Improvements in Stock Watering Troughs.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 3rd Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stock Watering Troughs.
I HIRAM CARROLL of Pawling, New York United States of America Engineer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to that class of watering troughs in which a series of small
troughs are arranged fed by a reservoir, and protected by a fench guard.
The invention primarily relates to the inlet part at bottom of the troughs for the
water.
The troughs are made oval and of a conoidal or tapering form which presents a
vessel having no interior angles for lodgment of dirt. Extending below the bottom
is a short stem fitted with an inlet valve seat and cap the side of latter has several
holes for the outlet of water into trough. When the troughs are filled the water is
retained by a ball valve fitted under cap. The above arrangement offers great
facilities for cleaning out as the water inlet part can be instantly removed and
put back.
Dated this 24th day of March 1893.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stock Watering Troughs.
ī, HIRAM CARROLL, of Pawling, in the County of Duchess State of New
York, United States of America, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improvement in stock-watering troughs. The object
of my invention is to provide a water receptacle having its contour composed
wholly of curves, with its valve and valve seat arranged below the bottom of the
receptacle and the valve cage or casing retained in its seat by frictional contact
only whereby the valve and cage may be easily removed and the receptacle quickly
cleansed of sediment.
With these objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction
and combination of parts of a watering trough as will be hereafter fully described
and claimed.
In the accompanying drawings forming part of this Specification and in which
like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts:
Figure 1, is a side elevation, showing the manner of connecting a series of water
receptacles.
Figure 2, is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through one of the receptacles
showing the contour of the receptacle, and also the construction and arrangement
of the valve and the valve cap.
Figure 3, is a top plan view of one of the receptacles, and
Figure 4, is a detail view of the valve cap.
Referring to the drawings, A designates a water reservoir, B a supply pipe for
feeding water thereto, C a distributing pipe connecting with the reservoir,
Da number of troughs or water receptacles, and E pipes connecting the receptacles
with the distributing vines.

page_text: As the above arrangement is clearly shown in the United States Patent to
Charles E. Buckley No. 445,920, no claim is laid to it herein.
The receptacles D, which constitutes the subject matter of the present invention,
is approximately conoidal in inverted elevation, and substantially elliptical in cross
section. This form presents a vessel having neither interior nor exterior angles, so
that there are no recesses presented into which extraneous matter can find lodgment.
Extending below the bottom of the receptacle is a teat or lug F, which may be
either integral with the receptacle or secured thereto, which teat is formed with a
combined tapered cap and valve seat G, terminating in an orifice H, and to this
teat is secured the pipe E. I, designates the valve cap, which is tapered to fit the
valve seat G, and is retained in position therein by frictional contact. The interior
of the cap is chambered as at J, and in this chamber works the valve K, which is
by preference a ball-valve, the upper portion of the cap having a plurality of escape
openings L, through which the water from pipe E, flows into the receptacle. As
the operation of this device will be obvious, it is deemed unnecessary to give a
detailed description of same, excepting in so far as it relates to the peculiar
advantages of the water receptacle herein described. As before stated, by having
the lines forming the interior all curved, instead of straight, there is no possibility
of foreign substances finding any lodgment. Secondly, by having the valve
seat arranged below the bottom of the receptacle, its cleansing is still further
facilitated; and thirdly, by having the valve cap held in place frictionally, instead
of by screws or bolts, no tools are required when its removal is desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed: I declare that what I
claim is :-
In a stock watering device, a receptacle having the lines of its interior composed
wholly of curves, a tapering combined cap seat and valve seat arranged below the
bottom of the receptacle, a valve located in said seat and a tapering cap retained in
said seat by frictional contact and provided with openings.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1893.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
37, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for Applicant.