Improvements in or Connected with "Nose-bags" for Feeding Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 31st Aug., 1889-Accepted, 5th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Connected with "Nose-bags" for Feeding Horses
and other Animals.
1, WILLIAM BERTHOLD IHNE, of 26 Oldhall Street, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
My invention has reference to that kind of device or means employed for feeding
horses or other animals, (but more particularly horses) termed "nose-bags," the
food being contained in the bag, which when in use is supported, mostly, by a band
passing over the upper part or top of the head of the animal, his nose being inserted
into the open end of the bag.
The main object of my invention is to prevent wholly, or to a great extent, the
waste of food stuff due to the tossing about of the bag by the throwing up of the
head of the animal-which at present exists with the " nose-bags" now commonly
employed.
A "nose-bag" provided with improvements according to this invention.consists as
follows:-
The bag which, for example, say is one of any of the ordinary kinds, is provided
at its mouth with an internal ledge, or a channel, so arranged, that when the bag is
thrown upward by the animal and the food within it falls towards the mouth, it
will be prevented from falling out between the animals head and the edge of the
bag, more especially at the back and sides of it.
This ledge, or channel, may be made of any suitable material or materials and in
any suitable form or forms. For instance it may be made with the bag so as to
form an integral part thereof, or it may be made a separate thing and be applied
thereto, so, as to form an adjunct. Also, it may be made in one piece or in a plurality
of same.. Some of the materials of which it may be made are-
e--Ebonite, Vulcanite,
Rubber, Wood, Leather, Canvas Iron, Steel or other metals, or any suitable com-
bination of these materials.
If the ledge, or channel, as the case, may, be, is composed of metal, the metal may
be coated with leather or any other suitable material; and if composed chiefly of a
pliable: material, such as leather, rubber, or the. like, the necessary rigidity or form,
may be maintained by the use of. "formers" of metal, which may be sewn in,.or
otherwise connected with the bag, and the said material; or. the form may be
obtained by "distance" pieces of; any non-pliable material connecting together; the
material of the ledge or channel and the bag mouth, or in any other convenient
manner..
Dated this 30th day of November: 1888:
COMPLETE' SPECIFICATION:
Improvements.in.or Connected with. "Nose-bags" for. Feeding Horses.
and other Animals.
I, WILLIAM: BERTHOLD LHNE, of 26, Oldhall Street, Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster,, Merchant; 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 :-
My Invention has reference to that kind of device or means employed for feeding
horses or other animals, (but more particularly horses) termed "nose-bags," the

page_text: channel a may be placed round the mouth of the bag as shown in Figure 1, or it
may be placed slightly down inside the bag as shown in dotted lines.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A "nose-bag" for feeding horses and other animals, provided with means for
preventing the food from falling out; substantially as described.
2. A "nose-bag" for feeding horses and other animals, having in its mouth a
ledge or channel arranged and adapted to prevent the food from falling out; sub-
stantially as set forth.
3. A curved ledge, such as herein set forth, adapted to be applied to "nose-bags"
for feeding horses and other animals, for the purposes set forth.
4. The various forms and arrangements of ledges or means for preventing the food
from falling out of "nose-bags" for feeding horses and other animals, herein described,
and also as set forth with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 30th day of August 1889.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.