An Improved Feeding or Drinking Trough for Pigeons and other Birds.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 21st June, 1899-Accepted, 4th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Feeding or Drinking Trough for Pigeons and other
Birds.
We, ALBERT HATELEY and THOMAS BASSETT, trading as Hateley and Bassett,
of 23, Emily Street, City of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates as hereinafter described to an improved feeding or
drinking trough for pigeons or other birds and has for its object to provide
means whereby they are easily cleansed and protected from dirt falling in from
the top beside being of easy access to the birds.
In carrying our invention into effect we provide two sheet iron or steel hoops
and connect the same by a series of wire bars of a distance apart to admit a pigeons
head between them thus forming a kind of circular cage.
We make a sheet iron or steel conical shaped top to fit the same, and an iron
or steel bowl to fit inside the circular cage which may be used for corn or water.
We enamel or galvanize the whole, thus making a complete feeding or drinking
trough.
We have only thought it necessary to describe our invention made in iron
or steel but we wish it to be understood that we can make it in any suitable
material.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants.
An Improved Feeding or Drinking Trough for Pigeons and other
Birds.
We, ALBERT HATELEY and THOMAS BASSETT, trading as Hateley and Bassett,
of 23, Emily Street, City of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturers, 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: -
This invention relates as hereinafter described to an improved feeding or
drinking trough for pigeons or other birds and has for its object to provide
means whereby they are easily cleansed and protected from dirt falling in from
the top beside being of easy access to the birds.

page_text: In carrying our invention into effect we provide two sheet iron or steel hoops
and connect the same by a series of wire bars of a distance apart to admit a pigeons
head between them thus forming a kind of circular cage.
We make a sheet iron or steel conical shaped top to fit the same, and an iron
or steel bowl to fit inside the circular cage which may be used for corn or water.
We enamel or galvanize the whole, thus making a complete feeding or drinking
trough.
We have only thought it necessary to describe our invention made in iron
or steel, but we wish it to be understood that we may make it in any suitable
material.
In order that our invention may be clearly understood, we will describe it by
reference to the accompanying drawings, same letters of reference indicating
similar parts throughout.
Fig. 1 is a side elevation and Fig. 2 a plan of our invention. Figs. 3, 4,
and 5 show the separate parts constituting the same. Fig. 6 is a section on
the line a, b. A, A show the two sheet-iron or steel hoops, having a series of
holes D and connected by the wire bars B in the manner shown at Fig. 6, the
ends of the wires being turned over as represented at E. F is a base plate upon
which the cage rests. The trough, Fig. 5 is placed inside the cage and is supplied
either with water or corn. The pigeons or other birds obtain the same by pass-
ing the head through the space between the bars B. The cover or top G is
made from sheet iron or steel and protects the trough from dirt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:-
The improved feeding or drinking trough for pigeons and other birds con-
sisting of the cage Fig. 4, the trough Fig. 5 and the top or cover Fig. 3 combined
substantially as described and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 19th day of June 1899
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WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicants..