Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1886.
Complete Left, 26th Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 1st Mar., 1887.
I, WILLIAM HENRY POOL of Chipstable in the County of Somerset, Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is intended to facilitate the rearing or
other young animals.
fattening of calves, lambs and.
It consists of a tube about two or more feet in length and about half an inch in
diameter, having at the end a teat about two to three inches long. Immediately behind
the teat is a collar or flange standing out at right angles to the teat and so attached
thereto that it is impossible for the calf or lamb to swallow the teat or get it too far into
its mouth.
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The tube being attached to the tap of a tub or other vessel containing milk or other
liquid food, the calf can suck in the said food without danger of choking.
My improved feeding tube would be made by preference of india-rubber, gutta-
percha or some similar material or of any other suitable substance.
.S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C
Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Feeding Tube with Collar for Calves and other
Young Animals.
I, WILLIAM HENRY POOL of Chipstable, in the County of Somerset, Engineer 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 is intended to facilitate the feeding and rearing of Calves, Lambs, and
other young animals, and can be made in various sizes to suit their different require-
ments. It consists of an artificial teat, communicating with a tube, and carrying
immediately behind the said teat a collar or flange, standing out at right angles to the
said teat, and so attached thereto that it is impossible for the Calf or Lamb to swallow
the teat, or get it too far into its mouth. The tube is of varying length, and in diameter
from in. to in. or thereabouts. The tube and collar, may be made of glass, earthen-
ware, metal, gutta percha, india-rubber or any similar substance, but the teat must be
made of India Rubber, or some similar flexible or partially flexible substance, not
affected by moisture. The tube being attached to the top or outlet of a. pail or other
utensil, or used as a Syphon to draw therefrom, and such pail containing milk or other
-liquid food, the animal can suck in the food, without danger of choking.
The usual size of the teat is from 1 to 3 inches in length, and of the flange from
1 to 3 inches in diameter, but I do not confine myself to any precise size, as the
apparatus is capable of adaptation to various dimensions.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim, is
1. A portable feeding apparatus, which can be used with any ordinary pail or utensil,
consisting of a teat, collar; and tube, for the purpose of supplying liquid food to young
animals, substantially as herein explained.
2. A flexible or partly flexible teat attached to a collar and tube, the said teat being
large enough to feed young animals, and the said collar, large enough to prevent the
teat froni passing too far into the mouth, as herein described.
S. S. BROMHEAD, -
97, Newgate Street, E.C.,
Patent Agent.