IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR CATTLE
Year: 1857

page_text: kn the latter of a Patent granted to MONTAGUE KICHARD LEVERSON,
of No. 12, Saint Helen's Place, in the City of London, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR CATTLE,"
a communication from Frederick Phillipe Aubertin, of Paris, in the
Empire of France, bearing date the Nineteenth day of September,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
DISCLAIMER proposed to be entered by the said Montague Richard
Leverson, as such Patentee as aforesaid, pursuant to the Statutes in that
case made and provided.
WHEREAS in my said Specification I described the use of vegetable
mucilage, or in place thereof "salt and water" when preparing food for
cattle; but since the filing of my said Specification I have ascertained in
practice that the dispensing with the use of vegetable mucilage is injurious;
for which reason I wish to disclaim, and I do hereby disclaim, the following
parts of the Specification, videlicit:-"The mucilage may be dispensed with,
but in that case salt and water must be employed, the ingredients thoroughly
saturated and mixed together;" near the end of the Specification. Also the
words "or salt and water" in the last paragraph of the Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said Montague Richard Leverson, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Eighth day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
MONTAGUE R. LEVERSON. (L.S.)
Witness,
JOHN G. BRETT.

page_text: To the Commissioners of Patents for England.
I hereby grant my fiat, giving leave to the above-named Montague Richard
Leverson to file in the Great Seal Patents Office, with the Specification to
which the same relates, the above written Disclaimer.
Dated this Nineteenth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Montague Richard Leverson, of No. 12, Saint.
Helen's Place, in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR CATTLE."-A communication from
Frederick Philline Aubertin. of Paris. in the Empire of France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Montague Richard
Leverson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 19th September 1857.
I, MONTAGUE RICHARD LEVERSON, of No. 12, Saint Helen's Place, in tho
City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR CATTLE," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to procure a wholesome and nutritious food
for cattle in the most compact and portable form. It consists of a combination
of chopped hay, straw, and lucern, with oats bruised or partially crushed,
cemented with a vegetable mucilage, and the whole compressed to a compact
cake.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Montague Richard Leverson in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 9th March 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MONTAGUE
RICHARD LEVERSON, of No. 12, Saint Helen's Place, in the City of London,
Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Montague Richard Leverson, Her special licence that I, the said
Montague Richard Leverson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Montague Richard Leverson, and my executors, admin-
istrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR CATTLE," a
communication from Frederick Phillipe Auberton, of Paris, in the Empire of
France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Montague
Richard Leverson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Montague Richard Leverson, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The object of my Invention is to procure a wholesome and nutritious food
for cattle in the most compact and portable form.
The best feed for horses consists of a quantity of different substances,
videlicet, hay, straw, lucerne, and oats, in different proportions; other
herbivora require also a mixture of different kinds of food. In whatever
proportion it is desired to exhibit the different kinds of food above mentioned,
I take the hay, straw, and lucerne, chopped small, mix them with oats bruised
or partially crushed, and cement them together with vegetable mucilage mixed

page_text: These being well
mixed, I press the
with salt, such as the mucilage of linseed, barley meal, or the like with
common salt mixed therewith.
mixture into cakes of any size, as may be required.
A single
A single day's ration
straw, four pounds of
generally consists of six pounds of hay, four pounds of
lucerne, and ten pounds of oats. The size of a cake of a day's ration will be
about nine inches each dimension. The hydraulic press is the most convenient
for pressing the cakes, a continued pressure being required. In wintry or damp
weather it is then necessary to place the cakes in a stove or oven heated to
about one hundred and twenty-degrees Fahrenheit, for about six hours, to
extract the remaining moisture. In dry warm weather, the heat of the sun is
sufficient. Barley may be substituted for oats. The mucilage may be
dispensed with, but in that case salt and water must be employed, the
ingredients thoroughly saturated and mixed together.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, I wish it to be under-
stood, I do not claim the pressing any one particular species of food for cattle
into cakes; but what I do claim in the above Invention is, the combination in
their natural condition of the different kinds of food used for herbivorous
animals, with a saline vegetable mucilage, or salt and water, in a convenient
and portable form, so that the same may be conserved for many years in a
sweet and wholesome condition, and so as to preserve the nutritious properties
of the ingredients.
In witness whereof, I, the said Montague Richard Leverson, have here-
tofore set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
MONTAGUE R. LEVERSON. (L.S.)