IMPROVEMENTS IN STABLE FITTINGS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis le Chevalier Cottam, of Winsley Street, Oxford
Street, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN STABLE FITTINGS."
Sealed the 3rd September 1857, and dated the 5th May 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis lo Chevalier Cottam
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition on the
5th May 1857.
I, Louis le Chevalier COTTAM, of Winsley Street, Oxford Street, in tho
County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STABLE FITTINGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in stable fittings. For these
purposes the mangers and troughs are arranged to turn on upright axes in such
manner, that the mangers and troughs when not required for use in the stable
turn out therefrom and present the backs thereof in the form of a flush surface
or complete partition at the head of the stable; or in place of turning on up-
right axes, the troughs are cased in at the front corresponding with the other
parts of the partition at the head of the stable, and the trough or series of
troughs are caused to slide in the manner of a drawer, so that the troughs
when out of use are at the back of the partition, and the back of the troughs
are flush with the partition within the stable. In fixed water and other
troughs it is desirable to provide covers, for which purpose a slit or slot is

page_text: formed at the back of each water or other trough, and a sliding cover or plate
is arranged to descend in an upright position, and when it is desired to cover
the water or other troughs the cover is raised or slided up and folded down
on the trough. In order to coat the interior of water and other troughs, a
composition of the following materials is used: seed lac, rosin, and spirits of
wine, which having been painted on or applied to the interior of the troughs
and dried theroon, such troughs are placed in an oven or suitable hot
chamber to set the coating.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis le Chevalier Cottam in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 5th November 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, Louis le
Chevalier COTTAM, of Winsley Street, Oxford Street, in the County of
Middlesex, send greeting..
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Louis le Chevalier Cottam, Her special licence that I, the said Louis le
Chevalier Cottam, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Louis le Chevalier 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 STABLE FITTINGS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Louis le Chevalier Cottam, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 Louis le Chevalier Cottam, 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 tliercof, that is to say:―

page_text: This Invention has for its object improvements in stable fittings. For
these purposes the mangers and troughs are arranged to turn on upright axes
in such manner, that the mangers and troughs when not required for use in
the stable turn out therefrom and present the backs thereof in the form of a
flush surface or complete partition at the head of the stable; or in place of
turning on upright axes, the troughs are cased in at the front corresponding
with the other parts of the partition at the head of the stable, and the trough
or series of troughs are caused to slide in the manner of a drawer, so that the
troughs when out of use are at the back of the partition, and the back of the
troughs are flush with the partition within the stable. In fixed water and
other troughs it is desirable to provide covers, for which purpose a slit or slot
is formed at the back of each water or other trough, and a sliding cover or
plate is arranged to descend in an upright position, and when it is desired to
cover the water or other troughs the cover is raised or slided up and folded
down on the trough.
In order to coat the interior of water and other troughs, a composition of the
following materials is used: seed lac, resin, and spirits of wine, which having
been painted on or applied to the interior of the troughs and dried thereon,
such troughs are placed in an oven or suitable hot chamber to set the coating.
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 annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front view, Figure 2 is a vertical section, and Figure 3 is a
plan in section, of the head or end. of a stall of a stable, showing the method
in which I prefer to arrange mangers and troughs when mounting them on
upright axes. is the end of the stall, which is constructed of wood, and at a
distance from the wall of the building; and b, b, are portions of the side par-
titions; c, c, are the sido troughs, which may be made of cast iron in the usual
way, and they have pins projecting from them at top and bottom, which enter
and turn in sockets d, d, fixed to the wooden partitions, so that troughs when
out of use can be moved out of the stall into the position shown by the dotted
lines in the Drawing, and then the side of the trough closes the opening in the
end partition; e is a hay rack, arranged in the same way as the side troughs,
only in place of making a quarter revolution on its axes it makes half a rovo-
lution, and its back and not its side closes the opening through which it passes
in the end partition. Figure 4 is a vertical section of the head or end of a
stall of a stable with a manger fitted to it, arranged to draw out in the
manner of an ordinary drawer. a is the end partition of wood, placed at a

page_text: distance from the wall of the building, as in the former case; 6 represents one
of two or other number of iron bearers, fixed at one end to the partition a,
and at the other end of the wall of the building, and in these bearers friction
pulleys are fixed; c is the manger, which is cast of a drawer-like form, and
runs in and out on the friction pulley; it is prevented from being drawn quite
out by the stop c' at its end; when the manger has been pushed out of the
stall into the position shown by the full lines in the Drawing it is secured
in that position by bolts or in other convenient ways. Figure 5 is a plan,
and Figure 6 is a section, of a manger having troughs fitted with covering
plates, which can be drawn over them when it is desired to prevent the horse
having access to them, and which covering plates at other times fall down out
of the way behind the manger. This arrangement is so clearly shown by the
Drawing that a detail description is unnecessary.
In order to give a hard and polished coating to the interior of the water and
other troughs of mangers, I first cleanse the article with dilute sulphuric acid,
and then I lay over the surfaco with a brush a composition, formed by
dissolving in spirits of wine as much resin as it will take up, and to this
solution a small proportion of powdered seed lac may be added, but this is not
necessary. When the coating of the composition has been applied to the
article, it is introduced into an oven heated into a temperature of about 350°
Fah, and kept there until the composition fluxes all over it; it is then with-
drawn and cooled slowly. This operation may bo repeated until any desired
thickness of coating is obtained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis le Chevalier Cottam, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE.
LOUIS LE CHEVALIER COTTAM. (L.S.)