IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SINGEING HORSES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Taylor, of the City of Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Veterinary Surgeon, and James
Wass Davies, of the same Place, Saddlers' Ironmonger, for the
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SINGEING HORSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Taylor and
James Wass Davies at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 29th October 1869.
We, THOMAS TAYLOR, of the City of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Veterinary Surgeon, and JAMES WASS DAVIES, of the
same Place, Saddlers' Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SINGEING HORSES," to
be as follows :-
Our improvements relate to the ordinary apparatus for singeing
horses by gas jets, and consist in combining therewith arrangements
for keeping the gas jet pipe cool, namely, in applying a pipe to come
close to the gas jet pipe, through which a stream of cold water is made

page_text: to pass while the instrument is in use. The water pipe may be arranged
to pass to and from the apparatus through the handle of the instrument,
and the water may be brought to it from any convenient source through
a flexible tube. By this improved singeing apparatus the hair is burned
by the gas flame only, and not partly by the flame and partly by
the hot gas jet pipe as in the common apparatus, and therefore all
danger of injury to the skin or health of the horse from this cause is
obviated.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Thomas Taylor and James Wass Davies in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th April 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, THOMAS
TAYLOR, of the City of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Veterinary Surgeon, and JAMES WASS DAVIES, of the same Place,
Saddlers' Ironmonger, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Thomas Taylor and James
Wass Davies, Her special licence that we, the said Thomas Taylor and
James Wass Davies, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Thomas Taylor and James Wass Davies, our exe-
cutors, 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
APPARATUS FOR SINGEING HORSES," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we,
the said Thomas Taylor and James Wass Davies, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Thomas Taylor and James Wass
Davies, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:
Our improvements relate to the ordinary apparatus for singeing
horses by gas jets, and consist in combining herewith arrangements
for keeping the gas jet pipe cool, namely, in applying a pipe to come
close to the gas jet pipe, through which a stream of cold water is
made to pass while the instrument is in use. The water pipe may be
arranged to pass to and from the apparatus through the handle of the
instrument, and the water may be brought to it from any convenient
source through a flexible tube. By this improved singeing apparatus
the hair is burned by the gas flame only, and not partly by the flame
and partly by the hot gas jet pipe as in the common apparatus, and
therefore all danger of injury to the skin or health of the horse from this
cause is obviated.
Fig. 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 a side view of a horse singer constructed
in accordance with our Invention.
a, a, is a gas jet with pipe a', a', passing through the handle b; a is
a flexible tube by which the gas jet is connected with a gas supply;
c, c, c², is the water pipe for keeping the apparatus cool, also passing
through the handle b; at c', c, flexible tubes are attached for connecting
the apparatus with a water supply and discharge; d is a gas cock
for turning on and off the gas supply. The water may be shut on
and off by a cock attached either to the apparatus or to the water
supply.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our
said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed or
carried out in practice, we hereby declare that we claim the Invention of
"Improvements in Apparatus for Singeing Horses," consisting of the
use of a water tube of suitable shape attached to any form of horse
singer, and connected with a water supply in such a manner that when
the apparatus is in use it shall be kept cool by a continuous stream of
water gently passing through it. The advantages of our improvements
are,-

page_text: First. The cool tube resting against the skin of the horse the skin is
not blistered as by the old form of singer.
Secondly. Our improved horse singer can be easily used by any
amateur, and a horse can be singed in one operation of about six hours,
whereas with the old form of apparatus a horse can be singed only for
about an hour at a time, so that a week at least elapses before the
operation can be properly completed.
We would have it understood that we do not wish to limit ourselves
to the precise form or mode of applying our improvements to a horse
singer, as they would have to be suited to the different forms of apparatus
to which they arc applied.
In witness whereof, we, the said Thomas Taylor and James Wass
Davies, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-sixth
day of April, in the year of our Lord 1870.
Witness,
SAMUEL LOCKE.
THOS. TAYLOR.
(L.S.)
JAMES WASS DAVIES. (L.S.)