IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR STABLES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Barton, of Robert Street, Hampstead
Road, in the County of Middlesex, Ironmonger, for the Invention
of IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR STABLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Barton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 19th October 1853.
I, JAMES BARTON, of Robert Street, Hampstead Road, in the County
of Middlesex, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR STABLES" to be as follows:-
I substitute a hay box for the rack now commonly employed, and I
arrange the hay box, manger, and water trough side by side in a row.
The hay box is composed of sheet iron, plain or corrugated, and -
perforated with apertures to ventilate the hay; the manger is also
composed of metal, and may be enamelled or glazed, if required; the
water trough is also of metal, enamelled or glazed, if required, and
furnished with a pipe having two stop cocks, so that by opening them

page_text: alternately the water may be admitted and allowed to run to waste, the
pipe being in communication with a supply cistern, and leading to a
sink. In front of the hay box, manger, and water trough I place a
guard roller of wood or metal, and I provide pulleys for the weighted
halter ropes, chains, or straps to run over.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Janies Barton in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th April 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1,
JAMES BARTON, of Robert Street, Hampstead Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Ironmonger; send-greeting:
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of October, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three; in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Barton, Her special
licence that I, the said James Barton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said James Barton, 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 FITTINGS
FOR STABLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
James Barton, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal;
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Barton, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be

page_text: Serformed; to. be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
ollowing statement thereof; reference being had to the Drawings here-
anto-annexed (that is to say):
My Invention relates to that description of stable fittings wherein a
hay rack: and manger, or a hay rack; manger, and water trough, are
employed, ranged side by side or in a row.
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My Invention consists, first, in substituting for the rack now com
monly employed a hay box, composed of cast or wrought iron, or partly
of each, plain or corrugated, and perforated with apertures to ventilate
the hay. Second, in providing the water: trough with.a. branch pipe
leading to another pipe. having two stop-cocks, one above and the
other below its connection. with the branch, so that by opening
them. alternately the water may be admitted to and allowed.to
escape from the trough, the pipe being in communication with a
cistern or other source of supply, and leading to a. sink Third; in
the employment of a guard. roller, of hollow wrought or cast iron;
or of wood covered with sheet metal, placed in front of the hay
box, manger, and water trough; and last, in. a. means of hanging
and working the halter balls and straps or ropes, by suspending the
balls from a bracket fixed to a post or to the wall at the back of the
fitting, and then bringing the ends of the ropes or straps over or under
friction-rollers fitted-in the top plate or frame, whereby the balls and
straps are prevented from coming in contact with the horses: legs; and
whereby all strain produced by a horse leaning back in his stall is borne
by the bracket at the back of the fitting.
Figure 1; of the Drawings annexed is a plan; Figure 2, a front
elevation; Figure 3, a.sectional elevation on the line a, b; and Figure 4,
a sectional elevation on the line c, d, of my: improved stable fittings.
A, A, is a plate or frame of cast iron to which the several parts are
attached, and which is fitted to the stall by being screwed to brackets
or built in or otherwise. B, is the hay box, which is made of cast or
wrought iron, plain or corrugated, with apertures in the front for
ventilation, and without a back, the wall forming the back when the
box is brought close up against it. C, is the manger, which is composed
of cast iron, and glazed or enamelled, if required; and D, is the water

page_text: trough, which is also of metal enamelled or glazed, if required. E, is
the branch pipe leading from the water trough to the main pipe F, and
G, H, are the stop cocks to that pipe. By opening the cock G, and
keeping the cock H, closed, water will be admitted to the trough, and
by.closing the cock G, and opening the cock H, the water will be
allowed to flow to waste. I, is a hollow metal guard roller mounted in
bearings J, J, at the ends of the frame A, and extending the full width
of the frame; and K, K', are pulleys for the weighted halter ropes,
chains, or straps to run over. The pulleys K', are mounted in brackets
fixed to the wall or to posts at the back of the fitting, so that the fitting
is not liable to be displaced by any strain on the halter ropes. The
hay box, manger, and water trough are formed with flanges at their
upper edges to enable them to be screwed or otherwise secured to the
plate or frame A.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim
as my Invention is,-
First, the means of hanging and working the halter balls and straps
or ropes as herein-before described; and,
Second, the combination of a revolving guard roller and of pulleys
for the halter ropes (both or either of them) with the hay box and
manger, or with the hay box, manger, and water trough, whether this
latter is supplied and emptied in the usual way or fitted with pipes
and stop cocks as represented in the Drawings hereunto annexed, and
herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Barton, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of April, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-four.
JAMES BARTON. (L.S.)