An Improved Preparation of Food for Dogs, Poultry, and other Animals.
Year: 1896

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Preparation of Food for Dogs, Poultry, and other
Animals.
I STEPHEN WINGROVE, of Henry Street, 'Tooley Street, Bermondsey, in the County
of London, Manager of Spratts Patent Limited, do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows:-
My Invention has for its object to provide a combined animal and farinaceous food
for dogs, poultry, and other animals, which is better in its' feeding and nourishing
qualities than are such foods as hitherto prepared.. According to my Invention I take
meat, or animal matter, preferably free, or practically free, from fat, or any consider-
able amount of fat, and which has been subjected to a cooking process in ovens, or
the like, and I divide it into pieces, or granules, of a size in accordance with the
particular animals, or birds, for-which it is to be used as a food and, after it has been
so divided, I subject it to a second cooking process, preferably by placing it upon
trays and passing these trays into, or through, an oven, I then take farinaceous
inatter which has been inade into biscuit, and this also is divided, or made into
granules, of a size according to the size of the pieces, or granules, of the animal"
matter and I then thoroughly incorporate the pieces, or granules, of meat, or animal
matter, with the pieces, or granules, of biscuit, and put the food thus formed into
suitable receptacles for storage and sale.
Deted the 12th day of October 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C. Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Preparation of Food for Dogs, Poultry, and other
Animals.
I STEPHEN WINGROVE, of Henry Street, Tooley Street, Bermondsey, in the County
of London, Manager of Spratt's Patent Limited, do hereby declare the nature of this
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 for its object to provide a combined animal and farinaceous
food for dogs, poultry, and other animals, which is better in its feeding and nourishing
qualities than are such foods as hitherto prepared.
According to my invention I take meat, or animal matter, preferably free, or
practically free, from fat, or any considerable amount of fat, and which has been
subjected to a cooking process in ovens, or the like, and I divide it into pieces, or

page_text: granules, of a size in accordance with the particular animals, or birds, for which it is
to be used as a food, and after it has been so divided, I subject it to a second cooking
process, preferably by placing it upon trays and passing these trays into, or through,
an oven.
I then take farinaceous matter which has been baked or equivalently cooked or
made into biscuit, and this also is divided, or made into granules, of a size according
to the size of the pieces, or granules, of the animal matter, and I then thoroughly
incorporate the pieces or granules of meat, or animal matter, with the pieces or
granules of biscuit, or the like, and put the food thus formed into suitable receptacles
for storage and sale.
In the expression, meat or animal inatter, I include the flesh of animals generally,
for example, the flesh of oxen, sheep, game or fish.
The following is an example of a preparation of food according to my Invention,
but I give this only as an example, and do not confine myself to the details given in
this example.
I take about fifteen pounds of beef, free from bone, and without, or with but little,
fat, the said beef being cooked by baking, boiling, or otherwise, and I divide it into
small pieces, and again cook it by passing it through an oven, on trays or "creepers,"
so that it is subjected to the heat of the oven for say about fifteen minutes. I then
form biscuit by taking a paste of flour and water, and I granulate this biscuit, and
add about eighty-five pounds of such granulated biscuit to the beef which has been
cooked as aforesaid, and I thoroughly stir and incorporate the whole together.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The preparation of food for dogs, poultry, and other animals, by the combination
with farinaceous matter, baked or equivalently cooked, or made into biscuit and
granulated, of meat, or animal matter, which has been first cooked, then divided
into pieces or granules, and afterwards subjected to a second cooking operation as
hereinbefore described.
Dated this 28th day of June 1907