Improvements in Animal Feed Boxes."
Year: 1897

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SPECIFICATION.
"Improvements in Animal Feed Boxes."
I, GEORGE DAVID HOWARD, of 38 Chancery Lane, in the County of London, Patent
Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication to me by
Henry Still, of No. 700, E. Monument Street, Baltimore, Md., U.S. America, Presi-
dent of Standard Feed Box Company,) to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to so construct a feed box and feed hopper that all
kinds of feed, to wit: grain of all kinds, ground and unground, soft feed or cut hay,
etc., can be fed from it, and to prevent animals from wasting feed by throwing it out
of the box, to regulate the ravenous feeder, compelling the thorough mastication of
the feed, and thereby reducing the amount of feed requisite to keep the animal in
proper condition and to prevent many acute disorders arising from hasty eating.
According to my invention I provide a feed hopper at the rear end of the feed box,
with its rear wall inclined at an angle not less than 45° to the bottom of said box.
The hopper is open at the top and is provided with a lid, suitably hinged to the top
of the hopper. Said hopper is also open at the front, and is provided with a shutter
or door, which is vertically adjustable, and can be opened and turned over backwards
on the top of said hopper. The door is suspended on bearings at the front face of
said hopper by means of hangers formed over said bearings and having depending
arms, through which depending arms longitudinal slots are cut; through said slots
and corresponding holes in the door bolts are inserted, having nuts upon their inner
ends, whereby said door may be held firmly in any desired position; or the slots may
be made in said door, and holes to correspond cut in said hangers as preferred. By
means of these slots and bolts the door may be adjusted to various heights, and
thereby the flow of coarse or fine feed under bottom edge of said door may be
accurately regulated.
The door is prevented from being forced downward too far when food is being put
in the hopper, and while the animal is eating grain or dry ground feed, by any
suitable locking device.
This end may be attained by the use of rods, to thrust in and out by means of
arms projecting from a hub through the door near its centre, the outer ends of said
rods catching behind lugs or flanges on either side of the hopper, said rods being
supported at the outer edges of said door by loops, the depending portion of said hub
tending to hold the rods in their place bebind said lugs or flanges. This plan, while
it prevents said door from being forced outwardly, yet permits it to have a limited
motion inwardly or towards the rear inclined wall of said hopper.
To open the door the rods are withdrawn from behind the lugs through rotation of
the hub by means of a projection on the front face of the door.
At the rear end of the door, and far enough back to allow a limited motion inward
to said door, bars are arranged (one or more, depending on the size of the box),
passing from the top of the hopper down through the inclined rear wall, forming a
rack for holding soft or cut hay feed.
These bars are kept in position by any of the ordinary means known to the trade,

page_text: and should be far enough apart to allow an animal's nose to pass between them.
They may also be fastened in horizontally- if desired.
The bearing on said hopper for the door should be so placed that when the door is
hanging vertically, the point of union of the rear inclined wall of said hopper with
the bottom of the box should be in advance of the door.
When hay or cut feed is being fed, the door will be raised and thrown back over
the top of hopper; but when grain or fine feed is being used, the door is swung down
to a vertical position.
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** Improvements in Animal Feed Boxes."
I, GEORGE DAVID HOWARD, of 38. Chancery Lane, in the County of London,
Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me by Henry Still, of No. 700, E, Monument Street, Baltimore, Md., U.S.
America, President of Standard Feed Box Company,) and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
The object of my invention is to so construct a feed box and feed hopper that all
kinds of feed, to wit: grain of all kinds, ground and unground, soft feed or cut hay,
etc., can be fed from it, and to prevent animals from wasting feed by throwing it out
of the box, to regulate the ravenous feeder, compelling the thorough mastication of
the feed, and thereby reducing the amount of feed requisite to keep the animal in
proper condition and to prevent many acute disorders arising from hasty eating.
I attain these results by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing,
in which Fig 1 is a perspective view, Fig: 2 a longitudinal section on line y y', and
Fig 3 is a transverse vertical section on line z z¹, seen in Fig: 2.
Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
a is the feed box proper. B is a feed hopper at the rear end of said box, with
its rear wall inclined at an angle not less less than 45° to the bottom of said
box a. Hopper B is open at the top and is provided with a lid C, suitably hinged
to the top of the hopper. Said hopper is also open at the front, and is provided with
a shutter or door D, which is vertically adjustable, and can be opened and turned
over backwards on the top of said hopper. Door D is suspended on bearings at the
front face of said hopper by means of hangers E formed over said bearings and
having depending arms, through which depending arms longitudinal slots e e¹ are
cut; through said slots e e¹ and corresponding holes in the door D, bolts F are
inserted, having nuts upon their inner ends, whereby said door may be held firmly
in any desired position; or the slots may be made in said door, and holes to correspond
cut in said hangers e e¹ as preferred. By means of these slots and bolts, door
be adjusted to various heights, and thereby the flow of coarse or fine feed under
bottom edge of said door may be accurately regulated.
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Door D is prevented from being forced forward too far when food is being put in
the hopper, and while the animal is eating grain or dry ground feed, by any suitable
locking device. This end may be attained by the use of rods 8 8¹ to thrust in and
out by means of arms o o¹, projecting from hub h through the door D near its centre,
the outer ends of said rods 8 s¹ catching behind lugs or flanges x x¹ on either side of
hopper B, said rods 8 8¹ being supported at the outer edges of said door by loops n n¹,

page_text: the depending portion of said hub h tending to hold rods & s¹ in their place behind
said lugs or flanges xx¹.
This plan, while it prevents said door from being forced outwardly, yet permits it
to have a limited motion inwardly or towards the rear inclined wall of said hopper.
To open door D, the rods s s¹ are withdrawn from behind lugs x x¹ through rotation
of hub h by means of projection on front face of the door.
At the rear end of the door, and far enough back to allow a limited motion inward
to said door D, bars R R1 R2 are arranged (one or more, depending on the size of the
box) passing from the top of the hopper down through the inclined rear wall, forming
a rack for holding soft or cut hay feed.
These bars are kept in position by any of the ordinary means known to the trade,
and should be far enough apart to allow an animal's nose to pass between them.
They may also be fastened in horizontally if desired.
The bearings on said hopper for the door D should be so placed that when the door D
is hanging vertically, the point of union of the rear inclined wall of said hopper with
the bottom of the box a should be in advance of the door D.
When hay or cut feed is being fed, the door D will be raised and thrown back
over the top of hopper B; but when grain or fine feed is being used, the door is swung
down to a vertical position, as shown in the drawing.
I prefer the box and hopper to be made of metal, but it can be constructed of any
desired material, and obviously the size of the box may be varied without departing
from the spirit of the invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a feed box, combination with the box or receptacle of the hopper open
at the top, and having an inclined rear side leading to the bottom of the box or
receptacle, the vertically adjustable and swinging door at the forward side of said
hopper, the vertical bars providing a rack substantially as shown and described.
2. The combination of a feed box and hopper said hopper having an inclined rear
wall, leading to the bottom of the box, a swinging door suspended from the front
edge of the hopper and separating the hopper and feed box and having a locking and
unlocking device adapted to permit the door to swing through a desired angle when
locked and be opened to a horizontal or reversed position when unlocked, sub-
stantially as described.
3. The combination of a feed box, and a feed hopper separated by a bar and a
swinging shutter suspended between the box and the hopper and on the box side
of the bar.