AN IMPROVED PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR HERBIVOROUS ANIMALS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederic Philippe Auguste Auburtin, of Paris, in the
Empire of France, at present residing at No. 82, Gerrard Street, Isling-
ton, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
PREPARATION OF FOOD FOR HERBIVOROUS ANIMALS."
Sealed the 29th September 1859, and dated the 1st April 1859.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Frederic Philippe Auguste
Auburtin at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Peti-
tion and Declaration, on the 1st April 1859, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERIC
PHILIPPE AUGUSTE AUBURTIN, of Paris, in the Empire of France, at present
residing at No. 32, Gerrard Street, Islington, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVED PREPARATION
OF FOOD FOR HERBIVOROUS ANIMALS," and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention consists, first, in the application of the mucilage of the cactus
opuntius in combination with chopped hay, clover, straw, lucern, bruised oats,
barley, or other grain, or seeds or substances usually employed in the prepa-
ration of food for horses and other animals.
And, secondly, the Invention consists in combining arrachiḍ oil with the

page_text: mucilage of linseed, and with the mucilage of the cactus opuntius, or with
one of them, when preparing food composed of chopped hay, clover, straw,
lucern, crushed oats, barley, or other seeds or grain, or substances employed
in the preparation of food for horses and other animals.
It should be stated that heretofore in the preparation of food for horses
and other animals, as appears by the Specification of the Patent granted to
Mr. Montague Richard Leverson on my behalf, for improvements in the
preparation of food for cattle, on the Nineteenth September, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-seven, I have employed the mucilage of linseed
together with chopped hay, straw, clover, lucern, crushed oats, barley, and
other seeds or grains, or substances, and the use of such matters in combina-
tion one with the other, and the proportions thereof, have been greatly varied,
and such may be the case when combining substancos according to this
Invention. In preparing the mucilage of the cactus opuntius, the green
portion of the cactus is alone employed, and it is used by preference at the
rate of about ten to fifteen pounds to each hundred gallons of water, combined
with a small quantity of eommon salt, and these matters are boiled together.
The mucilage of linseed is prepared in the usual manner by boiling linseed
with water slightly salt, in the proportion of about forty pounds of linseed meal
to one hundred gallons of water. In preparing both descriptions of mucilage,
boilers of the capacity of one hundred gallons and upwards are to be pre-
ferred, and should have in preference, though not necessarily, a double bottom.
Where this description of boiler is used, I boil the mucilage by means of steam
introduced into the lower division of the boiler by means of a pipe communi-
cating with a generator. The. substances must be constantly stirred, and for
this purpose I attach an agitator upon. the boiler. When, as is usually the case
in carrying out my Invention, the mucilages of linseed and cactus opuntius are
combined in the preparation of a food, they are combined when both are at a
boiling heat, and the proportions in which they are preferred to be combined
are twenty parts by measure of the mucilage of the cactus, and ono hundred
parts of the mucilage of linseed, to which is added about one per cent. of
arrachid oil. In combining chopped hay, clover, lucern, straw, bruised oats,
barley, or other grain, seeds, or substances, they or such of them as are to be
used, are roughly mixed with the preparation of mucilage above described, and
then subjected to the action of a pug or other suitable mill, by which the
whole are rendered into a stiff dough or plastic compound, which is pressed]
into cakes or blocks in suitable moulds and dried. The preparation of food
for horses in good health is preferred to consist of, hay or clover, seven parts
hy weight; nats or corn, seven parts by weight; combined mucilage, eight

page_text: parts by weight, and a small quantity of common salt; but these proportions
may be varied, and it is desirable to leave out or reduce the proportion of the
mucilage of the cactus for horses or animals in a weak state of health, and
having weak powers of digestion. In training race or other high-bred horses,
the mucilage of linseed may be omitted or reduced in quantity.
Having thus described the nature of the Invention and the manner of per-
forming the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is,―
First, the application of the mucilage of the cactus opuntius in com-
bination with food composed of chopped straw, hay, clover, lucern, bruised
oats, barley, or other grain or seeds, or other substances used in preparing
food for horses and other animals.
And, secondly, I claim the application of arrachid oil with the mucilage of
linsced, and with the mucilage of the cactus opuntius, or one of them, for
preparing food for horses and other animals, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederic Philippe Auguste Auburtin,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of March,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.