A NEW OR IMPROVED MIXTURE OR COMPOSITION FOR FEEDING DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS AND POULTRY
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Tyler, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Corn Dealer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
MIXTURE OR COMPOSITION FOR FEEDING DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS AND
POULTRY."
Sealed the 25th September 1862, and dated the 31st March 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Tyler at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 31st
March 1862.
I,. WILLIAM TYLER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Corn
Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR
IMPROVED MIXTURE OR COMPOSITION FOR FEEDING DOGS AND OTHER ANIMALS AND
POULTRY," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a mixture or composition suitable for feeding dogs
and various other animals and poultry, the said mixture or composition con-
taining both vegetable.and animal matter. The said mixture or.composition
may either be made into a meal or powder, or baked into cake or biscuit. I
make the said mixture or composition in the following manner:-I take Indian
meal, or barley meal, or oatmeal, or fine sharps, or in place of sharps common
or fourths flour; I take either of these singly, or any mixture of them, and to
every ninety pounds of either of these or mixture of these I add five pounds of
ground bones and five pounds of dried blood, the said bones and dried blood

page_text: being in fine powder, and I mix the whole together intimately into a meal or
powder. The said meal or powder may be given to dogs or other animals
without any further preparation, or it may be mixed with milk or water, or
boiled with milk or water, or used to thicken any other liquid food. When
the mixture or composition is to be made into cake or biscuit, I then use
liquid blood instead of dried blood. In this case I take about twenty-five
pounds of bullocks' or other blood mixed, when freshly drawn, with about twice
its weight of water, and I use this mixture of blood and water in place of the
five pounds of dried blood before described, that is, I mix ninety pounds of the
Indian or other meal or mixture of meals with five pounds of finely ground
bones and twenty-five pounds of blood mixed with fifty pounds of water. The
paste thereby produced is made into cakes or biscuits and baked. When the
mixture or composition is to be used specially for poultry, two pounds of finely
ground old mortar, or oyster shells, or chalk, or lime may be added to every
one, hundred pounds of the mixture or composition. In making cake or biscuit
the first described mixture containing dried blood may be used mixed with
water, but I prefer to use liquid blood:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Tyler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th September 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
TYLER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Corn Dealer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
.Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said William Tyler, Her special licence that I, the said
William Tyler, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said William Tyler, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED MIXTURE OR COMPOSITION FOR FEEDING DOGS AND
OTHER ANIMALS AND POULTRY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the

page_text: said William Tyler, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Tyler, 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 fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say :-
2. My Invention consists of a mixture or composition suitable for feeding dogs
and various other animals and poultry, the said mixture or composition con-
taining both vegetable and animal matter. The said mixture or composition
may either be made into a meal or powder, or baked into cake or biscuit. I
make the said mixture or composition in the following manner:-I take
Indian meal, or barley meal, or oatmeal, or fine sharps, or in place of sharps
common or fourths flour; I take either of these singly, or any mixture of
them, and to every ninety pounds of either of these or mixtures of these. I add
five pounds of dried blood and five pounds of ground bones, the said dried
blood and bones being in fine powder, and I mix the whole together intimately
into a meal or powder; or the dried blood without the ground bones may be
mixed with the meal in the proportion of ten pounds of dried blood to ninety
pounds of meal. The said meal or powder may be given to dogs or other
animals without further preparation, or it may be mixed with milk or water,
or boiled with milk or water, or used to thicken any other liquid food. Or the
said meal or powder may be mixed with any other kind of food. When the
mixture or composition is to be made into cake or biscuit, I then prefer to use
liquid blood instead of dried blood; in this case I take about twenty-five
pounds of bullocks or other blood mixed, when freshly drawn, with about
twice its weight of water; and I use this mixture of blood and water in place
of the five pounds of dried blood before described, that is, I mix ninety pounds
of the Indian or other meal or mixture of meals with five pounds of finely
ground bones and twenty-five pounds of blood mixed with fifty pounds of water.
The paste thereby produced is made into cakes or biscuits and baked. When
the mixture or composition is to be used especially for poultry, two pounds of
finely ground old mortar, or oyster shells, or chalk, er lime may be added to
every one hundred pounds of the mixture or composition. In making cake or
biscuit, the first-described mixture containing dried blood may be used mixed
with water, but I prefer to use liquid blood.

page_text: I do not limit myself to the particular kinds of meal, or to the sharps, or to
the flour herein-before enumerated, as different kinds of farinaceous food may
be used in place of the said meal, sharps, or flour. Neither do I limit myself
to the exact proportions described of the several ingredients of which my new
or improved mixture or composition is made, as the said proportions may be
varied without departing from the nature of my Invention.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim as
my Invention a new or improved mixture or composition for feeding dogs and
other animals and poultry, consisting essentially of dried or liquid blood com-
bined with vegetable or farinaceous matter either with or without the addition
of ground bones, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, J, the said William Tyler, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
WILLIAM TYLER. (L.S.)