improvements in Feed or Nose Bags.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Mar., 1895
improvements in Feed or Nose Bags.
I, ALFRED WILLIAM TOOLEY, of 12 Market Place, Leighton Buzzard, in the
County of Bedford, Wholesale Forage Contractor, 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 my invention relates to improvements in feed or nose bags for horses or
other animals and has for its object the provision of a bag having the advantages
of lightness, cheapness and durability, and more especially in providing a means
for protecting the bottom of the bag from injury in coming in contact with the
ground or any object, and from ordinary wear and tear when in use.
In order to carry this my invention into practice I provide a flat bottom plate to
the bag, which may be circular or any convenient shape, and which I make of
galvanized sheet iron or any convenient metal or material. This bottom plate
rests upon and is secured to the upper edge of a wooden ring or frame, corre-
ponding in shape to the bottom plate aforesaid. I secure the bag to the outer
sides of the wood ring or frame by means of nails, rivets or other convenient
means.
If preferred, I make the flange from the same plate, by turning down the edge
or edges all round sufficiently deep to ensure the bottom being protected as herein
before mentioned, or I provide a separate metal ring or frame, and fix the plate to
the ring in the same way and for the same object as the wooden ring aforesaid.
The bag may be of cocoa-nut matting or other suitable material, as in the
ordinary way.
The improved bottom may be perforated for ventilation, so that by this means
no wide strips of leather are required as in the bags at present made, and the whole
of the bag can be thereby thoroughly ventilated.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood I will describe the same
with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1, represents a bag, the bottom of which is in section to show the improved.
bottom plate, Fig. 2, is an enlarged section of the same,
Fig. 3, is section showing the alternative plan of providing the protecting ring
or frame by turning down the edge or edges of the bottom plate.
Fig. 4, shows the bottom ring or frame of metal made separately from the plate,
and rivetted or otherwise secured to the flat plate.
The same letters refer to the same parts in the several illustrations, A, being
the nose bag, B, the flat bottom plate, C, the perforations in said plate, D, the
wooden ring or frame to which the plate B is secured by nails or other means, the
bag itself being secured to the outer side of said ring or frame by nails or other
means as shown at E. F, shows the alternative plan of providing the protecting
edge or ring by bending over the edges of the plate B, and a further alternative
plan of providing a metal ring is shown at G in Fig. 4.
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 I
claim is :-
1. The provision of a nose bag having flat bottoin plate made of galvanized
iron or other suitable material, and of suitable shape, either plain or perforated,

page_text: resting upon aud secured to the upper edge of a wooden ring or frame, to which
the nose bag is secured, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
2. The provision of a nose bag having a flat bottom plate made of galvanized
iron or other suitable material, and of suitable shape, perforated or otherwise, and
having the edges of said plate turned to form the ring or frame, to which the nose
bag is secured, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and described
and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
3. The provision of a nose bag having a flat bottom plate made of galvanized
iron or other suitable material and of suitable shape, perforated or otherwise,
resting upon and secured to the upper edge of a metal ring or frame, to which the
nose bag is secured, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
4. The application of this invention to any form or kind of nose bag used for
animals, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth and described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Deted this 14th day of February 1895.
REGINALD W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.