An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Administering Medicines to Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 26th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Nov, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Administering Medicines
to Horses and other Animals.
GEORGE TOM CANNON Sheep Street, Bicester, Oxon Veterinary Surgeon do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved method of applying and administering
medicines to the lower animals, the object of which is to dispense with balling-irons
mouth-gags administering with bottles, horns, tins & other forms of apparatus &
methods usually adopted; and consists of a hollow bit made of metal, india-rubber,
or any other suitable material or combination of such, the cross-section of which
may be of any desired shape. Attached to this bit is a reservoir made of any
suitable material from which is delivered to the said bit the necessary medicine and
consists preferably of a suitably constructed collapsible tube made of tin-foil, india-
rubber, or other flexible material so that as the medicine leaves the reservoir the
pressure of the atmosphere on the outside of the tube produces an automatic supply.
Or by means of a spring or its equivalent in connection with such reservoir the
medicine may be forced through the bit into the mouth of the animal more or less
rapidly as may be desired. The bit is so arranged as to deliver the medicine into the
animals mouth by means of suitably cut grooves or apertures or their equivalents.
Such bit can be used with any ordinary bridle.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Apparatus for Administering Medicines
to Horses and other Animals.
1, GEORGE TOM CANNON, of Bicester, in the County of Oxford, Veterinary
Surgeon, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to he particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
This invention relates to an improved method of administering medicines to
horses and other animals and to an apparatus or mouth-bit to be used therefor.
In order to enable my invention to be understood I will proceed to describe the
same by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figure 1 is a plan of my mouth-bit:
Figure 2 is a section on the line of Figure 1:
Figure 3 is a section on the line y y of Figure 2; and,
Figure 4 is a view of a suitable collapsible tube or receptacle for containing the
medicine, and which I use in combination with my bit, and this tube is shewn applied
to the bit in Figure 2.
Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
My improved mouth-bit, which can be used with any ordinary bridle, is made
hollow, as clearly shewn in Figure 3. In practice I find it advantageous to make it
of a metal tube a, or it may be made of other suitable material, and of other suitable
shape in cross section. One end of the bit a is provided with a nozzle b, screw-
threaded at c for receiving a suitable collapsible tube or receptacle such as d. The
underside of the tubular bit a is provided with a number of holes or perforations e.
7, gare the usual cheek-pieces.
Figure 4, is a detached view of a suitable receptacle which may be made of tin-
foil or other suitable flexible material and is provided with a screw-capƒ. In this
receptacle is placed the medicine which may be of fluid or of semi-fluid consistence.

page_text: My improved mouth-bit is used in the following manner-The bit being placed in
the horse's mouth the cap of the medicine tube or receptacle d is removed and the
receptacle is then screwed into the opening c of the nozzle band, the receptacle being
flexible, as the horse moves his tongue over the perforations e of the tubular bit a, the
medicine will be drawn from the collapsible receptacle d, through the nozzle and
hollow bit a and perforations e, into the horse's mouth.
I have described the medicine tube or receptacle d as consisting of a flexible
capsule or bag, as I have found this to give good results in practice, but it will be
obvious that instead of using a flexible capsule or receptacle I inay use a non-flexible
receptacle, a spring forcing the medicine, through the hit into the month of the
animal, more or less rapidly as may be desired, or a small hole may be formed in the
receptacle to allow of the medicine being drawn in by the action of the tongue of
the animal over the perforations e.
Instead of the receptacle screwing onto the nozzle of the bit it may be fixed in
any other suitable manner.
By this arrangement it will be seen that medicino can be administered to horses
and other animals without the necessity of using balling irons, mouth-gags, bottles,
horns, tins or other forms of apparatus now usually employed.
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
1. The method herein described of administering medicine to horses and other
animals by the use of a hollow mouth-bit in combination with a suitable receptacle
containing medicine, as hereinbefore described.
2. A mouth-bit for administering medicine to horses and other animals consisting
of a tube, provided with a nozzle adapted to receive a receptacle containing the
medicine, substantially as hereinbefore. described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3
of the accompanying drawing.
3. The combination with a hollow bit such as is herein described and illustrated in
Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawing, of a suitable receptacle containing medicine and
adapted to be screwed or otherwise fixed to the nozzle of the bit, substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in Figure 2 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 26th day of September 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.