IM- PROVEMENTS IN FOOD FOR HORSES, MULES, AND OTHER BEASTS OF BURDEN OR DRAHOUT
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Wylam, of Henry Street, Tooley Street, South-
wark, in the County of Surrey, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN FOOD FOR HORSES, MULES, AND OTHER BEASTS OF BURDEN OR
DRAHOUT"
Sealed the 12th July 1879, and dated the 19th February 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by the said Edward Wylam at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th February 1879.
EDWARD WYLAM, of Henry Street, Tooley Street, Southwark, in the County of
Surrey, Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FOOD FOR HORSES, MULES, AND OTHER
BEASTS OF BURDEN OR DRAUGHT."
My Invention is a portable, easily stowed, and highly nutritious food for horses,
mules, camels, elephants, draught oxen, and other beasts of burden and draught in
the form of biscuits composed of the following ingredients:-
(a.) A proportion of finely ground fibrine, that is to say, dried meat, such as is
imported and used by the Firm of "Spratts' Patent," of Henry Street, Tooley
Street, Southwark, for the manufacture of their patent meat fibrine dog cakes.
(b.) A proportion of date meal, that is to say, the fruit of the date palm ground
up with flour as prepared and used by the said firm for the manufacture of the said
dog cakes.
(c.) A mixture of bean meal, ground maize, good middlings, ground oats, linseed
meal, pea meal, ground malt, and locust beans.
But of the substances mentioned under the head (c) one, two, or three may
sometimes be omitted.
The several ingredients are to be mixed and kneaded and baked into biscuits of
a convenient size.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Wylam in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th August
1879.
EDWARD WYLAM, of Henry Street, Tooley Street, Southwark, in the County of
Surrey, Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN FOOD FOR HORSES, MULES, AND OTHER
BEASTS OF BURDEN OR DRAUGHT."
My Invention relates to the manufacture of a portable, easily stowed, and
highly nutritious food for horses, mules, camels, elephants, draft oxen, and other
beasts of burden or draught in the form of biscuits composed of the following
ingredients :-
(a.) A proportion of finely ground fibrine, that is to say, dried meat, such as is
imported and used by the firm of "Spratts' Patent," of Henry Street, Tooley Street,
Southwark, for the manufacture of their patent meat fibrine dog cakes.
(b) A proportion of date meal, that is to say, the fruit of the date palm ground
up with flour as prepared and used by the said firm for the manufacture of the
said dog cakes; I may here observe that this date meal is produced by the rubbing
or grinding together of about one hundred weight of dates (from which the stoves
are extracted) with three hundred weight of coarse or fine middlings. A finer
flour may be used for this purpose, but I have found middlings very suitable.
(c.) A mixture of bean meal, ground maize, good middlings, ground oats, linseed
meal, pea meal, ground malt, and ground locusts beans.
In carrying out my Invention these ingredients may be incorporated together
in about the following proportions, the following example is applicable to the
manufacture of about fourteen hundred weight of this food. Of finely ground
fibrine I take one hundred weight; of date meal, four hundred weight; of bean
meal, one hundred weight; of ground maize, one hundred weight; of middlings, three
hundred weight; of ground oats, one hundred weight; of linseed meal, one hundred
weight; of pea meal, one hundred weight; of ground malt, one hundred weight; and
of ground locust beans about six pounds. The proportions of the various materials
enumerated under the head (c) may be considerably varied, and when desired, one,
two, or even three of such materials may be omitted, a larger proportion of the
other ingredients being used in place thereof, but I recommend the mixture of
the various materials in about the proportions given.
When the several ingredients have been reduced to a fine state of division, they
are to be mixed, kneaded, and baked into biscuits, of any convenient size and
shape as is well understood.
Having now described my said Invention and the mode in which the same
may be advantageously carried out, I would observe in conclusion that I do not
confine myself to the exact proportions to be used, or to the use of the com-
bination of the whole of the ingredients mentioned, but what I do claim as the
Invention secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters Patent is,―
The manufacture of a biscuit food for horses and other beasts of burden and
draught composed substantially of the several ingredients, and mixed together
substantially in the several proportions herein before named.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Wylam, have to this my Specification
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and seventy nine.