A COMPRESSED FOOD OR CAKE FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki, of the Firm of
J. Brandt and G. W. v. Nawrocki, of 124, Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin, in the
German Empire, Patent Agents, for the Invention of "A COMPRESSED FOOD
OR CAKE FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS." A communication from Alfred,
Count of Salm, of Hamburg, in the German Empire.
Sealed the 23rd January 1880, and dated the 28th July 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gerard Wenzeslaus von
Nawrocki at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th July
1879.
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GERARD WENZESLAUS VON NAWROCKI, of the Firm of J. Brandt and G. W. v.
Nawrocki, of 124, Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin, in the German Empire, Patent Agents.
"A COMPRESSED FOOD OR CAKE FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS." A commu-
nication from Alfred, Count of Salm, of Hamburg, in the German Empire.
The Invention has for its object the manufacture of concentrated fodder for
horses or other herbivorous animals, the substances from which it is prepared
varying according to the purpose.
For horses the preparation consists chiefly of coarse-ground oats or maize; to the
former is added short-cut hay, bran, or flour, coarse-ground pulse, etc., and is pre-
ferred another corn-fodder may form the principal part of the mixture. After the
ingredients from which the fodder is to be prepared have been reduced to small
pieces by grinding or otherwise and well mixed they are placed in metal moulds
which may be polished, and subjected to a sufficient hydraulic or other pressure to
mould the fodder into a cake. The pressure and the moisture must be such as to
produce the required adhesion. in the mass without making it too compact, for
which purpose the moisture may be previously regulated by drying.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd January 1880.
GERARD WENZESLAUS VON NAWROCKI, of the Firm of J. Brandt and G. W. v.
Nawrocki, of 124, Leipzigerstrasse, Berlin, in the German Empire, Patent Agents.
"A COMPRESSED FOOD OR CAKE FOR HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS." A commu-
nication from Alfred, Count of Salm, of Hamburg, in the Germany Empire.
The Invention has for its object the manufacture of concentrated fodder for
horses or other herbivorous animals, the substances from which it is prepared
varying according to the purpose. For horses the preparation consists chiefly of a
mixture of coarse ground oats or maize with short cut hay, to which may be added
bran or flour, coarse-ground pulse, salt, &c. These substances may be mixed in a
tub, and with sufficient water to impart to the whole mass a small degree of
moisture. The so obtained mass is then stamped in bags or press sheets, which are
afterwards placed between metal plates heated by steam and subjected to intense
pressure in a hydraulic (steam or other) press, whereby the mixture containing a
considerable amount of gluten and amylum is formed into a solid cake reduced to
about one twentieth of the space originally occupied by its components. After
about a quarter of an hour the cakes are taken out of the press, the envelope is
removed, and the cakes completely dried in drying chambers heated by steam pipes
to about 30 degrees centigrade. The compressed fodder may also be made from
one or more substances, such as oats, hay, &c. A suitable product is obtained, for
instance, by taking 4,000 grammes of coarse ground oats, 1,500 grammes of short
cut hay, 500 grammes of coarse ground beans, 200 grammes of flour, 10 grammes of
cattle salt, and moistening the whole with a liter of water. Another suitable com-
position may be obtained by replacing the oats (in the composition above described)
by maize.
A third composition consists only of oats, beans, and flour, in the pro-
portions mentioned above. Claim.-The process of making compressed fodder in
the shape of a cake from hay, oats, &c., and the fodder cakes made by the said
process, substantially as and for the purposes described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gerard Wenzeslaus von Nawrocki, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twenty first day of January, A.D. 1880.
CERARD WENT ATIS VON ATA DOCKI