IMPROVED PRE- PARATIONS OF FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE, GAME, POULTRY, AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS, SUCH PREPARATIONS BEING CAPABLE OF ADMIXTURE WITH COMPOUNDS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A MEDICATED FOOD FOR MAN
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Spratt, of High Holborn, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVED PRE-
PARATIONS OF FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE, GAME, POULTRY, AND OTHER
DOMESTIC ANIMALS, SUCH PREPARATIONS BEING CAPABLE OF ADMIXTURE WITH
COMPOUNDS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A MEDICATED FOOD FOR MAN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Spratt at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 21th October 1868.
I, JAMES SPRATT, of High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVED PREPARATIONS OF FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE, GAME, POULTRY, AND
OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS, SUCH PREPARATIONS BEING CAPABLE OF ADMIXTURE
WITH COMPOUNDS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A MEDICATED FOOD FOR MAN," to be
as follows:-
The object of my Invention is to introduce the fruit of the date palm
into any or all of the following ingredients to be used as food for horses,
cattle, game, poultry, and other domestic animals, viz., flour or other

page_text: farinaceous substances; grains or seeds of all kinds, either moist or
desiccated, particularly malt; berries, such as cocoa or any part of the
cocoa berry; meat or its residuum after boiling down; oil cake; sul-
phur; spices, and any saccharine substances. The whole or part of these
ingredients are well mixed (in such proportions, according to the purpose
for which the food is intended) with water until they are brought to
a pasty consistence, when they may be made into bread, cakes, or
biscuits, and baked; after which they may be ground or pulverized
into powder for the greater convenience of feeding; the water and
baking may be dispensed with when desired to be used as meal. Instead
of mixing the above-named ingredients with water when making into
bread, cakes, or biscuits, wine or the juices of fruits or vegetables may
be substituted, so that during the process of baking all or part of the
aqueous particles are evaporated, leaving the more valuable residuum
of the wines or juices in the bread, cakes, or biscuits. For the purpose
of imparting medicinal properties to the above preparations I propose
mixing the bread, cakes, or biscuits with pure mineral waters, or with
water containing the elements of the natural mineral waters instead of
common water, so that the residuum of the salts of such mineral waters
may be left when the bread, cakes, or biscuits, are baked. Any of the
above preparations (when in the form of a biscuit) may be dipped into
lime juice or lemon juice, and afterwards dried off at a low temperature
for the use of sailors or passengers by sea as a medicinal preparation
for curing and preventing scurvy and other diseases incidental to a
seafaring life.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Spratt in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 23rd April 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
SPRATT, of High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer, 3
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give 3

page_text: and grant unto me, the said James Spratt, Her special licence that
I, the said James Spratt, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said James Spratt, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVED PREPARATION OF
FOOD FOR HORSES, CATTLE, GAME, POULTRY, AND OTHER DOMESTIC ANIMALS, SUCH
PREPARATION BEING CAPABLE OF ADMIXTURE WITH COMPOUNDS FOR THE PRODUCTION
OF A MEDICATED FOOD FOR MAN," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said James Spratt, my executors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Spratt, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
'
The first part of my Invention consists particularly in the introduction
of the fruit of the date palm (phoenix Dactylifera) into any or all of
the following ingredients to be used as food for horses, cattle, game,
poultry, and other domestic animals (such fruit being very wholesome,
imparts tone and vigour to the horse and dog, and causes great fecundity
to all kinds of game and poultry). This fruit is to be mixed with flour
or other farinaceous substances; grains or seeds of all kinds, cither
moist or desiccated, particularly malt, chocolate, or cocoa berries; meat
or its residuum after boiling down (the meat being dispensed with when
making up the compound for herbiverous animals) oil cake, sulphur,
spices, and any saccharine substance to sweeten such compound. The
proportions of the above ingredients I prefer for dogs and poultry, game,
and other domestic animals are as follows, viz, ten parts by weight
of the fruit of the date palm, seventy parts of flour or any farinaceous
meal, one part of malt, one part of cocoa berries, one part of oil cake,
twenty parts of meat or its residuum after boiling down, with about a

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with sufficient sugar to render the compound palatable, but when the
food is to be used for herbivorous animals, such as horses, cattle, &c.,
the meat is dispensed with and an additional quantity of dates and flour
is required. The whole or part of these ingredients are well mixed
together, and sufficient water is added to bring them to a pasty
consistence, when they may be made into bread, cakes, or biscuits,
and baked, after which they may be ground or pulverized into powder
for the greater convenience of feeding game, poultry, and other domestic
animals.
The second part of the Invention has for its object the production of
an invigorating or medicated food for man. In carrying out this object
the malt, cocoa berries, meat, oil cake, sulphur, and spices (as described
in the first part of the Invention) may all or in part be dispensed with,
leaving only the fruit of the date palm flour and sugar, but instead of
mixing such ingredients with water to bring them to a pasty consistence
before making them into bread, cakes, or biscuits, wine or a portion
thereof, such as port, claret, and other wines, and quinine possessing
tonic properties, may be substituted, or the juices of fruits and vegetables
mixed with the ingredients named under this part of the Invention may
be used for the purpose of medicating such food for man. When both
or either of these compositions are well mixed and made into bread;
cakes or biscuits, they are baked, by which all or part of the aqueous
particles are evaporated, leaving only the more valuable residuum of the
wines, or quinine, or juices of the fruit and vegetables therein. Or
instead of using wines for mixing the ingredients as herein-before
described in the second part of this Invention, viz., dates, flour, and
sugar, I impart medicinal properties. thereto by mixing them before
being made into bread, cakes or biscuits, with pure mineral waters,
or part mineral waters and wine, or with water containing the elements
of the natural waters instead of common water or wine or the
juices of fruits and vegetables, so that the residuum of the salts of
such waters may be left when the bread, cakes, or biscuits are baked.
Either of the above preparations described under the second head of
my Invention (when in the form of a biscuit) may be dipped into
lime juice or lemon juice, and afterwards dried off, either in the
open air or at a very low temperature (thus avoiding the deterioration
of the salts. by the great heat in baking) for the use of sailors or

page_text: passengers by sea as a medicinal preparation as a cure for preventing
and other diseases incidental to a seafaring life.
scurvy
And having now described my said Invention, and the means by
which I carry the same into practical effect, I would have it understood
that I do not confine myself to the precise details or proportions of the
ingredients herein given, as such may be varied without departing from
my Invention; but what I claim as of my Invention as secured to me
by Letters Patent herein in part recited is,―
First. Mixing with any or all of the above ingredients described
under the first head of the Invention the fruit of the date palm to be
used as food for horses, cattle, game, poultry, and other domestic animals,
substantially as herein described.
Second. Mixing the ingredients described under the second head of
the Invention with wines or the juices of fruits and vegetables or
mineral waters (natural or artificial) and minerals, and dipping the same
(when in the form of a biscuit) into lime juice or lemon juice as a
medicated food for man, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Spratt, have hereunto set
iny hand and scal, this Twenty-third day of April, in the year of
our Lord One thousand cight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
THOMAS LETHBRIDGE,
59, St. Paul's Street,
Islington.
JAMES SPRATT. (L.S.)