An Improved Chicken Rearer.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Chicken Rearer.
FRANK TANDY The Bricklands Brick Maker, Sandhurst Road Gloucester do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The chicken rearer is composed of a box shaped coop having 2 bearings underneath
each end to keep the bottom dry the bottom being raised from the ground. Length
4 feet width 2 feet depth on side 19 inches, saddle roof raised 3 inches. Of course the
rearer can be made any size larger or smaller to suit customers and the quantity of
chicks. It can also be made in wood iron or other material.
The front of rearer has an opening with a door or a trap lid to open to place a
parafin lamp in for the purpose of heating, over the top of lamp inside box is the
heating apparatus, which can be regulated to any temperature as may be required.
The heater on inside of box over lamp can be made with tin, iron or copper'
The heater forms a recess for water which is boiled by the lamp being placed
underneath and can be made any thickness, length, width or breadth according to
the size of the rearer.
It has a ventilator to allow the foul air accumulating from the burning parafin
running up a small appature at the end of the boiler or heating apparatus. The
heating apparatus has a safety valve on the top to let off the steam and to prevent
any explosion in case of being over heated. At one end of rearer there is a double
floor with a trap lid on roof over so that you might easily put in or. reach out the
chicks with a sloping floor running into the other end of box. When the chicks
are a particular size and can well take care of themselves the heating apparatus,
lamp, floor and partition can be taken clean out making a complete chicken run
and which in my opinion there has not yet been the likes.
Dated this 9th day of January 1893
:
FRANK TANDY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Chicken Rearer.
FRANK TANDY The Bricklands Sandhurst Road Gloucester Brick 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 chicken rearer comprises of a box shaped coop divided into three com-
partments No. I warm chamber No. 2 lamp chamber & No. 3 cool chamber with
an inclined plane passage 4 leading from No. 1 to No. 3, and has two bearings 5
underneath. The whole of the interior is made moveable so that it may be removed
and converted into a complete chicken coop.
The length is four feet, the width two feet, and the height nineteen inches outside
measurement with a hinged saddle roof 6 rising three inches in the centre to throw
off the wet. The rearer is composed of match boards rebated and tongued or with
strips of wood tacked over the joints to break the draught. In one side of the
rearer there is a trap lid 7 or door which opens into No. 2 chamber to receive a
parafin lamp 20 which heats the water in the cistern 8 above, and which can be
regulated to the temperature required.
The water cistern is over the lamp chamber, and has a safety valve 9 on the top
to let off condensed steam, and may be made in tin iron or copper of any thickness,
length or breadth according to the size of the rearer.

page_text: The ventilation for the lamp is arranged by the door in lamp chamber being
made sufficiently small to admit air 16, and holes 10 are cut in the end of the rearer
near the roof to allow a through current. Chamber No. 1 has a moveable raised
floor 11 which brings the chicks nearer the hot water cistern, adjoining the cistern
is a trap door or lid 12 to afford easy access to the chicks. In the partitions 21
separating the three chambers are glass panels 13 and the whole of the interior is
made moveable so that when the chicks no longer require the heat, the partitions
may easily be taken out thus forming a complete chicken coop.
In the end of the cool chamber a hole 14 is cut to enable the chicks to run in
and out of the rearer, there is a wire slide 15 above the hole which may be shut
down to keep the chicks in when required.
The two upper strainers 17 are carried beyond the ends of the rearer to form
handles 18 by which it may easily be carried from place to place. A small iron stay 19
at the end of the rearer will hold the lid or roof up when the chicks require
attention.
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:
1. The whole of the interior is moveable."
2. The utilization of heat the lamp being in the centre of the rearer.
2 Glass nanels being inserted in the nartitions on either side of the lamp
FRANK TANDY.