An Improved Drinking Basin for Animals.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug.,
1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Drinking Basin for Animals.
1, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a com-
munication to me from abroad by John Quigley, of New Utrecht, New York,
U.S.A., Inventor) to be as follows:-
A valve is
A drinking basin made in accordance with this invention is provided with a
single pipe for alternate supply and exhaust. A branch supply-pipe is connected
with and enters into the main pipe above the outlet valve, the said supply-pipe
being provided with a valve for opening and closing the same.
arranged in the main pipe and is adapted to open and close the same, and means
are provided whereby both valves in both pipes are adapted to be actuated by
levers simultaneously, so that a single movement opens one and closes the other,
and vice versa, closes one and opens the other, inasmuch as both valves are connected
to the same bar in common by hinged joints. This bar is operated by a platform
treadle, which is provided with a spring to counteract pressure thereon, and which
is so adapted that a depression of the treadle opens the supply-valve and closes the
outlet valve, and the elevation of the treadle opens the outlet valve and closes the
supply-valve.
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J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Drinking Basin for Animals.
I, JOHN PITT BAYLY, of 18 Fulham Place, Paddington, in the County of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a com-
munication to me from abroad by John Quigley, of New Utrecht, New York,
U.S.A., Inventor) 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 a sanitary drinking-basin whereby animals may be
provided, upon pressing upon a pedal, with sufficient water for drinking, and yet
will be less liable than in the use of ordinary watering-troughs to contract or com-
municate disease from drinking out of a trough used by other animals. As such
troughs have been heretofore constructed the water is not readily changed after
cach animal has assuaged its thirst, and generally a fresh supply of water is allowed
to flow and mingle with the infectious water remaining in the trough, whereby
mucus, saliva, or other secretions or excretions from the mouth and nostrils of the
animals which have previously drunk in the trough are in a more or less diluted
form imbibed, and thus a watering-trough becomes a source of danger.to, every
sound horse when it has been previously used by a diseased animal.
The objects of my invention are to provide such an arrangement of the inflow
and outflow conduits, together with an automatic mechanism operating in such
manner that the trough or basin shall be successively supplied and emptied as each
animal uses it; to provide means for preventing water from standing and congealing
in the basin or conduits or becoming stagnant or filthy; to connect the valves of
the respective conduits so that upon the opening of one the other shall close, and
vice versa, the closing of one shall open the other; also, to provide means so that
an animal on attempting to drink shall operate such valves by his stepping upon

page_text: or from a platform, and thereby actuate the mechanism therefor, and, finally, to
disperse the water as it enters the basin, so that it shall not shoot up in a single
stream. These objects I accomplish by my invention, which consists in a drinking-
basin provided with a single outflow and inflow conduit, having a branch-pipe near
its connection with an insertion in the bottom of the basin, so that the basin-pipe
at such junction shall serve as an outflow and an inflow conduit alternately, each
conduit being provided with a valve for the purpose of regulating, determining, or
interrupting the flow of water, together with suitable mechanisin adapted to
reciprocally open one valve and shut the other, or shut the one and open
the
other, as may be desired; also, in the combination of such basin, conduits, and
mechanism with other mechanism, whereby the whole may be operated through a
system of connecting-levers actuated by pressure upon a treadle or platform and
by the cessation of such pressure.
It also consists in a dispersing device to divide the inflow current into several
lateral jets, all as hereinafter set forth.
In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional view taken in the plane
of the dotted line ay, shown in Fig. 2, and showing the pits, treadle, and connecting
mechanism for opening and closing the valves, together with their connection with
the drinking basin and its overflow-pipe. Fig. 2 is a plan view with the treadle-
floor and the basin removed, showing the series of levers and the arrangement of
pipes and valves within the pit and as disconnected from the bottom of the
drinking-basin. Fig. 3 is an elevation of my disperser.
A represents the pit for treadle; 13, stationary-frame; C, lever-pit;
D, treadle-floor 1, movable treadle-support; 2, pivot-bars: 3, lateral-arms;
4, depending-arms; 5, yoke-joints; 6, reciprocating-bar: 8, spring-bearing:
7, spring 9, curved lever; 10, lower link-bar to same; 11, fixed pivots; 12, upper
bar 13, supply-valve bar; 14, outlet-valve bar: 16, supply-valve chamber;
17, outlet-valve chamber; 18, basin-pipe 19, disperser; 20, fountain-basin;
21, overflow-pipe; a, supply-valve arm, and outlet-valve arm.
