US1086163A - Trough. - Google Patents

Description

E. GRIPPITT. THOUGH. APPLICATION FILED DEG.6, 1911.

Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

"a a s Inventor EMANUEL GRIFFITT, 0F TRION, GEORGIA.

TROUGH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 3, 1914.

Application filed December 6, 1911. Serial No. 664,297.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMANUEL GRIFFITT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trion, in the county of Chattooga and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Trough, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject-matter of this application, is a feeding and watering trough, adapted to be assembled with stockcars, barns, stables, and other structures, whereby a feeding and a watering of the stock may be effected, without removing the stock from such structure, and without necessitating the entrance of the operator into such structures.

A further object of the invention is to provide a receptacle of novel and improved form, adapted to be mounted in an aperture in the side wall of a car, the receptacle being provided with an outstanding flange, adapted to limit the rotatory movement of the receptacle, whereby to position the mouth of the receptacle, successively, within and with out the car, the flange constituting a closure for the space between the receptacle and the edge of the aperture in the car, thereby preventing a waste of feed from the trough.

A further object of the invention is to provide novel means for locking the receptacle in successive positions.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention,

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1 shows in fragmental side elevation, the car to which the device of the present invention has been applied; Fig. 2 is a fragmental elevation of the inside of the car, the view showing the trough in the position which it will assume when in use by the animals which are within the car; Fig. 3 is a transverse section upon the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a perspective of the feed trough, detached from the car.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 1 denotes the side Wall of a car in which there is an aperture 2. Bearings 3 are secured to the side wall 1 of the car,

adjacent the ends of the aperture 2. It is in these bearings 3 that the receptacle, constituting the subject-matter of the present invention, is journaled for rotation.

Noting particularly Fig. 4;, wherein the receptacle is shown in detail, it will be seen that this portion of the structure comprises circular end walls 5, from which spindles 6 project outwardly. The end walls 5 are partially inclosed, peripherally, by a side wall 7, the walls 5 and 7 defining a receptacle, and the spacing apart of the edges 8 and 9 of the side wall 7 serving to define an opening 10, extended longitudinally of the receptacle. The edge 8 is preferably plane, but from the edge 9 projects radially, a flange 11 which is formed, preferably, by flexing outwardly, a portion of the side wall 7 As will be readily understood, the spindles 6 are received for rotation within the bearings 3.

Noting Fig. 8 it will be seen that when the receptacle hereinbefore described, is rotated, the flange 11 may be made to engage the side wall 1 of the car, above the aperture 2. The engagement between the flange 11 and the side wall 1 of the car, serves to position the opening 10 in the receptacle, within the car, so that the stock within the car may have access to the contents of the receptacle. Furthermore, when the flange 11 is positioned as shown in Fig. 3, the flange acts as a closure for the space between the lower edge of the aperture 2 and the upper edge of the receptacle, the construction being such that it will be impossible for the animals within the car, to crowd the feed out of the receptacle, through the opening 2, a wasting of the feed being thus avoided. Moreover, the receptacle may be rotated, until the flange 11 engages the side wall of the car, adjacent the lower end of the aperture. Under such circumstances, the opening 10 in the receptacle will be positioned outside of the car, whereupon any trash which may have accumulated within the receptacle will drop out of the receptacle, the flange acting as a discharge chute to direct the material away from the car.

In one of the end walls 5 of the receptacle, a series of radial openings 25 may be formed, these openings being also fashioned in the side wall 7, as shown at 26. Into any of these openings 25 or 26, the lever 27 may be ceptacle, should a hog or other animal be lying against the receptacle, within the car, so that the receptacle cannot well be rotated, saving through the medium of the lever 27.

In one of the end walls 5 of the receptacle, there are a series of radially disposed notches 1:2, these notches 12 constituting seats, adapted to receive the free end of a latch 14: which is pivoted, as shown at 15, to the side wall 1 of the car. If desired, a back stop 16, adapted to receive the latch 14:, may be mounted upon the side wall of the car. The latch it may be swung, to disengage its free end from the seats 12, whereupon the receptacle may be rotated in the manner hereinbefore described. lVhen the free end of the latch l t is engaged within any of the seats 12, the receptacle will be locked against rotation.

From the foregoing it will be seen that there has been provided a feed trough, of simple and improved construction, which may be manufactured at trifling expense, the construction being such that the trough may readily be assembled for rotation, with the side wall of a car, the receptacle being readily rotatable, to position its mouth either within or without the car, novel means being provided for limiting the rotation of the receptacle, and for maintaining the mouth of the receptacle either within or without the structure wherewith the receptacle is assembled.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is In a device of the class described, a supporting structure having an opening; bearings located on the supporting structure at the ends of the opening; a trough comprising end walls having journals received in the bearings, and a strip of material partially surrounding the peripheries of the walls in a single length, one of the longitudinal edges of the strip being left free and being bent outwardly to form a flange adapted to engage the supporting structure above the opening and to serve as a stop, there being slots in the outer side face of one wall and located between the edges of the strip; and a latch pivotally mounted on the supporting structure for movement parallel to the supporting structure and adapted to engage in any of the slots; and a stop on the supporting structure, adapted to receive the latch when the latch is swung upwardly past the vertical, to hold the latch out of engagement with any of the slots, the latch and the stop being housed behind one end of the trough.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aiiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EMANUEL GRIFFITT. Witnesses:

J. C. ALEXANDER, A. L. DALTON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). C.

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