Improvements in Apparatus Employed in Dipping Sheep.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus Employed in Dipping Sheep.
1 ERNEST FRANCIS POGSON, Peacock Hotel, Belvoir, Grantham, Farmer and
Licensed Victualler, do .bereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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The apparatus consists of a frame supported on three or
facilitate removal, said wheels arranged to be easily removed for the frame to be
placed on the ground.
On each side of the frame the lower ends of a pair of parallel bars either rock on
studs or are hinged to the sides of the frame.
The upper ends of the bars are hinged to the sides of a cradle formed of iron or
steel strips lined at the sides with wood, the outer end of the cradle is recessed to
receive the neck of a sheep when the back of its body is in the cradle lying on
a serice of removable wooden rollers at the bottom. When the sheep is in position
the cradle is lifted by an attendant on each side until its back end rests upon the
front end of a tub containing water mixed with a suitable dipping composition into
which the sheep is slid from the cradle rollers. After remaining on its back the
length of time required it is upended and walks out of the tub up an incline at the
back end into a drainer formed of wood at the bottom and sides. The top edges of
the drainer may be held together by three or more strips of iron. The drainer is
made long enough to contain two sheep at once its bottom being inclined to
allow the dipping composition draining from the sheep to run back into the
dipping tub.
The drainer is provided at the centre of its length with a pair of folding gates
and a second pair at its back end both arranged to be opened and closed
alternately either by cords or by links and levers, or the gates may be closed by
springs.
When the gates at the back end are opened the sheep nearest them walks down
an incline to the ground, the back gates are then closed and the central gates
opened to allow the next sheep to pass to the back of the drainer.
The drainer and back incline is held the requisite height from the ground by
adjustable and removable legs to facilitate packing. When down the cradle is
of a suitable height to allow a sheep standing at one side to be readily turned over
into it.
DL fifth day of Sentember 1895

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Figuae 2 shows in plan a cradle referred to hereafter,
Figure 2 a right end view of the cradle.
Figure 3 shows the left end of the dipping tub with the right end of a drainer
above it.
Figure 4 shows a left end view of the drainer supported on a tressel in two
halves.
Figure 5 shows in plan the gate closing springs and opening levers and cords.
The apparatus consists of a frame 1 supported on three wheels to facilitate
removal, the front wheel 2 is carried by a bearing 3 the stem of which is free to
turn in the front end of a bracket 4 securely held to the sides of the frame by two
bolts 5 each having a head at one end and provided with a cottar pin at the other,
the top of the bearing stem carries a bracket hinged to the centre of a two forked
bar 6 secured to the back ends of a pair of shafts 7 of suitable length.
Beneath the frame an axle bar 8 is held by a pair of blocks 9, the ends of the
bar form axles for a pair of wheels 10.
The three wheels occupy the position shown at Figure 1 while the apparatus
is being removed, when required for use the front wheel and bracket 4, and the
axle bar 8 and two wheels 10 are easily removed for the frame to be placed on
the ground.
On each side of the frame the lower ends of parallel bars 11 rock on studs, their
upper ends rock on studs secured in the sides of a cradle 12 connected by bars 13
to which the lower halves of a pair of hinges 14 are rivetted, the upper halves of
the hinges are rivetted to the underside of the central pair of four strips of iron
or steel 15 bent to the shape shown at Figure 2A, their outer ends being rivetted to
a curved shaped piece of iron or steel 16 the right end of which is recessed as
shown at Figure 24 to receive the neck of a sheep when the back of its body is in
the cradle lying on a series of wooden rollers or fixed strips of wood 17. The
upper part of the cradle may be lined with either wood or brass or other suitable
metal 18 and be provided with a pair of handles 19 at its front end. Each side of
the cradle is provided with a handle 20 for use of the attendants.
When the cradle is in its lowest position as shown at the right end of Figure 1,
a sheep is driven to the side of the cradle and turned into it, with its back down-
wards, the cradle is then lifted by an attendant on each side taking hold of the
right end of the cradle and a handle 20 at its side, until its back end rests upon the
front end of a tub 21 carried by the frame 1. The attendants then raise the upper
part of the cradle by means of the handles 19 into the inclined position shown, to
let the sheep slide into the tub containing water mixed with a suitable dipping
composition.
After remaining on its back the length of time required it is upended and walks
out of the tub up an incline 21ª into a drainer 22 formed of wood at the bottom and
sides, the top edges being held together by strips of iron 23.
The drainer is made large enough to contain two sheep abreast, its bottom being

page_text: inclined to allow the dipping composition draining from the sheep to run back into.
the dipping tub.
When in use the drainer rests at one end on the back end of the dipping tub, as-
shown at Figure 1ª, each side of which carries an adjustable side board 218. The
back end of the drainer is supported on a tressel 24 made in halves for packing in.
the drainer during removal.
The space below the incline 21* of the dipping tub is utilized for holding any
dipping composition, aprons, tools or other articles enclosed by a door 21° shown at.
Figure 3.
The right end of the drainer is provided with a gate 25 which may be turned
to close or open either half of the drainer as shown in the left end view of the
drainer at Figure 3.
The left end of the drainer supported on the tressel 24 shown at Figure 4 is.
provided with a pair of folding gates 26 arranged to be opened and closed
alternately. The closing being effected by a spring 27 hooked on the gate and
the top edge of the drainer and opened by a lever and cord 28.shown in plan at.
Figure 5.
The tressel 24 also supports the right end of a back incline 29 having a board 30-
hinged to each edge, the boards are folded down on the incline when packed for
removal.
The apparatus is employed as follows: -The sheep after being dipped pass up.
the incline 21^ into the empty half of the drainer until three are in, the gate 25 is.
then closed upon them until three more sheep are dipped and pass up the incline
into the other half of the drainer, the attendant then opens one of the gates 26 to
allow the first three sheep to pass out and down the back incline 29 onto the-
ground, each half of the drainer being opened and closed alternately.
When not in use the apparatus is packed for storage or removal, the wheels 2.
and 10 are attached to the frame 1, the drainer is lifted off the tressel 24 and slid
onto the top of the dipping tub after the side boards 21B have been removed and.
placed in the tub, the side boards 30 are folded onto the back incline 29 and
placed within the drainer together with the separate halves of the tressel 24.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven--
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction and employment in apparatus employed in dipping sheep of
a frame 1 and dipping tub 21, the frame being provided with studs carrying the
lower ends of two pair of parallel bars 11 having their upper ends carried by studs.
in the lower part of a cradle 12 provided with handles 20, the upper part of the
cradle being hinged to the lower part and provided with handles 19 for tapping it
to allow a sheep to elide off it into a dipping tub substantially as described and
illustrated in the drawings annexed.
2. The construction and employment in apparatus employed in dipping sheep of
a drainer 22 provided with a gate 25 at its front end and a pair of folding gates 26.
at the back end, substantially as described for the purposes specified and illustrated.
in the drawings annexed.
Dated this Tenth day of March 1896.
H. W..GOUGH, c.E.,
Agent.