Improvements relating to Feed Bags for Horses and other Animals, and to Means for Supporting such Bags.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 6th Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by FRANCIS FORBES ATKINSON, of 15, Wall Street,
New York, in the State of New York, United States of America, late Captain
in H.M. 45th Regiment.]
Improvements relating to Feed Bags for Horses and other Animals,
and to Means for Supporting such Bags.
I, GEORGE BARNES ATKINSON, of Clare Villas, Cambridge, in the County of
Cambridge, Clerk in Holy Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to feed bags for horses, and other animals and to means for
supporting such bags.
My said invention is chiefly designed to prevent the grain or food from being
wasted or scattered by the movement of the animal's head.
For this purpose I support the feed bag as hereinafter described from the hames
or collar in such a manner that the same is unaffected by the motions of the animals
head, and does not interfere with or inconvenience such motions.
In carrying my said invention into practice I form the feed bag of canvas or
other suitable material; an iron or other ring being fitted around the opening or
mouth of the same to which ring the canvas or other material is sewn or otherwise
attached. On this ring I provide at opposite points thereof two projections or ears
each of which has a central hole or perforation formed therein. A flat projection
or plate is also formed on or secured to the said ring at the back of the same, that
is to say at the part thereof which is towards the animal when the bag is in use.
The feed bag is supported from the hames or collar by means of a pair of rigid
arms or bars and by a pair of chains cords or the like, extending from the said
projections to the hames or collar to which they are secured. The rigid arms or
bars are adapted to be secured to the aforesaid projection or plate by bolts passed
through holes therein and through holes or loops formed at the extremities of the
said bars or arms. The other extremity of each of these arms is provided with a
hook adapted to enter suitable eyes or rings on the collar or hames whereby the
said rigid arms or bars are held in position. The chains, ropes or wires which
assist in supporting the bag are connected to the aforesaid projections or ears on the
ring thereof and extend to the top or nearly to the top of the hames to which they
are secured. These chains are made adjustable by any suitable means preferably
by carrying a portion thereof round the upper part of the hames and hooking it
back to one or other of the links of the chain.
It will be seen that by inserting the hooks of the rigid supporting arms into the
eyes or rings provided on the hames, and fastening the ends of the chains cords,
wires, or the like to the hames at the upper parts or extremities thereof, the feed
bag is securely attached to the collar. Thus the animal can move its head freely
without disturbing the bag, which is held in a stationary or practically stationary
position, and can readily reach the bottom or any part of the bag to get the food
contained therein.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1890.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Feed Bags for Horses and other Animals,
and to Means for Supporting such Bags.
I, GEORGE BARNES ATKINSON Clerk in Holy Orders, residing at Clare Villas,
Barton Road, Cambridge 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:-
My invention relates to feed bags for horses, &c.
The object of my said invention is to provide a simple feed bag that will prevent
the grain or food from being wasted by the movement of the animals head in its
endeavour to reach the food contained therein, and for that purpose I attach my
improved feed bag to the hames or collar, as will hereinafter be more fully pointed
out in the accompanying Specification and claims :-
In the drawings like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts
throughout
Figure 1 is a view of my improved feed bag fixed in position on a horse.
Figure 2 is a plan view with sustaining arms folded, and dotted lines representing
said arms when in use.
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Figure 3 is a side view of my feed bag as folded.
A is the feed bag which is preferably made of canvas but may be made of any
suitable material; a is an iron ring over which the canvas or other material is sewn
or fixed; on said ring are two vertically projecting cars c and el having holes in the
centre of each at the back of the ring a and connected to same is a flat plate a¹ of
suitable size to receive two bolts and nuts to secure the projecting sustaining
arms B, B, on one end of each of said arms a loop is turned or a hole drilled of
sufficient size to allow a bolt to pass through it; the bolt having first been
passed through the hole in the plate o, it is then passed through the projecting
arm and the nut screwed on, thereby hinging the arms B to the plate a¹; on the
opposite ends of the arms the hooks bare fixed and are of a suitable kind to engage
in the rings on the hames to which the trace is attached; C, C, are two cords,
wires or chains, which are made adjustable by hooks or other means, D is the hames
on the collar.
It will thus be seen that by inserting the hooks b of the rigid projecting arms B into
the rings on the hames at e, and fastening the ends of the cords, wires or chains C to
the hames at the point D, the feed bag is rigidly attached to the collar and hames
on the animal to be fed. By attaching the feed bag in this manner the animal can
move its head freely and the bag remains stationary. It will also be seen that the
animal can readily reach the bottom or any part of the bag to get the food contained
therein.
Having thus fully described the nature of my invention, and the manner in which
it is to be performed, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is :—
Claim A feed bag for animals, having a bag A, frame a, projecting sustaining
arms B, B, and cords or chains C, C, substantially as and for the purpose set forth
and described.
Dated this Fifth day of October 1891.
G. B. ATKINSON.