IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTING TROUGHS, MANGERS, AND APPARATUS USED FOR FEEDING HORSES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George William Varnell, Assistant Professor, Royal
Veterinary College, Camden Town, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MOUNTING TROUGHS, MANGERS, AND APPARATUS USED FOR FEEDING HORSES
Sealed the 3rd February 1857, and dated the 11th October 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George William Varnell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 11th October 1856.
I, GEORGE WILLIAM VARNELL, Assistant Professor, Royal Veterinary College,
Camden Town, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN MOUNTING TROUGHS, MANGERS, AND APPARATUS USED FOR FEEDING HORSES
AND OTHER ANIMALS," to be as follows:-
This Invention bas for its object improvements in mounting troughs,
mangers, and apparatus used for feeding horses and other animals. For these
purposes, when for the stall of a stable, the manger, the hay rack, and the
water vessel are formed with or affixed to the back of a short partition
formed at the head of a stall, in such manner that the partition, being capable
of moving to and fro, or inclining forwards on its bottom or lower edge, will
bring with it the mnanger, rack, and vessel into the stall of the stable beyond
the upper part of the partition, so as to be accessible to the horse and admit of

page_text: the horse feeding or drinking; but when the lower or short part of the par-
tition is brought into an upright. position, the manger, rack, and vessel will
be behind the partition which is formed at the head of the stable, and the
partition or head of the stall becomes flush, by which means the manger, rack,
and vessel are not accessible to the horse, excepting at such intervals as may
be fixed for feeding, thus tending to prevent the habit of crib-biting being
acquired. In like manner. can the troughs or vessels or apparatus for feeding
cows, pigs, and other animals be mounted.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George William Varnell in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 11th April 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM, THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
WILLIAM VARNELL, Assistant Professor, Royal Vetinary College, Camden
Town, send greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the twentieth year. of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George William Varnell, Her special licence that I, the said George
William Varnell, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George William Varnell, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MOUNTING TROUGHS, MANGERS, AND APPARATUS USED
FOR FEEDING HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said George William Varnell, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument 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 George William Varnell, do hereby.
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is

page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say
This Invention has for its object improvements in mounting troughs,
mangers, and apparatus used for feeding horses and other animals.. For these
purposes,, when, for the stall of a stable, the manger, the hay rack, and the
water vessel are formed, with or affixed to the back of a short partition
formed at the head-of a stall, in such manner that, the partition, being capable
of moving to and fro, or inclining forwards on its bottom or lower edge, will
bring with it the manger, rack, and vessel, into the stall of the stable beyond
the upper part of the partition, so as to be accessible to the horse and admit of
the horse feeding or drinking; but when the lower or short part of the partition
is, brought into an upright position, the manger, rack, and vessel will be, behind
the partition which is formed at the head of the stable, and the partition-or
head of the stall becomes, flush, by which means the manger; rack, and vessel
are not accessible to the, horse, excepting at such intervals as may be fixed for
feeding, thus tending to prevent the habit of crib-biting being acquired... In
like manner can the troughs or vessels or apparatus for feeding cows, pigs,
and other animals be mounted.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood, and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawing hereunto

page_text: shewn in the Drawing, and the food- may have been previously introduced into
it from the back of the stall, which is a great advantage in 'feeding vicious
horses.
When the horse has done feeding, the manger is turned back until it is
arrested by stops, which retain it at the position shewn by the dotted lines in
Figure 2, so as to bring the boarding e flush with the upper part of the end
*partition of the stall. The manger is fixed in one or other position by means
of bolts, one on each side, which shoot into holes in the side partitions of the
stall. The strap by which the horse is fastened passes through a hole in the
boardinge at e', and afterwards through a ring b₁, attached to the manger
-plate.
Figure 3 shows an apparatus arranged according to my "Invention, and
suitable for feeding pigs. a is a frame which is fixed' in the wall or side of the
sty; this frame has a rectangular aperture through it, and at the lower part of
the aperture,. two pins or axes a¹ are fixed, and these enter eyes b¹ cast on the
bottom of the trough b, at its ends. The two positions of the trough are shewn
by the Drawing, the one by full and the other by dotted lines. To feed the
pig or other animal, the food is introduced into the trough when turned out
of the sty, and it is then turned on its axes so as to render it accessible to the
- animal.
In witness whereof, I, the said George William Varnell, have hereunto
set my hand and seal,. this Ninth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
GEORGE WILLIAM VARNELL. (L.S.)
Witness,
GEORGE HALLEN. COTTAM.