Improvements in Mounting Portable Poultry Houses and the like on Wheels.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Mounting Portable Poultry Houses and the like on
Wheels.
I, HENRY JOHN Fox ROSE Eaton Bray Dunstable Beds Poultry Appliance
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide an easy method of mounting, whereby a
portable house can be readily and easily raised on a set of wheels attached thereto,
and after the house has been wheeled to the desired position, as easily lowered down
to the ground, thus obviating the necessity of using any floor to the house when
used for poultry, consequently no cleaning out is required, the droppings being left
on the ground when the house is moved, and as the sills of the house rest on the
ground when not in motion, no injurious upward draught can reach the fowls on the
perches. This object I accomplish in the following manner-
When mounting houses of large size I attach three wheels, two are mounted loosely
on an axle, which, extending across the full width of the house, passes through two
vertical slots in the sides of the house, the bottom of the slots being on a level with
the top of the lower sill, and rising to a height slightly in excess of half the diameter
of the wheel used, the said slots being placed a suitable distance from the end of
the house.
Between the side of the house and the hub of the wheel on each side, short
standards are bolted rigidly to the axle, having in the upper ends a slot cut parallel
to the side of the house, in this slot is pivoted the end of a flat iron lever of
sufficient length to project beyond the end of the house to form handles for lifting,
the lever is pivoted to the side of the house at a suitable distance from the standard
on the axle (this being governed by the length of lever) then by raising the bandles
of levers the house is raised until the axle rests on the sill, when the levers can be
held up by a simple pin or other device until it is necessary to lower the house again.
The third wheel is fixed in a fork and is in reality an enlarged form of the ordinary
castor, the bearings or cups supporting this fork are bolted to a piece of timber of
suitable length having a hole bored through from side to side at its upper end,
this piece fits easily between two pieces bolted to the frame of the house vertically,
and bored at the proper height for a pin to pass through them and the piece that
carries the castor wheel, which is thus swung on the bolt or pin at its upper end;
when the house is lifted by a suitable handle the castor wheel frame becomes vertical
and is secured at the bottom to the two side pieces by a latch or pin or other suitable
device.
For small houses the third or castor wheel is not necessary, but I use the same
device as described for the other two wheels, simply extending the two levers further
beyond the end of the house and connecting them by a cross bar to form a handle,
and placing a stop or pin above the levers at the correct height; the house is lifted
off the ground by raising the handle; when the levers reach the stops or pins the
house is quite level and raised for moving; to prevent draughts passing through the
slots when the axle is raised, they are automatically covered by pieces of board
swinging on screws; the bottom of the standards are cut to a bevil and push the

page_text: boards out of the way when the axle is depressed, falling back and covering the slots
when it is raised.
Dated thin 01st don of M 1904
Improvements in Mounting Portable Poultry Houses and the like on
Wheels.
HENRY JOHN Fox Rose Eaton Bray near Dunstable Beds Poultry Appliance
Manufacturer 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:-
The object of my invention is to provide a portable house with a set of wheels fitted
to it in such a manner as to allow the house to be instantly lowered to the ground
when in its required position and as quickly mounted when necessary to move it to
another place, so that the house although having wheels requires no floor to keep the
birds in or the draught out; this I accomplish in the following manner-
Referring to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters refer to similar
parts
Fig. 1 is a side view shewing one of the front pair of wheels and method of
attachment when three wheels are employed, in which A represents part of the side
of a house. B is a vertical slot cut in the sides to allow of the axle C passing through
the sides and moving up and down in the said slots, the said axle C being provided
with a road wheel N at each end. D is a standard bolted securely to the axle C and
having at its upper end a slot parallel to the side of house. E is a lever pivoted
by the bolt F to the side of the house, the short end entering the slot in the standard D
and secured loosely by the bolt G. H is an iron guide secured to the side of the house
to keep the lever steady sideways and provided with a hole a near the top and a
corresponding hole in the side post of the house into which a pin b is thrust to hold
up the lever when the house is raised off the ground for moving.
Fig. 2. is a side view of the third or castor wheel fitted in the centre of the end of
the house, in which J is a piece of timber pivoted or hinged by the bolt j between
two vertical posts I bolted securely centrally to the end of the house and swinging
easily between them, the piece J when in a vertical position is secured near the bottom
to the posts I by the pin L passing through the posts I and timber J. To the piece J
is attached by suitable bearings an iron fork K in which is placed one of the road
wheels N, the fork K is made on a suitable angle so that the wheel acts as a castor
wheel and is self steering, the end of the house on which this castor wheel is placed is
easily raised off the ground by a suitable jack M attached to the pin or bolt j and
which folds up against the house when not in use.
For small houses to be moved by hand only two wheels are necessary, the levers E
(Fig. 3) being connected by a wooden crosspiece O with an iron bolt running right
through it and the ends of the levers, so that by simply raising the levers to the top
of the guides H the house is up on the wheels instantly and can be moved about like
a truck.
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.
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1st. The combination of the wheels N. N, the axle C the standards D, the levers E
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page_text: 2nd. The combination of the pieces I the piece J with the fork K the bolt ; the
pin L the wheel N as set forth.
3rd. The combination of the wheels N the axle E the standards D the levers E the
guide pieces H and the crosspiece O and the bolt F all as described.
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HENRY JOHN FOX ROSE.