An Improved Outdoor Feeding Appliance for Horses and other Animals.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 26th Nov.,
1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Outdoor Feeding Appliance for Horses and other
Animals.
We, MARY ANN ROSE NEAVERSON and ROBERT NEAVERSON, both of Peakirk,
Peterboro, in the County of Northampton, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
1
Our invention relates to an out-door feeding appliance for horses and other
animals, and has for its object to prevent the said animals from wasting the food
as obtains with the feeding appliances in present use.
Our invention consists of a frame composed of preferably six wood or other posts
connected by horizontal rails morticed, tenoned, screwed, nailed, bolted or other
wise fixed thereto, the whole being preferably hexagonal in plan, and provided
with a like shaped bottom fixed in connection with the said posts, at a distance of
about one third of their length from either end, the shallower end of the appliance
so constructed being used (when uppermost) for containing corn chaff, oil cake
and the like, the opposite end (when uppermost) being used for containing nay,
straw, clover and the like, the whole being of such a height as to be suitable for
permitting sheep, horses cattle and the like to feed therefrom.
The said bottom has a central hole for the reception of a vertical rod, and when
the appliance is used for containing hay, straw, clover or the like, the said rod
carries a ring or hoop, across which are stretched a suitable number of chains or
cords carrying a central ring through which the said rod is passed, the said
hay or the like being placed in the appliance beneath the said hoop,
that the animals feeding must pull the food between
up
said chains or cords, the said central ring and its hoop falling
as the food is consumed. The vertical stability of the said rod may be attained
by three or more chains extending therefrom to a like number of the posts of the
frame.
SO -
the
When the opposite end of the appliance is used for corn or the like,. the said
vertical rod and chains may be employed, while the hoop and ring may be
dispensed with.

page_text: Peterboro, in the County of Northampton, 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:-
:-
Our invention relates to an out door crib or feeding appliance for horses and
other animals or cattle, and has for its object to provide a means for preventing
the said animals or cattle from wasting the food therein provided for them, as
obtains with the feeding appliances in present use.
In order that our said invention, the manner of manipulating and using the
same, and alternative methods of construction employed by use may be fully
understood, we have hereunto appended two sheets of drawings, of which:
Fig. 1 Sheet 1 is a perspective elevational view of our invention, (according to
one method of construction) in which the shallower end is uppermost, or that used
when the food consists of corn, beans, oats, or the like.
Fig. 2 is a like view of the same appliance but upside down as related to
Fig. 1, and as it' would appear when used for containing hay, straw, clover, and
the like.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 2, while Figs. 4 and 5 are plan views of like
appliances of different shapes, the former having eight sides or octagonal, while
the latter has twelve sides and is practically circular.
Fig. 6 Sheet 2 is an enlarged view of the upper end of the central or vertical
rod shewn in the previous figures.
Fig. 7 is a plan view similar to Fig. 3 but illustrating the employment of rods or
bars in lieu of, or without a hoop, as in the previous views.
Fig. 8 is a vertical section of an appliance constructed substantially as at
Fig. 1. but upon the principle of Fig. 7, and illustrating the position of the said
rods when in use and resting upon the food being consumed, while Fig. 9 illus-
trates the manner of raising the said rods or bars when charging the appliance
with food.
Fig. 10 is a plan view of the shallow end of the appliance as at Figs. 1, 3, 7, 8
and 9, illustrating how the bottom of the said shallow end may be divided into
compartments in lieu of the use of the said hoop, or rods or bars.
In carrying our invention into effect, we employ any number of wood or other
posts A, of circular or other formation in cross section, which may be so
arranged, that when fastened together by two or more rows of horizontal rails B,
and broad boards, panels, or their equivalents C, mortised, tenoned, screwed,
nailed, bolted or otherwise fixed thereto, a crib or appliance may be formed of
hexagonal formation in plan as at Figs. 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9 and 10, or octagonal as
at Fig. 4, or circular or substantially so as at Fig. 5. The frame so constructed
is provided with a solid wooden or other bottom D, fixed by any suitable means
to the posts or uprights A, flush with the lower edges of, and fitting close up to,
the panels C, thereby forming a shallow feeding trough (when this end is upper-
most) for containing oats, chaff, beans, broken oil-cake and the like, and we may
provide means for dividing the said shallow trough in any number of compart-
ments as at Fig. 10, which may be by the means of two or more long boards such
as E and E, the ends of which engage with slots in the upper ends of certain of
the posts A, while shorter divisions F may engage with the angles formed by the
junction of E and E, and slots in the upper ends of the others of the posts A.
The opposite end of the appliance when uppermost as at Fig. 2 may be used for
containing hay, straw, clover, and the like, which when placed therein would
rest upon the now uppermost surface of the bottom. D, and in order that the
horses or cattle feeding therefrom may not be able to waste the said food we pro-
vide in the centre of the bottom D a hole or its equivalent which receives the
lower end of an iron or other pole or rod G, and permits the same to stand
upright therein as shewn. According to the arrangement illustrated by Figs. 1
to 5 we provide a metal hoop such as H connected by any number of rods or
bars such as J, or chains, cords, or wires such as K, or any desired combination

