IMPROVEMENTS IN NOSE BAGS OR RECEPTACLES FOR FOOD EMPLOYED FOR FEEDING HORSES AND OTHER CATTLE
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Ayckbourn, of Notting Hill, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN NOSE BAGS OR RECEPTACLES
FOR FOOD EMPLOYED FOR FEEDING HORSES AND OTHER CATTLE."
Sealed the 7th December 1877, and dated the 9th June 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Ayckbourn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th June 1877.
FREDERICK AYCKBOURN, of Notting Hill, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN NOSE BAGS OR RECEPTACLES FOR FOOD EMPLOYED FOR FEEDING HORSES
AND OTHER CATTLE."
My Invention relates to nose bags containing corn or other food, which are
strapped or otherwise fastened to the heads of the horses or other animals which are
to be fed, and especially to the form of such nose bags in which the supply of corn
or other food is kept in a part of the contrivance distinct from that part into which
the 'animal's mouth is introduced.
It has for its objects improved methods of constructing and arranging the nose
bag, so that it is simpler, more economical, cleaner, and more durable and effective
than has heretofore been the case.
I take a vessel of convenient form and size, into which the mouth of the horse or
other animal dips when it is feeding. This vessel I make of perforated metal, wire
gauze, or other suitable material, having fine apertures through which the animal
can conveniently 'breathe when feeding, and I make the bottom of the vessel of the
same material, or of wood, or other material without perforations or apertures. To
either side of this vessel I attach a bag or receptacle of cloth or other flexible material,
the lower end of which is open and is kept sufficiently distended by a wire or other
sufficiently rigid frame. Its upper end is also open, but may be closed, if desired,
by a flap or cover, and the bag is made of such size as to contain any désired quantity
of corn or other provender. The lower ends of the two bags as described, one being
upon each side of the perforated vessel, are attached to the latter at a short distance
from its bottom; so that when the bags are filled with corp, it issues from them into
the vessel until it rises above and closes their lower openings, and the entire con-
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page_text: trivance as described being suspended by straps or other means from the head of the
animal, the latter consumes the corn and as it does so allows a fresh supply to
descend from the bags until the latter are emptied of their contents. By this
arrangement the corn is only supplied as required, until which time it is kept
separated from the feeding vessel and preserved from taint or injury by the breath 5
of the animal or other cause. The lower ends of the bags may be attached to the
perforated vessel outside the latter, openings being made in a proper position through
its sides; or they may be attached inside it, the suspending straps being fastened to
the upper edges of the bags at their inner side.
In order to prevent the corn or other food from being wasted by being thrown 1
over the edge of the vessel, I sometimes attach round the inside of the upper
edge of the latter a ring or flange of flexible material, such as india-rubber,
having a central opening sufficiently large for the horse's mouth to enter freely.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frederick Ayckbourn in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 8th 1
December 1877.
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FREDERICK AYCKBOURN, of Notting Hill, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN NOSE BAGS OR RECEPTACLES FOR FOOD EMPLOYED FOR FEEDING HORSES
AND OTHER CATTLE."
This Invention relates to "nose bags," or bags containing corn or other food a
which are suspended by straps or otherwise fastened to the heads of horses or other
animals which are to be fed, and especially to the form of such nose bags in which
the supply of corn or other food is kept in a part of the contrivance distinct from
that part into which the animal's mouth is introduced.
My Invention has for its objects improved methods of constructing and arranging a
the nose bag and its several parts, so that it is simpler, more economical, cleaner,
and more durable and effective than is the case with nose bags- as heretofore con-
structed and used.
In order to put my Invention in operation, I take a vessel of convenient form
and size, into which the mouth of the horse or other animal dips when feeding.
This vessel may be made of perforated metal, wire gauze, or other suitable material,
having fine apertures by means of which the animal can conveniently breathe when
feeding, or it may be made of leather or other rigid or flexible material, without
apertures or perforations. The bottom of the vessel may be made of the same
material as the sides, but I prefer to make it of wood or metal without perforations.
To each side of this vessel I attach, by sewing, rivetting, or other convenient means,
a-bag or receptacle of any suitable material, but preferably of cloth or other flexiblé
fabric, having at or near its lower end an opening which may be kept sufficiently
distended by a wire or other sufficiently rigid frame, and this opening is sewn,
rivetted, or otherwise fastened round a corresponding opening in the side of the
vessel and near the bottom of the latter. The upper end of the bag is also open,
but may be closed, if desired, with a flap or cover, and the bag is made of such size
as to contain any desired quantity of corn or other provender. Two bags, arranged
as described, are fixed opposite to each other upon the vessel, so that when they are
filled with corn or other provender, it issues from their lower openings into the
vessel until it rises above the openings and so closes them..

page_text: The entire contrivance, consisting of the feeding vessel with its two bags filled
with corn, is suspended by straps or other means from the head of the horse or other
animal, and as the latter consumes the corn, a fresh supply descends into the vessel
from the bags until their contents are exhausted.
The accompanying Drawing is in illustration of my Invention.
Figure 1 is a transverse section of the contrivance.
Figure 2 is a side view, and Figure 3 a front view of the same.
a is the feeding vessel, shewn made of perforated metal, and having openings b, b¹,
at its sides, round the edges of which are fastened the lower open ends of the
two flexible bags c, c', the upper open ends of which are provided with the
straps d, by which they are suspended to the head of the horse or other animal.
Covers or flaps are shewn at e, e¹, which can be buckled over the upper open ends of
the bags c, c¹.
By the use of my Invention, the corn or other food is only supplied as required,
until which time it is kept away from the vessel, and is thus preserved from taint
or deterioration by the breath of the animal or other cause.
Instead of openings being made in the side of the feeding vessel to receive the
lower ends of the bags, the latter may be brought down inside the vessel, and
fastened to it there.
In order to prevent the corn or other food from being wasted by being thrown
over the edge of the vessel (the probability of which is very much reduced in my
improved apparatus, inasmuch as the animal always has an accessible supply of
food, and so has no temptation to toss about the contrivance, as in the ordinary
nose bag), I sometimes attach round the inside of the upper edge of the feeding
vessel a ring or flange of flexible material, such as india-rubber, having a central
opening sufficiently large for the animal's mouth to enter freely.
Having now described my Invention, and the manner in which it is to be performed,
I claim: The feeding vessel having two bags attached to it, these bags having
openings at their lower ends, so that food placed in thein descends into the feeding
vessel as required, and their upper ends being attached to straps, by which the
entire contrivance is suspended to the head of a horse or other animal to be fed,
substantially as described and shewn in the Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Ayckbourn, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.`
FREDERICK AYCKBOURN. (LS.)