IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR FEEDING AND WATERING CATTLE IN RAILWAY TRUCKS
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William James Bonser, of No. 29, Highbury
New Park, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR FEEDING AND WATERING
CATTLE IN RAILWAY TRUCKS."
Sealed the 12th April 1870, and dated the 14th October 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William James Bonser
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 14th October 1869.
I, WILLIAM JAMES BONSER, of No. 29, Highbury New Park, in the
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR FEEDING AND WATERING
CATTLE IN RAILWAY TRUCKS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the use of vertical uprights or standards
carrying each at their upper ends levers of a bell crank or similar
suitable shape. These levers are jointed or hinged at their lower ends
to the uprights or standards so that they can move therein, and they
cach carry at one of their upper ends a balance weight. Two or more

page_text: of these uprights with their crank levers are placed side by side along
the railway line or siding, and in that position the ends of the crank
levers opposite to those furnished with balance weights are made to
support or carry a trough to hold the food or water for the cattle. The
crank levers are so weighted or adjusted that as the trough is filled it
will be brought to a horizontal position next the trucks at a height
suitable for the cattle to feed or drink; but when the food is consumed
or removed or the water drank or run off the balance weights will raise
the trough from the cattle trucks and remove it to a position quite clear
of the trucks, and so as to present no obstruction to the passage of
trains.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William James Bonser in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 14th April 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
JAMES BONSER, of No. 29, Highbury New Park, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the thirty-
third year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said William James Bonser, Her special licence
that I, the said William James Bonser, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William James Bonser, 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 APPARATUS TO BE USED FOR FEEDING AND WATERING CATTLE IN RAILWAY
TRUCKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William
James Bonser, 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

page_text: same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said 'William James Bonser, 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, that is to say:-
My Invention relates to improvements in apparatus for feeding and
watering cattle upon railways more conveniently and economically and
without that amount of alteration of the trucks or the construction of
special trucks heretofore necessary.
In order that the nature of my Invention and the manner in which
the same is to be effected may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, this Specification is accompanied by a Sheet of Drawings having
figures and letters of reference marked thereupon, the like letter being
used to denote a similar or corresponding part in each Figure.
In these Drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of an apparatus con-
structed according to my Invention; Figure 2 is a plan of the same;
Figures 3 and 4 are end views of the apparatus.
In carrying out my Invention I use vertical uprights a carrying at
their upper ends the levers b, which levers 6 are hinged or jointed as
at c, so that they are free to move within the joint. These levers 6 cach
carry at one of their ends a balance weight d. Two or more of the
uprights a are placed side by side along the railway line or siding, and
in that position the ends of the lovers 6 opposite to those carrying the
balance weights d are made to support or carry either a trough for
holding the water for the cattle or a rack for the hay or other food, or
both may be carried, as shewn in the Drawings, the trough for water
being marked e, and the food rack f. The levers 6 are so weighted and
adjusted by means of the balance weights d that upon the trough e and
rack (where both are used) being filled they will overcome the
resistance of the weights d and be brought to a horizontal position, as
shewn in Figure 4, and will then be alongside the trucks at a height
suitable for the cattle to feed or drink.
When the food is consumed or
weights will raise the trough
the water drank or run off the balance
and rack from the cattle trucks and remove them to the position
shown in Figure 3, where they will be quite clear of the trucks and
present no obstruction to the passage of trains.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
said Invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, I
wish it to be clearly understood that what I claim is, the arrangement of
levers hinged or jointed to vertical standards or uprights, two or more of
such levers supporting at one of their ends troughs and racks, or either,
and at their other ends balance weights so adjusted that when the
troughs are empty these weights will carry the troughs and racks up
clear of the railway line or siding in the direction of the arc of a circle
away from and clear of the line of trucks, but when the troughs are
filling or filled to permit their descont until they assume a position
alongside of the cattle trucks.
In witness whereof, I, the said William James Bonser, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of April, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy.