An Improved Portable House or Apparatus to be Employed for Sheltering and Feeding Cattle and for other like Purposes.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1886.
Complete Left, 1st Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Apr., 1887.
An Improved Portable House or Apparatus to be Employed for
Sheltering and Feeding Cattle and for other like Purposes.
I EDWIN MATTHEWS of No. 13 East Street Hereford Dairy Farmer do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improved portable house or apparatus to
be employed for sheltering and feeding cattle and for other like purpose.
This portable house or shelter consists of a framing of rectangular form closed in
at two ends. It is supported on four low wheels within the framing. The leading,
wheels are steering wheels and they are carried in forks with vertical stems or axes
which are able to turn in the frame they are coupled together by a coupling bar and
turned simultaneously. The coupling bar is connected with a draft lever which
is pivotted to the frame of the vehicle midway of its length. At the fore end of the
draft lever shafts are connected, the shafts receive a horse or horses when the house or
shelter is to be moved from place to place. The direction in which the strain is
applied by the horses to the draft lever regulates the position of the draft lever
and this in turn acts through the connecting rod upon the pivotted steering wheels
and sets these wheels for the carriage to follow the horses. The roof of the structure
is permanently fixed to the frame, but the two sides are moveable flaps jointed by their
upper edges to the frame and when the portable house or shelter is in place they can
be raised so as to form inclined roofs projecting on either side of the central structure.
Telescopic posts are provided to support these roofs cach by its two outer corners.
The space thus roofed over at the two sides can be closed in at the ends by moveable
door like flaps jointed to the end of the body and capable when not required for use of
folding against these ends, but when the side roofs are erected these moveable
end flaps are turned through half a circle about the joints connecting them with
the main frame, and they are secured by suitable fastenings at their outer edges to the
uprights which support the moveable roof. The joints connecting the moveable end
flaps with the fore end of the main frame are so constructed that the flaps can be raised
when folding them out of the way so that they may be stowed in a position where
they will not come in the way of the draft lever to which the shafts are attached. In

page_text: the centre of the structure which is divided longitudinally into two compartments are
the feeding racks and mangers. There is a lower manger, or trough especially
for sheep this extends from end to end of the structure near to the ground. Within
this trough immediately above the bottom is a longitudinal tie bar, it serves both
to give requisite strength to the structure and also as an axis on which two gratings
are mounted by their lower edges. These can when out of use stand upright against
the central partition; when they are required for use they are drawn forward at
the top to an inclined position such that they can receive hay between them. The hay
so placed is then accessible to the animals on either side of the structure. Over
hay racks hinged boards are arranged, they fold down so as at once to close the top of
the rack and to form a manger, in which cattle or horses can be fed. Above
the mangers are longitudinally partitions suspended on pivots, they can be turned
aside when desired so that a man on one side of the partition may have access to the
manger on the other side to put in food without passing outside; at other times these
partitions occupy an upright position--they serve to shelter the animals from the wind
and to prevent the animals upon one side from biting and annoying those upon
the other side.
The shelter when in use may either be open on both sides or on one side only, in
the latter case the closed side may serve as a food store. It can also be used
as a temporary store when closed on both sides. The side roof flaps also may
be taken off and the apparatus remains a convenient feeding shelter. The roof flaps
then may be used for other purposes.
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CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improved Portable House or Apparatus to be Employed for
Sheltering and Feeding Cattle and for other like Purposes.
I, EDWIN MATTHEWS of No. 13 East Street, Hereford, Dairy Farmer; 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 has for its object an improved portable house or apparatus to be
employed for sheltering and feeding cattle and for other like purposes.
The drawings hereunto annexed shew various views of the portable house or
apparatus.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus closed for travelling-in this state it
can be drawn through any ordinary field gate.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of the apparatus with the two side flaps held open to
allow sheep to feed from the feeding racks and mangers.
Figure 3 is an end view of the apparatus opened out to form a shelter.
