Improvements in Guards for the Horns of Beeves.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Aug., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1897-Accepted, 5th June, 1897.
Improvements in Guards for the Horns of Beeves.
I, JOSEPH LEMNEL STRAW of Seward, County of Kendall, Illinois, U.S.A
Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
In this invention a stud is fixed by a cap or socket on the point of each horn of
a beeve. To each stud is jointed a slotted lever and these levers are in connection
through wires with two levers jointed together scizzors like. The free ends of
these latter levers are formed of a knob shape and take one into each nostril of the
animal which in attempting to toss strikes, with one or both of the levers on the
horns, against the object so as to actuate said levers and through the connecting
wires pull upon the scizzor like levers to press the knobs on these levers further
into the nostrils of the animal.
Dated this 8th day of August 1896.
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
I, JOSEPH LEMNEL STRAW of Seward, County of Kendall, Illinois, U.S.A.,
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 object to provide a guard to be secured to the horns of,
and connected with the noses of beeves to prevent them from tossing or hooking.
In the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 shews the guard of this invention operatively. connected with the horns
and nose of a beef.
Fig. 2 is an enlarged side view shewing in detail one of the levers of the guard
and means for mounting the same on the horn of an animal.
Fig. 3 a front view of the levers shewn in Figs. 1 and 2.
Fig. 4 an isometric view of the nose engaging tongs.
A is a cap or socket provided with a stud A and fixed one upon the end of each
horn of a beef in the usual way or in any suitable manner.
B are levers with slots B' for pivotally and movably engaging on the studs A
from which they are prevented from by means of nuts engaging on the screwed
ends of the studs, or by means of collars or buttons.
C, C, are the two jaws of the nose tongs or two part nose ring the shanks C³, C³,
of which are pivotted together at C' so as to open and close and the two curved
free ends C, C, adapted to enter the nostrils and engage with the partition in the
Dose of the animal. C7, C8, are holes in the shanks of the nose tongs and are
concentric or register when the shanks are closed.

page_text: E are wires attached at the holes B' to the levers B and connecting these with
the holes C7, C8, in the shanks of the nose tongs.
The caps A carrying the levers B having been mounted on the horns of a beef
as shewn in Fig. 1, the jaws C, C' of the nose tongs are opened as indicated by
dotted lines in Fig. 4 and the curved free ends inserted into its nostrils and then
closed. The lower ends of the levers P are then connected with the holes C7, C8,
of the tougs.
When the animal attempts to toss it strikes with one or both the levers B
against the object so as to actuate said levers and through the connecting wires E
pull upon the nose tongs so as to draw the knobs on the free ends C, C, farther
up into the nostrils of the animal, or the wires may be so connected to the
shanks C2, C3, as to press the knobs tighter against the partition in the nose of
the animal.
Of course other means than those shewn and described may be employed to
connect the levers B with the nose tongs and levers of other forms of construction
may be used, these and the form of the tongs or split nose ring being shewn by
way of example.
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 guards for the horns of beeves, in combination, a bearing stud rigidly
secured in relation to one of the horns of the animal, a lever mounted on the stud
by means of a longitudinal slot in said lever, a nose tongs, and a suitable connection
between the lower end of the movable lever and the nose tongs, for the purpose
specified, substantially as described and shewn.
2. In guards for the horns of beeves, in combination, a socket enclosing the end
of the horn, a rigid stud integral therewith, a lever having a longitudinal slot
forming a movable joint or connection with said stud, a retaining nut or the like
secured to the stud, a nose tongs, and a suitable connection between the lower end
of the movable lever and the nose tongs, for the purpose specified, substantially as
described and shewn.
3. In guards for the horns of beeves, in combination, a socket enclosing the end
of the horn, a stud projecting therefrom, a retaining nut or button on the stud, a.
curved lever having a longitudinal slot between its ends, mounted upon the stud
and having a movable bearing therewith by means of the slot therein, a nose tongs
aud a flexible connection between the end of the lever and the nose tongs, for the
purpose specified, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 1st day of Mov 1807
THOMAS R. SHILLITO,
89 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.