IMPROVEMENTS IN NOSE-BAGS
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Raymond Leopold De Berenger, of Enfield, in the
County of Middlesex, Farmer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
NOSE-BAGS."
Sealed the 12th December 1856, and dated the 18th June 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Raymond Leopold De
Berenger at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 18th June 1856.
I, RAYMOND LEOPOLD DE BERENGER, of Enfield, in the County of
Middlesex, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN NOSE-BAGS," to be as follows (that is to say):-
My Invention, which has reference to a self-adjusting method of accom-
modating food or fodder to the mouths of horses or other cattle, consists in so
constructing and arranging the head gear in connection with nose-bags, that,
upon the food or fodder being eaten or otherwise withdrawn, the said bags
may be caused to fall or rise proportionately to the increase or diminution
of the weight of the food within the bag, whereby an uniform feeding surface
may be at all times maintained. For this object I cause flexible or elastic

page_text: materials to be employed for connecting the head gear with the sides of the
said bags, which are provided with loop strings or checks for the purpose of
confining the descent of the bag (when filled) to within its own length.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Raymond Leopold De Berenger in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 18th December 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RAYMOND
LEOPOLD DE BERENGER, of Enfield, in the County of Middlesex, Farmer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Ray-
mond Leopold De Berenger, Her special licence that I, the said Raymond
Leopold De Berenger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Raymond Leopold De Berenger, my executors, administrators,
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 Isle of Man, an Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN NOSE-BAGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Raymond Leopold De Berenger, 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 Raymond Leopold De Berenger, 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, and the Drawings therein referred to (that is to say):-
My Invention, which has reference to a self-adjusting method of accom-
modating food or fodder to the mouths of horses or other cattle, consists in sc
constructing and arranging the head gear in connection with nose-bags, that
upon the food or fodder being eaten or otherwise withdrawn, tho said nose-bags

page_text: may be caused to fall or rise proportionately to the increase or diminution of
the weight of the food within the bags, whereby an uniform feeding surface.
may be at all times maintained. For this object I cause flexible or elastic
materials to be employed for connecting the head gear with the sides of the
said bags, which may be provided with loop strings or checks for the purpose
of confining the descent of the bag (when filled) to any convenient depth.
But in order that this my said Invention may be more fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I now proceed to describe it by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings, reference being had to the letters and figures thereon
marked (that is to say):-
Fig. 1 represents a vertical front view of a nose-bag of my improved con-
struction; Fig. 2, a side view; Fig. 3, an extended view of the bag as
represented when filled with food or fodder; Fig. 4, a front elevation of
a bag, showing another description of adjusting head gear; Fig. 5, a side
view of the same extended for receiving the fodder; Fig. 6, a corresponding
front view; Fig. 7, a top or plan view; Fig. 8, a side view of a bag,
showing a modification of the elastic fastening; Fig. 9, the same filled;
Fig. 10, a side view of a bag, with a box spring or reel attached thereto, for
the purpose of suspending the same from the head gear; Fig. 11, the head
gear or bridle, with the box spring or reel attached in place of an ordinary
rosette. In cach Figure the same letters of reference denote similar corre-
sponding parts. A, A, the nose-bag; B, B, mouth or opening; C, C, straps
or head gear, of elastic or inelastic materials; D, D, bands or cords of elastic
material, passing down on each side of the bag, and attached by hooks, sewing,
or otherwise; E, E, hooks; F, F, rings or eyes; G, G, buckles; II, II, sido
loops, for confining the action of the elastic bands or cords, and protecting the
same from wear and tear; J, J, box spring or reel; K, K, hook for attaching
or detaching the bag; L, L, bridle. In conclusion to the foregoing description
I would here briefly note, that the spring box or reel may be attached in any
convenient part of the bag, and from thence suspended, through the medium of
a cord or otherwise, from the bearing rein or harness, so that the reacting coil
spring within may yield proportionately to the weight of the fodder.
Having now fully described the nature of this my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, I would have it clearly under-
stood that I do not intend to confine myself to the precise details herein-before
set forth and described, as the same might be varied without departing from
the general principle of these my said improvements; but that which I do
claim as new and of my said Invention is, the construction and employment

page_text: of self-adjusting nose-bags for presenting uniform feeding surfaces to the mouths
of horses and other cattle, in the manner and for the purposes herein-before
set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Raymond Leopold De Berenger, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
RAYMOND LEOPOLD DE BERENGER. (L.S.)
F. R. DARKIN CAMPBELL,
Clerk to Messrs. Weatherdon & Co.,
77, Chancery Lane.