Improved Portable Pens for Game or Poultry.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 4th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Portable Pens for Game or Poultry.
I GEORGE FRANCIS MORANT late Major in H.M. Service The Pheasantries
Beckford Tewkesbury do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An improvement in portable pens for keeping & rearing game & poultry.
These pens are called the Duplicate Movable Pens because the plan of moving
them can only be carried out when two, or more are used which have easily
opened doors which correspond at both ends.
It is of immense advantage to all birds in confinement to be able to run onto
fresh ground without being caught or frightened.
In these pens the birds are easily confined in one pen by the insertion of a door.
The empty pen is then carried round & placed in front of the pen containing the
birds. The doors are then drawn up & the birds walk onto fresh ground.
In this manner even wild birds can be moved all over a field without any risk of
their escaping.
Dated this Fourth day of November 1892.
GEORGE FRANCIS MORANT,
Late Major H.M. Service.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Portable Pens for Game or Poultry.
1 GEORGE FRANCIS MORANT of The Pheasantries, Beckford, Tewkesbury
late Major in Her Majestys Service 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 :-
An improvement in portable pens for keeping and rearing garne and poultry.
These pens are called the Duplicate Moveable Pens because the plan of moving
them can only be carried out when two or more are used. They are constructed of
wood, iron or other metal and surrounded on all sides and on the top with wire or
other netting with corresponding sliding doors at each end. In these pens the
birds are easily confined in one pen by the insertion of the sliding door at the end.
The empty pen is then carried round and placed in front of the other pen con-
taining the birds and by this means any number of pens may be added and a run
of any length obtained. The doors between the pens are then drawn up and the
birds have access on to fresh ground.
The following is a description of the accompanying plan.
a. Door of close boards to drop in slides.
b. Door of open bars to drop in slides.
c. A single duplicate pen.
d. d. Two handles to lift it.
e.e. Two duplicate pens standing together.
Note. The sides & ends of these pens are covered with wire netting or the ends
may be closed with boards.
__] with string notting or wire netting.

page_text: 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
An invention by means of which game wild birds and poultry in confinement can
obtain the advantage of being frequently moved so as to run upon fresh ground
without being caught or frightened and without any risk of being injured or
escaping.
WM. FREEMAN,
21, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn,
Agent for George Francis Morant.
WM.
FREEMAN,
21, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn,
Agent for George Francis Morant.