IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING FOOD FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS."
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward John Davis, of 64, West Smithfield, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING FOOD FOR HORSES AND OTHER
ANIMALS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward John Davis at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
30th November 1855.
I, EDWARD JOHN DAVIS, of 64, West Smithfield, do hereby declare the
nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PREPARING FOOD FOR HORSES AND
OTHER ANIMALS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the combining the various matters-con-
stituting the food of horses and other animals, and then subjecting the same
to great pressure and artificial heat, in order to get the food into the most
portable and convenient form and condition for its preservation and transport.
For these purposes, oats, barley, or other grain, beans, peas, and other pulse,
in the whole state, or in a crushed, bruised, or broken state, are com-
bined or mixed with. chaff or cut vegetable matters, and with saccharine.or
gluten, or with faranaceous matters and water, also with or without carrots.
or other roots. Suitable compounds of these matters having been mixed
uniformly together, are subjected to- great pressure in moulds, or frames; or
forms, and dried by artificial heat in the pressed' state.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward John Davis in the Great. Seal Patent Office on the
30th May 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS. SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
JOHN DAVIS, of 64, West Smithfield, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward John Davis, Her special licence that I, the said Edward John
Davis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward John Davis, 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
PREPARING FOOD FOR "HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Edward John Davis, 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 performed, 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 Edward John Davis, 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:-
This Invention has for its object the combining the various matters con-
stituting the food of horses and other animals, and then subjecting the same
to great pressure and artifical heat, in order to get the food into the most
portable and convenient form and condition for its preservation and transport.
For these purposes, oats, barley, or other grain, beans, peas, and other pulse
in the whole state, or in a crushed, bruised, or broken state, are combined or
mixed with clover, meadow hay, or other fodder, either as it comes from the
stack or in chaff, or with cut vegetable matters, and with saccharine or gluten,
or with farinaceous matters and water, also with or without carrots or other
roots. Suitable compounds of these matters having been mixed uniformly

page_text: together, are subjected to great pressure in moulds, or frames, or forms, and
dried by artificial heat in the pressed state.
Having thus stated the nature of my Invention, although the food may be
mixed in a great variety of proportions, I will give examples of those combi-
nations. I prefer not, however, confining my Invention to such preparations
or combinations.

page_text: Oats
Chaff or hay
Bran
Salt
SIXTH EXAMPLE.
Molasses or saccharine matter
Water
-
IO lbs.
-
12 lbs.
2 lbs..
oz
lb.
1 pint.
These matters in each case are to be well mixed together, and then pressed
by hydraulic or other power presses in moulds or forms, and dried, so as to
retain their moulded form. The drying I prefer to be carried up to a
temperature of 212° of Fahrenheit. Other combinations of food, with hay,
clover, or chaff, may be similarly prepared; and the peculiarity of the
Invention consists in subjecting to great pressure in moulds combinations of
hay, clover, or chaff with other articles of food, together with or without
saccharine matter, or gluten or farinaceous matters, and drying by artificial
heat the compressed or moulded masses, as herein explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward John Davis, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
JOHN EDKINS.
EDWD J. DAVIS. (L.S.)