Improvements in the Manufacture of Cakes for Feeding Cattle and other Animals.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Cakes for Feeding Cattle and
other Animals.
A communication from PAUL FRIEDRICH PALLAS, of Dresden, in the Empire of
Germany, Merchant.
I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
M.I.M.E., 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 :--
This invention is to supplement the process for which British Letters Patent
have been granted on the 21st December 1887 No. 17570. According to that
Patent the cakes for feeding cattle were obtained by mixing together two decoctions
the one of malt and the other of caragheen moss (fucus crispus) to which were added
suitable kinds of grain or their products, roots, and other produce of the fields; also
so-called brewers' grains and chaff. The mixture obtained in this manner, in the
semi-liquid condition of a paste or pulp is formed into cakes and dried.
object of the present invention is to develope this process so as to facilitate its
introduction into more general use.
The
This improvement enables a great many materials or substances besides those
mentioned in the Patent No. 17570/87 to be used in manufacturing cakes, some of
these substances being natural produce and some consisting of the refuse or residue
collected in various industries.
As before mentioned the cakes consist of a mixture of two decoctions to which
other materials are added partly for the purpose of increasing the nutritive qualities
of the product and partly as a filling material adapted to impart to it the consistency
of a pulp.
The malt decoction should be retained under any circumstances but the other
decoction for which caragheen moss was used may if desired be replaced by the
following substances.
Instead of the caragheen moss other alimentary substances such as proteine, fat,
carbo hydrates, or the like may be employed and will prove very satisfactory
substitutes for the moss.
In conjunction with this there may be employed as filling material any kind of
refuse from factories that contains a sufficient proportion of alimentary substances
also vegetable materials such as the waste collected in rice and oil mills; and
lastly (this being preferable) albuminous refuse from slaughter-houses. In addition
to these industrial products natural substances of either a vegetable or animal
nature may be used such as fish guano, dried mayflies, and the like.
The following receipt for preparing the cakes may be given as an example
but it will be understood that the proportions and ingredients may be varied
according as to whether the cakes are intended to feed horses, dogs, poultry or
other animals or stock, also according as to whether the object is to fatten animals
or simply to keep them in normal condition.
About 8 parts of the decoction of malt; about 2 parts of decoction of caragheen
moss; about 90 parts of the before described nutritive substances.
The manner in which the process is carried out is fully described in the above
mentioned Patent No. 17570/87.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner the

page_text: same is to be performed, I wish it understood that no claim is made to anything
disclosed by the former. Patent No. 17570/87, but what I claim is :—
The manufacture of cakes for feeding cattle of a mixture of two decoctions
one of which is a decoction of malt and the other obtained from materials
containing a considerable proportion of nutritive elements to which mixture of
two decoctions suitable animal or vegetable substances are added in order to
impart to it the consistency of a paste or pulp such substances being either
natural produce or refuse or industrial refuse or waste the whole substantially as
specified.
Dated this 14th day of February 1891.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.