Figure 4 is a cross section of the central part of the apparatus shewing the feeding
racks and mangers.
Figure 5 is a longitudinal section of one end of the apparatus. Figure 6 is
a perspective view of part of the steering apparatus. Figure 7 is a perspective view
of the lower part of one of the legs for supporting the side flaps when they are turned
upwards to form extensions of the roof.
This portable house or shelter consists of a framing A of rectangular form closed in
at two ends. It is supported on four low wheels within the framing. The leading
wheels B are steering wheels and they are carried in forks with vertical stems or axes
which are able to turn in the frame; they are coupled together by a coupling bar C
and turn simultaneously. The coupling bar is connected with a draft lever D
which is pivoted at D¹ to the frame of the vehicle midway of its length. At the fore
end of the draft lever shafts E are connected, the shafts receive a horse or horses
when the house or shelter is to be moved from place to place. The direction in which
the strain is applied by the horses to the draft lever regulates the position of the drit
lever and this in turn acts through the connecting rod C upon the pivoted steering
wheels and sets these wheels for the carriage to follow the horses. The roof of
the structure is permanently fixed to the frame, but the two sides are moveable
flaps F jointed by their upper edges to the frame and when the portable house
or shelter is in place they can be raised as shewn at Figures 2 and 3 so as to
form inclined roofs projecting on either side of the central structure. Telescopic
posts G are provided to support these roofs each by its two outer corners. A.
convenient way of forming the lower ends of these posts so that their length may be
adjusted is shewn at Fig. 7. The space thus roofed over at the two sides can be
closed in at the ends by moveable door like flaps H jointed to the end of the body and
capable when not required for use of folding against these ends as shewn at
Figures 1 and 2, but when the side roofs F are erected these moveable end flaps are

page_text: turned through half a circle about the joints connecting them with the main frame, and
they are secured by suitable fastenings at their outer edges to the uprights G which
then support the moveable side roofs. The points I connecting the moveable end flaps
H with the fore end of the main frame are at the front end of the apparatus so
constructed that the flaps F can be raised when folding them out of the way so that
they may be stowed in a position where they will not come in the way of the
draft. lever to which the shafts are attached as shewn at Figure 1. In the centre of
the structure which is divided longitudinally into two compartments by a central
partition J are the feeding racks and mangers. There is a lower manger or trough K
specially for sheep, this extends from end to end of the structure near to the
ground. Within this trough immediately above the bottom is a longitudinal tie
bar L, it serves both to give requisite strength to the structure and also as an axis on
which two gratings M are mounted by their lower edges. These can when out of use
stand upright against the central partition J. when they are required for use they are
drawn forward at the top to an inclined position, as shewn at Figure 4, such that they
can receive lay between them. The hay so placed is then accessible to the animals on
either side of the structure. Over the hay racks hinged boards N are arranged, they
fold down so as at once to close the top of the rack as shewn at Figure 4 and to form
a manger in which cattle or horses can be fed. Above the mangers the parts
forming the longitudinal partition-are suspended on pivots they can be turned
aside when desired so that a man on one side of the partition may have access to the
manger on the other side to put in food without passing outside; at other times these
parts of the partition occupy an upright position-they serve to shelter the animals
from the wind and to prevent the animals upon one side from biting and annoying
those upon the other side.
The shelter when in use may either be open on both sides as shown at
Figures 2 and 3, or on one side only, in the latter case the closed side may serve as a
food store. It can also be used as a temporary store when closed on both sides. The
side roof flaps also may be taken off and the apparatus remains a convenient feeding
shelter. The roof flaps then may be used for other purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A portable house or apparatus formed substantially as herein before described so
that it may be used for sheltering and feeding cattle and other live stock.
2. In a portable house or apparatus for sheltering cattle the combination of the
body A, longitudinal central partition J, flaps F and end flaps H substantially
as described.
Dated this 25th day of February 1887.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.