An Improved Nose or Feed Bag for Horses.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Nose or Feed Bag for Horses.
We, CHARLES GEORGE MAITLAND, Merchant, and COLIN MCCALLUM, Mechanic,
both of 14, Moir Street, Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved nose or feed bag for horses and has
for its object to provide a bag which will keep the food stuff dry and sweet and
which by its construction will enable the bag proper to be easily and quickly
detached from the bottom when worn out and a new bag or upper to be as
readily substituted therefor.
Hitherto the bag or upper portion has been rivetted or otherwise permanently
secured to the bottom making it a difficult matter to replace it when desired.
In accordance with our invention we employ a circular band of sheet metal
preferably slightly tapered towards its upper edge, the said band having a wooden
or other hoop say half the breadth of the metal band secured at the top of the
inner surface thereof.
The bottom edge of the cloth portion of the bag is provided with a ring of
wire, cord or other suitable material and is placed over the bottom which con-
sists of a disc of galvanized iron or other metal having its edge turned up.
The cloth or bag and the metal bottom or disc are then placed within the
metal band until they come against the upper hoop in which position the por-
tion of the bag containing the wire or other ring lies in the groove formed
by the turned up edge of the metal disc or bottom with the side of the metal
band. A second wooden hoop may be placed between the bottom edge of the
metal band and the ring of the bag to keep the metal disc or bottom in its
required position; this wooden hoop may be secured by screws or other similar
means.
The top and bottom edges of the metal band may be turned inwards to retain
the upper and lower wooden hoops in position.
The arrangement is such that the bottom is at a distance from the ground
and is therefore less liable to be damaged.
In place of employing a metal band and metal bottom we may make them
both of wood and form the band during construction with a bead against which
the bag and bottom may bear in lieu of the wooden hoop described above.
Dated this 22nd day of February 1898.
JOHNSONS,
Petitioners' Agents, 115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.

page_text: We, CHARLES George Maitland, Merchant, and Colin McCallum, Mechanic,
both of 14 Moir Street, Glasgow, do hereby declare the nature of this 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 an improved nose or feed bag for horses and has
for its object to provide a bag which will keep the food stuff dry and sweet and
which by its construction will enable the bag proper to be casily and quickly
detached from the bottom when worn out and a new bag or upper as readily
substituted therefor, whereas in nose bags as hitherto in use the upper portion
has been rivetted or otherwise permanently secured to the bottom, making it a
difficult matter to replace it when desired.
But in order that my said invention may be more readily understood and
easily carried into effect we will proceed to describe the same with reference
to the accompanying drawings in which:-
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the nose bag complete.
Fig. 2 a section of the bottom of same shewing the method of attaching the
bag thereto.
Fig. 3 is a section of a modification of same.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, we employ a circular band of sheet
metal A slightly tapered towards its upper edge a.
The bottom edge b of the cloth portion B of the bag is provided with a ring C
of wire, cord or other suitable material and is placed over the bottom D which
consists of a disc of galvanized iron or other metal perfectly formed saucer
shaped and having its edge d turned up, as shewn.
The cloth or bag B and the metal bottom or disc D are then placed within
the metal band A from below and raised until they come against the walls
thereof by reason of the taper before referred to in which position they become
jammed, the portion 6 of the bag containing the wire or other ring C lying in
the groove formed by the turned up edge of the metal disc or bottom with the
side of the metal band.
The upper edge a of the metal band A is rounded off to avoid cutting or undue
wearing of the cloth at that part and the lower edge ¹ is turned inwards to
form a flange to retain a wooden hoop E which may be employed to prevent
the bottom from dropping and to deaden the sound when coming in contact
with the ground; the said hoop being sprung into position and if desired secured
by screws e.
Or we may as a modification form the various parts as shewn in section
Figs. 3 that is to say we may form the disc or bottom flat instead of saucer
shaped and in place of rounding off the upper edge we may form it with a
flange to retain a second wooden hoop F similar to the hoop E to prevent the
cloth coming into contact with the sharp edge of the metal band. This hoop
may also be retained by the pressure exerted of itself or may be secured by
screws or otherwise.
In place of employing a metal band and metal bottom I may make them
both of wood and form the band during construction with a bead against which
the bag may bear in lieu of the upper wooden hoop described above; or the bag
may bear against the wall of the wooden band direct if desired.
Also I may form the metal band with a suitable bead of a rounded or tapered

page_text: shape by which the bottom with the cloth bag may be wedged tightly together,
the sides of the metal band being in this case parallel.
By our arrangement therefore it will be seen that the bottom is at a distance
from the ground and is thus less liable to be damaged.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:―
1. An improved nose or feed bag for horses consisting of a tapered metal or
other band A to receive the metal or other disc or bottom D, the cloth B of the
bag being interposed between the said disc D and the interior wall of the band A
whereby by exerting an upward pressure they can be firmly wedged together,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and shewn.
2. In a nose or feed bag for horses having a tapered metal or other band and
a metal or other disc between which the cloth of the bag is interposed, providing
the edge of the metal or other disc with a turned up portion to form a groove
with the wall of the band, to receive a ring of wire, cord or other suitable material
embedded in the bottom of the bag whereby the cloth bag is prevented from
becoming detached from the bottom, substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described and shewn.
3. In a nose or feed bag for horses having a tapered metal or other band and a
metal or other disc between which the cloth of the bag is interposed, a wooden or
other hoop E situated directly below the lower edge of the bag and the metal
disc, and retained in position by the bottom flange upon the band and the pres-
sure exerted of itself upon the said band whereby the bottom of the bag is pre-
vented from dropping when once in position, substantially as hereinbefore
described and shewn.