An Improved Cooked Food for Horses, Cattle, and other Animals,
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 13th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 17th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cooked Food for Horses, Cattle, and other Animals,
I JOHN SHOVELLER of 35 Kent Street, Portsea, in the County of Hampshire,
Corn Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture of a cooked food for horses, cattle, and
other animals.
It has been found that linseed is an excellent food for live stock but to render it
edible and digestible it requires to be thoroughly boiled or otherwise cooked for a
considerable time.
It is the trouble of cooking linseed that has hitherto prevented to a large extent its
general adoption as a food for animals.
My invention consists in mixing together a quantity of whole or crushed linseed
with wheaten flour or other ingredients such mixture being afterwards thoroughly
cooked by boiling, steaming, or other approved method, it is then placed in tins which
are rendered perfectly air tight, by which means the food will keep good, sweet, and
wholesome, for almost any period of time and by simply mixing one or more tins of
my cooked linseed food with boiling water a linseed "mash" is thus provided at a
moment's notice, or the contents of one or more tins can be mixed with other foods,
rendering the whole more palatable, nutritious and digestible..
Dated this 22nd day of March 1890.
HERBERT P. BLAKE,
20, Laura Place, Southampton, Agent for the Applicant
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Cooked Food for Horses, Cattle, and other Animals.
I, JOHN SHOVELLER, of 35 Kent Street, Portsea, in the County of Hampshire Corn
Merchant, 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 :-
This invention relates to the manufacture of a cooked food for horses, cattle, and
other animals, and essentially consists in mixing together a quantity of whole, or
crushed linseed, with wheaten flour, or other ingredients, such mixture being
thoroughly cooked by boiling, steaming or other approved method it is then
placed in tins which are rendered perfectly air tight, the food will then keep good,
sweet, and wholesome for almost any length of time, and by simply mixing one or
more tins of my cooked food with boiling water, a
"mash is thus quickly provided,
or the contents of one, or more, tins can be mixed with other foods, rendering the wholo
more palatable, nutritious and digestable.
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In carrying out my invention I find that a good food is produced by mixing, in
the following proportions, one and a quarter pounds of linseed with a quarter of a
pound of wheaten flour, and five pints of water, the same is then boiled for seven or
eight hours, when it is cooked and ready for placing in the tins.
Other, and equally good mixtures are the following made in the proportions as
given :-
First. To one and a quarter pounds of linseed, add one quarter of a pound
of wheaten flour, and five pints of water, and one ounce of common salt, and, or,
saltpetre.
Second. To one and a quarter pounds of linseed, add five pints of water, and one
ounce of common salt.

page_text: Third. To one and a quarter pounds of linseed, add five pints of water, and on'
ounce of common salt, and one ounce of saltpetre.
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In the three last mentioned mixtures, the following method of manufacture is
adopted.
The linseed, or linseed and flour mixed with water is first boiled, or otherwise
cooked for seven or eight hours, the right proportion of salt and, or, saltpetre, is
separately dissolved in boiling water, and added to the boiling linseed, or linseed
and flour, and the whole is further boiled for about one hour, when it is ready for
tinning."
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I do not however confine myself to these exact proportions, as herein before named,
the same may be somewhat modified to suit the various animals for whom the food is
required, and different climates.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
First. A cooked food for horses, cattle, and other animals, essentially consisting
of linseed and water, with the addition of any one, or more, of the following
ingredients, namely, wheaten flour, salt, and saltpetre, as hereinbefore substantially
described.
Second. In the manufacture of a food for horses, cattle, or other animals, the method
or process or similar thereto, of mixing and cooking the ingredients, and preserving
the cooked food, as herein before substantially described.
Dated this 12th day of December 1890.
HERBERT P. BLAKE, M.I.N.A.,
20, Laura Place, Southampton, Agent for the Applicant.