A New or Improved Ring or Clip for Marking and Identifying Birds.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 11th May, 1894-Accepted, 16th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL DI MUITICATION.
A New or Improved Ring or Clip for Marking and Identifying
Birds.
We, ROBERT BROWN of Fordend near Chelmsford in the County of Essex:
Grocer and WILLIAM EDWARD GANNON of 17 and 18 Springfield Hill Chelms-
ford Mechanical Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be-
as follows:-
The object of this invention is to produce a simple device for enabling the
owners of fowls or other birds to identify the same as their property or to tellˇat a
glance the age of a bird.
Now according to this invention we provide a strip of metal approximately
circular at one end. This strip is pierced at the wide end with a slit through which
the other end of the said strip after it has been coiled round the leg of a fowl or
other bird is passed and the projecting portion bent back parallel to the strip thus
securing the strip of metal round the bird's leg.
The wide or circular portion of the ring or clip may have the name of the owner
of the bird or the date on which the said bird was hatched embossed or engraved
thereon.
Dated this 10th dog of Ant 1002
FREDK.
WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for Applicants..
A New or Improved Ring or Clip for Marking and Identifying
We,
Birds.
ROBERT BROWN, of Fordend, near Chelmsford, Grocer and WILLIAM
EDWARD GANNON, of 17 and 18 Springfield Hill, Chelmsford, Mechanical
Engineer, both in the County of Essex, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to produce a simple device for enabling the
owners of fowls or other birds to identify the same as their property or to tell at a
glance the age of a bird.
Now according to this invention we provide a strip of metal approximately
circular at one end. This strip is pierced at the wide end with a slit through which
the other end of the said strip after it has been coiled round the leg of a fowl or
other bird is passed and the projecting portion bent back parallel to the strip thus.
securing the strip of metal round the birds leg.
The wide or circular portion of the ring or clip may have the name of the owner
of the bird or the date on which the said bird was hatched embossed or engraved
thereon.
And in order that our said invention may be fully understood we will proceed
to explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in
which:-
Figure 1 represents a ring or clip constructed according to this invention ready
for attachment to the leg of a bird

page_text: Figure 3 is view of the clip closed.
Figure 4 shews clip attached to the leg of a fowl.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figures.
a is a strip of metal such as tinplate brass copper or aluminium having an
approximately circular portion b at or near one end thereof.
Upon this approximately circular portion is engraved or impressed the year in
which the bird to which it is attached was hatched.
On the parallel portion of the strip or on the circular part thereof may also be
engraved or impressed the private mark name and address of the breeder or any
other means of identification of the bird or breeder.
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Forming part of or adjacent to the part b is a slot c through which is passed the
end d of the strip a which is afterwards turned back as shewn in Figures 2 and 3,
and so secures the ring round the leg or neck of the bird.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is
I. The new or improved ring or clip for marking and identifying birds consisting
of a strip of metal having an approximately circular portion at or near one end
thereof and a slot to receive the opposite end of the said strip the year in which
the bird was hatched and if desired the private mark or name of the breeder
being engraved or impressed on the said ring or clip all substantially as herein before
specified.
II. The new or improved ring or clip for marking and identifying birds con-
sisting of a strip of metal a having an approximately circular portion b at or near
one end thereof and a slot c the said ring or clip being adapted to be secured round
the leg or neck of a bird substantially as hereinbefore specified.
III. The new or improved ring or clip for marking and identifying birds
substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 11th day of May 1894.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.