Improvements in connection with the Perches of Bird Cages and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Feb., 1896.
Complete Specification Left, 16th Nov., 1896-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in connection with the Perches of Bird Cages and
the like.
West Kilburn,
FREDERICK JOSEPH SPARROW 108 Denmark Road
London N.W. Silversmith's Porter do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is the entire protection of "caged birds" &.
"poultry" from vermin, when roosting.
The "protector" itself is in the form of a funnel which when in use is partly
filled with oil; through this funnel or container a wire is passed, the top of which
is fastened to the roof of cage or house & by the bottom of which the perch is
suspended. The latter may be either fixed or swinging; but in the latter case it
would be fastened to a hook at bottom of "protector" instead of being absolutely
fixed.
As the perch when the protector is in use has no connection whatever with any
part of the cage or house & the vermin can only get to it by the wire of protector
at top, they must necessarily fall into the oil in container. The "protector" is
made in zinc, or any other material as convenient.
Dated this 18th day of February 1896.
FREDERICK JOSEPH SPARROW.
Improvements in connection with the Perches of Bird Cages and
the like.
FREDERICK JOSEPH SPARROW 108 Denmark Road West, Kilburn London
Cycle Packer 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 prevent an insect which is called red mite
troubling birds while at roost. And it is also for doing away with a lot of labour
which this insect causes in the way of cleaning out all crevises in the cage &c.
When this preventitive is fixed to the perches from the top of the cage it is
impossible for this insect to crawl on to the perch were the bird is roosting and
therefore these insects does not thrive so rapidaly. To manufacture this protector
take a piece of zinc or any suitable sheet metal & cut out a 4″ circl and then
devide the same into three equel parts from the centre, and then get a small block
the same shape as the top of a funnel and beat the metal up into funnel shape,
then make a soldered seam down the side, then take a file and file off the sharp
point at the bottom and that will leave a little hole, then take a piece of tinned
wire about 12" long pass the wire down through the hole until about 8 is showing

page_text: through the bottom, then solder it their well so that it will be quite proof. The
wire at the bottom is for fixing to the perch & the wire that shows at the top is
for making it fast to the top of cage. Then to make it complet half fill the same
with oil. Poultry protectors are much stronger.
When these protectors are supplied to agents for sale their is perches also
supplied with them, and each perch as got two protectors fitted to it, and these
perches which is supplied with protectors are much shorter than the ordinary ones
used as they are not fixed in the usual manner to the sides of the cage, they have
no connection with anything but the protectors, so they are fixed to the bottom of
the wire which is marked A, and the top part of wire is for fixing in the top of
cage, so that when the perch is fixed it hangs in the center of the cage without
touching any part of the same. And the fuunel part of protector which is
marked, B, must also be a half inch from the top and sides of cage so that the
red' mite cannot crawl off the cage on to them. Why I mention half inch for the
funnel part of protectors to be from top of cage is to prevent the bird getting at
the oil which they contain. And befor these protectors are fixed in the cage for
good, they must be half filled with oil so that when the red mite crawl down the
wire, A. which is made fast in top of cage they get into the oil which the funnel
part marked, B. containes.
This special perch should be fitted so that it would hang in the place were
the bird as been accustom to roosting that is generally the highest perch in
the cage.
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.
A: and, B.
February 6th 1897.
FREDK. J. SPARROW.