IMPROVEMENTS IN STABLES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert John Haddan, of the Firm of Herbert and
Company, Solicitors of Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster,
Civil Engineer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STABLES." A com-
inunication from abroad by Amos Herbert Crawford, of Liverpool, State of
New York, United States of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert John Haddan at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th May 1880.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN STABLES." A communication from abroad by Amos Herbert Crawford, of
Liverpool, State of New York, United States of America.
This Invention relates to a construction and arrangement of a stable floor and
devices connected therewith, which render the said floor clastic, constantly dry, self-
cleaning, and durable, and whereby also effective and convenient means are
obtained for treating disabled or diseased animals; and furthermore, the stable is
ventilated and provided with a stationary animal-power, which is never exposed to
the weather, takes up no extra storage-room, and is readily available for performing
various kinds of work usually required in and about a stable or barn without the
delay and inconvenience of removing from the stall the animal designed to furnish
the power.
The improvements consist in the combination and arrangement with a stable of
a stall floor formed of longitudinal chains or belts extended the length of an opening
in the stable-floor, and transverse slats secured to said chains or belts; also in the
combination and arrangement with a stable of a stall floor formed of transverse
slats secured to longitudinal chains or belts suspended from the ends of a frame
pivoted transversely at or near its centre in an opening in the floor of the stable;
also in the combination and arrangement with a stable of a tilting stall floor.
supported by a frame pivoted transversely at or near its centre in an opening in
the floor of the stable; also in the combination and arrangement with a stable of
a tilting stall-floor, supported by a frame pivoted transversely at or near its centre
in an opening in the floor of the stable, and arranged to be inclined towards the
rear end, communicating thereat with a pit or receptacle beneath the floor; also in
combination with the revolving floor of the broom or brush held yieldingly against
the inverted part of the floor by a weighted lever, and having its sweeping part
oblique to the plane of same, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Herbert John Haddan in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
November 1880.
HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert and Company, Solicitors of
Patents, of 67, Strand, in the City of Westminster, Civil Engineer. "IMPROVEMENTS
IN STABLES." A communication from abroad by Amos Herbert Crawford, of
Liverpool, State of New York, United States of America.
This Invention relates to a peculiar construction and arrangement of a stable-
floor and devices connected therewith, which render the said floor clastic, constantly
dry, self-cleaning, and durable, and whereby also effective and convenient means
are obtained for treating disabled or diseased animals; and furthermore, the stable
is ventilated and provided with a stationary animal-power, which is never exposed
to the weather, takes up no extra storage room, and is readily available for per-
forming various kinds of work usually required in and about a stable or barn
without the delay and inconvenience of removing from the stall the animal designed
to furnish the power.
The Invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, wherein
Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section of my improved stable taken on line x, x,
in Figure 2, and Figure 2 is a longitudinal section of same.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
A represents the upright frame of a stable constructed in any ordinary manner;
B is the floor of the stable constructed with an opening C extended the length and
breadth of the stalls in which the animal is kept. From end to end of the
opening C I suspend horizontally two or more chains or belts c, c, to which I
secure transverse slats d, d, short distances apart, thereby obtaining an elastic,
constantly dry, and ventilating floor. By employing endless chains or belts and
extending them around rollers r, r, pivoted to the ends of longitudinal stringers or
joists b, and pivoting the said stringers transversely at or near their centre in the
opening C, I am enabled to throw the said floor into an inclined position, and
compel the animal standing thereon to revolve the endless tread by his weight.
Thus a horse disabled for actual labor or unable to be removed from the stall can be
given the necessary exercise. The depression of the rear end of the floor produces
thereat an opening, through which the manure which may be on the stall floor can
pass into the pit P or receptacle beneath, thereby compelling the horse-to clean-his
stall. That part of the manure which has a tendency to adhere to the floor is
swept off by a broom or brush m fixed to the end of a lever weighted so as to
yieldingly maintain the broom in contact with the inverted part of the floor. In
order to prevent the manure from filling the broom or brush the sweeping part n
thereof is arranged oblique to the plane of the floor, as best seen in Figure 2 of the
Drawing.
To further utilize the described movable stall floor a line shaft a is arranged
beneath the floor transverse in the centre of the opening C and the stringers b
mounted on said shaft. The journal of the forward roller is extended through
an elongated opening e in the side of the stall, and is provided at the opposite side
thereof with a pulley f. The line-shaft a is also provided with a pulley g, in such
relative position as to be connected with the pulley f by a belt h, all as shown by
dotted lines in Figure 1 of the Drawing.
By means of a lever or other suitable device arranged convenient of access the
stall floor is thrown from a horizontal into an inclined position, the angle of which
is limited by the length of the opening e in the sido of the stall. The inclination
of the stall floor brings the belt h in contact with a pulley i pivoted to the side of
the stall between the pulleys f and g, and thus in a great measure prevents the jar
incident to a sudden check of the tilting of the floor. The pressure of the belt h

page_text: against the pulley i causes the former to tighten and transmit to the shaft a the
power produced by the weight of the animal standing on the stall floor. It will be
observed that by this arrangement motive power can be readily communicated to a
pump, feed cutter, threshing machine, or other machine or apparatus usually
employed in or about a stable without the loss of time or inconvenience of removing
from the stable the animal required to furnish the power.
In addition to the advantages already set forth, which render my improvements
especially desirable for veterinary stables, an effective and convenient preventitive
and cure of so called "cocked ankles" of horses is obtained by holding the floor
stationary in its inclined position and compelling the diseased horse to stand
upon it.
Having thus fully described the Invention, what I claim as new and desire to
secure by Letters Patent is,-
1st. The combination and arrangement with a stable of a stall floor formed of
longitudinal chains or belts c, c, extended the length of an opening in the stable
floor, and the transverse slats & secured to said chains or belts, substantially as
described for the purpose specified.
2nd. The combination and arrangement with a stable of a stall floor formed of
transverse slats secured to longitudinal chains or belts suspended from the ends of
a frame pivoted transversely at or near its centre in an opening in the floor of the
stable, substantially as specified for the purpose set forth.
3rd. The combination and arrangement with a stable of a tilting stall floor
supported by a frame pivoted transversely at or near its centre in an opening in
the floor of the stable, substantially as specified.
4th. The combination and arrangement with a stable of a tilting stall floor
supported by a frame pivoted transversely at or near its centre in an opening in
the floor of the stable, and arranged to be inclined toward the rear end, communi-
cating thereat with a pit or receptacle beneath the floor, substantially as described
for the purpose set forth.
5th. The combination and arrangement with a stable of the pit P, opening C,
shaft a, stringers b mounted on said shaft, the rollers r, r, endless chains or belts c, c,
transverse slats d, aperture e in the side of the stall, pulley f on the journal of the
forward roller, pulley g on shaft a, belt h, and tightening pulley i, all arranged and
combined substantially as described and shown.
6th. In a combined stall floor and animal tread power the combination of a
tilting frame, having the rollers pivoted within it, an endless tread, the pivoted
shaft a, pulleys f, g, belt h, and belt tightener i, the parts being arranged and
combined to operate together as shown and described.
7th. In combination with the revolving Hoor d the broom m held yieldingly
against the inverted part of the floor by a weighted lever, substantially in tho
manner described.
8th. In combination with the revolving floor d the broom or brush m held
yieldingly against the inverted part of the floor by a weighted lever, and having its
sweeping part n oblique to the plane of same, substantially as and for the purpose
set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert John Haddan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Eighteenth dex of November 1880
H. J. HADDAN. (L.S.)