Improved Means for Securing Cattle Within their Stalls.
Year: 1898

page_text: Improved Means for Securing Cattle Within their Stalls.
I, WATSON WHITAKER, of Laneshaw Bridge, near Colne, in the County of Lancaster,
Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows, that is to
say-
By the employment of the well known means for securing cattle within their
stalls, such means consisting of a bar or rod secured in a vertical position
for the fastening chain or other device to slide upon to allow freedom for the animal
to lie down or stand as it pleases, considerable risk to the life of said animal is
endangered should it become entangled, fastened or otherwise disarranged within its
stall, by reason of said securing means being awkward to liberate.
To obviate this and produce means whereby the position of the rod or bar may be
removed or adjusted to meet the requirements of the varied sized animals that might
be secured within said stalls is the object of this invention.
This object I attain by making use of a rod or bar which will take into openings
or holes, made in adjusting pieces which I secure to the side of the stall by screws,
bolts or otherwise.
Those of said adjusting pieces which are placed at the top of the stall's side are
made in two parts one part hinged to the other in order that when the two are placed
together the holes for holding the vertical bars or rods lie midway between them thus
when the securing pin or other means which bind one part to the other is or are
detached any bar or rod held within the openings intervening between them is
immediately liberated.
Or this part of the bar-holding-device may be placed at the bottom of the stall's
side but in this case it would not be so accessible as when placed as liereinbefore
described.
Improved Means for Securing Cattle Within their Stalls.
I, WATSON WHITAKER, late of Laneshawbridge, near Colne, in the County of
Lancaster, but now of Ribble Lane, Chatburn, near Clitheroe, in the same County,
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, that is to say :-
By the employment of the well known means for securing cattle within their stalls,
such means consisting of a bar or rod secured in a vertical position for the fastening

page_text: chain or other device to slide upon to allow freedom for the animal to lie down or
stand as it pleases, considerable risk to the life of said animal is endangered should it
become entangled, fastened or otherwise disarranged within its stall by reason of said
securing means being awkward to liberate.
To obviate this and produce means whereby the position of the rod or bar may be
removed, or adjusted to meet the requirements of the varied sized animals that might
be secured within said stalls, is the object of this invention, and in order that same
may be readily understood, I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings illustrative
thereof, to which, by figures and letters, reference is made in the following de-
scription.
Fig. 1 is an elevation showing my improved apparatus fixed to the side of a stall
and in its effective position.
Fig. 2 is a plan view of parts shown by Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a perspective drawing drawn to a sinaller scale and illustrates my improved
apparatus when in position for the vertical bar to be removed.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are drawings in detail hereinafter referred to.
Similar letters and figures of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several
views.
The object of my invention is attained by making use of the rod or bar a which
takes into openings or holes b and c made in the adjusting pieces d (together with
its hinged part d¹) and e, which are secured to the side of the stall f by screws g or
by other suitable means.
The adjusting pieces d and d¹ are hinged together by means of the pins h h taking
into corresponding holes formed in said parts & and d¹ so that the part d¹ may
be moved on either of its hinged bearings by removing the pin on its opposite
side. The holes b, by means of which, together with the holes c in the part e,
the rod is adjusted laterally to meet the requirements of varied sized animals,
are formed in said parts d and d' as shown, in order that on the part being
moved away from the part d, the rod a will be immediately liberated as shown
by Fig. 3.
To prevent the possibility of the pins h or h¹ becoming accidentally dislodged
by a blow from beneath, and the rod a thus liberated at an undesirable time,
the openings k¹ in the part d, into which said pins take, may be formed as shown
by Fig. 6, so as not to pass entirely through said part d.
The parts & and may, if desired, be placed at the bottom of the stall's
side f, but in this case they would not be so accessible as when placed in the positions
illustrated by the drawings.
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
The means constructed as described for securing cattle within their stalls, the same
being arranged substantially as specified.