Improvements in Apparatus for Feeding Chickens and other Young Birds.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th June, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Apparatus for Feeding Chickens and other
Young Birds.
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I, ERIC BURRELL STEELE, of Netherton, Frodsham, in the County of Chester,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide an apparatus for feeding chickens
and other young birds, while preventing the larger birds from getting at their
food.
In carrying my invention into effect, I provide a box or cage grated or barred
at the sides, in such a manner as to permit chickens or other small birds freely
entering or leaving the cage, while excluding the larger birds altogether, and
inside this box or cage is a device for supplying grain or other food in any quantity
as used. One way is to form the box or cage with a sloping roof having gratings
or bars to admit light and air into the interior, while the part below the eaves,
or the border of the roof which overhangs the walls, is also grated or barred, and
is only just high enough to allow a chicken or other small bird to pass, while
excluding the larger ones. Along the middle of the cage is a feeding trough
supplied with grain by means of a vertical channel or spout, reaching from the
trough and terminating at the top of the cage in a hopper which is filled from the
outside by the person in charge. The lower end of the channel is slightly below
the top of the trough so that the grain is fed to the trough as the latter is con-
sumed and no more grain is fed to the trough than is actually required. The
vertical channel forms a partition dividing the box or cage into two compartments,
entry to which is obtained from opposite sides. An invention of this kind will
he found most useful if not indispensable in the poultry yard, as it prevents the
chickens' food being stolen by the larger birds and also prevents overcrowding
at the feeding trough.
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Improvements in Apparatus for Feeding Chickens and ener
Young Birds.
I, ERIC BURRELL STEELE, of Netherton, Frodsham, in the County of Chester,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement;-
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This invention has for its object to provide an apparatus for feeding chickens
and other young birds, while preventing the larger birds from getting at their
food.
In carrying my invention into effect, I provide a box or cage grated or barred
at the sides, in such a manner as to permit chickens or other small birds freely
entering or leaving the cage, while excluding the larger birds altogether, and
inside this box or cage is a device for supplying grain or other food in any quantity
as used.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings, in which,
Fig. 1 shows a general view of my apparatus.
Fig. 2 a cross section.
Referring to these figures, A. is the box or cage with a sloping roof B. having
removable gratings or bars C C to admit light and air into the interior, while the
part below the eaves or border of the roof which overhangs the walls is also grated
or barred at 1, the distance of the bars apart, and the height being such as only
to be just sufficient to allow a chicken or small bird to pass, while excluding the
larger ones. Along the middle of the cage is a feeding trough E supplied with
grain by means of a vertical channel.or spout F reaching from the trough E and
terminating at the top of the cage in a hopper G which is filled from the outside
by the person in charge. H is a removable lid covering over the top of this
hopper. The lower end of the channel F is slightly below the top of the trough 1
so that as the grain is fed to the trough it is consumed and no more grain is
fed to the trough than is actually required. The vertical channel F forms a
partition dividing the box or cage A into compartments, entry into which is
obtained from opposite sides. An invention of this kind will be found most
useful, if not indispensible to the poultry yard, as it prevents the chickens food
being stolen by the larger birds, and also prevents overcrowding of the feeding
trough.
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 improvement in apparatus for feeding chickens and other small birds,
which consists in forming it of a box or cage grated or barred at the sides in
such a manner as to permit of small birds freely entering or leaving the cage,
while excluding the larger ones, in combination with a feeding appliance placed
inside the box or cage, substantially as described.
2. In an apparatus for feeding chickens and other small birds, a feeding trough
for holding grain and other like food, a hopper at top of the apparatus which is
filled from the outside by the person in charge, and a vertical channel or spout
reaching from the trough and terminating in the hopper above, the lower end of
this channel being slightly below the top of the trough, substantially as and for
the purpose described.
3. The general combined arrangement and construction of parts forming my
improved apparatus for feeding chickens and other young birds, substantially
as set forth.