Improvements in Means for Ear-marking Animals.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th June, 1890-Accepted, 2nd Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Ear-marking Animals.
I, DANIEL HEOTOR TALBOT of Sioux City in the County of Woodbury, State of
Iowa, United States of America, City number 813 Virginia Street, living now on
farm adjoining City Lands, municipal and other securities, also owner and manager
of six large farms for raising grain and stock, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to an improved button for ear-marking animals, of simple
construction and which may be expeditiously and conveniently applied.
According to my invention, the button is made in two sections, the one being
formed from a metal blank preferably of disc form provided with a central tubular
shank having a shoulder near its intersection with the disc, the other section being of
similar form and its centre having a countersunk aperture and the walls of the
aperture flared inwardly to form an integral sleeve which sleeve is adapted to slide
over the shank of the first section.
When the animal is caught, a hole is punched in its car and the tubular shank of
one section is passed therethrough, the other section is then passed over the projecting
end of the shank preferably into contact with the shoulder and the free end of the
shank is flared outward to contact with the countersunk surface of the other section,
whereby the two are firmly bound together and loss of the button avoided.
Upon the outer face of the button, the name of the owner of the animal, or the
number or locality if necessary, may be produced. The button may be made oblong
or rectangular and may be provided with two or more spaced discs. When the
button is to be applied to the ear of small animals, such as swine for instance, the
disc body of the one section is preferably made solid in order that ample space may be
provided for the necessary mark.
Dated this Sth day of October 1889.
D. H. TALBOT.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Ear-marking Animals.
I, DANIEL HECTOR TALBOT of No. 813 Virginia Street, Sioux City, in the County
of Woodbury, State of Iowa, United States of America, Manager of grain and stock
farms, 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:
My Invention relates to an improved button for ear-marking animals of simple
construction and which may be expeditiously and conveniently applied.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
specification, in which
Figure 1 illustrates the application of the button to the ear of cattle ;
Figure 2 is a transverse section through the button detached;
Figure 3 is a transverse section through the button, illustrating the same in position
upon the ear;
and
Figures 4 and 5 are face views of the two sections of the button. Similar figures
of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
According to my invention, the button is made in two sections 10 and 11, and
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page_text: from any suitable material, malleable material being best adapted to heal the cut
flesh.
The section 10 of the button is struck up or otherwise formed from a metal blank,
preferably to the contour of a disk, as shown in Figure 4, which disk is provided
with a central, tubular shank 12, having a shoulder 13, formed thereon near its
intersection with the disk, as best illustrated at the left in Figure 2.
The section 11, is also in the form of a disk, the center of the disk being apertured
and the walls of the aperture flared inwardly to form an integral sleeve 14, which
sleeve is adapted to slide over the shank 12 of the section 10.
In the flaring, walls of the aperture in the section 11, the outer face surrounding
the aperture is essentially countersunk, as best illustrated at 15 in Figure 5.
In operation, when the animal is caught, a hole is punched in the ear, and the
tubular shank of the button section 10, is passed through the opening thus formed;
the other section 11 is then passed over the projecting end of the shank 12, preferably
to a contact with the shoulder 13, and the free end of the shank is flared outward
to a contact with the countersunk surface of the button section 11, as illustrated
in Figure 3, whereby the two sections are firmly bound together, thus avoiding loss
of the button.
Upon the outer face of the button the name of the owner of the animal, or the
number or locality, if necessary, may be produced.
If in practice it is found desirable, the button may be made oblong or rectangular,
and may be provided with two or more spaced disks. When the button is to be
applied to the ear of small animals, such as swine, for instance, the disk body of the
section 10 is preferably made solid in order that ample space may be provided for the.
necessary mark.
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. A button for ear-marking animals, constructed in two sections, one section being
provided with a tubular shank and the other section having produced therein a
central aperture to receive said shank, substantially as shown and described.
2. A cattle tag, formed in two sections each having an integral tube or sleeve,
one tube or sleeve having a reduced portion adapted to enter and be upset in the
other sleeve or tube, and formed at the inner end of said reduced portion with an
annular stop shoulder for the inner end of said second or outer tube or sleeve to
abut; the joint between the two sleeves being at about the center of the button when
the two sections are secured in place on the animal, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 27th day of June 1890.
Dated this 27th day of June 1890.
D. H. TAL:BUT.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.