IMPROVEMENTS IN NOSE BAGS, AND IN OTHER APPLIANCES EMPLOYED IN THE FEEDING OF HORSES, SHEEP, AND OTHEr Cattle
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Holding, of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Engineer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
NOSE BAGS, AND IN OTHER APPLIANCES EMPLOYED IN THE FEEDING OF HORSES,
SHEEP, AND OTHEr Cattle.”
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Holding at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th October 1873.
I, JOSEPH HOLDING, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN NOSE BAGS, AND IN OTHER APPLIANCES EMPLOYED IN THE FEEDING
OF HORSES, SHEEP, AND OTHER CATTLE," to be as follows :-
My Invention relates to the nose bags and feeding troughs from
which horses are fed, and to the feeding troughs employed in the
feeding of sheep and other cattle.

page_text: In such appliances as hitherto formed and used, the animal when
foeding has been able to select portions from the entire bulk of its
"feed" or GE
meal," and when eating has turned over and breathed
upon its food, the consequence being that a portion of the food has often
been rejected and there has thus been much waste. To obviate this
defect I form the said nose bags and troughs with a receptacle to
receive the food and to deliver the same into a compartment or feeding
trough to which the animal has access. The said receptacle communi-
cates with the said compartment or with the feeding trough by an aperture
or by apertures situated at the bottom of the receptacle. When food is
placed in the receptacle, a portion issues into the said compartment or
feeding trough, and as the animal withdraws food therefrom fresh portions
of the bulk of the food contained in the receptacle take the place of the
food so withdrawn, the quantity of food to which the_animal has direct
access being comparatively small. I may line the feeding compartment
of a nose bag with metal gauze.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Joseph
Holding in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th April 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, JOSEPH
HOLDING, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Engincer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of October, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Holding, Her special license
that I, the said Joseph Holding, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Holding, 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

page_text: Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
NOSE BAGS, AND IN OTHER APPLIANCES EMPLOYED IN THE FEEDING OF HORSES,
SHEEP, AND OTHER CATTLE," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Joseph Holding, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment 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 on or before
the Twenty-ninth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Holding, do hereby declaré
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
following statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say :—
My Invention relates to the nose bags and feeding troughs from
which horses are fed, and to the feeding troughs employed in the
feeding of sheep and other cattle.
In such appliances as hitherto formed and used the animal when
feeding has been able to select portions from the entire bulk of its
"feed" or "meal," and when eating, has turned over and breathed
upon its food, the consequence being that a portion of the food has
often been rejected and there has thus been much waste. To obviate
this defect I form the said nose bags and troughs with a receptacle to
receive the food and to deliver the same into a compartment or feeding
trough to which the animal has access. The said receptacle com-
municates with the said compartment or with the feeding trough by an
aperture or by apertures situated at the bottom of the receptacle.
When food is placed in the receptacle a portion issues into the said
compartment or feeding trough, and as the animal withdraws food
therefrom, fresh portions of the bulk of the food contained in the
receptacle take the place of the food so withdrawn, the quantity of food
to which the animal has direct access being comparatively small..
In order that my Invention may be well understood, I will now refer
to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, wherein Fig. 1, drawn about
one-fourth of the full size, represents a front view of the improved nose
bag; Fig. 2, representing a vertical section taken at right angles

page_text: to Fig. 1. In the said Figures A is the part of the bag in which the
food is placed, and B is the feeding pocket which communicates with
the bag A through an opening at a.
The bag may be formed of usual or suitable material by sewing or
attaching the pocket to a bag formed as usual, an opening being formed
at a or the back of the bag, and the front of the said pocket may be in
one piece b, and a third piece c to form the division may be sewn or
attached to the piece b, the piece c not extending to the bottom of the
bag; or other suitable methods of formation may be adopted so long as
the bag is formed with a feeding compartment and a second compart-
ment to hold the bulk of the food.
The bag is or may be suspended by means of the straps & somewhat
as usual, but I prefer that the part A. shall be inside, that is, below the
neck of the horse. I may line the bottom of the said pocket with metal
gauze to increase the durability of the bag. In the example a strap e is
provided for attachment to the head gear.
Fig. 4 illustrates the manner in which my Invention may be applied
to feeding troughs employed for the purposes herein-before indicated.
In this example C is the feeding trough and D is a receptacle in
which the food is placed. The said trough is separated from the said
receptacle by the division f which does not extend to the bottom of the
trough, so that the food can flow from the receptacle into the trough
to supply the place of the food abstracted from the trough by the:
animal.
The forms of the traumh and monta

page_text: And, lastly. The formation of troughs employed in the feeding of such
animals as herein referred to, substantially as herein-before set forth and
indicated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Holding, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
Signed and sealed by the said
Joseph Holding, in the
presence of
EDWARD K. DUTTON,
Agent to the Patentee,
3, Princess Street,
Manchester.
JOSEPH HOLDING. (L.S.)