Improvements in or connected with Cattle Fittings for Ships.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Cattle Fittings for Ships.
1, ROBERT SCOTTER, of 57, Hertford Road, Bootle, in the County of Lancaster,
Inspector of Ship Building, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The chief object of this invention is to provide fittings for ships carrying cattle
whereby the pens or stalls can be readily erected and removed and enlarged or
reduced in size, and the cattle can be readily tended, fed, or watered, and got at
for removal or otherwise. The invention also provides means for drainage and for
the easy removal of the manure or litter.
According to this invention, I provide under the deck beams of the ship or under
the roof of the cattle house, runners or bars (say of angle iron), and on the deck
below such runners or bars I provide corresponding runners or bars (say of angle
iron). All these runners or bars are pierced with holes. The upright parts for
the corners, ends, or sides of the peus or stalls are also of angle, bar, or equivalent
iron, and are pierced with holes and are connected to the top and bottom angle or
other bars, by suitable bolts and nuts suitable side or end runners or bars are also
provided and connected to the uprights by suitable bolts and nuts.
For feeding, tending, and watering animals, provide an overhead_railway_in
connection with which I provide carriages, travelling devices or pulleys, roller
hooks, or the like, and on or to such devices I suspend tubs, buckets, baskets, or the
like, in which food or water can be conveyed to the animals, and in some cases the
means of suspension is an elastic one, or capable of extension and contraction, at
will, by which means an attendant can readily move the feeding utensil, and adapt
its position to the position of the cattle or animals. This means, that is to say
travelling arrangement, may be used for any purposes for conveying along the
alleyways.
The overhead railway may consist of a suitable bar or bars, and may in some
cases be connected to and supported by the overhead runners or bars above
specified.
In the alleyways on the floors or decks, I provide angle or other bars, which
constitute a railway and also serve at the same time as a drain or drains for draining
the pens or stalls. This railway serves to carry a wheeled truck having hinged or
removable sides, or equivalently suitably constructed, and adapted to be used for
the removal of carcases, and for conveying food, litter, and other matters to and
from the pens or stalls.
The invention above described may be carried out in many different forms and
ways, and therefore is not confined to any particular construction or arrangement of
parts, as these will differ in different ships, it is also to be understood that
equivalents of the parts herein specified may be used.
Dated this 18th day of December 1891
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fels. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Cattle Fittings for Ships.
1, ROBERT SCOTTER, formerly of 57; Hertford Road, Bootle, in the County of
Lancaster, but at present of 13, Freemason Road, Custom House, Victoria Dock,
London, E., Inspector of Ship Building, 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:-
The chief object of this invention is to provide fittings for ships carrying cattle,
whereby the pens or stalls can be readily erected and removed and enlarged or
reduced in size, and the cattle can be readily tended, fed, or watered, and got at for
removal or otherwise. The invention also provides means for drainage, and for the
easy removal of the manure or litter.
According to this invention, 1 provide under the deck beams of the ship, or under
the roof of the cattle house, runners or bars (say of angle iron), and on the deck
below such runners or bars I provide corresponding runners or bars (say of angle
iron). All these runners or bars are pierced with holes. The upright parts for
the corners, ends or sides of the pens or stalls are also of angle, bar, or equivalent
iron, and are pierced with holes and are connected to the top and bottom angle or
other bars, by suitable bolts and nuts; suitable side or end runners or bars are also
provided and connected to the uprights by suitable bolts and nuts.
For feeding, tending, and watering animals, I provide an overhead railway, in
connection with which are carriages, travelling devices, pulleys, roller hooks, or the
like, and on or to such devices I suspend tubs, buckets, baskets, or the like, in which
food or water can be conveyed to the animals, and in some cases the means of
suspension is an elastic one, or capable of extension and contraction, at will, by
which means an attendant can readily move the feeding utensil, and adapt its
position to the position of the cattle or animals. This means, that is to say,
travelling arrangement, may be used for any purposes for conveying along the
alleyways.
The overhead railway may consist of a suitable bar or bars, and may in some
cases be connected to and supported by the overhead runners or bars above specified.
In the alleyways on the floors or decks, I provide angle or other bars, which
constitute a railway and also serve at the same time as a drain or drains for draining
the pens or stalls. This railway serves to carry a wheeled truck having hinged or
removeable sides, or equivalently suitably constructed, and adapted to be used for
the removal of carcases, and for conveying food, litter, and other matters to and
from the pens or stalls.
In the drawings which serve to illustrate my invention
Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a vessel showing some of my
improvements applied thereto; and Figure 2 is a cross section of same.
Figure 3 is an elevation, Figure 4 a plan, and Figure 5 an end view, of a carriage
or truck adapted to be used for this my invention.
Figures 6 and 7 illustrate in side view and cross section an overhead railway and
carriage.
Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to the Figures 1 and 2
thereof, a are the upper longitudinal angle bars which are fixed to the beams of
the ship in any suitable way. a' are the corresponding lower longitudinal angle
bars fixed on the deck c. And d are the upright angle bars which are adapted to
be connected at their upper and lower ends by bolts and nuts to the bars a and a¹.
The longitudinal bars a a are provided all along their length with holes in order
to enable the uprights d to be bolted to them at any distance apart, whereby the
stalls of different widths can be erected and arranged at will. The front boards e
are supported by hooks or brackets e¹ fixed on the uprights d.
fare the bars which are fixed on the deck c and constitute a railway for carrying

page_text: trucks such as illustrated in Figures 3 to 5, or others. These angle bars on the
deck serve also, in addition to the purposes specified, as drains for carrying off water
or other liquids.
The truck shown in Figures 3 to 5 consists of a central body part and wings ¹
hinged thereto and capable of being used either on the flat or erected as shewn in
Figures 3 and 5 they being held in the vertical position by any suitable means.
The body of the truck is supported by the wheels 2, which run on the rails f. Or
these wheels may be adapted to run on the angle bars a' if desired. By means of
this railway within the alleyways of cattle ships and the use of trucks such as
described or equivalent ones, anything requiring to be conveyed to or from the
stalls can be effected with great ease.
The apparatus for feeding, tending, and watering animals, is illustrated in
Figures 6, 7, 1, and 2, and consists of an overhead bar i fixed to the beams 6 by
haugers i On the bar i runs a carriage & with wheels k, which bear and run on
the upper edge of the bar i, and a hook k suspended as shewn. To this hook tubs
or buckets for water, fodder, or other things, are suspended; and when the tubs or
buckets are for feeding or watering the animals I introduce between the hook k
and the ring 1, or other means by which the buckets or tubs are carried, a spring m
by which means the tub can be taken by the attendant and swayed from one side to
the other and extended as desired, besides being more handy and convenient in all
ways. As regards the particular construction and arrangement of this overhead
railway and the parts connected therewith it is to be stated that it may be made and
supported singly and centrally as shewn or in duplicate, and also it can be made in
any convenient or suitable modified manner.
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. In cattle fittings for ships, the bars a a' and uprights d; arranged and adapted
to be fixed substantially as set forth and shewn in the drawings hereto annexed.
2. In cattle fittings for ships, the arrangement within the alleyways of rails,
substantially as described, adapted to carry trucks (and also serve as a drain), for
the purposes specified.
3. In cattle fittings for ships, the arrangement within the alley-way of an over-
head railway and carriages working thereon; substantially as and for the purposes
set forth.
4. The particular construction of truck for use in the alleyway in ships cattle
fittings, as set forth and shewn in the drawing.
Dated this 17th day of Sentember 1899
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON, Fellows of the Chart. Inst. P.A.,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.