Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-02-04
JESSE JONES
Gets PATENT
OTTUMWA INVENTOR SOLVES
PROBLEM OF SHACKLING
HOGS FOR PACKERS.
RECEIVES THE PAPERS
Letters of Patent Arrived Today :
Evolves Idea on Way to Work
- ShackIes Both Feet
at Once.

Inc long sought fOr double amman
shackle has finally been discovered IN
an invention by an Ottumwa man and
the much desired appliance that pork
packers have long been wanting is n
the hands Of Jesse Jones of 500 South
Ransom street.
Mr.. Jones is a mechanic of great
skill and has been very successful in
repairing machines Of all kinds. For
the past twenty years he has been en-
gagged in small repair shop where
he did general repairing of delicate
mechanisms, lock and gun smithing
and umbrella repairing. 1t is his first
attempt at inventing any thing me-
chanical, however. and the fruits of
his labors promises to be great as the
invention of the shackle that he
evolved in his brain and brought to
completion is device that has been
wanted in pork packing industry for
many years.
An improvement.
There has been many devices In
vented for the Stacking of hogs III
recent years, but none has ever been
put on the market that covered the
needs fully. as each Of the more gen
orally used appliances have had one
or more defects. The invention of
Jones, however, seems to cover the
defects of the others and at the same
time is entirely different in it's mech
anism and its manner of operation.
The inventor claims wonderful things
| for the new shackle and its many
coed features are set forth in the let
| tiers Of patent that have been issued
by G. G. Billings, acting commissioners
of patents, to Jesse Jones, the in
ventor.
The letters of patent were received
| this morning by Mr.. Jones from the
| patent department at Washington,
stating the authority of that depart
ment has been given Jones for the
term of seventeen years from January
%, to have the sole right to manufac
ture the shackle and protecting him
! from any infringements, etc.
Patent Papers.
The patent papers are work Of the
printers art and sets forth the fea
lures of the device, giving full pag
Of drawings of the shackle in its diff
| ferent stages of operation and claim
ing for it many features not covered
by similar Inventions Among the OBJ
jects set forth as accomplished by tbs
device are: The lessening of labo
avoidance Of bruising of the hogs feet
and other parts that now are damaged
by the kicking of hogs shackled by
the present means. The danger o.
CLOTHING of blood and twisting of the
animal so shackled is impossible, s.
the inventor claims and even the
| sQueal of the hogs are prevented a'
! the animal when held by the device
with both feet, will not give vent tt
its feelings in squeals. 1t is further
asserted that the new means of shack
ling will be more humane, is complete
and will be less expense to the pack
| erS
Worked for Year.
The idea originated in the mind o
the inventor year ago, when his son
in-laW made the remark to him in
casual manner one evening while en-
joying an after supper smoke. IF yo'
could invent double shackle for thu
Stacking of hogs, that would be prac
ticable, you would make a fortune
The matter of conversation change
and nothing more was said on tn
matter, but upon going to his littI
shop the following morning, the rs
mark of the evening previous cam
to Jones mind with great force an
+ Immediately he lent his whole menta
power to the evolving of a scheme TO
the Stacking of both feet of a hog a
the one time.
Uaon reaching his shop he ca:
, aside all other work and threw hi
/ entire mind into the new idea as
4 had formed in a crude manner in hi
mind while enroute to work, and tai
r ing some wire worked with it unit
: he had a small model of the applianc'
+. which crude was however the yer
original from which plan the largr
o