IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FEEDING AND WATERING CATtle during Railway JourneYS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Welch, of Southall, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
FEEDING AND WATERING CATtle during Railway JourneYS."
Sealed the 15th May 1874, and dated the 6th December 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Welch at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th December 1873.
I, ALFRED WELCH, of Southall, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATUS FOR FEEDING AND WATERING CATTLE DURING RAILWAY JOURNEYS," to
be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for feeding
and watering cattle during railway journeys. For this purpose I apply
to a cattle truck a trough hung upon pivots or by flanges made upon the
outside of the ends of the trough and working in corresponding circular
grooves made in plates between the standards or pillars of the cattle
truck, so that the inner side of the trough comes flush with the interior
of the truck. In this position the trough is held and locked by suitable

page_text: stops and catches, which however admit of the trough being turned over
when desired to empty out any dirt which may have accumulated within
it. The trough has two ends, which are considerably higher than the
trough itself. On them guides are formed, and an upright board is able
to slide on the guides from side to side of the trough. By bolts or
catches the board can be locked in either position.
When the board is moved to the inner side of the trough it stands up
from the inner edge of the trough and completes the side of the truck,
closing the space which is allowed to permit the animals at other times
to put out their heads to take the food or water which the trough
contains.
When the sliding board is moved out along its guides to the outer side
of the trough and is there secured it forms a high outer side to the
trough, preventing the animals throwing out the food from the trough,
and also forming a guard to prevent them protruding their heads so far
as to be in risk of receiving injury.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Welch in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 6th June 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
WELCH, of Southall, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
tessors, give and grant unto me, the said Alfred Welch, Her special license
that I, the said Alfred Welch, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Alfred Welch, 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 APPARATUS FOR FEEDING
AND WATERING CATTLE DURING RAILWAY JOURNEYS," upon the condition

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(amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Welch, 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 Alfred Welch, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for feeding
and watering cattle during railway journeys. For this purpose I apply
to a cattle truck a trough hung upon pivots or by flanges made upon the
outside of the ends of the trough, and working in corresponding circular
grooves made in plates between the standards or pillars of the cattle
truck, so that the inner side of the trough comes flush with the interior
of the truck. In this position the trough is held and locked by suitable
stops and catches, which however admit of the trough being turned over
when desired to empty out any dirt which may have accumulated within
it. The trough has two ends, which are considerably higher than the
trough itself. On them guides are formed, and an upright board is able to
slide on the guides from side to side of the trough. By bolts or catches
the board can be locked in either position.
When the board is moved to the inner side of the trough it stands up
from the inner edge of the trough and completes the side of the truck,
closing the space which is allowed to permit the animals at other times
to put out their heads to take the food or water which the trough
contains.
When the sliding board is moved out along its guides to the outer side
of the trough, and is there secured, it forms a high outer side to the
trough, preventing the animals throwing out the food from the trough,
and also forming a guard to prevent them protruding their heads so far
as to be in risk of receiving injury.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and
readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings
hereunto annexed.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is an elevation of the body of a cattle truck provided with
feeding troughs in accordance with my Invention; Figure 2 is a section
taken on the line A, B, Figure 1. In thes Figure the trough is shewn
for the animals to feed. Figure 3 is also a section, but the trough
is here shewn closed. Figure 4 is a section shewing the trough inverted
in order to empty it.
open
a, a, are the trough. I prefer to make them of galvanised iron; they
have pivots a¹, a¹, at their ends, which pivots have bearings upon the
standards or pillars 6, 6, of the truck body; c, c, are latches which drop
into notches in the ends of the troughs and retain them in the position indi-
cated in Figures 1, 2, and 3, but when these latches are lifted the troughs
can be inverted as is shown at Figure 4; d is a sliding board, each
trough is provided with such a board, and it is able to slide on
guides a, a, upon the ends of the trough so that the board may be
made either to occupy the position in which it is seen in Figure 2, and
then the animals are able to put their mouths into the trough to eat or
drink the food or water which it may contain, or the sliding board d
may be made to occupy the position in which it is seen in Figure 3, and
then the animals are shut off from all access to the trough; d³, d¹, are
turn buttons on the sliding board, which can be turned down into
notches a³, a³, in the ends of the trough to retain the board in the position
it occupies in Figure 3; e is a tank on the top of the trough from which
water can be drawn into the troughs a, a, through the pipes f,f; 9, 9, are
hay racks at the ends of the truck.
What I claim is the combination with cattle trucks of feeding and
watering troughs constructed, arranged, and applied substantially as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Welch, have hereunto set my