A New or Improved Apparatus for Suckling Young Animals.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 10th June, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Apparatus for Suckling Young Animals.
I, FERDINAND JACOB of 22 Lange-strasse, Dinslaken, Rhenish Prussia.
Manufacturer, 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 relates to an apparatus for suckling young. animals which when it
is attached in a suitable manner to the drinking or feeding trough enables young
animals to be nournished thereby in substitution for the mother animal.
The construction of the said apparatus is illustrated in the accompanying drawing
in which :-
Fig. 1 shows the suckling apparatus in side elevation.
Fig. 2 is a section in the direction of the length of the teat.
Fig. 3 shows the mode of attachment of the suckling apparatus to the feeding
trough seen from above in section on the line of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 shows in two side elevations a plate for the attachment of the teat.
The teat (Figs. 1 and 2) consists of a rubber pipe or tube a terminating at its
front end in a round end-piece shaped in imitation of the natural teat.
In the interior of this tube is a suction tube b which is connected to the teat at
its outside end and has walls of a thickness or strength sufficient to resist the
muscular effort of the mouth of the animal sucking-whilst the latter is sucking
that is to say sufficient to prevent the passage-way for the milk or food etc. from
being closed up.
The suckling apparatus is fastened to the edge of the trough (milk-pail or other
vessel to which it is to be secured-into which the suction tube b projects) by
means of clamps g g' and by tightening up the thumb screws h h².
The connecting piece k of the clamps g gl carries a plate f through a hole in
which the teat a is passed and is tightened down by means of the slotted plate c
after the suction tube has been inserted in the slot in the plate c.
The arm d of the plate c travels along the jointed pine which latter as shown in
Fig. 1 is hinged or jointed at m so that when the plate c is forced tightly into the
open end of a the hinged end of pine is turned on its pivot at m and moved down
to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1-while when it is desired to release
teat a and tube bb the pine is placed in a straight line as shown in dotted lines
and the plate c can be moved out to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1.
This arrangement thus enables the plate e to be removed from the plate and
also the teat a and tube bb' to be removed from the plate c for the purpose of
cleaning said teat without undoing a single screw.
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. An apparatus-for suckling young animals-consisting of the arrangement
and combination of the teat proper of a non-compressible passage way through said
teat of means for attaching the same to the feeding vessel and means for enabling
the teat and the tube part to be readily removed and replaced substantially in the
manner and for the purposes herein before set forth and illustrated in the drawings
hereunto annexed.
2. In apparatus for suckling young animals the arrangement and combination
with a teat such as a of the wall 6 of that portion of an inner wall or tube such
as made so strong as to be capable of resisting the muscular effort of the
mouth of the animal when sucking so as to prevent entire compression or closing

page_text: up of the food passage substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
3. In apparatus for suckling young animals-the slotted plate such as c adapted
to be inserted into the rear end of a teat such as a and provided with an opening
for the insertion of the tube b in combination and acting in conjunction with a
disengaging device such as de the latter, being so arranged that the parts which
enable the suction process to be effected can be disengaged without having_to
entirely remove or separate any of the said parts of the disengaging device so
that loss of the said parts is rendered impossible substantially in the manner and
for the purposes herein before described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto.
annexed.
Dated this 28th day of April 1892
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.c.,
Agents for the Applicant.