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In any hydrant-supply a pit A is made and walled up sufficient to admit of the
location of the horse-treadle arrangement shown in Fig. 1, which consists of a
stationary iron frame B, supporting a treadle-floor or platform of wood or iron D,
Fig. 1, in the opposite ends of which frame are journalled pivot-bars 2, capable of
partial revolution and provided with lateral arms 3. These lateral arms support
the movable frame of treadle-supports 1, upon which is laid an ordinary treadle
Hoor or step, (shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.) being such as is ordinarily used at
horse-railroad switches, and is intended to receive the weight of the horse when he
comes to the basin and to press the treadle-step down until it bears upon stationary
frame B.
The treadle-step rests upon the treadle-supports 1, which are movably connected
with the lateral-arms 3 of the pivot-bars 2, whereby upon the descent of the
treadle-step they cause the pivot-bar to partially rotate. The pivot-bars are also
respectively provided with a depending lever-arm 4, rigidly connected with the
pivot-bars 2, but movably connected with a reciprocating bar 6, one end of which 8,
within the pit, bears against a spring 7, the action of which spring, by means of
the depending-arm 4, maintains the treadle-step in an elevated position above the
frame B when not in use. The reciprocating-bar is prolonged beyond and into a
pit C, beneath the basin, and is movably connected at such extremity with an arm
of a curved lever 9, fulcrumed at a convenient point upon a bar 11 and connected
by link-bar 10 to upper lever-bar 12, so as to actuate to move the supply-valve
bar 13 and move the supply-valve arm a the requisite distance to allow the flow of
water through the chamber 16. The outlet-valve in the outlet-chamber is also
supplied with a similar bar 14 and outlet-valve arm b, which is movably connected
with the supply-valve bar and so adjusted that when the supply-valve is opened
the outlet-valve is closed, and, rice versa, when the supply-valve is shut, the outlet-
valve shall open by a single impulse.
The supply-pipe and its valve-chamber may be connected, as shown in Fig. 1, at

page_text: any convenient point with the basin-pipe 18; but if such connection is not
proximate to the basin-pipe the supply-pipe should slope downward sufficiently
after leaving the valve-chamber to make sure that no water can stand in such
portion of the pipe after the supply is shut off. An overflow-pipe 21 is provided
to carry off any surplus of supply while the animal remains upon the treadle-
platform, and discharges into the outflow-conduit below the outflow-valve chamber.
The disperser 19 is a hollow metallic cap with projecting points secured to the
bottom of the drinking-basin by screws or bolts or in any other manner so as to
invert it over the opening in the basin-pipe, so that the jet of supply-water shall
be forced in various directions along the bottom and sides of the basin and not
directly upward.
The mode of operation of my drinking device is as follows: When the horse
places his fore feet upon the treadle-step or floor, the depression of the treadle
causes the short arm 3 to turn the pivot-bars 2, which make a partial revolution
upon their axes, and thus move the depending-arms 4, which force back the
reciprocating-bar 6 against the spring 7, and at the same time actuate the several
levers 9 and 12 and connecting-bars 10 and 13, and thus open the supply-valve
chamber and close the outlet-chamber. When the horse steps off from the
treadle step, the action of the resorting-spring 7 reciprocates the bar 6 in an
opposite direction, and by means of the levers and their connections opens the
outlet-chamber and closes the supply-chamber.
I do not wish to limit my claim to two separate valve-chambers, as the outlet
and supply-pipes may enter into a single chamber and have a valve common to
both, so that the turning of one valve may produce the same result by operating a
single lever-bar; but I prefer the device I have described and shown, since I
think it the more practicable.
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:
The combination of a drinking-basin provided with a single pipe for alternate
supply and exhaust, a branch supply-pipe connected with and entering into such
main pipe above the outlet-valve, such supply-pipe being provided with a valve for
opening and closing the same, a valve in the main pipe below the entrance of the
supply-pipe, adapted to open and close the same, and both valves in both pipes
adapted to be actuated by levers simultaneously, so that a single movement opens
one and closes the other, and, cice versa, closes one and opens the other, both valves
being connected to the same bar in common by hinge-joints, and such bar operated
by a platform-treadle provided with a spring to counteract pressure thereon, and
so adapted that a depression of the treadle shall open the supply-valve and close
the outlet-valve, and the elevation of the treadle shall open the outlet-valve and
close the supply-valve, substantially as described.
Dated this 8th day of July 1891
J. P. BAYLY,
Applicant.