Cattle Truck Partition Board Fastenings.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Jan., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 15th Oct., 1896-Accepted, 21st Nov., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Cattle Truck Partition Board Fastenings.
I PATRICK LENNON of 12 Argyle Road Anfield in the City of Liverpool and
the County of Lancashire, Live Stock Traffic Inspector do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide an appliance for effectually preventing
the moveable partition boards being shifted after the cattle or animals have been
enclosed therein.
My said appliance consists in the construction or formation of a lever (A)
(illustrated in the accompanying drawing) which can be made of iron or other
suitable material of such thickness and dimensions as may from time to time be
found desirable.
The fulcrum or centre support of lever (A) will be divided in such a manner as
to form two sides or supports and one support will be placed one side of the
wood beam on the edge of the truck and the other side or support placed the other
side thereof. At the lower end of such supports holes will be bored through and
a bolt or pin (B) inserted loosely therein in such a manner as to form a hinge.
The small end or tail of the lever (A) will be slotted or cut part of the way up
the centre so as to form a kind of fork and in between this slot or fork will be
placed a triangular metal guide (C) which will keep the lever (A) from shifting
sideways and insure of an even passage of the partition board (shewn by dotted
line in accompanying drawing) and the slide rests attached thereto when such is
being shifted from division slot (E) underneath and over respectively, the top of
lever (A) (in the direction shewn by the arrows) to division slot (E 2) or vice versa
in order to increase or diminish respectively the space in the truck.
The lever (A) as shewn in the accompanying drawing presumes the cattle to be
enclosed in the truck on the right hand side of the partition board. Thus it is
obvious that when the truck is fully loaded it will be impossible to shift the
partition board so far forward against the animals as to enable it to be brought
over the long end of the lever (A) to division slot (E³).
Dated this 14th day of January 1896.
Cattle Truck Partition Board Fastenings.
1 PATRICK LENNON of 12 Argyle Road Anfield in the City of Liverpool and
the County of Lancashire Live Stock Traffic Inspector, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide an appliance for effectually preventing
the moveable partition boards being shifted after the cattle or animals have been
placed or enclosed in the trucks.
My said appliance consists in the construction or formation of a lever A (on

page_text: drawing left with Provisional Specification) which can be made of iron or other
suitable material of such thickness and dimensions as may from time to time be
found desirable.
The fulcrum or centre support of the lever A will be divided in such a manner
as to form two sides or supports and one support will be placed one side of the
wood beam on the edge of the truck and the other side or support placed the other
side thereof. At the lower end of such supports, holes will be bored through and
a bolt or pin B inserted loosely therein in such a manner as to form a hinge. The
small end or tail of the lever A will be slotted or cut part of the way up the
centre so as to form a kind of fork and in between this slot or fork will be placed
a triangular metal guide C which will keep the lever A from shifting sideways
and insure of an even passage of the partition board (shown by dotted line on
drawing) and the slide rests D attached thereto when such is being shifted from
the division slot E' underneath and over respectively, the top of lever A (in the
direction shewn by the arrows) to division slot E' or vice versa, in order to increase
or diminish respectively the space in the truck.
The lever A as shewn on drawing presumes the truck to be loaded on the right
hand side of the partition board. Thus it is obvious that when the truck is fully
loaded it will be impossible to force the partition board so far forward against the
animals as to enable it to be brought over the long end of the lever A. to division
slot E.
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
elaim is :-
(1.) In the construction or formation of a lever of suitable material & proportions
and of the same or similar shape as that shewn on drawing and having its fulcrum
fixed to the top side edges of cattle trucks or wagons by means of a bolt, hinge,
or hinges.
(2.) In the construction of an appliance for preventing the partition boards being
moved backwards away from the livestock without their first being moved or
pressed forward against the said livestock, such appliance consisting in a lever
having its fulcrum placed at one side of the division slots in the edges of the
trucks, and the lever itself extending over the top of the division slot and to some
distance along the edges of the truck.
Dated this 14th day of October 1896.
PATRICK LENNON.