A New or Improved Apparatus for Fixing Ear-marks upon Animals and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION,
A New or Improved Apparatus for Fixing Ear-marks upon Animals
and the like.
We, RASMUS ALBERT CHRISTOPHERSEN, Fundholder, Torvet 22, Svendborg, and
KRISTOFFER KRISTOFFFRSH N, Duector, Svendborg, Denmark, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same 18 to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
In the apparatus hitherto employed for fixing upon animals such ear-marks
where two laps are pierced through the ear and bent, the mark is during the opera-
tion kept in position either by means of overlapping springs or by one edge of the
mark being pressed by a metal strip, or similar contrivances. In the first case a
certain foice is necessary in order to release the apparatus from the maik, in the
latter case the mark is either held too tightly so that it is difficult to remove the
apparatus after the operation,, o1 too loosely so that the mark falls off
The purport of the present invention is to produce an arrangement whereby the
maik in such an apparatus, before the operation, is held so securely that it can
not drop out, while after the operation, it easily releases the apparatus.
The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawing, where
Figue 1 shows an open pair of marking pincers with a mark inserted and
supplied with the said arrangement
Figure 2 the same closed around the ear of an animal and,
Figure 3 an end view of the same
On the plate a upon which the mark 6 is placed is a lappet e or a similar con-
trivance below which the mark is easily pushed so that the lappet holds it without
squeezing it, while a movable stopper d catches over the edges of the plate. This
stopper is here shown as a plate placed at might angles upon an arm f movable
around a pivot e The other cheek has a plate a¹ with two flat, broad grooves close
to each other, and which serve to bend the laps backwards down into the ear of the
animal without 1olling them together
The
It will be seen that when the mark is placed upon the plate a and the stopper
urned before this one, the mark 18 80 securely held that it cannot fall out
incers are then closed around the ear of the animal (Figure 2) whereby the laps b¹
of the mark go through the ear and by means of the opposite plate a¹ are thus
pent so that the points again go into the ear, the stopper d will meet the sui face
of the ear and thereby be pushed back into the position shown in Figure 2 and in
which it is no longer before the mark. The pincers may thus be easily removed
s it is now only connected with the mark by the lappet e which, as before said,
loes not press it tightly
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
ention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
laim is.-
(1) An apparatus for fixing car-marks upon animals and the like congating of

page_text: which is fastened into the ear of the animal, and characterized by a movable
stopper d which passes before the plate a and thereby holds the mark supported by
a lappet coi a similar contrivance, but which after the insertion in the ear is
emoved by the car itself so that the pincers easily release the mark.
(2). A new or improved apparatus for fixing car-marks and the like upon animals
constructed aanged and adapted to operate substantially as hereinbefore described
and shown
Dated this 30th day of December 1898
ROBERT E PHILLIPS, Assoc M Inst. C.E, MI Mech. E,
Chartered Patent Agent,
70, Chancery Lane, London, WC,
Associate Agent.