Improvements in and connected with Means or Apparatus for Confining Game, Poultry, Pigs, or other Animals, and for Enabling the Confining Pens, Runs, or Houses, to be Readily Shifted to Cover Fresh Ground.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1895-Accepted, 20th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Means or Apparatus for
Confining Game, Poultry, Pigs, or other Animals, and for Enabling
the Confining Pens, Runs, or Houses, to be Readily Shifted to
Cover Fresh Ground.
I, JOHN MONTAGU CESAR ROBB of the Game Farm, Liphook in the County
of Hants Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide meaus or apparatus for confining game,
poultry, pigs or other animals and for enabling the coufining pens runs or houses
to be readily shifted to cover fresh ground. According to my invention the pens
runs or houses (1 will refer to them as pens) are provided with means by which
they can be attached to a carriage or apparatus so that they can when so attached
be moved along or around to cover fresh ground.. The apparatus to which the
attachment is so made may be mounted upon wheels so that it with the pen
attached can be moved lengthwise or it may be mounted upon a centre so that,it
with the pen attached can be turned round upon this centre.
According to one arrangement for example the pen may be provided with loops
or hooks into which can be inserted pins or projections carried by a framework
provided with wheels and disposed so that it can be run over the pen the pins or
projections then being engaged with the loops or hooks and the framework being
tilted by means of suitable handles so that the pen can be raised sufficiently to
allow of it being moved along with the said framework which constitutes a truck
or carriage for the said pen. When the pen has been brought into its new position
the pins or projections on the truck or carriage are disengaged from the loops or
hooks on the pen.
The pen may be made in two parts one part wider than the other so that the
wider part can be run over the other or narrower part which can afterwards be
drawn out from the wider part which can then be replaced over the narrower
part or not as desired. When the arrangement to rotate upon an axis is used
the axis may consist of a post (upon a suitable support provided with wheels or not)
provided with arms which can be placed under or engaged with one end of the pen
so as to raise it after the manner of a carriage axle jack and then by moving
round the pen from the other end, it and the arms turn upon the post and the pen
is shifted round to cover new ground.
The pens can be provided with handles to enable them to be readily lifted and
they can also be provided with wheels to facilitate their movement in changing
their position.
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JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, Agents.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with Means or Apparatus for
Confining Gamė, Poultry, Pigs, or other Animals, and for Enabling
the Confining Pens, Runs, or Houses, to be Readily Shifted to
Cover Fresh Ground.
1, JOHN MONTAGU Cæsar Robb, of the Game Farm, Liphook, in the County
of Hants, Gentleman, 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 object of my invention is to provide means or apparatus for confining game,
poultry, pigs, or other animals and for enabling the confining pens, runs, or houses,
to be readily shifted to cover fresh ground. According to my invention the pens,
runs, or houses, (I will refer to them as pens) are provided with means by
which they can be attached to a carriage or apparatus so that they can when so
attached be moved along or around to cover fresh ground. The apparatus to
which the attachment is so made may be mounted upon wheels so that it with the
pen attached can be moved lengthwise or it may be mounted upon a centre so that
it with the pen attached can be turned round upon this centre.
According to one arrangement for example the pen may be provided with loops
or hooks into which can be inserted pins or projections carried by a framework
provided with wheels and disposed so that it can be run over the pen the pins or
projections then being engaged with the loops or hooks and the framework being
tilted by means of suitable handles so that the pen can be raised sufficiently to
allow of it being moved along with the said framework which constitutes a truck
or carriage for the said pen. When the pen has been brought into its new position
the pins or projections on the truck or carriage are disengaged from the loops or
hooks on the pen. The pen may be made in two parts, one part wider than the
other so that the wider part can be run over the other or narrower part which can
afterwards be drawn out from the wider part which can then be replaced over the
narrower part or not as desired. When the arrangement to rotate upon an axis
is used the axis may consist of a post (upon a suitable support provided with wheels
or not) provided with arms which can be placed under or engaged with one end of
the pen so as to raise it after the manner of a carriage axle jack and then by moving
round the pen from the other end it and the arms turn upon the post and the pen is
shifted round to cover new ground.
The pens can be provided with handles to enable them to be readily lifted and
they can also be provided with wheels to facilitate their movement in changing
their position.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings represent in plan and in side
elevation respectively a confining pen provided with means for its ready removal
according to my invention
Figures 3 and 4 are views similar to Figures 1 and 2 of a slight modification and
Figures 5 and 6 are similar views shewing a further modification.
Referring to Figures 1 and 2, to one end of the pen or run C, is connected
by hooks a arms A provided with a pin or pivot b which is inserted in a
socket or recess in a pillar or post D the said pillar or post being provided with
an extended base to take a firm bearing on the ground or if desired it may be
provided with wheels to facilitate its transportation from place to place. When
it is desired to shift the pen C, into position to cover fresh ground the pin or
pivot b being placed in the socket in the post D, a man by raising the opposite
end of the pen a few inches from the ground can easily turn the pen on the pivot b
to any desired distance, as shewn for instance by the dotted lines in Figure 1 so as
to cover fresh ground.
In the arrangement illustrated by Figures 3 and 4 the pen or run is made in two

page_text: parts B, and C, one part B being made sufficiently large to overlap the part C.
The two parts are connected together by a pivotted connection A so that when it
is desired to shift the pen so as to cover fresh ground the part B, or C, can be
turned on the pivot A in one direction and then the other part be similarly moved
on the pivot A in the opposite direction. In this way the two parts of the pen
may be moved a short distance at a time until they have moved in a complete
circle.
In the modification illustrated by Figures 5 and 6 the pen or run is made in two
parts but instead of being pivotted together as in Figures 3 and 4 one part B is
made to slide over the part C, and in combination with the part B I provide a
carriage consisting of a frame F mounted on wheels W arranged at a suitable
distance apart to admit of the pen passing between them. The frame F is provided
with handles H and with an arm L the outer end of which arm, when the carriage
is brought into position over the pen enters an eye or loop A on the part B of the
pen. When the carriage is in this position, by depressing the handles H towards
the handles H on the pen the end of the part B of the pen which is engaged by
the arm L will be raised from the ground then by raising the opposite end of the
part B by means of the handles H¹ the weight of the said part B will be carried
by the wheels N and then be easily passed over the part C.
One of the chief advantages obtained by my invention is that one person can
shift the pens on to fresh ground whereas hitherto it has required two persons to do
this. Apart from the labour saved, this is a great advantage in the case of game,
as one person approaching the pen does not frighten the birds, whereas two persons
carrying a pen must necessarily frighten them very much. In the case of very long
run being required any combination of two or more of the devices described may
be employed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. In combination with a pen or like apparatus, for confining game, poultry,
pigs, or other animals, of a framework mounted on wheels and capable of being run
into position over the pen or the like, the said framework having a projection or
projections which are caused to engage in a loop or hook or loops or hooks, on
the pen, and handles by means of which the frame may be tilted so as to raise
the pen from the ground substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
2. For confining game poultry pigs or other animals a pen or like confining
apparatus made in parts connected together by pivotted connections so that the
parts can be moved independently of each other so that the pen or the like
can be easily moved so as to cover fresh ground substantially as hereinbefore
described.
3. The combination with a confining pen or the like for game poultry pigs or
other animals of a post or pillar, having a socket therein for the reception of
a pivot connected to the confining pen or the like so that the said pen or the
like can be readily turned or rotated on the said pivot so as to move the pen
or the like into position to cover fresh ground substantially as hereinbefore
described.
4. The several arrangements and combinations of parts constituting means
for facilitating the movement of pens or like confining apparatus to cover fresh
ground substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.