IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR STABLES, Cow SHEDS, AND PIGGERIES, AND PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Cottam, of Winsley Street, Oxford Street;
in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR STABLES, Cow SHEDS, AND PIGGERIES, AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Cottam at the
Office of the Commissioners of. Patents, with his Petition, on the 28th
September 1865.
I, EDWARD COTTAM, of Winsley Street, Oxford Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FITTINGS FOR STABLES, COW SHEDS, AND PIGGERIES, AND IN.
EPPLUVIUM TRAPS FOR STABLES AND OTHER PLACES," to be as follows:-
The first part of my Invention consists in constructing portable fittings, so:
that when required they may be removed. For this purpose in stables I use
panels or plates, by preference of iron, for the head and, upper sides of the
fittings, while the remaining parts of the sides are by preference of wood
supported upon sills, and those sills by preference such as are the subject

page_text: of Letters Patent granted to Louis Le Chevallier Cottam on the 4th March
1865, No. 610; and I support the panels in frames or pillars, which fit into
boxes or sockets formed in the floor. In cow sheds and piggeries I use metal
frames, the pillars of which, drop into sockets or boxes in the floor, and these
frames support troughs and pans for containing the liquid and solid food for
the animals.
My improvement in effluvium traps for. stables and other places consists in
the employment of a double or hollow dipping plate, and in carrying a pipe or
tube from the space between the plates into the external atmosphere or other-
wise away. The object of this double plate is to prevent the return through
the trap into the stable or other place where the trap is fixed of any effluvium
or noxious gases, as frequently takes place in a trap where an ordinary dipping
plate is used. Any gases tonding to return through my trap bubble up into
and pass off through the space between the double plate..
SPECIFICATION, in pursuance of the conditions, of the Letters Patent, filed-
by the said Edward Cottam in the Great Seal, Patent, Office on the
28th March 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS. SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
COTTAM, of Winsley. Street, Oxford Street, in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent, Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of September, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth. year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Edward Cottam, Her special licence that I, the said: Edward
Cottâm, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Edward Cottam, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at. any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein, expressed; should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FITTINGS FOR STABLES, Cow SHEDS, AND PIGGERIES, AND IN EFFLUVIUM TRAPS FOR
STABLES AND OTHER PLACES," upon the condition (amongst others), that I,
the said Edward Cottam, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
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page_text: in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Cottam, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:
The first part of my Invention consists in constructing portable fittings, so
that when required they may be removed. For this purpose in stables I use
panels or plates, by preference of iron, for the head and upper sides of the
fittings, while the remaining parts of the sides are by preference of wood
supported upon sills, and those sills by preference such as are the subject of
Letters Patent granted to Louis Le Chevallier Cottam on the 4th March
1865, No. 610; and I support the panels in frames or pillars, which fit into
boxes or sockets formed in the floor. In cow sheds and piggeries I use metal
frames, the pillars of which drop into sockets or boxes in the floor, and these
frames support troughs and pans for containing the liquid and solid food for
tlie animals.
.
Figures 1 to 8 of the accompanying Drawings represent this part of my
Invention applied to a stable. Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the
centre of a stall, and Figure 2 is a transverse section; Fig. 3 is a section
(on a larger scale) through the line' a, a, of Figure 1, and Figures 4 and 5
are sections (also on a larger scale) through the lines b, b, and c, c, respectively
of Figure 2. The head of the stall is formed of plates or panels A, A, by
preference of iron, and the upper portions of the sides are formed of similar
plates B'; the remaining portions of the sides are of wood C, supported upon
Sills. The plates A, A, are bolted to frames or pillars D of L-formi in section,
and the plates B are supported at the back between two frames or pillars E
of angle iron bolted together, each of which also assists in supporting one of
the outer bead plates A of the stall on each side. The plates B are bolted at.
the front to ribs F on plates or pillars G, which also receive the wooden
portions C of the sides of the stall. The frames or pillars D, E, and G,
well as the front pillars H, fit into boxes or sockets I, I, in the floor.. These
boxes or sockets are represented in plan in Figures 6, 7, and 8.
as
Figures 9 and 10 are elevations, and Figure 11 a plan representing the

page_text: first part of my Invention applied to a cow shed. The frames A are of
metal, and the pillars B-fit into boxes or sockets (not shown) in a similar
manner to that represented in Figures 1 and 3. The frames A support
troughs.and pans C, C, for containing the food for the cows.
The application
of this part of my Invention to piggeries will be understood without further
explanation or illustration.
My improvements in effluvium traps for stables, and other places consists
in the employment of a double or hollow dipping plate so as to form an inter-
cepting chamber or space, and in carrying a pipe or tube-from this chamber
or space into the external atmosphere or otherwise away. The object of this
double.or hollow dipping plate or intercepting-chamber is to prevent the
return through the trap into the, stable or other place where the trap is fixed
any effluvium or noxious gases, as frequently takes place in a trap where
an ordinary dip or dipping plate is used. Any gases tending to return through
my trap bubble up into and pass off through the chamber or space between
the double plate.
of
Figure 12 is a side elevation, Figure 13 an end elevation, and Figure.14
a plan of an effluvium trap constructed-according to this part of my Invention.
a, a, is a double dipping plate shown in dotted lines, the lower ends of this
plate come below the liquid level in the trap like an ordinary dipping plate.
6 is a pipe or tube for carrying away any gases which in tending to return
through the trap bubble up into the space between the two portions of the
dipping plate; c, a box on the top of the trap for containing charcoal to
disinfect the escaping gases; this box may, however, be dispensed with.
Figure 15 represents a trap of- another form fitted with my double dipping
plate or intercepting chamber a; b'is a pipe leading -from-the chamber-a to
the external atmosphere or otherwise as before.
Figure 16 shows my Invention applied to an ordinary dip; "in this case
the hollow dipping plate forms a portion of a box a, the lower end of which
dips into the liquid in the trap, and thereby acts as an intercepting chamber
for the gases as before; b is a pipe for carrying off the gases as in Figures
12 to 15.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,—.
First, constructing portable-fittings-for-stables, cow sheds,-and-piggeries, in
which the frames or pillars which support the panels or plates fit into boxes or
sockets in the floor, substantially as herein-before described and represented in
Figures 1 to 11 of the accompanying Drawings.

page_text: Second, constructing effluvium traps in which the gases tending to return
through the traps are intercepted by a double or hollow dipping plate or
chamber, and in which a pipe or tube is employed to convey away the gases,
substantially as herein-before described.
Second, constructing effluvium traps in which the gases tending to return
through the traps are intercepted by a double or hollow dipping plate or
chamber, and in which a pipe or tube is employed to convey away the gases,
substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, 1, the said Edward Cottam, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of March, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
EDWARD COTTAM. (L.s.)