Improved Nose Bag.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Nose Bag.
We, THOMAS WATSON HILL and BERNARD HILL, 11, Holbein Place, Sloane
Square, Chelsea, S.W., Legging Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
It is a nose or feed hag constructed so as to prevent the horse wasting the
corn when in use. Made of suitable material such as cocoa nut matting, the rect-
angular shaped bottom is formed by turning the corners inside when
made, or stitching across and turning the corners under the bottom or cut-
ting them off. With this shaped bag I attach inside a triangular piece of canvas
or netting or. any suitable material to the side of the bag falling under the chin
and forming an angle, also a buckle and strap to the centre of the top part of the
bag. The buckle and strap can be attached to either end of the seamed side.
If strapped in the ordinary way at the seamed ends a crescent shaped "saver" is
used on one side only. The convex is sewn inside the top of the bag, the round
end pointing downwards. It is a bag with a rectangular shaped bottom; the
mouth of the bag covered at one end, the crescent shaped "saver" is sewn on one
side to prevent the corn coming out.
Dotad this 12th day of Ianuam 1800
THOMAS WATSON HILL.
BERNARD HILL.
We, THOMAS WATSON HILL and BERNARD HILL, 11, Holbein Place, Sloane
Square, Chelsea, Middlesex, Legging Manufacturers, 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;-
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This invention relates to horse feed or nose bags for animals and has for its
object to provide an anti-waste device for a horse nose bag which aforesaid nose
bag can readily be used and kept on by a leathern strap A and one buckle, which
are attached to a ring on either side of the bag, as shown in Fig. 1. To the rings
are attached two leathern straps B which extend down the sides of the bag in a
triangular shape as shown in Fig. 2.
The bag may be fastened or buckled on the horse's head by a single leathern
strap. The bag is made of cocoa nut fibre matting manilla or other suitable
materials. But it applies more particularly to the two first-named materials, which
are difficult to cut to shape. We take about 42 in. by 20 in. of cocoa nut

page_text: We double and sew down the
fibre matting, manilla or other suitable material.
edges to within. four inches of the bottom of the bag. A wooden block is then
inserted and forced to the bottom of the bag which is merely used to hold out
We then sew both sides of
the bag to its proper shape while the bottom is made.
the bag from corner to corner, and turn under four and a half inches towards the
centre, and sew the parts turned under to the bottom which form the shape of the
bottom part of the bag as shown in Fig. 3.
The bottom part of the bag is rectangular or oval as shown in Fig. 3 according
to the shape of the block used and when finished is about 15 inches by 4 inches.
The bottom may be covered with leather, canvas, or other suitable material to
prevent dirt and wet penetrating.
To strengthen the bag we rivet or stitch two or more leathern bands C round
the bottom as shown in Fig. 2.
Cheaper bags are made without the bottom being covered but of the same shape.
The top part or upper edge of bag covered with leather, webbing or other
suitable material.
At one or both ends near the top part of the back of the bag we fix a lapped-
web gusset D, netting or other suitable material as shown in Fig. 4.
For large bags we use a piece of webbing or canvas G, about 3 inches wide at
top and 5 inches wide at bottom and about 6 inches long, or netting can be used-
this is fixed inside of front part of bag, thus leaving about 5 inches hanging
loosely down as shewn in Fig. 4.
In order to keep the gusset D or gussets in position we run a piece of covered
rubber (plaited with leather for strength) along the inside edge. The gusset or
gussets can be kept in position with a leathern lace or cord only, thus dispensing
with the rubber. The aforesaid gusset or gussets act as corn savers, and the
gussets may be perforated.
A nose bag made as described has several important advantages-having rect-
angular or oval shaped ends and flat bottom.there are no corners in which corn
can accumulate.
The top of the bag being made as described prevents the horse wasting its corn.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim
is:-
A nose or feed bag for horses or other animals made with cocoanut fibre matting,
manilla or other suitable material, but more particularly the two first named
materials. It is a nose bag made with a gusset or gussets D at the top of the bag,
or one gusset and a loose piece of netting or webbing G the latter hanging loosely
down inside of the bag as described. The bottom of the bag is flat E and rect-
angular F with oval shaped ends.
Dated this 14th day of January 1899.
THOMAS WATSON HILL.
BERNARD HILL.