Improvements in Feed Bags for Horses.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1892-Accepted, 16th July, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by WILLIAMS FOLDING FEED-BASKET COMPANY,
of Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.]
Improvements in Feed Bags for Horses.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex, 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:-
This invention relates to feed bags for application to the heads of horses for
feeding purposes, in which portions of the bag are composed of wire-cloth side
pieces which enable the air to have free access to the interior of the bag. The
invention has for its object to improve the construction of feed bags of this class.
with respect to strength, simplicity and durability, and to these ends the invention
consists in the improvements which will now be described and claimed.
Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this Specification,
Figure 1 represents a perspective view of the improved feed bag in use.
Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the same, folded.
Fig. 3 represents a transverse section of the bag.
Fig. 4 represents a side elevation of the upper portion of the bag; and
Figures 5 and 6 represent enlarged sectional views of a portion of the bag,
showing the manner of connecting the component parts thereof.
:
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all of the figures.
The improved feed bag is composed of two general parts, viz. the ventilating
sides a and the flexible connecting body b to which said sides are secured, said body
being composed of canvas or other suitable flexible material.
Each side piece a is composed of a Sheet 2 of wire-cloth, which is preferably
cut in the form of a disc truncated or cut away at one side, and a frame which
supports and holds said Sheet 2 in position, said frame being composed of a curved
marginal piece or binding strip 3, which is originally made U-shaped in
section, as shown in Fig. 5, a straight marginal or top piece or strip 4 extending
from one end of the binding strip 3 to the other, and cross-pieces 5, 5 which
extend from the top strip 4 across the wire sheet 2 to the binding strip 3.
cross
The binding strip 3 constitutes a curved trough which receives the curved edge
of the sheet 2, the ends of the strip 4, and the lower end of each of the strips 5.
The ends of the strip 4 are connected by rivets 6, 6 with the outer side of the
curved binding strip 3, and the lower ends of the strips 5 are connected by.
rivets 7,7 with the same side of the binding strip 3. The wire-cloth sheet 2 is
secured by rivets 8, 8 to the strips 4 and 5, 5.
The wire-cloth sheet is further attached to the frame by the rivets 9, 9 which
secure the upper ends of the strips 5, 5 to the top strip 4.
The body b is composed of a flexible strip 10 of practically uniform width,
engaged, as presently described, with the binding strips constituting the margins of
the ventilating side pieces and the top or mouth strips 12, 12, the lower edges of
which are secured to the top strips 4 of the side pieces by the rivets 8, 9, the ends
of said mouth strips 12 being stitched to the end portions of the strip 10. To
the edges of the strip 10 are secured two curved wire rods 13 which are contained
in pockets which are formed by turning over the edges of the strip 10, as shown
in Figures 5 and 6. The size and curvature of the rods 13 enable them to be
inserted in the trough formed by the binding strip 3 when the latter is in the open
condition shown in Fig. 5.
In connecting the parts of the feed bag the wire sheets 2 are first inserted in

page_text: the curved, trough-shaped marginal or binding strip 3, and the wired edges of the
cloth strip 10 are inserted in the strip 3, all as shown in Fig. 5. The inner edge of
the strip 3 is then bent inwardly, as shown in Fig. 6; said strip being thus caused
to closely confine the edges of the wire sheet 2 and of the cloth strip 10 around
and upon the stiffening wire 13. The cloth strips 12 are then united to the top
strips 4 of the side pieces by means of the rivets 8, 9, said rivets also securing the
upper edges of the wire sheets both to the top strips 4 and cloth strips 12.
It will be observed that the upper portion of the cloth body constitutes a valance
projecting above the ventilating side pieces and adapted to be drawn closely
around the animal's head at a point above its mouth; said valance being preferably.
provided with a draw-string 24, as shown in Figures 3 and 4. A supporting rope
or cord 15 may be attached to the upper edge of the valance, as shown in Figures 1,
3 and 4.
It will be observed that the improved feed bag above described is very strong
and durable and is adapted to be made largely by machinery, but little hand work
being required. The ventilating side pieces, formed as shown, afford large areas
for the admission of air to the interior of the bag, by which the horse is enabled
to breathe freely while feeding.
It will be seen that the strips 4 and 5 are stay strips which keep the curved
binding strip 3 and the wire-cloth side sheets 2 in place. If desired, the strips 5
may be omitted; or only the strip 5, or more than two of said strips may be
employed. The bag may have but one ventilating side piece instead of two.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondents I declare that what I claim is :
1. In a feed bag, a ventilating side piece comprising the curved, trough-shaped,
metal binding strip 3, one or more stay strips secured thereto, and a wire-cloth
sheet having its margin inserted in the trough of the binding strip 3, combined
with the flexible body piece 10 having a curved marginal stiffening wire, the said
body piece and wire sheet having their edges bent round the said stiffening wire
and inserted in the trough of the binding strip and secured by the compression of
the binding strip, as set forth.
2. In a feed bag, a ventilating side piece comprising the curved, trough-shaped,
metal binding strip 3, one or more stay strips secured thereto and a wire-cloth
sheet having its margin inserted in the trough of the binding strip 3, combined
with the flexible body piece 10, having a curved marginal stiffening wire, the said
body piece and wire sheet having their edges bent round the said stiffening wire
and inserted in the trough of the binding strip and secured by the compression of
the binding strip, and the mouth strip 12 projecting above the ventilating side
pieces, as set forth.
Date way of
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.