IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTING UP SHIPS FOR CARRYING CATTLE
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Paul Matthey, of 59, Mark Lane, in the City of
London, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTING
UP SHIPS FOR CARRYING CATTLE."-A communication from abroad by
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Paul Matthey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st May 1873.
I, PAUL MATTHEY, of 59, Mark Lane, in the City of London, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FITTING UP SHIPS FOR CARRYING CATTLE," to be as follows:-
:-
This Invention has for its object to improve the fitting up of ships for
carrying cattle. For this purpose the fittings are arranged in such
manner that each animal is enclosed in all directions, and is prevented
from moving out of its position, at the same time that it is left at perfect
liberty to eat and drink, its head being loose. The animal is also pre-

page_text: vented from chafing itself, or falling in times of bad weather, by means
of a girth suspended underneath the belly.
Two shoulder bars are suspended from the upper deck, one on each
side of the animal, by means of a hook or solid eye on a round iron bar,
and are adjustable along the bar to suit any width of animal. Two
similar bars or stancheons are placed at the animal's hind quarters;
these and the two shoulder bars are provided with eyes to receive side
bars, which pass along the sides of the animal. Across the breast and
hind quarters pass two other bars, the one at the hind quarters being
capable of sliding along the side bars so as to be adjustable to the breadth
of the animal.
A girth made of strong canvas, leather, or india-rubber, is suspended
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from the side bars, and passed underneath the animal's belly.
girth is fixed to the bar at one side, and the other side is adjustable by
means of buttons or other fastenings, in order that the girth may be so
adjusted that the animal, in case of looing its foothold or balance, will
be suspended and supported from falling, and rest in the girth.
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Paul Matthey in the Great Seal Patent Office 2
on the 28th November 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PAUL
MATTHEY, of 59, Mark Lane, in the City of London, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 3
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,

page_text: give and grant unto me, the said Paul Matthey, Her special license
that I, the said Paul Matthey, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Paul Matthey, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FITTING UP SHIPS FOR CARRYING CATTLE," a communication to me from
abroad by Juan José Mendez, of Buenos Ayes, in the Angentine Republic,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Paul Matthey, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Paul Matthey, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object to improve the fitting up of ships for
carrying cattle. For this purpose the fittings are arranged in such
manner that each animal is enclosed in all directions, and is prevented
from moving out of its position, at the same time that it is left at perfect
liberty to eat and drink, its head being loose. The animal is also pre-
vented from chafing itself, or falling in times of bad weather, by means
of a girth suspended underneath the belly.
Two shoulder bars are suspended from the upper deck, one on each
side of the animal, by means of a hook or solid eye on a round iron bar,
and are adjustable along the bar to suit any width of animal. Two
similar bars or staunchions are placed at the animal's hind quarters;
these and the two shoulder bars are provided with eyes to receive side
bars, which pass along the sides of the animal. Across the breast and
hind quarters pass two other bars, the one at the hind quarters being
capable of sliding along the side bars so as to be adjustable to the breadth
of the animal

page_text: A girth made of strong canvas, leather, or india-rubber is suspended
from the side bars, and passed underneath the animal's belly. The girth
is fixed to the bar at one side, and the other side is adjustable by means
of buttons or other fastenings, in order that the girth may be so adjusted
that the animal, in case of losing its foothold or balance, will be suspended
and supported from falling, and rest in the girth.
PIXEL
and figure ɔ, & pian
of cattle fittings arranged according to this Invention.
a, a, is at bar fixed a intervals to the upper deck beams; b, b, are shoulder
bars suspended from it; they are adjustable, and are set at distances
apart to suit the sizes of the animals to be accommodated. c, c, are
breast bars; they are threaded through eyes in the shoulder bars b, or
otherwise fixed to them; d, d, are side bars; they are also fixed each at
one end to the shoulder bar, and at the other to a staunchion or upright c,
which is fixed to the deck upon which the cattle stand; f, f, are curved
bars placed on the side bars behind the staunchions or uprights, and
behind the back of the animals; they are set so as to allow just a proper
amount of freedom, and are secured in their places by pins inserted into
pin holes in the side bars d; g is a girth made of strong fabric; it is
firmly fixed to the side bars, and passes underneath the belly of the
animal. These girths are shortened up as far as they can be without dis-
tressing the animals, so that should the animals slip from the motion of
the ship they are at once caught and sustained by the girths. h is a
manger for the animals' food.

page_text: What I claim is, the method of fitting up ships for carrying cattle,
substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I the said Paul Matthey, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.