Improvements in Drinking Fountains for Poultry, Dogs, and other Animals.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th July, 1892-Accepted, 27th Aug., 1892
Improvements in Drinking Fountains for Poultry, Dogs, and other
Animals.
We, HENRY GEORGE FERNYHOUGH and FRANK FERNYHOUGH trading
as Fernyhough Bros. of 7 and 9 Deane Street, Liverpool in the County of
Lancaster, Earthenware Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object a drinking fountain for poultry, dogs, and other
animals, which, while having all the advantages of the ordinary earthenware or
glass fountain, (in which water is automatically supplied to the trough as the
reservoir is emptied) will avoid the defect so objected to in the latter, that access
cannot be had to the interior of the reservoir for the purpose of cleaning the same.
By our invention, we form the fountain or reservoir in two parts and screw,
socket, or otherwise secure the two parts together, in such a manner as to make a
perfectly close and air tight joint, and yet permit them to be separated when
required to clean the interior of the reservoir or to fill the same with water.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawing which depicts a front clevation (partly in section)
of our improved drinking fountain.
In this drawing, A is the reservoir or fountain, and B the drinking trough. The
reservoir A is made in two parts, the upper part or top C being screwed to the
lower part, and the washer D placed between so as to make a thoroughly close
and air tight joint. The washer is of india rubber or of other suitable material.
To clean the reservoir, the top C is unscrewed, and the interior can then be
thoroughly washed out. By closing the orifice E between the reservoir and the
trough by the hand or placing a stopper therein, the reservoir can be filled directly
from a water tap, instead of having to resort to the slow process of filling through
the trough. Instead of screwing the two parts of the reservoir together, one of the
parts may be simply socketed to the other part, or they may be locked together by
means of projections on one part, sliding in and engaging a groove or grooves on
the other part. The action of the apparatus is the same as ordinary poultry
fountains, the water being automatically fed to the trough as used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is-
1. Forming the resorvoir of drinking fountains for poultry, dogs and other
animals, in two separate parts instead of in one piece as previously, and screwing
or otherwise fastening these two parts together in such a manner as to obtain
a perfectly close and air tight joint substantially as and for the purpose described.
2. The improvement in drinking fountains for poultry, dogs or other animals,
whereby access can be had to the interior of the reservoir for the purpose of
cleaning the same, and the reservoir can be filled directly from the water tap
instead of having to resort to the slow process of filling through the trough
substantially as described.
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WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham and London, Patent Agents.