Improvements in the Manufacture of Fodder for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1888

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Date of Application, 31st May, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 18th May, 1889
PROVISIONAL DIFCIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fodder for Horses and other
Animals.
I ARTHUR CAMPBELL ROGERS, of Saharunpur, North West Province of India,
Civil Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention a careful mixture of chopped or chopped and bruised
straw, of husks or bran of cereals, of vetches and pulses, and of molasses or other
suitable binding substance is exposed to a very high compression in a hydraulic press
and thereby rendered into a dense and homogeneous cake or bale. In some cases
such as when the fodder is intended for cattle food powdered linseed meal or the like
may advantageously he added or substituted for the molasses. This fodder is suitable
for transport as it is coherent and takes up little room. It can be stored for a long
time without deterioration and is ready for immediate use whenever required, and
it can then be quickly and accurately cut up into proper rations, each possessing
the same proportionate nutritious elements of food; or in some cases it may be
stored for a time in cut up rations. Sometimes when the mixture is compressed
into thin cakes the press box is charged with previously weighed portions of the
mixture in thin layers with intermediate press plates which may be ribbed and cross
ribbed for the purpose of indenting the cakes in the form of squares each square
forming a ration and capable of being easily broken off the cake.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fodder for Horses and other
Animals.
I ARTHUR CAMPBELL ROGERS of Saharunpur North West Province of India,
Civil Engineer 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 :-
According to my invention a careful mixture of chopped straw, or chopped and
bruised-straw, of busks or bran of cereals of vetches and pulses, and of molasses or
other suitable binding substance is exposed to a very-high compression in a hydraulic
press, and thereby rendered. into a dense and "homogeneous cake or bale. In some
cases, such as when the fodder is intended for cattle food powdered linseed meal or the
like may advantageously be added, or substituted for the molasses. No water .or
steaming is required in this manufacture.
This fodder is suitable for transport as it is coherent and takes up little room. It
can be stored for a long tinic without deterioration and is ready for immediate use
whenever required and it can then be quickly and accurately cut up into proper
rations each possessing the same proportionats nutritious elements of food. Orin'
some cases it may be stored for a time in cut up rations.
A suitable rate of compression is to about 1th to 15th' of its bulk!
actual result I find a density of about 40 pounds per cubic foot suitable.'
As an example of cow forage I shall 'nanie :=
Bruised wheat straw
Cicer arietinum husk
Phaseolus radiatus grain crushed
Oil cake meal * -
Pure molasses at 40° density
New cotton seed
As an example of horse forage I may name
Bruised wheat straw
Parched cicer arietinum grain whole
Parched hordeum vulgare grain whole
Molasses at 40° density*.
As another example of horse forage I name
Parched cicer arietinum grain whole
Parched hordeum vulgare grain whole
Cut hay
Pure maloccos of 100 domniter.
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20 parts by weight.
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page_text: An example of bullocks forage is composed of :-
Parched hordeum vulgare grain whole
Parched cicer arietinum grain whole
Phaseolus radiatus husk
Bruised wheat straw
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Pure molasses at 40° density
A suitable mule forage is composed of
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15 parts by weight.
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Phaseolus aconitifolius grain crushed
Phaseolus radiatus husk
Bruised wheat straw
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Parched hordeum vulgare
Pure molasses at 40° density
A forage suitable for camels is composed of
Cicer arietinum husks
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Cicer arietinum grain crushed, raw
Alum
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Pure molasses at 40° density
A suitable sheep forage is composed of
Husk of the Masoor vetch
Straw of the Masoor vetch
Cicer arietinum ground raw
Molasses at 40° density
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The proportions of the ingredients in the above mixtures may be varied or some
them omitted, the main purpose of the invention being the successful compressson o.
bruised wheat straw with molasses or other suitable binding substance with or without
such other ingredients as make the fodder more suitable for the various animals.
Sometimes when the mixture is compressed into thin cakes the press box is charged
with previously weighed portions of the mixture in thin layers with intermediate
press plates which may be ribbed and cross ribbed for the purpose of indenting the
cakes in the form of squares each of which forms a ration and capable of being easily
broken off the cake.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The manufacture of food for horses and other animals by highly compressing
a mixture of the substances specified substantially as set forth.
Second. The manufacture of thin cakes of a highly compressed mixture of the
substances specified substantially as set forth.
Dated this 20th day of Fah 1889