An Improved Apparatus for Supplying Feed to Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th May, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 16th Mar., 1895.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Apparatus for Supplying Feed to Horses and other
Animals.
I THOMAS ROWLAND of Market Buildings. Pontypridd in the County of
Glamorgan South Wales Architect do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple and cheap but very efficient
apparatus for supplying their feed to horses and other animals as and when it is
wanted whereby amongst other advantages this feed will not be wasted nor will it
be so contaminated before use as is now so objectionably common.
To carry out this object on and by a centre or pivot pin mounted in any con-
venient position and on a wall or otherwise above where the feed is to be deposited for
consumption is carried a scoop or receptacle of the desired size and of a proper
shape to perform its function which scoop is so counterbalanced by any convenient
weight or in any suitable manner that when it is empty it will be in its upper
position with its mouth upwards but when the feed is placed therein it will be
overbalanced and will tip over discharging its contents. In the proper position to
receive the contents of the tipping receptacle when so discharged is placed an
hopper a passage wherefrom leads the feed to fall into a bucket or trough which
is made of any suitable size and shape to constitute a manger and is so situated as
conveniently to act as the same.
To prevent the tipping receptacle when the feed has been placed therein
immediately discharging the whole of its contents as it naturally would do a band
or other brake or similar appliance is provided therewith to act preferably on the
pivot pin on and by which it is carried and the manger is connected with this brake
or appliance in such wise that when the predetermined amount of feed has been
discharged from the tipping receptacle and deposited in the manger the weight of
this manger will apply the brake or appliance and prevent the receptacle tipping
over any further. When again a certain quantity of the feed in the manger has
been consumed the consequent lightening of the manger will take off the brake and
allow a corresponding quantity of the feed to be discharged from the tipping
receptacle and so on.
The manger may be connected with the brake or appliance by being hung or
suspended from the lever or other actuating device of the same in which case this
lever or other device could conveniently also be duly counterbalanced or the
manger may be held and supported by and on an arm pivoted on a wall or other-
wise in the proper position and a rod from the lever or other actuating device of
the brake or appliance could be connected preferably adjustably to this arm in
which case the counterweight might not be needed.
Dated this 15th day of Mar 1904
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents..

page_text: An Improved Apparatus for Supplying Feed to Horses and other
Animals.
I THOMAS ROWLAND of Market Buildings Pontypridd in the County of
Glamorgan South Wales Architect 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 very simple and cheap apparatus for
supplying their feed to horses and other animals and an extremely convenient and
efficient method of and means for effecting such supply as and when it is wanted by
which arrangement many and various advantages and excellences will be attained
and produced whereamongst I may mention the following:-The feed will not be
wasted neither will it be so contaminated before use that it will be refused by the
animals as and especially in the case of horses is now so very objectionably
common.
In order the more clearly to explain this my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I refer to the accompanying drawing wherein
Figure 1 is a front elevation and Figure 2 is a side elevation of this apparatus
after and according to one very convenient and appropriate style and method of
construction and arrangement.
A bucket or trough A is made of any suitable material in any appropriate style
and of any convenient size and shape to constitute a manger and is so placed and
situated and is so fitted and provided with such surrounding appliances if necessary
or desirable as to be capable of duly and properly acting as a manger in the
customary or other manner. The manger A is held in this position it may be as is
shewn in the drawing by an arm B pivoted on a bracket C secured on the wall of
the building at the side of such manger A or this bracket C may be similarly
secured at the back of the manger A or in other position in respect of the same
whether on the wall or elsewhere as may be expedient or convenient in each
particular case or the arm B may be similarly pivoted on a standard erected on
the floor or ground at the side, or at the back of such manger A or elsewhere in
respect of the same or it may be otherwise mounted and pivoted in any usual and
convenient manner and this arm B may be of any desired length so that the lip or
edge and end or side of the manger A can be so far from or so close to the point of
pivoting as may be necessary or desirable in each particular case. Above the
inanger A a rocking lever D can be mounted on a pivot E secured in the proper
relative position it may be as is shewn in the drawing on the wall of the building
or it may be otherwise similarly supported in any usual and convenient manner and
one arm of this lever D can be connected by a rod F with the arm B or with
the manger A while on the other arm of this lever D is a counterweight G which
will suffice to support the manger A. under the conditions hereinafter mentioned.
According to another arrangement the manger A can be hung or suspended by
the rod For by other suitable and ordinary appliance or appliances from the arm
of the rocking lever D whereby the arm B and the bracket C or the standard or
other appliance or device whereon such arm B is pivoted as is hereinbefore
described could be dispensed with..
According to another arrangement the rocking lever D and the arm B can be
amalgamated and form one rocking lever one arm whereof would carry the
manger A while the other arm thereof would carry the counterweight G whereby
the connecting rod F or other appliance or appliances herein before described could
be dispensed with and this combined arm and rocking lever would be similarly
mounted and pivoted in the proper position to hold the manger A. where it is
required iu manner as is hereinbefore described.

