Improvements relating to Drinking Troughs.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Drinking Troughs.
I, GUSTAV HERMANN LIEBOLD, of 5 Obere Georgstrasse Chemnitz in the
Empire of Germany, Commissioner do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to construct drinking troughs and the feed pipes
thereto so that the latter cannot become choked or soiled by any matters falling
into the said troughs or near thereto.
The trough is made with an entrance or inlet pipe projecting into it from below
and made in one piece therewith so that it projects upwards within the trough and
also downwards outside the trough. The downward projection forms a spigot for
attachment of a socket pipe leading from the water supplying pipe which com-
municates with a tank in which a constant level of water is maintained by a water
inlet controlled by a ball cock. All the joints of the pipes are carefully filled with
cement and for further security that contaminating matters should not pass into
said pipes the latter are encased in cement. The projection of the aforesaid pipe
within the trough terminates at a suitable distance above the floor of the trough
and is then covered with a disk or plug having grooves or corrugations on its under
side to permit water to pass from the pipe into the trough to maintain the constant
equality of level throughout the trough and tank with which it communicates, but
the said disk or plug prevents dirt etc. falling into the supply pipe. The trough,
which is small is covered with a hinged lid which cattle and beasts will learn to
raise when desiring drink, the hinge is so placed that any dirt or matter on the
cover will not fall into the trough when open.
Dated this 1st day of June 1892.
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Drinking Troughs.
I GUSTAV HERMANN LIEBOLD of Obere Georgstrasse 5, Chemnitz in the
Empire of Germany, Farm Commissioner, 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 object of this invention is to construct drinking troughs and the feed pipes
thereto so that the latter cannot become choked or soiled by any matter falling
into the said troughs or near thereto.
The trough is made with an entrance or inlet pipe projecting into it from below
and made in one piece therewith so that it projects upwards within the trough and
also downwards outside the trough. The downward projection forms a spigot for
attachment of a socket pipe leading from the water supplying pipe which com-
municates with a tank in which a constant level of water is maintained by a water
inlet controlled by a ball cock. All the joints of the pipes are carefully filled
with cement and for further security that contaminating matters should not pass
into said pipes the latter are encased in cement. The projection of the aforesaid
pipe within the trough terminates at a suitable distance above the floor of the trough
and is there covered with a disk or plug having grooves or corrugations on the under
side to permit water to pass from the pipe into the trough to maintain the constant
equality of level throughout the trough and tank with which it communicates, but

page_text: the said disk or plug prevents dirt etc. falling into the supply pipe. The trough,
which is small, is covered with a hinged lid which cattle and beasts will learn to
raise when desiring drink, the hinge is so placed that any dirt or matter on the cover
will not fall into the trough when open.
This invention is shown in the annexed drawing, in which
Fig. 1 represents a front view partly in section of the whole apparatus.
Fig. 2 a sectional side view.
Fig. 3 a cross-section on a larger scale.
Fig. 4 a front view on a larger scale.
Fig. 5 a plan.
Figs. 6 & 7 show the plug or disk, as seen from above and below respectively.
The troughs B may be placed one in each stall for two cattle. They are always
filled with water or other drinking liquid, this being attained by inserting a
regulating tank, controlled by a ball cock, so that a constant level of water is
maintained, throughout the series of troughs connected by the pipes A. The
pipes A may be made of earthenware, metal or any other suitable material and are
bedded in cement or concrete C. The trough B is made in one piece with the two
flanges a and b.
The flange a serves for connecting to the pipe A, whilst the flange & rises within
the trough to form with the covering disk D (Figs. 5 to 7) a guard to prevent
soil etc. from stopping up the pipe A.
The cover D lies upon the flange and nearly touches the inner side walls of the
trough; its under side is provided with radial grooves d (Figs. 3 and 7), through
which the water fills the trough.
The trough is closed by the automatically falling lid E, which animals learn to
open with their snouts. This hinged cover is attached to the rail F, fixed to the
wall supporting the trough, the rail likewise serving to secure the trough by means
of the hoop G lying in the groove e around the trough (see Fig. 3).
Furthermore the trough is supported by the concrete bedding C, shown in
Figs. 1 to 4 reaching underneath the trough.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare, that what I
claim is:
1). An improved system of drinking troughs with supply pipes for cattle or
beasts, in which, in order to avoid impurities penetrating into the supply pipes, the
latter are luted with cement c and then bedded in a cement or concrete surrounding
envelope C; this envelope serving also to support the trough B, substantially as
described.
2). The improved drinking trough B having flanges a and b of one piece there-
with the flange a serving to connect the trough with the supply-pipe, the flange b
to support a cover disk or plug D, with grooves d nearly touching the inner walls
of the trough; the trough being covered with the automatically falling cover E,
hinged thereover; substantially as described.
Dated this 28th day of February 1893.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.