An Improved Feeding and Drinking Apparatus for Poultry and other Birds or Animals.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 11th Mar., 1892--Accepted, 21st May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Feeding and Drinking Apparatus for Poultry and
other Birds or Animals.
I, HERBERT WHITE, 1 Cluster Buildings, Belper, in the County of Derby,
Stone-mason, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention is designed to provide a feeding and drinking apparatus for poultry
and other birds or animals whereby the present great waste of food is avoided, the
water is kept clean and the birds may be improved greatly in their carriage by
being obliged to stand erect when feeding and drinking.
In carrying out my invention I provide a base preferably made of cast metal and
having feet thereunder, and being sufficiently heavy so as not to be easily over-
turned. Into the centre of this base I fix or connect a vertical rack of wrought
iron or other suitable material having a handle at its upper end for the purpose of
carrying the apparatus about, and being perforated with holes at convenient
distances for adjusting the height of the feeding and drinking receptacles, these are
placed round the rack and may be made of earthenware or other material and have
ears or lugs at their upper ends with perforations therein corresponding to the
perforations in the rack aforesaid, these feeding and drinking vessels may be
adjusted to any height by placing them in the position required and passing a pin,
bolt or other contrivance through the perforations in the ears or lugs and the rack.
The objects of adjusting the height of the feeding and drinking vessels in this
manner are to encourage the birds to stand erect and thus improve their carriage,―
to keep the water clean and to prevent the soft food being trampled underfoot or
wasted..
may provide receptacles for water, soft-food, corn and grit, &c., the drinking
fountain may be filled through an orifice at the top instead of through the drinking
place as is generally the case, this orifice is afterwards closed with an air-tight
cover or cap. I may cover the food receptacle with a shield if desired to prevent
the contents getting wet.
Instead of suspending the receptacles by means of the pin, bolt or other con-
trivance before mentioned, I may provide hooks on the rack for suspending them in
their proper positions, in this case I use guides to steady the receptacles.
Dated this 9th day of June 1891
HERBERT WHITE.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Feeding and Drinking Apparatus for Poultry and
other Birds or Animals.
I, HERBERT WHITE, 1 Cluster Buildings, Belper in the County of Derby,
Stone-mason, 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 :-
My invention is designed to provide a feeding and drinking apparatus for poultry
and other birds or animals, whereby the present great waste of food is avoided, the
water is kept clean, and the birds may be improved greatly in their carriage by
being obliged to stand erect when feeding and drinking.
In carrying out my invention I provide a base preferably made of cast metal
and having feet thereunder, and being sufficiently heavy. so as not to be easily
overturned. Into the centre of this base, I fix or connect a vertical rack of wrought
n

page_text: iron or other suitable material having a handle at its upper end for the purpose of
carrying the apparatus about and being perforated with holes at convenient distances
for adjusting the height of the feeding and drinking receptacles; these are placed
round the rack, and may be made of earthenware or other material, and have ears
or lugs at their upper ends with perforations therein corresponding to the perforations
in the rack aforesaid; these feeding and drinking vessels may be adjusted to any
height by placing them in the position required, and passing a pin, bolt, or other
contrivance through the perforations in the ears or lugs and the rack.
The objects
of adjusting the height of the feeding and drinking vessels in this manner are to
encourage the birds to stand erect and thus improve their carriage, to keep
the water clean and to prevent the soft food being trampled under foot or
wasted.
cover or cap.
I may provide receptacles for water, soft food, corn, grit &c., the drinking
fountain may be filled through an orifice at the top instead of through the drinking
place as is generally the case, this orifice is afterwards closed with an air tight
I may cover the food receptacle with a shield if desired to prevent
the contents getting wet.
Instead of suspending the receptacles by means of the pin, bolt, or other con-
trivance before mentioned, I may provide hooks on the rack for suspending them
in their proper positions, in this case I use guides to steady the receptacles.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which my invention is constructed and used.
Figure 1. represents a front elevation of the feeding and drinking apparatus
shewing the water receptacle.
Figure 2. is a broken plan of the cowl or cover.
Figure 3. represents a section of Figure 1. on the line A B.
Figure 4. represents a section of Figure 1. on the line C D.
Figure 5. represents a plan of receptacle or box.
Figure 6. represents an elevation of food receptacle or box.
Figure 7. represents a side view of the food receptacle Figure 6.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
a represents the base, represents the feet, c is the rack, d is the handle, the
adjusting holes are marked e, f shews the feeding and drinking receptacles,
y represents the lugs or ears provided at top of receptacles, are the hooks on the
end of rack on which to suspend the food boxes, are the guides to support the food
boxes in a vertical and linable position.
The base a may be made in any suitable shape either out of stamped metal or
cast metal the base represented is one cheap and simple modification connected to
the guides; by means of rivets or equivalent fastenments k, and extended under
the cowl or cover and connected thereto by suitable rivets or equivalents thus
forming a circular tented frame within which is suspended the rack C, I provide
one food box and two liquid containers o and suspend them on the hooks h, as
represented at Figure 1., these food boxes may be open at the top part / when used
for soft food and corn and also when used for liquid food nevertheless in some cases
I prefer to make the liquid box air-tight and to provide a screw plug on the top
side or on the underside at m so that such liquid container can be filled through the
plug at m.
The food and water boxes when suspended ready for use in the position shewn
at Figure 1. can be raised to any desired height by lifting the handle d and passing
the linch-pin n through any of the rack holes.
I do not claim as a novel invention the providing of a liquid box with a filling
hole on the top or underside as shewn at m Figure 1 excepting when used in
connection with the rack and frame represented at Figure 1.
Instead of suspending the food boxes on the hooks I may suspend them to a
linch-pin passed through the rack holes e in such cases the hooks would be dispensed
with.
I have shewn two liquid containers and one food container or food box but I can-

page_text: provide any desired number of boxes or containers in accordance with the number
of birds to be fed.
The slide p can be lifted occasionally to permit the grain or other food to pass
into the trough, the holes are provided to enable the birds to see the supply of
food in the food-box, and when the trough y is empty the birds seeing through the
holes r will peck at or through the holes r and thus shake and lift the slide and
cause the food to pass into the trough through the open corners of slide at s.
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.
1st. The making of a feeding and drinking apparatus consisting of several boxes
suspended on a rack as illustrated and described so that such boxes can be
raised or lowered to suit the height of the birds or animals using the apparatus.
2nd. In the food containers of the feeding and drinking apparatus herein described,
a moveable slide pierced with sight holes so that the birds or animals using the
apparatus will in trying to reach the food through the sight holes shake and move
the food outside the food container.
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ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.