A Cattle Pen Breastboard Adapted for the Connection of Neck Collars therewith.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Nov., 1895-Accepter, 21st Dec., 1805
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Cattle Pen Breastboard Adapted for the Connection of Neck
Collars therewith.
I JOHN ROOTH, of 61 Victoria Street, Douglas, Isle of Man, Cattle Dealer and
Butcher, do hereby declate the nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention relates more especially to breast boards for use in the cattle pens
of cattle carrying ships, and has for its object to readily adapt pens of the existing
type, with but slight alteration, for the use of a certain part of the invention, viz.
the neck collars, described in the Specification to my Patent No 6663 of 1894.
lu my said former Patent the rings at the ends of the collar chains or straps slid
upon vertical rods secured to stanchions placed along the front of the pen, said
stanchions receiving shifting boards whereby the pen was divided up into stalls or
compartments, each stall or compartment being intended to contain a single
ammal.
According to the present invention, the pen is not divided up into stalls or
compartments, but is of the ordinary shipboard type with a breastboard running
fioni cud to end thereof. In this breastboard I form a series of parallel voitical
slots or openings down the centre of each of which a vertical rod passes; the ings
at the ends of the collar chains or straps slide upon these rods. Preferably
I provide six pairs of these slots and 1ods for the attachment of six collars, six
being the maximum number of animals likely to be placed in each pen.
By my invention as above set forth, the pen being undivided permits the number
of anunals placed therein to be varied according to their size, whilst the animals
are as securely held and prevented from injuring one another as in the arrangement
descubed in the Specification to my said former Patent, further, the number of
parts of the pen not being increased there will be no extra dunnage. The stanchions
at each end of the pen, in which the breastboaid slides, are preferably constructed
so as to be stowable when the pens are not in use.
By a slightly modified arrangement the vertical iods may be suitably secured to
the inner side of the breastboard at a little distance from the surface thereof so as
to allow the rings to slide fieely thereon, the slots being in this arrangement
dispensed with, but I prefer the ai raugoment first described as leaving the inner
side of the breast board free fi om any projections which might injure the animals
SO-1005
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON,
Chartered Patent Agents,
19 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent

page_text: A Cattle Pen Breastboard Adapted for the Connection of Neck
Collars therewith.
I, JOHN ROOTH, of 61 Victoria Street, Douglas, Isle of Man, Cattle Dealer
and Butcher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manne
the same is to be performed to be particulaily described and ascertained in and by
the following statement.
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This invention relates more especially to hi castboards for use in the cattle pens
of cattle canying ships, and has for its object to readily adapt pens of the existing
type, with but slight alteration, for the use of a certain part of the invention, w
the neck collars and their attachments, described in the Specification to my Pate it
No. 6663 of 1894
In my said former Patent, the rings at the ends of the collar chains or ropes slid
upon vertical rods secured to stanchions placed along the front of the pen, said
stanchions receiving shifting boards whereby the pen was divided up into stalls or
compartments, each stall or compartment being intended to contain a single
animal.
According to the present invention, the pen is not divided up into stalls
or compartments, but is of the ordinary shipboard type with a breastboard
running from end to end thereof. Preferably each pen should not exceed
10 feet long by 9 feet deep so as to meet the requirements of the Board of
Agriculture. In this breast board I foun a series of parallel vertical slots 01
openings down the centre of each of which a vertical rod passes, the rings or their
equivalents at the ends of the collar chains or ropes being intended to slide upon
these 1ods. Preferably I employ six paurs of these slots and rods for the attach-
ment of six collars, six being the maximum number of animals likely to be placed
in each pen.
By my invention as above set forth, the animals are as securely held so as to
prevent them from injuring one another as in the arrangement described in the
Specification to my said former Patent, whilst the pen being of the ordinary
undivided type permits the number of ammals placed therein to be varied according
to then size, further, the number of the parts of the peu not being increased, the
only alteration required being the substitution of my improved breastboard for the
ordinary bicastboard, there will be no extra dunnage. The stanchions at each
end of the pen, in which the breastbnaid slides, are preferably constructed so that
they may be stowed or slung out of the way when the pens are not in use
By a slightly modified arrangement the vertical rods may be suitably secured to
the inner face of the breastboaid at a little distance from the surface thereof so a-
to allow the rings to slide fieely thereon, the slots being in this arrangement
dispensed with, but I prefer the arrangement first described as leaving the inne
face of the breastboard free from any projections which might injure the animals.
In the accompanying drawings in which similar letters refer to like parts in all
the figures
Fig. 1 is a fi out view of a shipboard cattle pen fitted with my improved
breastboard.
Fig. 2 is a part sectional edge view of the breastboard detached, seen from
above.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation, and Fig. 4 is a transverse section of a breastboard
of slightly modified construction.
a 18 the breast board and b are the vertical slots therein down the centre of each
of which passes a vertical od d. e are the rings sliding ficely upon the rods d
with which rings are connected the ropes on chains n of the neck collars m.
The

page_text: said ropes or chains must be of sufficient length to permit the animal to stand up,
or lie down. The breastboaid a is fitted to the pen in the usual manner, being
shipped in the grooved pieces of the corner stanchions cc 1, which would preferably
be of the well known stowable or slingable type as illustrated.
C
In Figs. 3 and 4 the slots in the breastboard are dispensed with and the vertical
rods d are secured to the inner face of the breastboard, being bent over at their
ends so as to stand at a little distance from the surface thereof and thus allow the
rings e to slide freely along them. is the ventilating tube and are the
pneumatic bolsters referred to in my said former Patent.
It will be seen that my invention calls for no alteration in the existing type of
cattle pen beyond the substitution of my improved breastboard for the breastboard
usually employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inveu-
tion and in what manner the same 18 to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. For the purpose set forth, a cattle pen bicastboard provided with a series of
parallel vertical iods d substantially as descubed and as illustrated in the annexed
drawings.
2. A cattle pen breastboard formed with a series of slots or openings 6 down the
centre of each of which slots or openings a vertical rod d passes, substantially as
described and illustrated in Figs 1 and 2 of the drawings and for the purpose set
fortn.
LD.
Dated this 20th day of November 1895,
E. P. ALEXANDER & SON,
Chartered Patent Agents,
19 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.