page_text: In and according to each of these arrangements it is obvious that the manger A
can be duly and properly supported in the manner desired by the counterweight G
and this apparatus is constructed and proportioned and arranged to act in the
following manner.
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When the manger is empty the counterweight will support the same on a level
or in its highest allowed and arranged for position which is shewn in the drawing
and then the feed can be delivered into this manger until the desired and pre-
determined quantity of such feed has been deposited therein when the increased
weight of the manger caused by such deposit will overbalance the counterweight
and make such manger fall or be depressed which fall or depression will stop the
further delivery and deposit of the feed until a certain predetermined quantity of
such feed in the manger has been consumed or removed when the consequent
lightening of this manger will allow the counterweight again to act by so much
raising the manger and allowing a corresponding quantity of the feed to be
delivered into and deposited in the manger and so on. All these parts can perhaps
preferably be so constructed and fitted as to be adjustable and alterable whereby
variations in the quantity of the feed so caused and allowed to be at one and the
same time in the manger can be made and allowed for as also can variations in the
weights of different feeds.
When the manger is in its lowest allowed and arranged for position it can very
conveniently rest on a suitable bed or seat properly and complementarily made and
arranged and fitted therefor.
To effect this governance herein before described of the supply of the feed or
that is to say the deposit of the feed in the manger and the stoppage of such
deposit I can construct and arrange and fit the apparatus shewn in the drawing
and now to be described.
Above the manger A a centre or pivot H is secured in the proper relative
position it may be as is shewn in the drawing on the wall of the building or it may
be otherwise similarly supported in any usual and convenient manner and on such
pivot H is mounted and carried a scoop or receptacle K made of any suitable material
in any appropriate style and of any convenient size and it is formed of such a proper
shape it may be what is shewn in the drawing and is so fitted and arranged as to
surely perform its required function as follows that is to say this receptacle K
when empty will be caused to be and remain in its upper position with its mouth
upwards as is shewn in the drawing by means of a counterbalancing weight M
properly fitted therefor but when the feed is placed therein it will be overbalanced
and will tip over in one direction only discharging its contents and when the
contents have been thus discharged it will by the weight M be caused to regain
its former position. The receptacle K may be secured to the pivot H in which
case this pivot H is so fitted in any usual manner as to be capable of oscillating
in a suitable supporting socket or bearing but perhaps preferably the receptacle K
may be secured to and on a collar L which surrounds and can oscillate on the
fixed pivot Has is shewn in the drawing in which case the counterbalancing
weight M is secured to or mounted on an arm attached to the collar L.
To prevent this tipping receptacle K when the feed has been placed therein
immediately capsizing or falling into the position shewn by dotted lines in
Figure 1 and discharging the whole of its contents as evidently it would naturally
do unless it were restrained therefrom a drum N can be fitted on the pivot H
and when such pivot H is an oscillating one is secured thereto but when such
pivot H is a fixed one is mounted thereon by the side of the collar L whereto it is
secured and in either case round this drum N is fitted and arranged in any ordinary
and convenient manner a band brake P the fixed end whereof may be held in
the proper position in any manner as is customary or otherwise while the
operating end thereof is connected in the proper position to the rocking lever D
or it may be to the manger A or to the arm B thereof in such wise that when
the manger A is made to fall or be depressed in manner as is hereinbefore
described the brake P will at once be applied and will prevent the receptacle K

page_text: tipping over any further and discharging any more of its contents until the
lightening of the manger A and the consequent action of the counterweight G
as also is hereinbefore described will take off the brake P and allow a further
tipping over of the receptacle K and a further discharge of its contents and so
on until the receptacle K has attained such a position that all its contents have
been discharged when the next release of the brake P will allow the counter-
balancing weight M to act and the receptacle K will return to its upper position
ready to receive more feed and the aforesaid cycle of operations will be
repeated.
Instead of using a band brake as is hereinbefore described to govern and
control the movement of the tipping receptacle I can obviously fit and employ
many other ordinary and suitable appliances in any customary and convenient
manner to perform the same function as for example an hooked or other pawl
could be mounted on the rocking lever or on the manger or on the supporting arm
thereof the end of which pawl could be arranged to engage in and with ratchet
teeth on the drum or on the collar or on the pivot as may be necessary or
expedient whereby the same effect would obviously be produced.
Below the tipping, receptacle K an hopper R can be arranged in the proper
relative position to receive the contents of such receptacle K when the same are
discharged therefrom in manner as is hereinbefore described and it may be as
is shewn in the drawing this hopper R can be secured on the wall of the building
.or it may be otherwise similarly supported in any usual and convenient manner
and a passage or trunk S can if necessary or desirable lead the feed from this.
hopper R to fall into the manger. A as is required or when it may be expedient
and possible so to arrange the feed may fall from the tipping receptacle K
directly into the manger A. without the intervention of an hopper or trunk.
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 1
claim is
1. In an apparatus for supplying feed to horses and other animals a manger
for the reception of the feed carried by or hung from or connected with a
pivoted arm or lever so duly counterweighted as to support the manger when
empty and thus allow the deposit of the feed therein and as to be overbalanced
when the predetermined weight of feed has been so deposited and thus stop any
further deposit of feed therein until the manger has been lightened substantially
as herein before described and set forth.
2. In an apparatus for supplying feed to horses and other animals the com-
bination with a movable manger carried by or hung from or connected with a pivoted
arm or lever duly counterweighted of a tipping receptacle for the feed mounted
on a pivot and balanced when empty by a weight and a brake or other appliance
operated by the manger or by the arm or lever thereof to govern and control the
movement of the tipping receptacle substantially as and for the purpose herein-
before described and declared,
3. The apparatus for supplying feed to horses and other animals substantially as
hereinbefore described and, shewn in the accompanying drawing.
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HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents,
HART & Co.,
186, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agents.