IMPROVEMENT IN PHEASANT & POULTRY FEEDING AND DRINKING APPARATUS
Year: 1885

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
DAVID TULEY Gamekeeper Brookman's Park, Hatfield, Herts ANDREW GRANT
Gardener Brookmans Park, Hatfield Herts do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for IMPROVEMENT IN PHEASANT & POULTRY FEEDING AND DRINKING
APPARATUS to be as follows:-
This feeder is designed especially for feeding pheasants and poultry. First it
has four feed troughs with lids opened from the bottom by levers. When a bird
steps on a lever it raises the four lids at once. (The principle on which it works is)
in the centre of feeder there is a cylinder with four perpendicular slots at right-
angles. Inside of this is a piston with four holes in it. The ends the lovers are
inserted into the holes, so that when a bird steps on either of the
.
It raises
the piston thereby carrying all the levers up. Fixed to the levers are four hinged
spikes one on each lever. These spikes pass through the bottom of the feed troughs
to the under side of the lids of same, to which they are hinged so that when a
bird wishes to feed and steps upon either of the levers it raises the piston which
lifts the levers with the spikes opening the lids the bird can eat. It is square in
shape, with a food trough on each face. At each corner is a trough for holding
water. The supply for food which is above the feed troughs is partitioned to hold
four kinds of food if desired.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
DAVID TULEY Gamekeeper Brookman's Park Hatfield, Hertfordshire ANDREW
GRANT Head Gardener Brookmans Park Hatfield do hereby declare the nature of
our invention for IMPROVEMENT IN PHEASANT AND POULTRY FEEDING AND
DRINKING APPARATUS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This pheasant and poultry feeder is square at base and in height about two feet
The food is placed into the top of the feeder it then passes into four boxes (which
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page_text: we call food boxes) which are fixed at the base of the feeder, one box on each face
of the square. The upright portion (or supply) is partitioned so that four kinds of
food may be put into the feeder without becoming mixed. Each of these boxes
at the base of feeder (called food boxes) are supplied with a lid. These lids are
opened by game or poultry themselves for. the purpose of feeding. (They are
opened in the following manner.) In the centre of the (supply or upright portion)
of feeder is a cylinder with four (slots or holes) in it In this cylinder is a piston
with four slots or holes also and which correspond with the slots (or holes) in the
.cylinder. Inserted into the holes (through cylinder holes into the piston holes)
are four levers which pass through underneath the bottom of the food boxes (one
lever under each food box) Fixed to these levers are spikes (one on each lever)
these spikes are hinged on to the lever and the under side of the lids of the food
boxes also. On the ends of the levers which pass from the cylinder and under the
food boxes and project out at each face of the feeder, are fixed foot boards upon
which game or poultry step when they wish to obtain food. (The cylinder &
piston are covered so as to prevent the food which is placed in the feeder inter-
feering with the working of the lids.) The levers being pressed down by game or
poultry wishing to feed causes the piston to rise; the levers which are inserted
into the piston rise also, the hinged spikes upon the levers push up the lids and
the birds can feed. (The levers all rising with the piston cause all the lids to open
together so that all the food boxes are open at one time.
A space is allowed
between each food box for a water trough also which have no lids.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
First. A larger quantity can feed at our feeder at one time without injuring
themselves by the said feeder in any way because the weight of one pheasant or
fowl keeps open all the lids.
Secondly. Four kinds of food may be used & kept seperate by our supply being
partitioned.
Third. Sinplicity of working, added with preventing pheasants or fowls fighting
over their foods & wasting it.
Fourth. Water added to our feeder so that food and water are together.