IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OF FOODS FOR ANIMALS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Vine Tuson, of 12, St. Paul's Road, Camden
Town, in the County of Middlesex, Chemist, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OF FOODS FOR
ANIMALS."
Sealed the 12th January 1866, and dated the 15th July 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Vine Tuson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th July 1865.
I, RICHARD VINE TUSON, of 12, St. Paul's Road, Camden Town, in the
County of Middlesex, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OF FOODS
FOR ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
This Invention for improvements in the preparation and preservation of
foods for animals consists in mincing the flesh of horses in a suitable machine,
and drying the same in a hot-air chamber, oven, or other suitable desiccating
contrivance, either alone or after being mixed with other ingredients, such as
indian meal, oatmeal, rice, flour, shorts, middlings, pollard, bran, or any other
annylaceous, mucilaginous, or saccharine substance or substances of a like
nature.
Sometimes the animal and vegetable ingredients are not mixed together
until the former have been mixed and dried, and the latter partially roasted.

page_text: To the foregoing mixtures are sometimes added fatty bodies, likewise
condiments, such as pepper, capsicums, anniseed, fenugreek, and similar
substances. Also, when any of the above-named mixtures are intended for
poultry, they are sometimes incorporated with finely powdered chalk, oyster-
shells, or other carbonated calcareous substance, or a mixture of carbonated
calcareous substances.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Vine Tuson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th January 1866. .
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
VINE TUSON, of 12, St. Paul's Road, Camden Town, in the County of
Middlesex, Chemist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Richard Vine Tuson, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Vine Tuson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Richard Vine Tuson, my executors, administrators,
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PREPARATION AND PRESERVATION OF FOODS
FOR ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard
Vine Tuson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument 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 Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Vine Tuson, 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:-
This Invention for improvements in the preparation and preservation of

page_text: foods for animals consists in mincing the flesh and other edible parts of
horses in a suitable machine, and drying the same in a hot-air chamber, oven,
or other suitable dessicating contrivance, either alone or after being mixed
with other ingredients, such as indian meal, oatmeal, rice, flour, shorts,
middlings, pollard, bran, or any other amylaceous, mucilagenous, or
saccharine substance or substances of a like nature.
Sometimes the animal and vegetable ingredients are not mixed together
until the former have been minced and dried, and the latter roasted.
Sometimes the flesh or edible parts of horses are dried and ground before
being mixed with the other ingredients.
Sometimes also the flesh or edible parts of horses are macerated with
water for some hours, either before or after being minced; the fluid obtained
by maceration is evaporated to dryness, and the dry residue is powdered and
mixed with any or a mixture of the above-named vegetable and other
ingredients.
Sometimes the vegetable meals are added to the fluid obtained by
macerating the flesh or other edible parts of horses with water; the mixture
thus procured is evaporated to dryness, and the dry residue is powdered.
Sometimes the mixtures of the edible parts of horses and of vegetable
substances are baked or partially dried into biscuits, and coarse and fine
meals.
To the foregoing mixtures are sometimes added animal or vegetable fatty
bodies, or oliferous seeds, cakes, or meals, or a mixture of such substances;
likewise condiments, such as pepper, capsicums, aniseed, fenugreek, and
similar substances. Also, when any of the above-named mixtures are
intended for poultry, they are sometimes incorporated with finely powdered
chalk, oyster shells, or any other carbonated calcareous substance or mixture
of carbonated calcareous substances.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Vine Tuson, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
RICHARD V. TUSON. (L.S.)