A Heatable Trough for Poultry and like Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1895-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Heatable Trough for Poultry and like Purposes.
I, OSWALD ZIMMER of Gross Ossig near Trachenberg, Silesia, Germany,
Farm Bailiff, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In frosty weather poultry and game suffer much torment from being unable to
slake their thirst, and often die from this cause.
This invention is designed to
supply a trough which will preserve water or food in an unfrozen condition for
several hours in the coldest weather.
Beneath a trough or pan of metal or other suitable material I place another pan
or trough containing prepared charcoal which is placed in several separate spots
and attached to pins fixed to the pan, so that it can become aggregated together.
The charcoal being fired will smoulder for many hours keeping warm the pan
over it.
Suitable openings are formed to admit air and allow for the exit of the
products of combustion. Outside the lower pan I place a wooden enclosure the
walls of which slope by preference inwards from the base.
Around the wooden wall of this enclosure small feeding troughs can be formed
to supply food or seed.
To prevent the birds bathing in or fouling the water, strips of wood can be
arranged across the trough so that only the bill or head of the bird can be
inserted. This will also prevent the birds from taking cold by getting wet
and afterwards cooling too rapidly in a frosty atmosphere which might cause
them serious injury.
Dated this 11th day of March 1895.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, London, E.C., Agent for Applicant.
UUMI LUIN
A Heatable Trough for Poultry and like Purposes.
I, OSWALD ZIMMER of Gross Ossig near Trachenberg, Silesia, Germany
Farm Bailiff, 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 trough designed for cattle and adapted to be heated.
By means of this apparatus it is rendered possible to always give animals relishable
drinking water or also pulpy food, potatoes, turnips or the like during the cold
season of the year in the open air or in outhouses without any fear of the food
becoming frozen or damaged by the cold.
In the accompanying drawing I have represented by way of example a watering
trough which is particularly suitable for wild fowl and poultry.
In a box a, consisting of sheet zinc and presenting a rectangular form is placed
a grating b of sheet metal or the like, which serves for the reception of fuel and
promotes the circulation of air from below (see Fig. 1). As fuel I preferably use
smokeless and odourless material. Upon the sheet-metal box a, rests the water

page_text: receptacle d, which is likewise made of sheet zinc, the sides of which are prolonged
downward so that they embrace the box a.
The entire heating apparatus is placed in a box e, which is suitably made
of wood or other suitable non-conductor in order to afford protection against loss of
heat. It is expedient further to use wood because wild fowl have a distrust of
water receptacles made of other material such as for instance clay, stone or the
like.
For the same reason the water receptacle d, possesses a wooden case f, furnished
with a perforated bottom (see Fig. 2). The wooden box e, may be closed above
by two wooden flaps g which are turned down when the water trough is in use and
thus afford at the same time shelter for the air holes h, extending through the sides
of the wooden box e, from wind and snow (see Fig. 3). For enabling the vessel b
and also the entire heating apparatus to be removed from the wooden box e, one of
the sides of the wooden box is arranged to hinge or turn down (see Fig. 4).
The trough may be put up at any place such as in woods, in the open fields or
in yards and also in buildings.
If on account of the wild fowl it is requisite that it should be placed in a pond,
river or other water-course it is put in a somewhat longer sheet-metal box which is
then suspended from the ice.
In case the trough is designed to be used only in the poultry yard the box e,
may of course be made of any suitable material. It is advisable in this case to
shut off the water receptacle d, by a protecting grate i, in order to prevent the
poultry, especially doves, from going into the drinking water. Moreover a float k
may be placed in the water receptacle, this float being provided with apertures
permitting the animals to drink, but preventing them from dipping deeply into
the same (see Fig. 3).
Moreover protecting grates and floats prevent the pollution of the water.
This employment of the grate and floats would however be injurious in frosty
weather, because water which might adhere to the loose parts of the necks of the
animals might freeze on the same, in consequence of which these sensitive parts
would get benumbed.
The described apparatus may of course be used with slight modifications to
serve as a trough for horses, cows and other animals.
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.) A watering trough for cattle which is characterized by a water receptacle d,.
adapted to be heated and placed in a box a, of sheet zinc or the like which is
provided with a grate b.
(2.) The watering trough characterized in the first claim, in combination with a
wooden box e, surrounding the whole, which box may be provided with air holes h,
in the sides and closed by wooden flaps g, one of the sides being preferably arranged
to hinge or turn down for enabling the heating apparatus to be conveniently
removed from the wooden box e, if necessary.
(3.) In a watering trough characterized in the first and second claims the
arrangement of a wooden case f, in the water receptacle d.
(4.) In the watering trough characterized in the first and second claims the
arrangement of a protecting grating i, and a float k provided with apertures in
order to permit the poultry to drink but to prevent them from passing or dipping
deeply into the water and to obviate the pollution of the water as herein described
and set forth.
Dated this 11th day of December 1895.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97 Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.