IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMPOSITION OR MANUFACTURE OF HORSE AND CATTLE FOOD
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward John Theodore Digby, of Birchin Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
COMPOSITION OR MANUFACTURE OF HORSE AND CATTLE FOOD."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION, left by the said Edward John Theodore
Digby at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th April 1881.
EDWARD JOHN THEODORE DIGBY, of 'Birchin Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMPOSITION OR MANUFACTURE OF HORSE AND CATTLE
FOOD."
This Invention relates to the preparation or composition of horse and cattle food,
with the object of producing a palatable and easily digestible food, more suitable
for the promotion of the health and the strengthening of the constitution of such
animals than other artificial foods as at present compounded.
The Invention consists in the preparation or compounding of the improved food
from the following substances or ingredients, and preferably in about the herein-
after mentioned proportions:-Gentian, carraway, and salt, of each 20 lbs. ;
finugrick and cocoa husks, of each 25 lbs.; linseed meal and Indian meal, of each
-1 cwt.; and of locust beans, 4 cwt.; each of such substances being finely ground or
reduced to a finely powdered condition previously to the whole of them being
intimately admixed together.
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No special apparatus is required in the grinding or admixing of the herein before
mentioned ingredients.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward John Theodore Digby in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th October 1881.
EDWARD JOHN THEODORE DIGBY, of Birchin Lane, in the County of Middlesex.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMPOSITION OR MANUFACTURE OF HORSE AND CATTLE
FOOD."
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The object of this Invention, which relates to improvements in the preparation
or composition-of-horse-and-cattle-food, is to produce a palatable and easily
digestible food, more suitable for the promotion of the health and the strengthening
of the constitution of such animals than other artificial foods as at present
compounded.
The Invention consists in the preparation or compounding of the improved food
from the following substances or ingredients, and preferably in about the herein-
after mentioned proportious:-Goutiau, carraway seeds, and salt, of each 20 lbs. ;
fenuigreck and cocoa husks, of each 25 lbs. ; linseed meal, maizo, or Indian corn
meal, of each, 1 cwt.; and of locust beans, 4 cwt.; each of such substances being
finely ground or reduced to a finely powdered condition previously to the whole
of them being intimately admixed together.
The improved food, as thus prepared, may either be used as a meal, or may be
made into the form of a cake, bread, or biscuit, or other suitable solid form for
compactness and convenience of storage and transit; and in order that the meal
may be made into such a solid form I put it in any desired quantity into a dry
copper or container, and gradually heat it therein up to about 150 degrees Fahrenheit,
stirring it about at times so that it may become throughout of an even temperature,
and I then subject it to a sufficient pressure of several tons in a suitable mould, as
will cause it to assume the desired solid form of a sufficient hardness and consistency
to bear considerable handling in transit without breaking, up or crumbling away
or otherwise wasting. This is a very 'desirable feature, as I am enabled to
manufacture the food into the solid form without the necessity of using water or of
moistening the meal.
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No special apparatus is required for the grinding or admixing of the herein before
mentioned ingredients, nor in the pressing of the meal into the solid form.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that what I claim as the Invention
secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,-
The preparation or composition of horse and cattle food of or from the herein-
before mentioned substances or ingredients, and preferably in about the herein-
before mentioned proportions, substantially as herein before described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Edward John Theodore Digby, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this 27th day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
Witness,.
GEO. W. WEBB,
Office for Patents, Trade Marks, & Designs,
1, North Buildings,
South Place,
London, E.C.
E. J. DIGBY. (L.S.)