A NEW OR IMPROVED BEDDING FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS.
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Edwards, of Malpas, and Edward Rogers Knowles,
of Chester, both in the County of Chester, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED BEDDING FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Edwards and Edward
Rogers Knowles at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th
August 1878.
"
GEORGE EDWARDS, of Malpas, and EDWARD ROGERS KNOWLES, of Chester, both
in the County of Chester. A NEW OR IMPROVED BEDDING FOR HORSES AND
OTHER ANIMALS."
We have discovered that peat turf possesses properties which render it an
invaluable article for use for the bedding of horses and other animals.
In preparing the article for use, our modus operandi is as follows:-The turf
having been dug up out of the ground is allowed to dry in order that the moisture
may pass away; it is then taken and put into a machine which grinds or tears it
up to a coarse soft mixture. When this is done and the article reduced to a state
of comparative pulverization it is bagged, and is then ready for use.
The advantages of using peat turf for the purpose indicated are as follows:-
1. From its peculiar nature peat turf is soft and easy to the feet, and it is
admirably suited for bedding from the property which it possesses of readily
absorbing fluids.
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2. Peat being an antiseptic, it has a tendency to preserve the stalls sweet, clean,
and free from the smell.
3. The use of turf also dispenses with the necessity of cleaning out the stalls so
frequently as at present.
4. After stable use the turf becomes exceedingly. valuable as a manure.
5. It can be manufactured and brought into the market in most places in this
country at considerably less than the market value of straw.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Edwards & Edward Rogers Knowles in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 15th February 1879.
GEORGE EDWARDS, of Malpas, and EDWARD ROGERS KNOWLES, of Chester, both
in the County of Chester. "A NEW OR IMPROVED BEDDING FOR HORSES AND
OTHER ANIMALS."
We have discovered that peat turf possesses properties which render it an
invaluable article for use for the bedding of horses and other animals.
In preparing the article for use our modus operandi is usually as follows:--The
turf having been dug up out of the ground is dried by natural or artificial means
in order that the moisture may pass away; it is then taken and put into a machine
which grinds or tears it up to a coarse soft mixture. When this is done the turf is
bagged or stored, and is then ready for use.
The advantages of using peat turf for the purpose indicated are as follows:-
1. From its peculiar nature peat turf is soft and easy to the feet, and it is 1
admirably suited for bedding, being a good non-conductor of heat, and possessing,
as it does, the property of readily absorbing fluids, especially when the peat is pre-
pared as described.
2. Peat being an antiseptic, it has a tendency to preserve the stalls sweet, clean,
and free from the smell.
3. The use of turf also dispenses with the necessity of cleaning out the stalls so
frequently as at present.
4. After stable use the turf becomes exceedingly valuable as a fertilizing
manure.
5. It can be manufactured and brought into the market in most places in this
country at considerably less than the market value of straw.
We have not annexed Drawings of the machinery required to disintegrate the
peat, as any suitable machine for the purpose can be used, or designed by a practical
mechanic.
Having now described our Invention and the best mode known to us of carrying
it into effect, we wish it to be understood that what we believe to be new and
desire to claim under the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
First. The use and application of peat turf, as described, as a bedding for horses
and other animals.
Second. The mode of preparing peat turf as a bedding for horses and other animals
by first drying the peat and then disintegrating or tearing it into a soft mixture,
substantially as and for the purposes described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Rogers Knowles, for myself and the
said George Edwards, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth
day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-nine.
EDWARD ROGERS KNOWLES. (L.S.)
Witness,
W. P. THOMPSON,
International Patent Agent,
6, Lord Street,
Liverpool,
& 323, High Holborn,
London.