manner described and substantially as
represented in the annexed drawings.
2. The construction of leg baths for horses as indicated and the employment of
electrodes affixable therein for the purpose set forth.
3. The application of electricity to horses by the arrangement of electrodes DD
in the bottom of baths, alone or in conjunction with end plate D' for concentrating
or localizing the current as described.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1892
M. HUMM.
A. E. HUMM.