CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND MANU- FACTURE OF FOOD FOR CATTLE
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Wright, of Friern Manor, Peckham Rye,
in the County of Surrey, Farmer and Cattle Food Manufacturer, for the
Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND MANU-
FACTURE OF FOOD FOR CATTLE."
Sealed the 2nd June 1863, and dated the 6th December 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Wright at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th December 1862.
I, GEORGE WRIGHT, of Friern Manor, Peckham Rye, in the County of
Surrey, Farmer and Cattle Food Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND
MANUFACTURE OF FOOD FOR CATTLE," to be as follows:-
In the preparation and manufacture of a "cake" for feeding cattle which
combines the nutritive qualities contained in pure oil-seed meal, of which it is
chiefly composed, with the sanitary properties exhibited by certain condimental
or hygienic substances duly mixed with the same.
Firstly, with the prepared oil-seed meal before it is subjected to the process
of compression I mix various proportions of ground or finely divided gentian,
liquorice, ginger, carraway, aniseed, salt, soda, charcoal, or the like tonic,
carminative, stimulative, corrective, and antiseptic substances, and I compress,

page_text: by means of hydraulic or other suitable power, the resulting mixture into a
hard solid mass, which I term "condimental oil cake."
Secondly, I also prepare and manufacture the said "cake" by mixing the
same or similar condimental or bygienic substances before mentioned in the
ground or finely divided state with the residue of compressed oil-seed meal,
likewise finely crushed or ground, and then re-compressing the admixture by
the same or similar means into a hard solid mass as before.
Thirdly, I superficially mark by linear indentation or otherwise, either during
or subsequent to the process of compression, the said or any other kind of oil-
seed "cake," so as to denote the number of pounds weight it may contain, and
thus facilitate the subtraction of any required part from the whole.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Wright in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th
June 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WRIGHT, of Friern Manor, Peckham Rye, in the County of Surrey, Farmer
and Cattle Food Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Wright, Her special licence, that I, the said George Wright, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Wright, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE PREPARATION AND MANUFACTURE OF FOOD FOR CATTLE," upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said George Wright, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Wright, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
I prepare and manufacture a "cake" for feeding cattle, which combines
the nutritive qualities contained in pure oil-seed meal (of which it is chiefly
composed) with the sanitary properties exhibited by certain condimental or
other hygienic elements duly mixed with the same.
Firstly, with the prepared oil-seed meal before it.is expressed I mix variable
proportions of crushed, ground, or finely divided gentian, liquorice, ginger,
carraway, aniseed, salt, soda, charcoal, or other similar tonic, carminative,
stimulative, corrective, or autiseptic substances, and I compress, by means of
ordinary hydraulic or other suitable power, the resulting mixture into a hard
solid mass, which I term "condimental oil cake."
Secondly, I likewise prepare and manufacture the said "cake" by mixing
the same condimental or other similar hygienic elements in the crushed,
ground, or finely divided state with the residuum of compressed oil-seed meal,
also crushed, ground, or finely divided, and then re-compressing the admixture
by the same or other suitable power into a hard solid mass as before. The
formula I recommend for the purpose aforesaid is a combination of ninety-five
parts in the hundred of expressed linseed meal, three parts of English carra-
ways, one part of Jamaica ginger, and one part of pulverized vegetable
charcoal; but I do not confine nor limit myself to these ingredients or propor-
tions (much obviously depending upon the character of the oleaginous base
selected as well as upon the class of animal provided for); but I find from
experience that the oleaginous base and condimental ingredients recommended,
combined in the proportions given, is the best formula of condimental oil-cake
for all general nutritive and sanitary purposes of cattle food.
Thirdly, I superficially mark or denote upon the said condimental or any
other oil-seed cake, either at the time of compression, by linear indentations
(produced by corresponding projecting surfaces worked in the "bags"), or by
perforations (produced by corresponding projecting points fixed in the "hairs "),
or after compression, by means of any suitable indenting or perforating
mechanism, the number of pounds weight such "cake" may contain, so as to
facilitate the subtraction by breakage of any required part or portion from
the whole.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I claim as my Invention, the preparation

page_text: and manufacture of a "cake" for feeding cattle, compounded of a nutritive oil-
seed meal base, with one or more condimental elements of a tonic, carminative,
stimulative, corrective, autiseptic, or other sanitary character; and likewise
the manufacture of oil-seed " cakes," denoting their weight by means of inden-
tations or perforations upon one of or both their surfaces, as herein-before set
forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Wright, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
• One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Witness,
ALFRED HELY.
GEORGE WRIGHT. (L.S.)