A Folding Coop and Feeder for Poultry, Game, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 9th Nov., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Folding Coop and Feeder for Poultry, Game, and the like.
JOSEPH SAUNDERS Muston near Dorchester Dorset Yeoman I do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The Coop and Feeder are arranged to fold up in any suitable manner.
The entrance to Coop and feeder are arranged to be closed by a sliding grating to
baan aut varmin
JOSEPH SAUNDERS.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Folding Coop.and Feeder for Poultry, Game, and the like.
JOSEPH SAUNDERS Yeoman, Muston House near Dorchester Dorset I 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 Coop is arranged to fold up in any suitable manner, and may be made of any
shape or form, and of any suitable material, the faces of the Coops are made in the
form of a ventilator as shown in figure 2 E E the staves being made to suit the size of
Coop required, the outer ones E, are a fixture, the inner ones F in figure 2 move back-
wards and forwards, so as to act as a shutter to keep out vermin at night. A handle as
at A in figure 2 may be used to work the shutter, it works through a hole at the top or side
of Coop as shown in figure 3 at A and if used at side of Coop a notch is cut in it, to
allow it to drop into the side of Coop when the stave shutter is closed as shown in
figure 5 A-A button may be used to keep the handlo firmly in the notch as an
additional security as figure 4 B and is fitted on the side of Coop just above the handle―
All the staves of face of Coops are placed in an upright position in a frame as
Figure 1, and of equal distance apart as in Figure 2 at E. FA smaller number of
staves being used inside as at F in Figure 2, according to the number of outlets
between the outer staves, so that the inner frame and staves F may slide backwards
and forwards by the handle herein before described to close the outlets E as shown in
figure 2 as a shutter to keep out vermin and the like.
The staves should be made a trifle wider than the outlet, and should be cut all of
one width so that the inner staves F may be hidden from view when the outlet
is open.
The width and height of Coop may be arranged according to its requirements.
Figure 6 represents the Coop, but it may partake of any shape more convenient and
the like.
Din Figure 4 represents the fastenings to fasten the Coops sides together.
B in Figure 4 represents the trap door or slide where the Fowl enters and the like.
The Coop folds, by the sides folding from right to left, lapping over each other,
being hinged, as shown in Figure 4 C. C. from the sides of frame of face of Coop,
and laying flat on it-The roof of Coop is hinged from the head of face of Coop as
shown in Figure 4 at H allowing it to fold flat on the sides. The back is hinged at G
near the end of the roof of Coop allowing it, to fold flat under the roof or at the
bottom of the frame of the face of Coop as in Figure 1 at C or as is most convenient,
and when the Coop is thus folded, it has the appearance of a book when closed.
A Bottom may be used with the Coop and is made when required, to fold
together with the other parts of the Coop for storage.
The front of Feeder, is of the regulator form similar as the face of Coop, shown
in Figure 7. at E. F. of Feeder and the Feeder also folds in the same manner

page_text: as the Coop as before described and hinged at H. It is made of any height and
size suitable to fit the Coop it is to be used with, and the top may be covered
in by wire netting or staves as shown at I and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is performed I declare that what 1 claim is -
1. The simplicity of the folding for storage of the aforesaid Coop and Feeder as
herein before described.
2. The great protection afforded to young birds and the like from the manner
of the construction of the face of Coop as herein before described.
3. The use of the moveable handle and the advantage of the entrance for fowls
at side of Coop as hereinbefore described.
September ULIT L003.
JOSEPH SAUNDERS,
Yoeman, Muston House, near Dorchester, Dorset.