Improvements in Manger Fittings for Stables.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1893--Accepted. 23rd Sept., 1893
CONTEIN DIDUITIVATION.
Improvements in Manger Fittings for Stables.
We, WILLIAM ECKSTEIN and JOHN ALFRED WILLMORE, Engineers and
Ironfounders of 187, 189, 191 & 193 Union Street, Borough, London, in the
County of Surrey, 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 :-
In manger fittings for stalls and loose boxes of stables, we combine the use of
earthenware vessels, preferably glazed, for food & water with a strong iron top
plate and front guard, by which the danger of breakage and injury to horses
attending the use of ordinary earthenware manger troughs is obviated, besides a
ready and secure means of employing sanitary earthenware is obtained.
We prepare an iron top plate similar to those in use with iron mangers in which
the apertures for the rack, manger and water trough are made of any suitable
shape, such as oval or oblong with square or rounded corners, and to this plate we
attach earthenware, preferably glazed, vessels in place of the common iron pots,
by bolts, or secure them in any other suitable manner.
These earthenware vessels are made and shaped to suit the square or rounded
angles and flanges of the apertures in the iron top plates, with flanges around the
earthenware vessele at the top edges, and holes through same in which bolts can be
passed to secure the vessels to the iron top plates. The vessels can be fitted with a
flush plug and washer for convenience of cleaning and emptying.
These earthenware vessels are protected on the upper side by the iron top plate,
and the front and underside of same may be protected by an iron guard if required,
see Fig. 3-G.
In the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 is a plan of a manger fitting for a stall in which A is the cast iron top
plate, B is the hay rack, C is the earthenware manger, and D is the earthenware
water trough.
These vessels are secured to the top plate A by the bolts Z Z which pass through
holes formed in the flanges of the vessels, beneath these flanges iron plates M are
used to distribute the strain over the whole length of the flange, and at each bolt
between the earthenware vessel and the iron plate a washer of leather or india
rubber J is inserted to prevent the vessels being broken when tightening up the
bolts.
G is an iron guard, either solid or with apertures for ventilation-attached at its
upper end to the iron top plate, and at its lower to the wall, thus effectually
protecting the front and underside of the earthenware vessels.
Fig. 2, is a front elevation and Fig. 3 a section through the manger C of this
stall fitting.
Fig. 4 is an enlarged section through the manger C along the line E F.
Fig. 5, is a part section along the line E F showing another method of securing the
vessels C&D to the top plate A, in this figure H is a specially prepared clamp or
clip, and the flange of the vessel C is held up to the plate A by this clip instead of
having the bolts Z passed through it.
Fig. 6 is also a part section on the line E F showing the manger C resting in a
recess formed in the top plate A and secured in place by being set in a suitable
cement.

page_text: 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,
The use of glazed sanitary or other carthenware vessels in combination with iron
top plates for stall and loose box manger fittings for stables.
Dated this 2nd day of August 1893.
WILLIAM ECKSTEIN.
JOHN ALFRED WILLMORE.