Improved Means for Protecting Horses or other Animals from the Ailment known as Horse Sickness or like Ailments.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Dec., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 30th Oct.. 1900-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Protecting Horses or other Animals from the
Ailment known as Horse Sickness or like Ailments.
We, ERNEST KINGSCOTE, of 31, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, in
the County of London, Doctor of Medicine, and FREDERICK BRUDENELL-BRUCE,
of Everton Grange, Lymington, in the County of Hants, commonly known as
Lord Frederick Brudenell-Bruce, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
"
The object of this invention is to provide means whereby horses or other animals
are protected against horse sickness " or like ailments and it consists
in the provision of a mask, or covering for placing over the nose and mouth of
the animal and of means for securing it in place so as to prevent the access of
air except through the material of the mask or covering or through air holes pro-
vided for the purpose. In the said mask or covering is contained antiseptic wool
or equivalent material which covers all the passages through which air can pass.
If desired in place of using a special mask or covering the invention can be applied
to nose-bags by providing the air openings therein with pockets around them or.
other means by which layers of antiseptic wool or the like can be held in place
over the air openings the object being in each case to prevent the animal breathing
air which has not passed through antiseptic wool or like material which will inter-
cept injurious germs or the like.
Date : 2011 1
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1.
1000
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agents.
Improved Means for Protecting Horses or other Animals from the
Ailment known as Horse Sickness or like Ailments.
We, ERNEST KINGSCOTE, of 31, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square, in
the County of London, Doctor of Medicine, and FREDERICK BRUDENELL-BRUCE,
of Everton Grange, Lymington, in the County of Hants, commonly known as
Lord Frederick Brudenell-Bruce, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to provide means whereby horses, or other animals,
are protected against "horse sickness," or like ailments, and it consists

page_text: in the provision of a mask, or covering, for placing over the nose and mouth of
the animal, and of means for securing the said mask, or covering, in place so as
to prevent the access of air except through the material of the mask, or covering,
or through air holes provided for the purpose. In the said mask, or covering,
is contained antiseptic wool, or equivalent material, which covers all the passages
through which air can pass. If desired, in place of using a special mask, or
covering, the invention can be applied to nose-bags by providing the air openings
therein with pockets around them, or other means by which layers of antiseptic
wool, or the like, can be held in place over the air openings, the object being,
in each case, to prevent the animal breathing air which has not passed through
antiseptic wool, or like material, which will intercept injurious germs, or the
like.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in external view, and
Figure 2 in section, a mask, or covering, constructed according to this invention.
the said mask, or covering, consisting of an outer part a, of leather, canvas,
or other suitable material, with an inner part, or lining, 6 and having placed in
the space between the outer part a and the lining b, antiseptic wool, or the like, c.
If the outer part a be of leather, or other material impervious to air, holes a²
are formed therein at the parts through which the animal draws air when breath-
ing. are straps by which the mask, or covering, is secured to the head of the
animal, and d² are straps by which the top of the said mask, or covering, is drawn
closely around the animals head to prevent access of air otherwise than through
the antiseptic wool, or the like.
In Figure 3 is shewn, in section, a nose-bag of material a impervious to air
with holes at a³, and having pockets inside over the said holes and around the top.
in which pockets antiseptic wool, c, or the like, is placed so that all air breathed
by the animal passes through the said antiseptic wool, or the like. Straps are
provided at d d for securing the bag to the animal as in Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 4 shews in elevation a modified form of the mask or nose bag having a
pocket C containing antiseptic wool and being perforated at a² for the admission
of air to the interior of the bag and provided with an internal flexible band a¹
which when the mask or bag is applied can be drawn by the strings d² closely
round the animals head below the eyes, the air to be inhaled by the animals passing
through the perforations a². The material of which the bag is made may be what
is known as wolft"
or other suitable waterproof material so that if desired the
said bag may be used as a water bucket.
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:-
A device consisting of a mask, covering, or bag, provided with means for
securing it in place over the nose and mouth of a horse, or other animal, the said
device being provided with antiseptic wool, or equivalent material, which covers
all the passages through which air can pass, so that the animal breathes only air
which has passed through the antiseptic wool, or the like; substantially as herein-
before described.
Dated this 30th dore of Oatchbox 1000
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agents.