page_text: of such chains, cords, wires, and rods with a ring L, the latter being adapted to
fit upon the rod G, and of such diameter as to permit the hoop H to be raised
nearly vertical from any part of the appliance, as shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 1,
to permit the attendant to place the said food in the crib or frame, when the
said ring is caused and allowed to rest upon the top of the said food, so that the
animals feeding therefrom must pull the same up between the said bars, rods,
chains, or the like, J or K. which would effectually prevent the animal from
wasting the same, the said hoop H and its connections gradually falling as the
food is consumed, but always remaining resting upon the top of same, the said
rod and hoop being equally applicable for use with the opposite end of the frame
if desired, as at Fig.1.
For convenience in raising the said hoop when the frame needs sweeping out or
cleaning or for other reasons we provide upon the upper end of the rod Ga
pulley M. over which passes a cord wire or chain a, one end of which may be
connected to the ring L, while its opposite end may be connected with any one
of a number of hooks or the like N, when the said hoop is raised.
In order to add to the stability of the rod G, and the upper end in use of the
frame or crib generally, we may provide upon the upper end of G, below the
pulley M, a ring or plate 0, to which may be connected any number of chains,
cords, or wires b, as at Fig. 6, for use as at Fig. 2.
Under certain conditions, such as, for smaller cribs or frames, or other reasons,
we may dispense with the said hoop H, and employ a suitable number of the
rods or bars J only, as shewn in Fig. 7, the free ends of which may be bent or
otherwise formed to provide enlargements such as P or R for the purpose of
weighting the said free ends, so that the said rods or bars may rest upon the
food S by their own weight, as suggested at Fig. 8, the weight of the said rods
or bars serving the same purpose as that of the hoop H. In order to raise the
said rods or bars when necessary for charging the crib or frame with food we
provide a second and larger ring T, connected by short links such as c to the rods or
bars J, the said ring T being connected to the cord, wire, or the like a which,
when slack, permits the said rods or bars to rest upon the food, whether this
be in the shallow end of the crib or frame as at Fig. 8, or the opposite end when
in use, a pull upon the said cord or the like a operating to raise the said rods or
bars when desired, out of the way, as illustrated by Fig. 9, whichever end of the
frame or crib may be uppermost.
From the foregoing description of our invention and by reference to the draw-
ings it will be understood that we can employ the hoop H and its accessories, or
the rods J R or J P and their accessories irrespective of the shape in plan of the
frame or crib, or the position or number of the posts or uprights A.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1st. The herein described feeding appliance or crib for horses and other animals,
with means such as an hoop H, rods, bars, cords or chains J or K, and ring L, or
rods or bars JP or JR without the said hoop, with means for raising the said
hoop or the said rods or bars out of the way when needed, substantially as and
for the purposes set forth and shewn.
2nd. In an improved food saving crib or appliance for horses and other animals,
the combination of a frame, composed of any number of posts or uprights such
as A, connected together by a like number of bars such as B, and panels such
as C, and provided with a bottom such as D, and rod G fitting into said bottom,
with ring L surrounding said rod, and having pivotally connected thereto rods
or bars such as J, or chains or cords such as K, engaging with a hoop H with
means such as a cord or the like a and pulley such as M for raising the said hoop
and its connections substantially as herein described and shewn by the accom-
panying drawings.

page_text: 3rd. In an improved food saving crib or appliance, the combination of a frame
composed of any number of post or uprights A, connected by a like number of
bars B, and panels C, and provided with a bottom D), with rod G fitting into said
bottom, with ring L surrounding the said rod, and having pivotally connected
thereto any number of rods or bars J, having enlarged or weighted ends such as
Ror P, the said rods or bars being pivotally connected by links such as c, with
a cord or the like a, passing over a pulley M or G, substantially as herein described
and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this fith day of October 1898.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicants.