Nutritious and Hygienic Biscuit for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 11th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 31st Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Mar., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Nutritious and Hygienic Biscuit for Horses and other Animals.
I EDWARD JOHN THEODORE DIGBY of No. 36 Sinclair Road Kensington in the
County of Middlesex Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
:-
The following ingredients compose when prepared and blended in the manner
hereinafter stated a highly nutritious and hygienic biscuit or food for horses and other
animals. It also possesses qualities of a palatable and easily digestible nature & is
calculated to promote health and muscular vigor. The process of preparation or
compounding is as follows:-I take, Poonac, 1 cwt. 56 lbs: Gentian, 15 lbs; Carraway
Seeds 15 lbs; Locust Beans, 3 cwt. 56 lbs; Salt, 16 lbs; Finugrick, 20 lbs; Linseed
Meal 2 cwts. Indian Meal 56 lbs. Then crush in a suitable machine each ingredient
separately after which each is passed thro' a dressing machine in order to extract
the gruff. Then the whole I mix & blend in a mixing apparatus. I then put the
incal into a copper heated by steam & when very hot it is placed in moulds of suitable
size & pressed by hydraulic machine.
I also claim for its use in a powdered state.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Nutritious and Hygienic Biscuit for Horses and other Animals.
I EDWARD JOHN THEODORE DIGBY of 36 Sinclair Road Kensington in the County
of Middlesex Gentleman, 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 my invention is to provide a nutritious and Hygienic Biscuit for
horses, and other animals. I acccomplish this object by means of the ingredients and
process hereinafter mentioned. I take Gentian 20 lbs, Carraway 20 lbs, Salt 20 lbs,
Locust Beans 3 cwt. Linseed Meal 1 cwt. Linseed Oil 25 lbs, Indian Meal 1 cwt.
Fenugreek 25 lbs. and I may or not at my discretion add Poonac 1 cwt. and 56 lbs.
I grind each of those ingredients separately in a suitable machine, and then pass the
powder through a dressing machine in order to extract the gruff. I mix all the
ingredients so ground and sifted as hereinbefore mentioned, and blend them well in
a mixing apparatus after which I place the mass in a copper heated by steam. When
the mass is sufficiently hot it is placed in moulds of a convenient size and pressed into
biscuits by a suitable machine. As a bone and muscle forming food for young stock
it is desirable to add about 40 grains of oyster shell dissolved in sulphuric acid and
then washed clean from said acid to every pound weight of the biscuit. My invention
may be used when in a powdered state and mixed with ordinary provender which is
thereby rendered highly palatable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I claim is
The preparation or treatment of the constituents hereinbefore mentioned and their
employment in a state of combination or mixed substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore mentioned.