Improved Construction and Arrangement of Guard Fencing for Enclosing Young Poultry, Game, and Animals.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1898-Accepted, 18th June, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Construction and Arrangement of Guard Fencing for
Enclosing Young Poultry, Game, and Animals.
I, THOMAS JAMES FENN, of Palace Plain Works, Norwich, Norfolk, Manufac-
turer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows: -
This invention has for object, the construction arrangement, or formation of an
enclosure for young ducks and water-fowl generally but is applicable for enclosing
chickens and young game such as pheasants and the like, it can with certain
modifications be employed for puppy dogs and other young animals.
In explaining the construction or formation of the enclosure for young ducks
where water is essential for their proper rearing, I make skeleton frames of vary-
ing heights in, say, metal with tie bars having holes in them at desired distances
apart. I arrange several of these frames end to end and drive their lower or
spike ends into the earth in or surrounding a pond or piece of water. Into the
holes of the bars I drop rods, so that the ends may rest upon the bottom or bed of
the pond said rods following the undulations of the ground or sinking in
sufficiently deep in the case of muddy bottoms to prevent the young ducks diving
under them.
The rods are of such length that they cannot fall out of the holes, or I limit
their fall by enlarged ends. The parts of the frames above the rods can be pro-
tected by wire or network to preserve the enclosure intact against escape of the
birds,
I provide a lifting or sliding door for the passage of the larger bird while the
young are kept in the enclosure.
For broods of chickens and, say, for animals, the skeleton frames can be stood
up on land and connected end to end to form a square or other shaped enclosure
and the lower ends of the rods can be dropped in holes provided for them in the
bottom rails of the frame.
These enclosures may have a coop placed in for locating the hen or the mother
of a litter, the rods being arranged close enough together as to prevent the young
passing through.
The skeleton frames are separable from each other and can be packed into a
small compass when not in use or for transport.
1007
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Thomas James Fenn.

page_text: Improved Construction and Arrangement of Guard Fencing for
Enclosing Young Poultry, Game, and Animals.
I, THOMAS JAMES FENN, of Palace Plain Works, Norwich, Norfolk, Manufac-
turer, 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 object, the construction, arrangement, or formation of
an enclosure for young ducks and waterfowl generally but is applicable for
enclosing chickens and young game such as pheasants and the like it can with
certain modifications be employed for puppy dogs and other like animals.
In explaining the construction or formation of the enclosure for young ducks,
where water is essential for their proper rearing, I make skeleton frames of vary-
ing heights in, say, metal with tie bars having holes in them at desired distances
apart, I arrange several of these frames end to end and drive their lower or spike
ends into the earth, in or surrounding a pond or piece of water.
Into the holes of the bars, I drop rods, so that the ends may rest upon the bottom
or bed of the pond, said rods following the undulations of the ground or sinking in
sufficiently deep in the case of muddy bottoms to prevent the young ducks diving
under them. The rods are of such length that they cannot fall out of the holes,
or I limit their fall by enlarged ends. The parts of the frames above the rods
can be protected by wire or network to preserve the enclosure intact against escape
of the birds. I provide a lifting or sliding door for the passage of the larger bird,
while the young are kept in the enclosure.
For broods of chickens and, say, for animals, the skeleton frames can be stood
up on land and connected end to end to form a square or other shaped enclosure,
and the lower ends of the rods can be dropped in holes provided for them in the
bottom rails of the frame.
These enclosures may have a coop placed in for locating the hen or the mother
of a litter, the rods being arranged close enough together as to prevent the young
passing through.
The skeleton frames are separable from each other and can be packed into a
small compass when not in use, or for transport.
My said invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 perspective elevation of an enclosure composed of hurdle like
frames A, A, with tie bars or stays B, B, these having holes formed in them for
the passage or entrance of rods C, C, or spars (wood or metal) which drop with their
bottom ends free to lodge on the ground or to sink into a sandy or mud bottom if
enclosing a piece of water such as would be available for ducklings or waterfowl of
any kind, so that no levelling of the bottom will be necessary, the distance to
which the rods or spars C fall being by their own weight sufficient to prevent
young ducks or the like diving under. The rods or spars C, C, are held to the
frames A, B, by knob or curf. ends I readily effected by a slight heating and
hammer action.
The frames can be of any height and in sections capable of being secured
together to any size of enclosure, and a sliding or other door can be provided, as
at E, for raising when the waterfowl require a larger run.
As a permanent or temporary screen around a pond the invention will be of
service for preventing cattle and horses straying, and will tend to localize their
travels, the animals being fully protected, and where a herd of deer or the like
are reared in a limited space, they can be gathered to the enclosure for feeding

page_text: purposes and where the guards are not high enough, wirework screens, as at F,
can be fitted to or around the upper portions to prevent young animals leaping
over, or young waterfowl flying over the top edge.
For land purposes, such as for young dogs, rabbits, fowls, and other, the lower
ends of the rods C can be driven down into the ground to prevent escape by
scratching or burrowing, and the enclosure, as at Figure 2, may be in connection
with a shed or coop G, especially for chicks, young pheasants, and other birds
being artificially or home reared, and of which the grating door can be opened or
a shutter removed without escape of the mother, for feeding purposes and for
exercise.
As partitions in a shallow lake to keep strains of birds distinct, for weaning
calves, puppy dogs, and the like, the enclosures and partitions will be useful, since
any size of enclosure can be made by simply connecting the hurdle like appliances
to any suitable shape.
For preventing escaping of fish from preserves, for the protection of trout
streams, such as I show at Figure 3, several of the hurdle like frames with loose
dropping rods or spars can be arranged end on, and by the hold the rods would
have in the bottom of the stream, they would hold themselves in place and not be
likely to be disturbed by the flow of water, or by the wind.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. The construction and employment of hurdle like frames with holes in cross
or tie bars for rods having free falling action to adjust themselves to varying levels
or formation of the ground, or bed of a sheet or stream of water, as and for the
purposes explained.
2. The construction and employment of hurdle like frames having holes in
parts for free falling action of rods fitted therein, and the association of several
of such frames as enclosures or screens, or fences for localizing and determining
the freedom or restriction of game, fowl and other like birds, or animals, or fish,
ducks, waterfowl, or the like, as set forth and substantially as represented by the
annexed drawings.
711 1
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