Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 21st May, 1896
RICHMOND WILLIAM SPURWAY Edworth, Baldock, Herts, Clerk in Holy
Orders, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Improved chicken coop-consisting of a light wood frame and waterproof
roofing. The roof and sides being tar felt which is whitened for sanitary:
purposes.
The front of the said coop consists of folding shutters or lids for safety against:
vermin and saving of labour.
To the front of the like coop are attached a double quantity of equal lids or
shutters fastened by hinges. Each lid or shutter fastened to the front of the coop:
by hinge, and so fold over the other in rotation-so that when the lids or shutters-
are folded back it allows egress and ingress for chicken & when folded down the-
egress & ingress is stopped. And by the folding back of the two last or lower lids.
or shutters it provides space enough for the egress & ingress of the hen when
desirable.
Specification of chicken or hen coop with light wood frame, covered with tar
felt, and folding shutters or lids to front of hen coop.
And the Specification of the like hen coop showing sections of folding shutters.
or lids to front of hen coop.
Figs. 1. 2. 3. are sections, showing shutters or lids to hen coop, fixed and hinged.
to fold back and retain their positions at various angles.
Fig. 1. Section showing shutters closed.
Fig. 2. Section showing shutters partly open to allow small hen or ducklins to.
enter in or out.
Fig. 3. Section showing shutters open.
A. Shutters fixed.
B. Shutters hinged to rotate about A.
C. Hooks to fasten shutters when closed, and to retain shutters at various-
angles.
E. Slide iron to hold B at various angles.
H. Showing hinges screwed to shutters A. B.
Dated this 20th day of September 1895.
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Оцкой обор.
RICHMOND WILLIAM SPURWAY, Edworth, Baldock, Herts, Clerk in Orders,.
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 :-
The said chicken coop consists of a light wood frame with roof and sides of tar
o felt whitened inside. And the front of the same said coop consists of folding:
shutters or lids attached by hinges.

page_text: And Figures 1. 2. 3. in drawings "left with the Provisional Specification" as
sections showing shutters or lids as fixed to the said coop showing the folding and
extension of shutters or lids and their positions at various angles.
The front of the said coop consists of nine lids or shutters A. B. with tbree
lids A fixed to framework of the said coop and the six lids or shutters B which are
hinged by back flaps or other like joints H. to the three fixed lids A, and made to
rotate and stand in various positions about the three fixed lids A. by hooks and
eyes C. and slide irons E fixed to the sides of front of the said coop, which also
etain the hinged lids or shutters B in their places when closed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1. The fixing of lids A and the hinging of
moveable joints H. and made to rotate about
to the said coop.
shutters B to the said lids A with
same which give both light and air
2. By the attachment of hooks & eyes C and plates E to hold shutters when
open at various angles, also to retain same when closed.
.
3: Being simple in construction and the ease and quickness of opening and closing
of the said shutters making the said coop both sanitary and safe proof from vermin
or foxes.
April 30th 1896
RICHMOND W. SPURWAY.