AN IMPROVED FOOD
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Ernest Brooke-Hunt, of Peer's Court, in the
County of Gloucester, Gentleman, for an Invention of "AN IMPROVED FOOD
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Ernest Brooke-
Hunt at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd May 1881.
ARTHUR ERNEST BROOKE-HUNT, of Peer's Court, in the County of Gloucester,
Gentleman. "AN IMPROVED FOOD FOR CATTLE."
My improved food for cattle consists of a mixture of sea weed and bruised corn;
oil cake, meal, or any of the ordinary artifically prepared foods, or any compound
of such foods or matters, or other matters ordinarily used or suitable for use as food
for cattle.
In carrying out my Invention I wash the seaweed and dry it and crush or grind
or otherwise disintegrate it, and then add it to the food with which it is to be
mixed, and grind or nix the whole, either with or without the addition of water.
The mixture is then fit for use.
If desired the mixture may be compressed into cakes or blocks, and treated in
any of the ways ordinarily practised in preparing food for cattle.
When it is intended to moisten the mixture of seaweed and other matters while
mixing them or preparatory to mixing them, I in some cases grind or otherwise
disintegrate the seaweed without drying it after washing it.
Any kind of sea weed may be used.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Arthur Ernest Brooke-Hunt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th October 1881.
ARTHUR ERNEST BROOKE-HUNT, of Peer's Court, in the County of Gloucester,
Gentleman. "AN IMPROVED FOOD FOR CATTLE."
My improved food for cattle consists of a mixture of sea weed and bruised corn,
oil cake, meal, or any of the ordinary artifically prepared foods, or any compound
of such foods or matters, or other matters ordinarily used or suitable for use as food
for cattle, the said mixture being made into cakes or blocks.
In carrying out my Invention I dry the seaweed and crush or grind or otherwise
disintegrate it in any suitable way or by means of any suitable machine, such as a
disintegrator," and then add it to the matter or matters with which it is to be
mixed, and grind or mix the whole, either with or without the addition of water.
I then prepare cakes or blocks from the mixture in any of the ways ordinarily
practised in preparing cattle food cakes.
When the proportion of seaweed used is such that the amount of salt adhering
to and contained in it would be injurious to cattle, i.e., when the quantity of
seaweed used is sufficient to raise the per centage of salt in the whole of the
mixture to more than about ten per cent., I wash the seaweed before drying it, or
I remove the salt or the greater part thereof by any suitable treatment, either
before or after drying the seaweed.
The proportions in which I prefer to use the sea weed and other ingredients are
from fifty to seventy-five per cent. by weight of the former (if dried), to from fifty
to twenty-five per cent. by weight of the latter. I do not, however, limit myself
to these proportions, as a greater or less proportion of seaweed may be used.
Instead of crushing or grinding the seaweed before mixing it with the other
matters, it may be mixed therewith before being crushed or ground, and after
mixing the whole may be crushed or ground. When it is intended to moisten the
mixture of seaweed and other matters while mixing them or preparatory to mixing
them, the seaweed may be ground or otherwise disintegrated without drying it.
Any of the kinds of sea weed found on the coasts of the British Islands may be
used, or any like kinds of sea weed may be used.
Having now described my Invention of "An Improved Food for Cattle," I claim
as my said Invention cakes or blocks consisting of seaweed in admixture with meal
or with other matter suitable for use as food for cattle.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Ernest Brooke-Hunt, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty-one.