A New and Improved Phosphate Food for Horses.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New and Improved Phosphate Food for Horses.
I, THOMAS TURNER CHARD, Feeding Cake Mills, of Sevier Street, Bristol,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to a new and improved food for horses, which I purpose
naming and selling as "Valenta ;" and has for its object to provide a food that will
coutain the highest possible amount of nourishment, with a proper proportion of
stimulating and appetising ingredients, and an addition of phosphates, which will
combine the essential elements of a food suitable for horses of all kinds and
conditions, many of the cereals used in the preparation being particularly rich in -
phosphates.
My invention consists in taking a considerable number of the most valuable
cereals for the purpose, adding thereto a quantity of sugar and spices, with a
sufficient admixture of phosphates; and when the component parts have been
thoroughly mixed, putting them in a steam-jacketed kettle, and heating them until
sufficiently cooked, and then pressing the mass into cakes by powerful hydraulic
machinery, after which the cakes are crushed, and the food is ready for use.
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In the preparation of "Valenta," the following cereals and food stuffs made
therefrom are employed in about the proportions named, viz.-Scotch oatmeal,
100 parts; gluten, malt, Canadian peas, lentils, aud linsced, of each, 65 parts;
cocoa nut cake, 60 parts; wheat germs, 45 parts; Egyptian beans, vetches, locust
kernels, decorticated cotton seed, wheat, and bran, of each, 30 parts; locust beans,
decorticated ground nuts, palm nuts, rice, rye wheat, and teel seed, of each, 15 parts;
cotton seed, extract of maize, and extract of rape, of cach, 10 parts; to which are
added the following flavouring and spicing ingredients, viz.-angar, 65 parts;
liquorice, 30 parts; aniseed, gentian, and caraways, of each, 15 parts; sulphur
and fennel, of each, 9 parts; fenugreek and grains of paradise, of each, 6 parts.
A suitable method of preparing phosphates to form a valuable addition to the
foregoing mixture is as follows:-20 ozs. sulphate of iron and 24 ozs. phosphate
of soda are dissolved in water to form solutions, which are then mixed and the
nascent phosphate of iron well washed, to this are added 20 ozs. phosphate of lime
and 2 ozs. phosphate of soda, reduced to a thick cream by the addition of 32 ozs.
concentrated phosphoric acid, and then a further addition of 10 pints water.
Of this phosphate preparation, from 2 to 3 parts are added to the cereals and
other ingredients already mentioned, which are then ground, mixed, steamed,
compressed, and crushed as described, and the product will be a valuable and
nutritious tonic compound, thoroughly digestible, stimulating, and appetising.
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 :-
The incorporation and preparation of the various cereals and other substances
herein enumerated, practically in the proportions named, for the production of a
new and improved food for horses, to be known as "Valenta," substantially as and
for the purposes herein set forth and described.
Dated this 10th day of October 1884.
Dated GHIS TOEN uay 01 October LODZ.
J. G. WESTLAKE,
2, John Street, Bristol, Applicant's Agent.