Device for Feeding and Catching Game, Fowls, and other Birds.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 20th Aug., 1897-Accepted, 4th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Device for Feeding and Catching Game, Fowls, and other Birds.
JOHN FISHER, Gamekeeper, Harestonhill Newmains in the l'arish of Cambus-
nethan and County of Lanark do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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A device hereinafter more fully set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 represents a house built of spars of wood of a breadth of two inches
with spaces between the spars of two inches and being covered with a wooden roof.
The house is nine feet long by four feet broad and four feet high and in one of the
ends there is a door capable of allowing a man to pass in and out when open.
each side of the house there are three small openings. The opening being nine
inches high by six inches broad. Suspended from the top of each of the openings
by hinges is a light door composed of two or three wires. When being used for a
feeding house the light doors may be swung out or in by a bird pressing against
them. When to be used as a trap a small pin of wood or iron is inserted inside the
house at the bottom of the small openings and between the bottom of the opening
and the outside of the light wire door. A bird can then by pressing against any
of the light doors from outside get into the house but the round pin prevents the
doors from opening outwards and secures the Game or Birds in the house as a
trap.
Figure II represents the end of the house and A shows the light door when used
for feeding purposes and B shows the light door with the pin inserted so as to be
used for a trap.
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JOHN FISIER Harestonhill Newmains in the Parish of Cambusnethan and County
of Lanark Gamekeeper do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention is a Device for feeding and when thought proper trapping Game
Fowls and Birds and other game.
The invention consists in the device hereinafter more fully set forth in the accom-
panying drawings.
Figure I. represents a house built of spars of wood of a breadth of two inches
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page_text: with spaces between the spars of two inches and being covered with a wooden roof.
The house is nine feet long by four feet broad and four feet high and in one of the
ends there is a door capable of allowing a man to pass in and out when open. In
each, side of the house there are three or more small openings. The opening being
nine inches high by six inches broad. Suspended from the top of each of the
openings by hinges is a light door composed of two or three wires. When being
used for a feeding house the light doors may be swung out or in by a bird pressing
against them. When to be used as a trap.a small pin of wood or of iron is inserted
inside the house at the bottom of the small openings and between the bottom of
the opening and the outside of the light wire door. A bird can then Hy pressing
against any of the light doors from outside get in to the house but the round pin
prevents the doors from opening outwards and secures the Game or birds in the
house as a trap.
Figure II represents the end of the house and A shews the light doors as when
used for feeding purposes and B shews the light door with the pin inserted so as to
be used for a trap.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
ánvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. That the feeding of Game and birds by getting them to pass in to and out
of a house by small openings having light wire doors thereon which doors yield to
the pressure of the birds and allow them, entrance or exit when they desire is a
novelty.
2. That by the introduction of a wooden or iron pin at the bottom of the.opon-
ings that is between the inside at the bottom of the opening and the outside of
the door the house formerly. used for feeding is converted into a trap so that
birds can pass in but cannot pass out of the house is a new invention which will
cause a great saving of time to Gamekeepers and others and save a deal of suffering
to Game and birds as compared with the usual system of trapping, netting or other
means of securing.
Dated this Seventeenth day of August 1897.