Improvements in and relating to Food-holders for Bird-cages.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd July, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 22nd Apr., 1890-Accepted, 7th June, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Food-holders for Bird-cages.
I, SAMUEL ARNOLD, of 18 Bartholomew Road, Kentish Town, in the County of
London, Agricultural Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:
My invention has for its object to prevent birds from wasting the seed supplied to
them for food, by delivering the same in small quantities.
In carrying out my invention I provide a receptacle of suitable size adapted to be
supported by hooks or by other suitable means.
To the lower part of the said receptacle is connected a lever, one end of which is
provided with a cup or box adapted to pass through an aperture in the walls of tho
said receptacle, so that by oscillating the lever, the cup can be moved through the said
aperture from the inside of the receptacle to the outside or vice versa. The other end
of the lever is provided with a cross-bar or perch so that when a bird jumps onto
the same the said lever will be moved to bring the cup to the outside of the
receptacle.
A balance weight or the like normally maintains the lever with the cup in the
receptacle.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Food-holders for Bird-cages.
I, SAMUEL ARNOLD, of 18, Bartholomew Road, Kentish Town, in the County of
London, Agricultural Engineer, 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 has for its object to prevent birds from wasting the seed supplied to
them for food by delivering the same in small quantities.
In carrying out my invention I provide a receptacle of suitable size adapted to be
supported by hooks or hy other suitable means.
To the lower part of the said receptacle is connected a lever, one end of which is
provided with a cup or box adapted to pass through an aperture in the walls of the
said receptacle, so that by oscillating the lever, the cup can be moved through the
said aperture from the inside of the receptacle to the outside or vice versa.
The other
end of the lever is provided with a cross-bar or perch so that when a bird jumps
onto the same the said lever will be moved to bring the cup to the outside of the
receptacle.
A balance weight or the like normally maintains the lever with the cup in the
receptacle.
To enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe how it can be carried
into practice by reference to the accompanying drawing in which:
Figure 1 is a plan with the cover removed; and
Figure 2 is a vertical section of a food-holder for bird-cages constructed according
to my invention.
Similar letters in both the figures indicate similar parts.
a is the seed-receptacle which is provided with a top hook band with side hooks c, c
or their equivalents to allow of the receptacle being attached to a bird-cage; the
receptacle is formed with an inclined bottoin d and has a suitable cover e.

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fis the lever at the lower part of the seed-receptacle a; g is the cup or box at one
end of the lever, the said cup being pivotted at h in the aperture of the receptacle a
and normally located within the said receptacle as shewn by the full lines in the
drawing.
i is the cross-bar or perch on the outer end of the lever, which perch when a bird
hops onto it will, with the lever, be depressed and thereby move the cup upon its
pivot into the position (outside the seed-receptacle a) indicated by the dotted lines
in figure 2.
jis the weight attached to the cup in order, normally, to keep the cup within the
seed-receptacle a, the said weight projecting from the cup so as to form a stop to
limit the outward movement of the cup by coming against the bottom of the seed-
receptacle.
By this arrangement the receptacle a having been filled with seed and secured to
a cage containing a bird or birds, whenever a bird perches itself upon the cross bar i,
the cup will deliver a small quantity of seed outside the receptacle a so that the
bird can feed therefrom but is prevented from having access to and wasting the bulk
of seed inside the receptacle.
Directly the bird hops off the perch i, the cup 9 will return inside the seed-
receptacle a and will again become filled with seed ready to deliver it for a bird to
feed from when it again rests on the perch.
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 :-
1. A food-holder for bird cages having a cup or box connected to a perch or bar,
the said cup being normally located within the holder and adapted to automatically
deliver a small quantity of seed whenever a bird hops onto the said perch or bar,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. A food-holder for bird cages comprising a sced-receptacle, a counterweighted
cup or hox pivotted in an aperture therein, a lever fixed to the said pivotted cup
or box and carrying a bar or perch, substantially as, and operating in the manner,
and for the purpose, herein before described with reference to the accompanying
drawing.
3. The improved food-holder for bird cages herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 22nd day of Anzil 1890
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.