Treating Brewers' Spent Hops, Wet and Dry, for the Production of Fodder and Litter.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893;
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Treating Brewers' Spent Hops, Wet and Dry, for the Production of
Fodder and Litter.
JAMES JOHN ADKINS, 39, Windmill Road, Upper Edmonton, Loudon N.
Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
In the summer season, I desiccate brewers spent hops for cattle fodder and litter,
in the natural atmosphere in winter by artificial heat, I then for the fodder flavour
with sedative essences etc. etc., and then pack in bales of one hundred weight and
half hundred weight for use.
For litter I treat in the same manner leaving out the flavourings.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Treating Brewers' Spent Hops, Wet and Dry, for the Production of
Fodder and Litter.
JAMES JOHN ADKINS 39 Windmill Road Upper Edmonton London, N.
Farmer, 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 :-
Is the treating of brewers spent hops, (wet and dry) for the production of fodder
and litter for cattle.
When wet and fresh from the brewery, and to be used as a substitute for
ensilage, I treat them for storeing just as should so much of any green fodder and
flavour them with medicated sedative essences such as carraway, coriander, aniseed
of these I take equal quantities with seventy pounds of fenugreek to make one
hundred weight. I then treat the hops wet and fresh with seven pounds of this
essence to the ton adding at time of treating and storeing twenty pounds of salt.
(This as a substitute for ensilage to be mixed with the ordinary fodder for cattle.)
When desicated or dried as a substitute for hay or hay (or other) chaff I treat
them with ten pounds of the above essence-and twenty eight pounds of salt to
the ton.
sieve or
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For litter, I desicate or dry in the same way leaving out the essences.
I also treat them with an especial process, viz., by passing them over
screen for matress making, taking out (seed dust etc.) in lieu of straw etc. etc.
seed is useful for feeding fowls.
Also for use in the manufacture of linoleum or floor cloth in lieu of cork dust.
For convenience the above processes having to be carried out at different stations
throughout Great Britain and Ireland, I suit the treatment to the situation, (for
instance,) when space is limited but couvenient, I use a Gibbs, or other patent
drying machine.
Where space is not limited, I treat them on a prepared floor in the atmosphere
(or) under cover-from thence I pass them through a large drying chamber (or a
kiln,) which I heat by hot air, hot water, or steam, where convenient both, or all.
I then pack them in bales, or bags, for use-or build them in a rick or stack for
storeage.

page_text: Having now particularly described, and ascertained, the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The treating of brewers spent hops-
1. As a substitute for ensilage as fodder for cattle.
2. As a substitute for hay and chaff for fodder, for cattle.
3. As a substitute for straw, as litter for all kind of animals, and other purpose.
26th day of October 1893.
JAMES JOHN ADKINS.