US104408A - Improved weaning-bit - Google Patents

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' einen @a mit @titte ISAAC L. BAKER, `or PRAIRIE CITY, KANSAS.Y

` Leim Patient No, 104,408, dated .new 21, 1870.

IMPRovnn WEANrNG-BIT.'

The Scheduleeferred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the .name 1 Tocall whom itmay lconcern: I

` Beitknown that I, ISAAC L, BAKER, of Prairie City, inlthelcounty vof Doglasand State of Kansas,

haveinventedla new. andnsefnl Improvement in Weaning-Bit; and I do hereby decla-re that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof,

which will enable others skilled in the art to make I, and lise the :samerefereneebeing had to the accomwmpanying drawing forming part of lthis specification.

This invention relates toa `new and useful device `for weaning Colts and Cai-ves, and `for other purposes,

and consists in so forming afbjt that air is admitted into the mouth in the act of sucking, thereby prevent ing a vacuum being formed, and, consequently, the ,low of milk, as will 15e-hereinafter more fnlly described.

/ In the accompanying drawing-`` I Figure 1 is a longitudinal view of the bit.w

Figure` 2 is a cross-section on the line a: x of fig. 1.` Similar lettersiof reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the bit, which is' senIi-tnbular, in cross-section.

B B are rings, to which straps are attached for fast ening the bit in the mouth of the animal.

The central part C of 'the hit may be a round tube,`

as represented. The ends or parts D D may either be open on the sides, as seen at eI-e, or the whole bit may be a tube,

with holes', more or less in number, through/0r into the tube, so that air may enter the ends ofthe tube, and prevent the formation 0i' a vacuum by sucking.

rlhe bit is securely fastened in the animals month, and is used with perfect success in weaning calves and colts, by' preventing their sucking, and, also,-in `preventinT cows from sucking'themselvcs.

Having thus described my invention, f

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters'

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