An Improved Method for Securing and Releasing Instantaneously Horses and Cattle from their Fastening to Manger or Post in case of Fire or other Emergency.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 1st Oct., 1891-Accepted, 7th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method for Securing and Releasing Instantaneously
Horses and Cattle from their Fastening to Manger or Post in
case of Fire or other Emergency.
We WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN of No. 51 Tavistock Street, Luton in the County
of Bedford, Police Constable and WALTER JOHN NASH of No. 14 Waller
Street Luton in the County of Bedford aforesaid Licensed Victualler do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a peculiar mechanical method of securing and releasing
instantaneously horses and cattle from their fastening to manger or post, in case of
fire or other emergency, by fitting a plate with brackets in wrought or cast iron to
front of the manger or post, through which is passed a revolving iron tube or bar,
each headstall and rein being fastened by a lever fitted to aforesaid plate and
locked in a slot cut in the iron tube or bar fitted and worked in sockets at each end
thereof, the revolving bar being locked and unlocked by a lever or crank fitted and
worked at one end of the said bar.
DA 19th
WILLIAM
CHAMBERLAIN...
WALTER J. NASH.
COMPLETE. SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method for Securing and Releasing Instantaneously,
Horses and Cattle fro.n their Fastening to Manger or Post in
case of Fire or other Emergency.
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We, WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN, of 51 Tavistock Street, Police Constable, and
WALTER JOHN NASH, of 14 Wall Street, Licensed Victualler, both of Luton; in
the County of Bedfordshire, 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 an improved method for securing and releasing instan-
taneously horses and cattle from their fastening to manger or post in case of fire or
other emergency, by fitting a plate with brackets in wrought or cast iron to front
of manger or post, through which is passed a revolving iron tube, or bar each
headstall and rein being fastened by a lever fitted to aforesaid plate and locked in
a slot cut in the iron tube or bar fitted and worked in sockets at each end thereof
the revolving bar being locked and unlocked by a lever or crank fitted and work
at one end of the said bar.
We attain these objects by the illustrations in the accompanying drawing, in
which-
Fig. 1 is a front view of the apparatus fixed to a stall and manger for a horse;
Fig. 2, is a longitudinal section of Fig. 1; the dotted lines indicate the position
of the mechanism when the horse is released;
Fig. 3, is a section of the end of the tube working on a pivot or centre pin; -
Fig. 4, is a screwed eyelet bolted to the manger in place of the brackets;
Fig. 5, is the slot cut in the tube.
Figs. 3, 4, and 5, are drawn to an enlarged scale and are broken off for want of
space.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the views.
Our invention is constructed with a tube supported by brackets d d on a
plate e screwed to the manger a of a stall. In the centre of tube c we cut a slot y
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page_text: and in this slot we lock the end of a lever f the said lever being pivoted at / to a
pair of jaws bolted at the base of the stall beneath the manger a.
At the back of
the tube c to cover the slot or a portion of the said slot g we fix a support b so as
to prevent the lever f going out at the back of the tube c. At the end of the
tube c we fix a crank the end of which is pivoted to a long lever arm j with a
handle or pull. The end of the lever arm j passes through a staple k, the lever
arm being notched beneath so that the notch shall seat itself on the staple when
the apparatus is locked by the catch p. The halter by a chain n is connected to
a ring o, this said ring o is passed on the lever and the said lever end is fixed by
placing it in the slot 7 and revolving the tube c and locking the same by the lever
arm and catch p, as in Figs. 1, and 2.
If preferable we may construct at the ends of the revolving tube c plates y with
centre holes to work on centre pins r fixed to the walls as in Fig. 3; and we may
adopt screwed eyelets s bolted to the manger a by nuts in place of the brackets d d
on the plate e.
It is intended that two or more tubes may be coupled together and operated by
means of one lever j. The aforesaid lever; may be of any suitable length.
The ring o is detached by sliding off the lever f when the said lever
falls out
of the sloty by the pull of the handle and lever j after the removal of the
catch p.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination of the apparatus for securing and releasing instantaneously
horses and cattle from their fastening to manger or post in case of fire or other
emergency, substantially as herein described and according to the accompanying
drawing.
2. The combination of the lever slot 9 revolving tube c brackets d d plate e
stop b crank lever handle i staple k and catch p, for securing or releasing the
ring o, substantially as herein described and according to Figs. 1, and 2, of the
accompanying drawing.
3. The combination of the slot g and the revolving tube c with centre pins r and
plates g, and screwed eyelets s, substantially as herein described and according to
Figs. 3, 4, and 5 of the accompanying drawing.
4. The combination of the apparatus to be constructed of any size, or of anv
material, or with any modification of the various parts, substantially as here:
described and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 1st day of October 1891
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicants.