Improvements in or connected with Bird-cages and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Bird-cages and the like.
I WILLIAM HENLEY of 30 Camplin Street New Cross, London Metal Plate
Worker do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in or connected with bird-cages and the
like more particularly to watering arrangements of same which I construct as
follows
I take an ordinary attachment such as used at present, and I have adapted
to fit in same a water-tight receptacle in which the bird, or other creature
can bath.
From the bottom wires composing this attachment I suspend a miniature bucket
or other suitable receptacle.
Also from these bars or wires I suspend by any suitable means a small platform,
upon which rests a glass (in preference) or other bowl or the like, into which the
drinking water may be put.
The object of this apparatus is for the bird or other creature to pull up the cord
string or the like to which the bucket is attached & thus pull the bucket up to a
level with the bars of wires aforesaid, when it can be held by the creature in that
position whilst in the act of drinking.
By means of this invention it is unnecessary to subject the bird to any cruelty as
in certain existing methods or appliances for carrying out the same object.
Dated this 4th day of January 1895
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents.
1, WILLIAM HENLEY, of 30 Camplin Street, New Cross, London, Metal Plate
Worker, 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 :--
My invention relates to improvements in or connected with bird-cages and the
like, and has reference more particularly to the watering arrangements for the
same, which I provide for as follows:
1 take an ordinary attachment (similar to that at present in use for carrying
the receptacles for the birds food or water), and 1 provide a water tight receptacle
in which the bird or other creature can bathe. This attachment is hooked or
otherwise fastened in front of the open door of a cage, and from the wires forming
the bottom of the attachment I suspend, by a string, cord or other suitable means
a miniature bucket or other like receptacle.
From the bottom of the attachment I also suspend a small platform upon which
rests a bowl or the like (preferably made of glass) in which is placed the drinking

page_text: In practice I prefer to suspend the platform by chains, so that it may be held at
any required distance below the platform according to the link by which it is
hooked on to the attachment. The object of this apparatus is to enable the bird or
other creature to pull up the cord, string, or the like to which the bucket is
fastened, and thus raise the bucket to a level with the bottom wires of the
attachment when it can be held by the creature while in the act of drinking. By
practice, the bird or creature acquires the knack of supplying itself with water in
the way above described.
Finding it cannot get water in any other way, it raises the cord as far as it can
by its beak, it then helds the cord by one claw and draws it up a little more, then
holds it by the other claw, and so on, until within drinking reach. By the means
adopted in carrying out my invention it is unnecessary to subject the bird to any
cruelty as in certain existing methods or appliances for carrying out the same
object.
To more clearly show the nature of my invention, I annex a sheet of drawings,
in which
Fig. 1 shows a side view of the complete arrangement.
Fig. 2 a plan of the attachment.
Fig. 3 an isometrical view of the bathing receptacle.
Similar letters refer to the same parts on each figure.
a is the attachment, the hooks for holding it in front of the open door of the
cage, c the wire bottom of the attachment, d the cord, string or the like, e the
bucket, the chain for suspending (from the hooks 9) the platform h which carries
the water bowl i. k is the bath to be filled with water and placed in a and rest
on the bottom c, to enable the bird or other creature to have a bath.
I do not confine myself to the precise form or disposition of parts as herein
described or shown, as they may be varied without departing from the spirit of my
invention.
The materials I employ in carrying out my invention may be those most suitable
for the respective parts.
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 :-
In drinking apparatus for the use of bird or other creature the combination of an
attachment to fasten to the bird cage door, with a platform suspended by a chain
or the like, and carrying a water bowl from which the bird supplies itself by raising
a cord or the like carrying at one end a bucket, and attached at the other to the
bottom of the attachment, the whole substantially as herein before described and
exemplified in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1895
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23 Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.