US1091392A - Self-feeder and drinking-fountain for poultry. - Google Patents

Description

J. SOHLIOHTINGER.

.SELF FEEDER AND DRINKING FOUNTAIN FOR POULTRY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.4, 1913.

1 ,09 1 ,39 2, Patented Mar. 24, 1914,

JOSEPH SCHLICHTING-ER, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

SELF-FEEDER AND DRINKING-FOUNTAIN FOR POULTRY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914.

Application filed November 4, 1913. Serial No. 799,245.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH SCHLICHTIN- GER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria- Hungary, resident of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State of Georgia, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Self- Feeders and Drinking-Fountains for Poultry; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it a pertains to make and use the invention, re erence being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecificat-ion.

Figure 1 is a side view of the invention partly in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the invention with jar removed. Fig. 3 is a detail side view of the lower portion of the feeder, with the inner ring removed. Fig. 4 is a detail side View of the inner ring.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved poultry feeding trough and fountain, and the invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, the numeral 2, designates the inward and upward inclined conical base of the trough, which is preferably of circular form, having a cylindric al wall '3, rising vertically an inch or so from the edge ot the inclined base to which it is attached. From the top of this vertical wall 3, extends u ward and inward over the outer portion ot the conical base, an inclined conical wall 4 of the trough, which terminates at the top of a circular seat 5, above the central and higher portion of the inclined base. The inclination of this wall 4, is about forty-five degrees, and its breadth is sutficient for the circular feed apertures 6, which are made through this wall. The conical base serves to cause the grain or feed to take position near the apertures of the inclined wall, which are located over the outer or lower portion of the conical base. The upper edge of this inclined wall is provided with substantially horizontal lugs or bearings 7 which project outward and are separated by disengagement intervals between their ends.

Within the circular seat 5, is a detachable concave or inward inclined circular connec tion or supportin ring 8, having similarly separated outward pro ecting catches 9, attached to its upper edge portion and adapted larger fowl.

apertures also tends to prevent the feed from bymeans of hook shaped flanges to engage the bearings 7, of the inclined wall 4, when turned in one direction. But when turned in the opposite direction, to bring the flanges to the intervals between the lugs 7, the supporting ring 8, becomes disengaged, so that the parts of the device can be thoroughly position bottom upward, so that whatever grain or other small feed, or water has been placed in the jar, will feed downward upon the conical bottom or base 2, whereby it will be guided downward and outward to position under the inclined wall 4. To this end, the ring 8, is supported to extend downward within the trough so that its lower edge is located above the conical base a short distance, about a quarter of an inch more or less whereby a narrow circumferential feed passage is rovided from the jar. to the outer portion of the trough chamber.

This feeder is designed for cleanliness, especially in the fact that the inclination of its aperture wall is such as to prevent. the chickens from standing thereon, which they would do if a foothold were to be had. The inclination of the wall 4, is otherwise important, because the feed apertures can be.

made of exact size to admit the heads of little chickens, and to exclude the heads of The inclined position of the being scratched out. By the use of this device, where the feed apertures are made of small size, it is designed to prevent the loss of many small chickens, as it is ver difficult to separate them from larger fow It will tend also to keep them in good health and condition; as the larger fowl cannot in terfere and take up the feed.

I claim:

1. In a feeder for poultry, a trough having an'upward and inward inclined conical base connected to a vertical circular wall, an upward and inward inclined circular extension of said wall having a series of inclinedcircular feed apertures, and in separable engagement with said extension a downward and inward inclined supportin ring extending below the top of the conica loase andprovided with means for engaging a fountain jar. 1

2. A feeder for poultry, comprising a cylindrical trough having an upward and inward inclined conical base; an upward and inward inclined circular wall over said base provided with inclined circular feed apertures, a central opening and catch devices around said opening, a reservoir having its mouth portion projecting downward within the troughbelow the top of the conical base,

and a downward and inward inclined supporting ring having lower means of engagement with the reservoir mouth portlon and upper catch devices separablyengaging the catch devices of the inclined circular wall of the trough.

Inytestimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH SOHLICHTINGER. .Witnesses:

N. H. GILES, J. E. FITZPA'IRICK.

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