Improvements in Weighbridge Cattle Cages.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Aug, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 31st Mar., 1894
Improvements in Weighbridge Cattle Cages.
I, JOHN DOUGLAS MCJANNET of Woodlands, in the Town and County of
Stirling, North Britain, Farmer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:--
This invention which relates to improvements in weighbridge cattle cages has
for its object to provide a strong, simple and thoroughly effective arrangement to
cattle cages which enables them to be packed into narrow compass when not in
use without in the least degree reducing their power of resistance when in use on
the weighbridge.
Weighbridge cattle cages are generally made with metal frames each consisting
of a long bar or rod curved into a semi-ellipse or semi-circle at the centre of its
length and with perpendicular sides &c. the extremities passing into or through the
weigh-table of the weigh-bridge. This invention is to allow the cattle cage being
made of two separate sides so as to be more easily removed from weigh-table and
carried into a place under cover. It consists of cutting each arched bar or rod at
or near its centre attaching to each piece at or near the point of severance half a
set of male and female hinges through the eyes or holes of which a strong metal
pin passes. This pin is removable and when removed each side of cage becomes
detached from the other. In place of the hinges and pin a metal ring or link may
be used for holding the cut frames together with a similar pin or wedge.
Dated this 30th day of Auơust 1893.
JOHN D. MºJANNET,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Weighbridge Cattle Cages.
I, JOHN DOUGLAS MCJANNET, of Woodlands, in the Town and County of
Stirling, North Britain, Farmer, 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 which relates to improvements in weighbridge cattle cages, has
for its object to provide a strong, simple and effective arrangement for cattle cages
whereby they can be packed into less compass than hitherto when not in use and
other advantages obtained; said arrangement being such that when the cage is in
use on the weighbridge, the power of resistance is in no way diminished.
But in order that my said invention may be more readily understood and easily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the
accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 is an elevation of a cattle cage constructed in accordance with my said
invention.
Figure 2 is a perspective end view of the same.
Figure 3 is an elevation, and Figure 4 a cross section of one of the joints of
the frame.
Figure 5 is an elevation of a modified form of joint. And
Figure 6 is a detail view showing one of the sockets in the weigh-table into
which the feet of frame are fitted.

page_text: The drawings illustrate a cattle cage having metal frames A each of which is
formed in two pieces and provided at or near its top centre with a hinged joint B,
shown in detail in Figures 3 and 4, that is to say, each of the halves of the said
frames A is provided at or near the point of severance with a half set of male or female
hinges B through the eyes of which is passed a strong metal pin C so as to lock
the said frames A in position. The pin C which is provided with a chain e is
removable so as to permit of the cage being removed from the weigh-table D in two
halves, which can then be placed together and so take up less room when
not in use.
In lieu of the hinges B, Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4, I may employ a joint as shown in
Figure 5, that is to say, I rivet or otherwise attach two bent bars or pieces of
metal E to the halves of the frames A at the ends which meet together, said
bent pieces E being locked in position by means of a metal ring or socket F and
pin G as shown.
That is
By forming the frames A in halves I am enabled to provide simple and effective
sockets in the weigh-table for retaining the cage in position when in use.
to say, as shown in Figure 6, I form the socket H at a slope instead of perpendicular
so that on the lower ends a of the frames being placed in the said sockets and the
halves of the frames locked together, the lower ends a of the frames are retained
in same by the pressure of the two corners h, h, of the sockets H acting on the
frames in the direction of the arrows, with sufficient force as to prevent the cage
from being lifted up.
Also by forming the cage in two halves I may make the cage longer than the
weigh-table D, as the cage being divided it is easier to handle so that a large
animal can be wholly confined within the cage, and not as with existing cages in
which the head and neck of the animal are over the door. That is to say, I
provide each end of the sides J with angle, tee or other other bars K between the
opposite ones of which I fit a metal or other plate or floor L preferably chequered
or roughened on their top surfaces and bevelled or rounded off at their edges, or
ends so as to form an incline for the feet of the cattle.
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:
1st. The improvements in weigh-bridge cattle cages, substantially as and for
the purposes herein before described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
2nd. In weigh-bridge cattle cages, constructing the cage with two separate sides,
substantially in the manner and for the purposes as hereinbefore described and
shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1894.
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Agents.