An Improved Stable Feeding Appliance for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Apr., 1900-Accepted, 5th May, 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stable Feeding Appliance for Horses and other
Animals.
MARY ANN ROSE NEAVERSON and ROBERT NEAVERSON, Builder, both of Peakirk,.
Peterborough, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to a stable feeding appliance for horses and other animals,
and has for its object to prevent the animals from wasting the hay clover and
the like as obtains with the stable appliance in present use. Our invention con-
sists of a frame composed of wood, or any metal, morticed, tenoned, screwed, nailed,
bolted, together or otherwise. The said frame is worked in a groved standard, on
each side, which is nailed, screwed, bolted, or otherwise, secured to the wall. The
said frame is raised or lowered as desired and fixed to any height by means of a
pin or bolt inserted into the standards. The said frame has inserted a wood or
metal, rack fitted with two or more springs at the bottom, inserted by either bolts,
screws or any other fastners, so that when the hay or clover is placed in the
rack it prevents the animals from wasting and can be raised or lowered to suit
any animal to feed therefrom.
Datad this lot day of Iul 1900.
MARY ANN. ROSE NEAVERSON..
ROBERT NEAVERSON.
An Improved Stable Feeding Appliance for Horses and other
Animals.
We, MARY ANN ROSE NEAVERSON and ROBERT NEAVERSON, both of Peakirk,
near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, 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:-
Our invention relates to a portable feeding appliance for horses, oxen, sheep, and
other like feeding animals, the said appliance being adapted to be suspended, or
otherwise fixed, upon the inside or outside of a stable wall or that of either of
the vertical portions of a sheep-pen, the inner or outer walls of a cattle shelter or
out-house, oi the fence of a field; or other vertical surface, from which the said
animals may take their food, and has for its object to prevent the animal or
animals feeding therefrom from wasting the food stored therein.
In order that our said invention and the general lines upon which we find it
most convenient to construct the same may be clearly understood, we have here-
unto appended a sheet of drawings, of which,

page_text: Fig. 1 is a perspective view of our said invention as we prefer to construct it,
while Fig. 2 is a perspective view of same fixed in suitable guides, adapted to be
nailed, screwed, or otherwise fixed to any vertical surface, Fig. 3 being
taken upon the line A B of Fig. 2..
a section
Our invention consists of a preferably rectangular board or frame A, composed
of wood, metal, or other material or combination of materials, screwed, nailed,
bolted or otherwise fixed together, and provided with cross stays BB' and C, the
former of which serve as side pieces, and when the appliance is so far constructed of
wood, these said side pieces B B' also act as battens for preventing warping of the
timber, while C serves as a strengthening piece for receiving, and having bolted
or otherwise fixed thereto, the convolute ends D D' of a metallic skeleton frame E,
of such dimensions as to fold up against A between CC by the tension of the
springs formed by the said.convolutions D D.
The said board or frame A may be provided with two or more holes. F, in order
that the appliance as at Fig. 1 may be suspended upon a like number of nails or
hooks upon a vertical surface, or be screwed or bolted' to such vertical surface when
the appliance is to be fixed in one position for the use of the same kind of animal
always, such as horses or oxen, but when the appliance is to be placed so as to be
adapted for the feed of large and small animals, such as horses and sheep, I
screw, bolt, nail or otherwise fix upon a wall, fence, or other vertical surface, a
pair of grooved or rebated standards such as G G (Figs. 2 and 3) so that the
board or frame A may slide vertically therein as shewn, the said board or frame,
and its connections, being fixed at any height upon GG by the means of pins H
engaging with holes J in G G and holes K in A, in the manner illustrated by
Fig. 2, so as to place the height of the rack E convenient to the height of the
animal feeding therefrom.
In practice, the hay, clover, or the like forming the said food would be placed
between the spring rack E and board or frame A, the said spring rack serving to
retain the said food in that position until consumed, by the animals pulling it
between the bars of the rack E, the said spring rack, unlike the fixed hay racks in
present use, thus serving to grip between itself and the board or frame A, the
said food, until the last portion is withdrawn and consumed, waste of the said
food being thereby rendered a matter of almost an impossibility.
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:
.
1st. The improved portable feeding appliance for horses, oxen, sheep; and
other like feeding animals, substantially as herein described and shewu.
2nd. The improved portable feeding device for horses and other animals, con-
sisting of the combination of a board or frame A, with side pieces BB, bottom
stay C, the latter holding the convolute ends DD' of a spring rack E, the whole
adapted for fixation upon any vertical surface, or to be adjustably placed between
guides or standards G G fixed upon any vertical surface, substantially as herein
described and shewn by the drawings.
Dated this 2nd low of la 1000.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.
Agent for the Applicants.