An Improved Coop, more especially applicable for Feeding and Rearing Pheasants.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1893-Accepted, 14th Oct., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Coop, more especially applicable for Feeding and
Rearing Pheasants.
I, FREDERICK GEORGE PAYNTER of Pallion Saw Mills, Sunderland in the
County of Durham, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved coop more especially applicable for feeding
and rearing young pheasants.
The improved coop can be converted from an open pheasant feeding into a
partially closed pheasant rearing coop.
The arrangement prohibits wood pigeons from access to the food.
To effect my object I construct a coop with bars at front and behind or at the
sides and boarded ends. The top may have a boarded and hinged covering for
access to the interior.
Inside the coop a hopper for holding food is provided.
.
Traversing the coop length I fit a double V-shaped adjustable trough. This
may be secured in bearings at the coop ends and adapted to rock or vibrate under
certain conditions.
The lower exit of the hopper terminates near the apex of the double trough so
that food can pass from the hopper to both troughs but this is only designed to
take place when the trough is vibrated by the action of the pheasants in getting
food.
The trough is suitably elevated from the ground and disposed a sufficient distance
from the bars of the coop to prevent the access of wood pigeons to the food.
Small birds cannot vibrate the trough as it is too heavy for them.
The hoppers can be tin lined to facilitate the working of the grain and to protect
the wood.
Dated this 16th day of February 1893.
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Coop, more especially applicable for Feeding and
Rearing Pheasants.
I, FREDERICK GEORGE PAYNTER of Pallion Saw Mills, Sunderland in the
County of Durham, Engineer 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 :--
This invention relates to a new or improved coop more especially applicable for
feeding and rearing pheasants.
I will fully describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which Figure 1 shows a front elevational view (with boards B removed) and
Figure 2 a cross-section of a coop constructed in accordance with my improvements
and in the following description like marks of reference designate like parts.
Referring to the drawings it will be observed that both sides of the coop are
fitted with bars a, the coop ends being preferably closed with boards. Inside the
coop I provide a
corn or food hopper a' with adjustable sloping sides and
immediately below the hopper mouth 1 place a double V-shaped adjustable and
vibratory feeding trough a²,

page_text: This trough may be carried in central bearings a³ provided at each end of the
coop in which case the oscillating motion of the tray on its end pivots would be
controlled or limited in extent by its contact with the lower extremities of the
sloping sides a¹ of the hopper or the tray may be a fixture but in any case it will
be made of very thin metal such as tin ro that when pheasants come to feed out of
it, the strokes of their beaks against the tray shall cause it to vibrate to a sufficient
extent to agitate the corn in the hopper and thus cause it to descend into both sides
of the tray in proportion as the latter is emptied of food; the width of opening
between the hopper-ruouth and the apex of the double V-shaped tray will be
regulated so that corn can only descend when the tray is sufficiently vibrated.
The trough is secured at a sufficient height from the ground and at a sufficient
distance from the coop-bars on either side to prevent access of wood-pigeons to the
food, while readily allowing access by pheasants.
The bottom of the tray may if desired be perforated to keep the corn in the
tray dry.
To prevent the food being stolen by rats it will be observed that traps may
safely be set at after the boards B have been fitted to the front and back of the
coop. The pheasants can thus reach the food in the tray a² over the board-tops
but they cannot reach the traps at a.
By removing the feeding tray and hopper sides from the inside of the coop, and
by nailing the hopper sides so removed to one of the barred coop-sides, the coop
can readily be converted from a feeding into a rearing coop.
The hopper may be made of any requisite capacity and it may be tin-lined to
facilitate the exit of the corn and to preserve the wood.
The top of the coop may be singly or doubly sloped (it is shown double in the
drawings) a hinged door Ď being provided at the top to give access to the internal
hopper.
In addition to the advantages above mentioned a coop constructed as above
described allows pheasants to feed on both sides of it and also permits of corn being
stored in the hopper and of being automatically supplied to the pheasants as required
thereby reducing the daily attendances of game-keepers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:―
1. The combination with a pheasant feeding coop of an internal storage hopper
for food, access to which can be had by a superjacent door, and a double V-shaped
feeding tray the several parts being arranged and adapted to operate substantially
as and for the purposes herein set forth.
2. The improved construction or combination of parts consisting of a coop having
food-storage and food-supplying devices as above described so arranged that these
devices can be removed from the coop in order to convert it into a rearing coop
substantially as above set forth.
Dated this 12th day of September 1893.
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
3, St. Nicholas Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Patent Agent.