Improvements in Feeding Bins for Poultry.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Nov., 1893-Accepted, 16th Dec., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Feeding Bins for Poultry.
We, WILLIAM TANK BURALL and HENRY CHARLES BURALL both of
26, Market Place, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, Grocers, 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 improved feeding bin for poultry, intended to provide
an arrangement which can be filled with the food, and which will allow a small
quantity to be always within reach and in a convenient position, keeping up the
supply automatically, as the food is consumed.
The bin consists of a square or other suitably shaped box mounted on a stand
or legs, so that the bottom is raised to about the height the fowls would reach in
feeding. The bottom of the box is made slanting at a considerable angle down-
wards towards the front, so that the food placed therein would fall to the front.
At the middle of the front is situated the feeding hole, from which the fowls eat,
the hole reaching almost to the bottom, a small ledge only being left to prevent
the food falling out, and form a receptacle with the sloping bottom and part to be
hereafter described, which will contain a small portion of the food. Above the
feeding receptacle is placed a device consisting preferably of tin fitted to the front
of the box, and forming a tapering recess or chamber in the front, projecting
inwards for a suitable distance, and extending nearly to the bottom. This allows only
a very small space for the food to pass to the opening, and immediately the feeding
place becomes filled it will choke the passage, and hold back the material in the
box until the fowls have removed it, more passing through immediately this is done.
A definite quantity of food is thus always within reach of the birds until the bin is
exhausted.
In order that the food may be better directed to the opening, side pieces are fitted
on the bottom, which slant towards the centre, thus causing the material to fall
from all points to the centre.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a cross section of the bin, Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a plan of
the same, the latter with the cover removed.
A is the body of the box or bin, with the bottom a, slanting as shown in Fig. 1
downwards to the front, and the lid or cover a' hinged to the top, to allow of the
food being inserted in the bin. A hole B is formed in the front reaching almost
from the bottom to the upper part. On the front is fixed the box b of tin or
other material, larger at the top and tapering towards the lower end, which almost
touches the bottom at a short distance from the front. This forms a recess in
which the heads of the fowls can project, giving them sufficient room for move-
ment, and preventing injury to the combs. The ledge b' at the bottom will retain
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the food and allow it to fill up the small space at the bottom of the recess.
so arranged as to prevent sparrows or other small birds standing on the ledge and
obtaining food, as there is not sufficient room left for that purpose.
The sides pieces a' are fitted on the bottom causing the bottom to slant from all
points towards the opening. Several openings may be arranged in one box if desired,
the parts being merely a repetition of those shown.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is.―
1
A bin for holding and supplying food to poultry consisting of a box with

page_text: slanting bottom, a hole in front at the lower part, and a chamber or recess projecting
inside the box, covering the opening, and reaching almost to the bottom, substantially
as described and for the purposes specified.
2. A bin for holding and supplying food for poultry, consisting of a box with a
feeding hole at front, a chamber or recess inside the feeding hole, and a bottom
sloping towards the opening, both from the back and from the sides, substantially
as and for the purposes specified.
3. The improved feeding bin for poultry, constructed and operating substantially
in the manner described and shown in the accompanying drawings, and for the
purposes specified.
Dated this 10th day of November 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicants.