AN IMPROVED POULTRY WAGON
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, E.C., Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED POULTRY WAGON."-A communication from abroad by
Parfait Giot, of Paris.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 28th November 1859.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, E. C., Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED POULTRY WAGON," (communicated to me from
abroad by Parfait Giot, of Paris,) to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to afford accommodation to a great number
of fowls in their conveyance to market or otherwise, and to allow of their
being transported without interfering with their laying, and without their
plumage or beauty being impaired. The wagon consists of a long carriage
closed at top, bottom, and sides with louvres fixed in the sides to afford light
and ventilation; boxes for nests are arranged along the sides, and feeding
troughs over them. Standards placed at an angle hold perches the whole
length of the wagon at each side, and a frame holding perches on each side

page_text: The fore part
tender of the
is suspended from the top; a box with a hinged side is placed under the floor
of the wagon into which the excrement is swept and collected. This material
possesses high fertilizing properties, and has been hitherto lost.
of the wagon may be partitioned off to form a box for the
poultry, which can be entered from the front or by a door at the side of the
wagon, a partition placed along the centre of the wagon enables the tender
to gain access to both sides of the wagon; the wagon may serve as a fixed
or as a travelling poultry house.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th May 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, E.C.,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-third year of
1er reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED POULTRY WAGON," (a communication
from abroad by Parfait Giot, of Paris,) upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to afford accommodation to a great number
of fowls in their conveyance to market or otherwise, and to allow of their being
transported without interfering with their laying, and without their plumage or
beauty being impaired. The wagon consists of a long carriage closed at top,
bottom, and sides with louvres fixed in the sides to afford light and ventilation;
boxes for nests are arranged along the sides, and feeding troughs over them.
Standards placed at an angle hold perches the whole length of the wagon at
each side, and a frame holding perches on each side is suspended from the
top; a box with a hinged side is placed under the floor of the wagon into
which the excrement is swept and collected; this material possesses high
fertilizing properties, and has been hitherto lost. The fore part of the wagon
may be partitioned off to form a box for the tender of the poultry, which can
be entered from the front or by a door at the side of the wagon; a partition
placed along the centre of the wagon enables the tender to gain access to both
sides of the wagon; the wagon may serve as a fixed or as a travelling poultry
house.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a longitudinal section; and
Figure 2 is a transverse section of this improved poultry wagon.
a is a frame
supported on wheels b, b, c, c, or the shafts or pole attached or fitted to the
fore part of the frame a; d is a carriage or case made of wood, cast iron, or
other material, and connected to the frame a; h, h, are vertical supports
extending the whole length of the wagon, to which perches or bars are
attached; is a frame fixed to the roof of the wagon by metal rods or other-
wise, from which two or more horizontal bars carrying perches f depend.
Feeding troughs are fitted at suitable heights on vertical supports, or they are
attached to the sides of the wagon; 9 is a space shown by the red ink lines
in Figure 2, forming a passage for the tender; i, i, are boxes or niches for
the hens to lay and set in, arranged along the sides of the wagon; these boxes
can when required be raised to the louvres, by which means air and light will
be admitted to the hens; lis a box placed beneath the wagon for the reception
of excrement, straw, or dirt, which is removed from the box by lowering a
door fitted to the side of the box; m is a box for the tender at the fore part
of the wagon, from which position he can drive the horse or horses when
removing the wagon from place to place.
The Inventor does not limit bimself to the precise arrangement of the
internal parts of the wagon herein-before described, and at the same time the

page_text: exterior can be decorated and its shape altered without departing from the
essential features of his Invention.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, the improved
poultry wagon constructed essentially in the manner herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of May, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.