Improvement in Apparatus for Economising or Preventing the Scattering of Food in Cribs or Feeding Vessels for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 6th July, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 6th Apr., 1899--Accepted, 6th May, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Apparatus for Economising or Preventing the
Scattering of Food in Cribs or Feeding Vessels for Horses and
other Animals.
ARTHUR NEAVERSON, Peakirk, Near Peterboro', Northamptonshire, Builder,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows;-
This invention relates to the improvement in apparatus for economising or
preventing the scattering of food in cribs or feeding vessels for horses and other
animals.
This apparatus comprises the iron rod (a) which is ths. inch square and some
21 inches in height and to the top of which is fixed the circular plate (b) which
has a diameter of nine inches.
The rod is placed within the iron pipe (c) which is 14 inches square by 16
inches in height with a circular flange or edge 24 inches wide at one end and at
the opposite end a half-inch flange as shewn at (c").
It is necessary that the underside of the circular flange should be convex ii
being inch in thickness at that part surrounding the hollow space formed in
the centre at (d).
This space is one inch square and so continues throughout the pipe (c).
To the circular plate are fitted six attachments as shewn at (e) and to these
the wings are adjusted by iron pins. These wings are made of round bar iron
and being some nine inches across at their greatest width and each converge at
the point (g).
At each end of the wings and some three inches from (g) a small wheel (4)
about ths inch in diameter is fitted.
To the cross bar () at the bottom of the rod two lengths of chain are attached
and when the apparatus is fitted together they are made to draw over the wheels
marked (k). These chains converge at point (m) and a single chain runs from
here to the edge of the crib where a stirrup shaped appliance for the foot is fitted
as shewn at (n).
When a downward pressure is brought to bear at (n) the rod is drawn upwards
from the ends of the chains at (r) and at the same time bearing with it the pipe (c)
-it being supported on the small wheels (h) and together they pass through a
square shaped aperture formed through the bottom of the crib.
The pipe proceeds freely until the flange (c) reaches the underside of the bot-
tom of the crib when on the rod still proceeding upwards the small wheels at (h)
at once lever against the convex shaped flange of the pipe (c) and the wings are
drawn simultaneously from a horizontal to a vertical position. To keep the wings
in the latter position the stirrup at (n) must be pressed downwards as far as possible
and the foot kept stationary but they may be kept in a similar position by the
stirrup being hooked by the foot on to the framework of the crib as shewn at (s).
The food may then be supplied to the crib and on the stirrup being set free the
wings resume a horizontal position upon the food placed in the crib or feeding
vessel.
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page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Apparatus for Economising or Preventing the
Scattering of Food in Cribs or Feeding Vessels for Horses and
other Animals.
ARTHUR NEAVERSON, Peakirk, Nr. Peterborough, Northamptonshire, Builder,
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 follow-
ing statement:—
This invention relates to the improvement in apparatus for economising or
preventing the scattering of food in cribs or feeding vessels for horses and other
animals.
This apparatus is adjusted in the centre of the crib or feeding vessel a square
shaped aperture 1 inch square being first formed through the woodwork form-
ing the crib bottom which must be constructed at least some twenty inches from
the ground.
The apparatus comprises
The rod (a) with
The circular plate (b)
The pipe (c).
Small wheels as at (h)
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Attachments (e) with looped bar irons or wings
The wheels (k)
Marked and shewn in the drawings left with the Provisional Specification.
The rod (a) is inch square and some 21 inches in length and to the top of
this is fixed the circular plate (b), which is some 9 inches in diameter.
The pipe (c) should be made square in shape its breadth 1 inches and some 16
inches in length with a circular Hange, 24 inches wide, at one end and at the opposite
end a inch flange as shewn at c". This pipe receives the rod (a) through the
hollow space as shewn in the drawings left with the Provisional Specification.
The circular flange or edge on its underside must be convex in shape it being
inch in thickness at that part surrounding the square shaped hollow formed
throughout the centre as shewn at (d) in the drawings left with the Provisional
Specification.
To the circular plate (b) are fitted six attachments as shewn at (e) and to these
at some two inches below the level of the plate the wings are adjusted by iron pins.
Each wing is made of bar iron or the like material and may be bent in a loop
as shewn in the drawings left with the Provisional Specification each loop being
some nine inches across at its greatest width and some 18 inches in length.
The small wheels as at (h) are each inch in diameter and is fitted to the end
of each wing some three inches from the point (g) on the drawings left with the
Provisional Specification.
Attached to the cross bar marked (j) in the said drawings are two lengths of
chain and when the apparatus is in use these are drawn over the wheels marked (k).
The chains converge at the point marked (m) on the drawings left with the
Provisional Specification and a single chain extends to the edge of the crib where
a stirrup shaped appliance for the foot is fitted as shewn at (n) on the said draw-
ings.
When foot pressure is applied to the stirrup the rod (a) is drawn upwards from
the ends of the chains at (r) and at the same time bearing with it the pipe (c)
which is supported on the wheels at (h) and together they pass through the square
shaped aperture above referred to until the flange marked c" on the drawings left

page_text: with the Provisional Specification reaches the underside of the bottom of the
crib & on the rod (a) still proceeding upwards the wheels (h) lever against the
convex-shaped underside of the flange to the pipe (c) and the wings are drawn
simultaneously from a horizontal to a vertical position.
The chain above referred to may be taken over two other wheels fitted inside
the crib & adjacent to the foot appliance in order to raise the same higher from
the ground if necessary and after a downward pressure on the appliance at (n)
the chain may be kept stationary or checked, after the pressure is withdrawn, by
a catch or spring holding the plate of iron previously withdrawn from the point (m).
The spring or catch is also fitted inside the crib and adjacent to the extra wheels
and together may be covered over by woodwork leaving merely a handle un-
covered by which the spring or catch may be released after the food has been
supplied to the crib.
The whole apparatus may be constructed of iron or the like material.
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. In an apparatus for economising or preventing the scattering of food in cribs
or feeding vessels for horses and other animals the arrangements and combination
of parts substantially as herein before described and shewn in the drawings left
with the Provisional Specification.
2. In an apparatus as herein before described the square shaped pipe (c) with
the flange and the circular flange or edge convex-shaped on its underside where-
on wheels as at (h) are made to act by an upward mechanical movement of a
rod (a) passing through the centre of the said pipe whereby with the assistance of
the flange the looped bar-irons or wings furnished with wheels as at (4) are
drawn simultaneously from a horizontal to a vertical position substantially as
hereinbefore described and shewn in the drawings left with the Provisional Speci-
fication.
Dated this 5th day
ΟΙ April 1899.