Improvements in Machines for Weighing Live Stock.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar., 1893-Accepted, 15th Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Weighing Live Stock.
We, ALEXANDER WOOD, of 10 Stockwell Street, Glasgow, and THOMAS
DAVIES of 297 Main Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Weighing Machine Makers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to machines for weighing cattle and other live stock and it
has for its object to construct such machines with a pen or enclosure that can be
easily and readily taken to pieces and packed in small compass for transit.
In carrying out our invention we make the machine with a pen formed by four or
other suitable number of pillars or standards which are secured removably to or in
the platform. The sides of the pen are formed by wood or other bars which have
eyes or eyebolts passed through them at each end. The eyes or eyebolts are
threaded on the pillars or standards and are kept at the required distances apart by
means of distance pieces formed preferably of pieces of tube which are also threaded
on the pillars. The eyebolts of the top bar or rail are preferably secured firmly to
the pillars by means of pinching screws or the like. The other eyebolts may also
be likewise secured. One end of the pen has a gate of any desired construction and
which is hinged to one of the end pillars. The hinge may be formed by a hook and
eye device and the eyes or the hooks may be threaded on to the pillar; or the
pillar may be passed through eyes on the gate.
The pillars may be joined firmly together by metal or other hoops, at top, which
can be screwed or bolted in place.
The improved weighing machine combines strength with lightness and it has
also the advantage that it can be easily taken to pieces and packed up into small
compass for transit.
Dated this 7th day of June 1892.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
Glasgow and London, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Machines for Weighing Live Stock.
We, ALEXANDER WOOD, of 10 Stockwell Street, Glasgow, and THOMAS
DAVIES of 297 Main Street, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Weighing Machine Makers, 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 machines for weighing cattle and other live stock and it
has for its object to construct such machines with a pen or enclosure that can be
easily and readily taken to pieces and packed in small compass for transit.
In carrying out our invention, we make the machine with a pen formed by four
or other suitable number of pillars or standards which are secured removably to or
in the platform. The sides of the pen are formed by wood or other bars which
have eyes or eyebolts passed through them at each end. The eyes or eyebolts are
threaded on the pillars or standards and are kept at the required distances apart
by means of distance pieces formed preferably of pieces of tube which are also
threaded on the pillars. The eyebolts of the top bar or rail are preferably secured
firmly to the pillars by means of pinching screws or the like. The other eyebolts
may also be likewise secured. One end of the pen has a gate of any desired con-
struction and which is hinged to one of the end pillars. The hinges may be formed
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page_text: by a hook and eye device and the eyes or the hooks may be threaded on to the
pillar; or the pillar may be passed through eyes on the gate.
The pillars may be joined firmly together by metal or other hoops, at top, which
can be screwed or bolted in place.
The improved weighing machine combines strength with lightness, and it has
also the advantage that it can be easily taken to pieces and packed up into small
compass for transit.
And in order that our said invention may be properly understood, we have
hereunto appended an explanatory sheet of drawings, whereon :—
Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the improved weighing machine.
Fig. 2 is a view looking at one end of the machine.
Fig. 3 is a view looking at the other end of the machine.
Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view to an enlarged scale.
Referring to the drawings, whereon the same reference letters, wherever repeated,
indicate similar or like parts :-
a is the platform of the weighing machine. Upon the platform is erected a pen,
which consists of four pillars b, which are secured removably in holes or sockets in
the platform. One of the pillars is placed at each corner of the platform, as shown.
The sides of the pen are formed by wood bars c, which have eye-bolts d passed
through them at each end. The eye-bolts have holes or eyes e in them, to enable
them to be threaded on the pillars b, and when so threaded, they are kept at the
required distances apart by means of tubular distance pieces f, which are also
threaded on the pillars. The eye-bolts of the top bars are secured firmly to the
pillars, so as to keep the other bars, and the intermediate distance pieces f, in proper
relative position, by means of pinching screws g, which pass through tapped holes
in the eye-bolts. One end of the pen, as shown, is provided with a swinging gate h,
and this gate is hinged, at one side, to one of the corner pillars of the pen. The
hinge preferably consists of a hook and eye device, the hooks being made on the
bars of the gate, and the eyes being threaded on the pillars, in the same
manner as the eye-bolts d. The catch j for the latch of the gate is threaded on the
opposite pillar.
The pillars may be joined together at their upper ends by hoops k, which are held
in place by screwed knobs l, the screwed parts of the knobs being screwed into holes
in the pillars b.
If desired, all the eye-bolts may have pinching screws g, to enable them to be
clamped to the pillars b.
m is the usual chain at the back of the pen.
As will be seen, the improved built-up pen can be taken to pieces at any moment
and the parts packed together for removal or transit.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The improved construction of pen for weighing machines, substantially as
hereinbefore set forth.
2. In weighing machines, the combination with the platform, of pillars (b), bars
threaded upon the pillars, and distance pieces for keeping the bars apart, substan-
tially as herein before described with reference to the drawings annexed.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1893.
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
Glasgow and London, Agent.