A Novel Construction of Shelter and Food Container for Lambs, Poultry, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Aug., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 4th Apr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Novel Construction of Shelter and Food Container for Lambs,
Poultry, and the like.
L, HENRY ANDREWS, of Little Langford, County of Wilts, Stock Breeder, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, the construction of apparatus constituting a combined
shelter and feeding chamber for lambs, poultry, and the like.
For the purpose of my invention, I form a long two sided and short ended
structure with a top rail connecting said ends, on which canvas or other temporary
cover can be secured for falling over the top edges of the long sided portions as a
roofing. The long sides are formed with vertical grating like rods at such distance
apart that lambs can pass into the shelter but not sheep.
Along the central part of the structure, I arrange a trough, separated if desired to
keep the lambs apart, into which oil or other cake, or food can be placed as food for
the lambs.
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Inside and near the gratings, I may arrange foot boards which can be folded up to
a given angle, and so form troughs, into which food for sheep can be placed, thus
laimbs could feed from the central trough, and sheep from the outer troughs,
each being kept separate while feeding yet provided with shelter for the lambs.
The apparatus is also applicable for poultry, and the like.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Andrews.
A Novel Construction of Shelter and Food Container for Lambs,
Poultry, and the like.
I, HENRY ANDREWS, of Little Langford, County of Wilts, Stock Breeder, 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 the construction of apparatus constituting a combined
shelter and feeding chamber for lambs, poultry, and the like.
For the purpose of my invention, I form a long two sided and short ended
structure with a top rail connecting said ends on which iron, canvas, or other
temporary cover can be secured for falling over the top edges of the long sided
portions as a roofing. The long sides are formed with vertical grating like
rods at such distance apart that lambs can pass into the shelter but not sheep.
Along the central or other part of the structure, I arrange a trough separated
if desired to keep the lambs apart, into which oil or other cake, or food can be
placed as food for the lambs.

page_text: Inside and near the gratings, I may arrange foot boards which can be folded up to
a given angle, and so form troughs, into which food for sheep can be placed, thus
lambs could feed from the inside trough, and sheep from the outer troughs,
each being kept separate while feeding, yet provided with shelter for the lambs,
and all the cake in the dry.
The apparatus is also applicable for poultry and the like.
The annexed drawings show my invention.
Figure 1 longitudinal perspective elevation.
Figure 2 cross section of a double or two entry feed and shelter creep with
feed trough.
Figure 3 section of single feed trough shelter and creep.
Figure section of double feed troughs in a two-way shelter.
Figure 5 section of single feed trough applicable for inside feed and outside
feed, a partition being shown to make the trough available for the purpose.
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A, A, are the two longer sides of the shelter. B, B, the shorter ends.
top rail forming a ridge from which slanting roof or roofing D can descend to
the upper rails E, E, of the back, the front or both back and front according
to the construction, said upper rail or rails E, E, in conjunction with bottom
rail or rails F, F, being distanced by uprights G, G, at intervals and leaving open
passages for the lambs to enter for shelter under the sloping roof or roofs, said
passages not being large enough for ewes to enter. H is the trough for holding
food of any kind on which the lambs can feed but if the trough be arranged at
say the back of the structure a swing partition I can be fitted to enable said
trough to hold food for both lambs and ewes, or by fixing the partition in either
of the positions indicated by dotted lines in Figure 5 lambs only or ewes only
can partake of the food provided, the passages between the uprights at G being
only large enough to admit the heads of the ewes.
The roofing D may be a fixture or in panels, or be provided with hinged flaps
to lift up to enable the trough to be supplied with food, or a tarpauling or canvas
sheet can be fitte for being rolled up as found convenient.
1 prefer to mount the structure on wheels J, J, to enable it to be moved from
place to place.
Figure 6 represents in transverse section, a lamp creep or combined shelter and
feeder in which is a double feed trough H supplied from a hopper K common to
both sides into which lambs. can enter, part of. the roofing D of corrugated iron
sheet being thrown over to illustrate how the food can be furnished to the
hopper.
Figure 7 shows another or modified form of arranging the troughs, one H for
sheep feeding from outside the creep, and one H for lambs inside the creep.
The sheep by fitting the flap L to be closed as indicated can be prevented from
getting to the food except after the lambs have had their food.
It will be understood that as the lambs nibble and consume the food from the
trough H, H', as the case may be, that from the hopper K, or from the upper
trough H shown at Figure 7 falls and keeps up the supply until the whole of the
food is eaten up.
I have in the foregoing specially referred to lambs and ewes but such
a structure is available as a shelter and as a food container for poultry and
the like.
The long front or both front and back boards or material of which such a
trough is made can be hinge jointed to drop down for the structure to be used as
a shelter only, said boards being easily lifted to re-form a trough when desired ;
again should the back of the structure be hinged as a flap it can be fastened up or
be let down to any desired angle and so form a trough.
By this invention, the food can be kept clean and dry at the same time lambs
find the necessary shelter.
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I do not limit myself to constructing my improved shelter or
Figure 1 as a long one, as it can be of any dimensions as found convenient.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The structure or apparatus represented on the annexed drawings as a
combined shelter and food container for lambs, poultry, and the like, and as
described.
2. Constructing an apparatus with distancing uprights as a creep for the free
entry of lambs, poultry, and the like, and with an interior food trough for feeding
purposes, the apparatus constituting a shelter as and in the manner set forth, and
as shown in the several figures of the accompanying drawings.
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Today yo.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Andrews.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166 Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Henry Andrews.