Improved Food and Water Vessels for Birds and other Animals.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Aug., 1895-Accepted, 26th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Food and Water Vessels for Birds and other Animals.
I FRANK CONSTABLE Corn Dealer 10 Westow Street Upper Norwood Surrey
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
(1) An arrangement for suspending food vessels as a protection against mice, or
other vermin, by means of a rod or chain having attached thereto a disc of wood,
or other material, which is designed to prevent communication downwards to the
food vessel below.
(2) An improvement, also, in the food storage-reservoir which is divided by
moveable partitions enabling different foods to be used at the same time in the
feeding trough itself, the latter being self-filling.
(3) Likewise an arrangement for standing the whole apparatus in a vessel of
water, by means of a suitable foot, as a protection from mice, or the like, when the
food vessel is used for standing on the ground instead of being suspended; the
hanging perches beneath being removed for this purpose.
Dated this 11th day of June 1895.
I, FRANK CONSTABLE 10 Westow Street Upper Norwood S.E. Corn Merchant
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:-
An arrangement for suspending food vessels, for birds or other animals, as a
protection against mice, or other vermin, by means of a rod, or chain, having fixed
thereto a disc of wood or other material, which is designed to prevent communica-
tion downwards to the food vessel below. The food storage reservoir is divided
into compartments by means of moveable partitions enabling different foods to be
used at the same time in the feeding vessel itself, which is similarly divided and is
self filling. A further arrangement is applicable for standing the apparatus in a
vessel of water, by means of a suitable foot, as a protection from mice or the like,
when it is used for standing on the ground instead of being suspended, the hanging
perches being removed, if required, for this purpose.
A circular plate of wood, or other material, K, with raised edge forming a dish,
which may be filled with sand, or the like, is fixed to the lower end of a rod, C, to
which a hook is made for suspending the perches, N. O. Under the plate, K, is
attached a circular, or annular, perch, M, by means of four supports, two only of
which, L, L, are shown the others occupying the opposite diameter. The feeding
trough, J, which is self filling, is fixed to the upper surface of the plate, K, and
supports, by its four partitions, the cone-shaped reservoir, I, made of tin, zinc or
other material. The reservoir partitions, F, which correspond with those in the
trough are attached centrally to the tube, E, and externally by projections fitting

page_text: into slots cut in the top of the reservoir. The reservoir cover, H, also cone-
shaped, is free at its apex on the tube, E, which latter slides on the rod, C, so that
both partitions and cover can be removed, either together or separately. The
nut, D, keeps the partitions secure in their place and the apparatus is suspended
from a hook on the chain, P, below the guard, G, which latter can be set at any
desired height above the food apparatus by adjusting the length of the chain
accordingly.
The swivel, A, is secured by the nut B. When it is desired to place the food
vessel on the ground instead of suspending it, the hanging perches, N. O., are
removed and the vessel stood upon the foot, R, shown in dotted lines, and in the
dish, S., which is filled with water.
The foot, or support, R, may be made of four pieces of flat iron about one inch
wide and one eighth thick, taking the shape of the section of the hollow cones,
shown in dotted lines, in which case the perches need not be removed.
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. For the suspending arrangement, whether by means of rod, chain, cord or
the like, having attached thereto a disc of wood, or other material, designed to
prevent communication downwards, by mice, or the like, to the food vessel.
2. For the combination of the divided (or otherwise) food storage reservoir
with the self filling food vessel, or trough, similarly divided by partitions or not.
3. For the arrangement for standing the apparatus in water to prevent access of
vermin.
4. For the novelty of form, or structure, of the apparatus as applied with intent
to secure the above mentioned effects.
Dated this 12th day of August 1895
FRANK CONSTABLE.