Improvements in Cattle-stall and like Fittings.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 4th Sep., 1899-Accepted, 7th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cattle-stall and like Fittings.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM SIVEWRIGHT, of 5, Radcliffe Terrace, Hartlepool, in the
County of Durham, Shipbuilder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows: :-
This invention consists in improvements in sockets such as those described in
the Specification of Letters Patent previously granted to me, dated 14th Decem-
ber 1896, and numbered 28,614 for receiving and locking in position the ends of
foot or head boards of cattle-stalls and the like. Such sockets are used in pairs,
each pair being adapted to receive the ends of a head or foot board or the like
(hereinafter called a board). Now, according to this invention, instead of pro-
viding both of the sockets of a pair with extensions containing key-holes and
key-pins for locking the respective ends of the board therein as described in the
aforesaid specification, whilst one socket of a pair is made open at the top and
provided with a locking-device such, for example, as that just mentioned, the
other socket is permanently closed at the top to such an extent as to prevent the
end of the board from being lifted out of the socket, as, for example, by turning
over the upper ends of the side walls of the socket. With this arrangement, the
board, which must be made slightly shorter than would be necessary if both of
the sockets could be opened at the top, is put endwise into the closed socket in-
stead of being dropped therein and is then dropped at its other end into the other
socket. In the case of two sockets secured to a single stanchion as shown in
Fig. 5 of the drawings of the aforesaid specification, one of these sockets may be
closed as above described and the other provided with a locking-device such, for
example, as that hereinbefore referred to.
In some cases I dispense with locking-pins or the like altogether, by provid-
ing in conjunction with a socket permanently closed at the top as herein before
described, a socket that is partially closed at the top by lips which, whilst leaving
enough room between them for one end of the board to be slipped down into place.
will be sufficient to prevent the end of the board from being forced out vertically
by the rolling of the vessel in which it is used or by the motion of the cattle in
the stall whether secured or not thereto, but will not be such as to prevent the
board from being drawn out by hand. In the case of two sockets secured together,
or forming one piece, one may be permanently closed at the top and the other
provided with lips as hereinbefore described.
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page_text: Improvements in Cattle-stall and like Fittings.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM SIVEWRIGHT, of 5, Radcliffe Terrace, Hartlepool, in the
County of Durham, Shipbuilder, 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 consists in improvements in sockets such as those described in
the Specification of Letters Patent previously granted to me, dated 14th Decem-
ber 1896 and numbered 28,614 for receiving and locking in position the ends of
foot or head boards of cattle-stalls and the like. Such sockets are used in pairs,
each pair being adapted to receive the ends of a head or foot board or the like
(hereinafter called a board).
Now, according to this invention, instead of providing both of the sockets of
a pair with extensions containing key-holes and key-pins for locking the res-
pective ends of the board therein as described in the aforesaid specification,
whilst one socket of a pair is made open at the top and provided with a locking
device such, for example as that just mentioned, the other socket is permanently
closed at the top to such an extent as to prevent the end of the board from being
lifted out of the socket, as, for example, by turning over the upper ends of the
side walls of the socket.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying illustrative drawings shows in side elevation a
pair of stanchions with sockets constructed according to this invention together
with part of a board held in place by such sockets. Figs. 2 and 3 are end views,
and Fig. 4 a plan of two combined sockets and the stanchion carrying the same.
1 and 2 are the two sockets constituting a pair for holding a board 3 in place
between them, the socket 1 being made open at the top, and the socket 2 being
closed at the top by turning over the upper ends 2" of the side walls of the
socket. With the arrangement described, the board 3, which must be made
slightly shorter than would be necessary if both of the sockets could be opened
at the top, is put endwise into the closed socket 2 instead of being dropped there-
in, as heretofore, and is then dropped at its other end into the other socket 1.
In the case of two sockets 1 and 2 secured to a single stanchion 4, as in the
example shown (see Figs. 1 and 4), one of the sockets viz. 2, may be closed as
above described and the other, viz. 1, be provided with a locking device such, for
example as a key pin 5 passed through key holes 5" formed in the upper part of
the socket as in my former construction.
In some cases I dispense with locking-pins or the like altogether, by providing
in conjunction with a socket permanently closed at the top as herein before des-
cribed, a socket that is partially closed at the top by lips which, whilst leaving
enough room between them for one end of the board to be slipped down into
place, will be sufficient to prevent the end of the board from being forced out
vertically by the rolling of the vessel in which it is used or by the motion of
the cattle in the stall whether secured or not thereto, but will not be such as to
prevent the board from being drawn out by hand.
Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 are similar views to Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively, show-
ing an arrangement of this kind wherein the socket 1 is partly closed at the top
by two lips 6 and 6, one of which, viz. 6, is vertical and formed by the upper
part of one of the side walls of the socket and the other, viz. 6", is horizontal and
formed by bending over an extension of the upper part of the opposite side wall
of the socket, the space 7 left between the two lips being such as to admit of the
board 3 being passed between them and into the socket and of its being with-

page_text: drawn, by hand, but not of its being easily forced out accidently. The socket 2
is formed as hereinbefore described with reference to Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive. In
the case of two sockets secured together, or forming one piece, and carried by a
stanchion, one may be permanently closed at the top and the other be provided
with lips as hereinbefore described and as shown in Figs. 4 to 8 inclusive.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. Cattle-stall and like fittings of the kind herein referred to, wherein one of
the two sockets constituting a pair for receiving and holding in place the ends of
a foot or head board is permanently closed at the top whilst the other is either
open at the top and provided with a locking device or is partially closed at the
top by lips arranged at such a distance apart as to admit of one end of the board
being inserted and removed by hand but not of its being readily displaced acci-
dently, substantially as herein described.
2. Sockets for cattle stall and like fittings constructed and adapted for use
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to and shown in Figs. 1
to 4 inclusive, and in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive of the drawings annexed.
Dated this 4th day of September 1899.
For the Applicant,
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.
W. LLOYD WISE,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Chartered Patent Agent.