Improvements in the Manufacture of Linseed and other Compressed Feed-cakes for Cattle.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
COAT DUID DI BOLTIVATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Linseed and other Compressed
Feed-cakes for Cattle.
I, JOSEPH BIBBY, of Exchange Chambers, Liverpool, Lancashire, Manu-
facturer of Foods for Cattle, do hereby declare 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of linseed and other
compressed feed-cakes for cattle, the same being designed to enable the feed-cake
to be more readily divided into portions of convenient size for use than any existing
feed-cake so divisible.
It has been proposed to manufacture a feed-cake breakable into pieces of required
size by moulding or forming the feed-cake with continuous depressions where
required to be divided, so that it will be of somewhat less thickness at such parts
than in the body part, or by moulding or forming the feed-cake with series of
discontinuous depressions in the required alignment, but neither of such proposals.
possessed sufficient practical advantage to ensure adoption; as, according to the
first thereof, the feed cake, though of less thickness in the alignment of the con-
tinuous depressions, was of correspondingly greater density in such alignment, and
the fracture of the cake, when attempting to break it up, was liable to take an
erratic and undesired course, almost as frequently through the full thickness of the
feed-cake as in the alignment of the parts of less thickness, this being a defect
which was intensified in the secondly mentioned of such proposals on account of
the parts intermediate of the discontinuous depressions being left of the full
thickness of the feed-cake.
The present improvements are illustrated on the accompanying drawings in
which ;-
Fig. 1, represents in plan view, a quarter cake made in accordance with one-
modification of the invention.
Fig. 2, represents a like view of a variation of such modification.
Fig. 3, represents a like view of another modification.
Fig. 4, represents a like view of a variation of such modification.
Fig. 5, represents a sectional elevation on the lines a, b, Figs. 1 to 4.
Fig. 6, represents a like view on the lines c,-d, Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. 7, represents a like view on the lines e, f, Figs. 2 and 3.
Fig. 8, represents a like view on the line g, h, Fig. 1.
Fig. 9, represents a like view on the line i,j, Fig. 2.
Fig. 10, represents a like view on the line k,-1, Fig. 3.
Fig. 11, represents a like view on the line m,-n Fig. 4; and
Figs. 12 to 15, represent sectional elevations longitudinally and centrally of the
cakes respectively represented in Figs. 1 to 4.
According to the improvements, the feed-cake is moulded or formed both with
continuous intersecting shallow depressious 16, in the alignment of the required
divisionings, penetrating partly through its substance, and also in the same align-
ment or at the intersections of such depressions or both in the said alignment and
at the said intersections either with discontinuous deep depressions 17, penetrating
nearly through the substance of the cake (vide Figs. 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14 and 15) or
with holes or slots 18, penetrating right through such substance (vide Figs. 1, 2, 6,
8, 9, 12 and 13,) so as in the former case to nearly wholly, and in the latter case
to wholly remove parts of the substance of the feed-cake in the alignment of the
required divisionings, and thus cause a positive weakening of the feed-cake in said
alignment, giving an initial tendency in the cake to break in said alignment and

page_text: reducing to the minimum the liability of the fracture taking an erratic and
undesired course.
The continuous depressions 16, are preferably so arranged as to cross at right
angles, (vide Figs. 1 to 4) so as to enable the feed-cake to be divided into square
or oblong pieces, and the crossing depressions are preferably made in one and the
same side of the feed-cake, but they may respectively, be made in the opposite
sides thereof.
The discontinuous, depressions 17, and through slots 18, may be made of a
cruciform or L-shape at the intersections of the depressions 16, vide Figs. 1 to 4,
and intermediate of such intersections they may be made more or less closely
adjacent according to the thickness of the cake and the depth and distance apart
of the depressions 16. Both the continuous depressions and the discontinuous
depressions and through holes are preferably made of a tapering or incline-sided
formation, though they may be made of a parallel sided formation.
The depressions 16, 17, and through holes or slots 18, may be made by forming
the mould in which the feed-cake is compressed with suitably disposed projecting
ribs for forming the depressions and with any suitable means of punching the holes
or slots through the feed-cake or in any other suitable manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A feed-cake breakable into pieces of required size, moulded or formed with
continuous intersecting shallow depressions in the alignment of the required
divisionings, penetrating partly through its substance, in combination with deeper
discontinuous depressions in the same alignment penetrating nearly through its
substance, as set forth.
2. A feed-cake 'breakable into pieces of required size, moulded or formed with
continuous intersecting shallow depressions in the alignment of the required
divisionings, penetrating partly through its substance, in combination with holes or
slots in the same alignment penetrating right through its substance, as set forth.
Dated this 27th day of February 1893.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.