US1182603A - Brooder. - Google Patents

Description

M. L. TWOMLEY.

BROODER.

APPLICATION FILED !AN.22, I912.

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M. L. TWOMLEY.

BROGDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.22,1912.

1,182,603. Patented May9, 1916.

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M. L. TWOMLEY.

BROODER.

APPLICATION FILED lAN.22| 1912.

Patented May 9,1916.

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Patented May 9, 1916.

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MELVAN L. TWOMLEY, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SEFTON MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

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Application filed January 22, 1912.

Z '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MELVAN L. TwoMLnY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Anderson, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brooders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to brooders and the object thereof is to produce a novel, eiiicient and comparatively inexpensive construction of brooder from paper board, preferably double-faced corrugated paper board, the same being so formed that it maybe collapsed for shipment and may be readily erected by the user.

The advantageous features of my brooder will be apparent from the description hereinafter given.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which the brooder proper is formed; Fig. 2 a perspective of the brooder complete set up ready for use and including the yards; Fig. 3 an elevation of one side of the brooder proper; Fig. 4 a vertical section of the brooder; Fig. 5 a sectional plan thereof on the line 55 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 a plan view of the brooder proper in its collapsed form; Fig. 7 an edge view thereof; Fig. 8 a sectional plan view on the line 8-8 of Fig. 10 of a modified form of construction; Fig. 9 a perspective of such modified form of brooder; Fig. 10 a vertical section of the brooder on the line 1010 of Fig. 9; and Figs. 11 and 12 detail elevations of the brooder.

In the drawings, I have illustrated two different forms of construction embodying my invention, one form, which is the preferred one, being illustrated in-Figs. 1 to 7 and the other form in Figs. 8 to 12.

Referring to the particular embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1 to 7 of the drawings, the brooder proper comprises top and bottom portions or- closures 1 and 2 respectively and a series of side walls, there being in the present instance and by preference eight of such side walls forming a brooder chamher which is substantially octagonal in horizontal cross-section. As shown and by preference, the closures and the side walls are formed from a single blank of suitable material' preferably double-faced corrugated paper board.

The side walls comprise the pairs of opposite side walls 3, 84, 4and 5, .5.the

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 9, 1916.

Serial No. 672,526.

walls 3, 3 being hinged at top and bottom to the top and bottom closures along suitable score lines with the exception of the outer or bottom edge of the outermost wall 3 of the blank of Fig. 1 which is hinged to the outer or free edge of the bottom closure 2 in suitable manner as by means of the tape 6. The blank is slit from opposite sides part way of its width with the result that the walls 4 and 5 while hinged to the end edges of the walls 8 are unconnected with the top and bottom and are movable with respect thereto. These side walls are made in two sections each section comprising a wall 8, two similar walls 4 and two half or partial walls 5 which are complementary and which, when brought together, form a single wall.

By preference and as herein shown the walls a are each provided with a chick opening 4* which is so located thereon as to be in the extreme inner corners of the yard formed by the brooder proper and the yard strips hereinafter described with the result that in the event that the chicks should huddle or crowd into such corners they will be forced through the chick openings and into the brooder instead of trampling upon each other and injuring themselves. It is obvious, however, that a less number than four of these chick openings may be used and that the position thereof may be varied in so far as other features of my invention are concerned.

Owing to the fact that the side walls 1.

and 5 are unconnected with the top and bottom, they may be folded outwardly thereby providing an opening at either or on both sides of the brooder of the complete width thereof, thereby enabling the ready removal of the tray 7 and the hover support and strips hereinafter described. This independent movability of the walls 4 and 5 permits of any desired amount of opening of the brooder in excess of the opening provided by the chick opening or openings which is desirable especially in hot weather or for the purpose of thoroughly ventilating the brooder.

In order to hold the walls 4: and 5 in closed position as shown in Figs. 2, a and 5, one or the other of the closures is provided with a projection or projections behind which the walls, preferably the walls 5, are caused to engage in detachable manner. In the present instance and by preference, these projec tions consist of cleats 8 secured to the under side of the top closure and near opposite sides thereof, said cleats crossing the lines of division between the two portions or halves of the side walls 5. By this means the walls 1 and 5 may be held in proper position but in a detachable manner so that they may be readily opened out for the particular purposes explained and also for the purpose of collapsing the entire brooder.

Within the brooder chamber is located a false top or hover-strip support 9 having at opposite sides vertical flaps or extensions 10 which are of such a height as to rest at their lower edges upon the bottom of the brooder. This hover-strip support is of such size that it fits snugly within the brooder and in proper position therein without any mechanical attachment. provision of the flaps or extensions 10 also serve to materially strengthen the opposite sides of the brooder and to give it a more rigid construction and at the same time permitting of the ready collapsing thereof whenever desired. From the under side of the false top or support depend the usual hover strips 11 and at the central portion of such top is an opening ll provided with a screen or gauze l2 permitting of the free passage or circulation of the air but excluding rodents or the like. This opening communicates with the space a between the false top 19 and the real top 1 of the brooder, the circulation of the air being from the brood chamber below the false top, through the opening llythrough the space a and out through ventilation openings 4 These latter openings are by preference formed in the upper portions of the side walls 41 and are provided with screens or gauzes 13. While these ventilation openings 4 may be provided in any of the side walls and may be of any desired number, yet I prefer to employ the number shown and to locate them in the particular walls 4: as described inasmuch as they are thereby protected or sheltered by the four projecting corners of the top 1.

In order to form yards at opposite sides of the brooder, I provide the two strips 141 and 15 which are also preferably formed of double-faced corrugated paper board and have their opposite parallel portions 14 and 15" positioned against opposite sides of the brooder along the walls 3, 3 thereof and arranged to slide or telescope upon each other, the same closing the chick openings when fully telescoped for which purpose the yard strips are of a form complementary to the walls 4 and 5.

For the purpose of holding the yard strips in proper position relative to opposite sides of the brooder and also to strengthen the brooder, I provide a rectangular band 16 enveloping the top and bottom of the Moreover, the described brooder and its side walls 3. This band is preferably formed from a single sheet or piece of double-faced corrugated. paper board whose free ends are brought together and hinged by means of the tape 17, Fig. 4.

In Figs. 6 and 7 I have shown the brooder proper in its collapsed condition but it will be understood that the same may be brought within smaller compass for shipment purposes by folding the walls 5 on their hinge or score lines over upon other parts with the result that the entire brooder is collapsed Within the lines of its top and bottom and given a rectangular form with no projecting portions liable to become damaged in shipment or otherwise.

Referring to the modified form of con struction illustrated in Figs. 8 to 12 of the drawings the parts corresponding to those already described are indicated by similar reference characters but primed. In this particular form the brooder proper .is not made from a single blank but from two blanks, one comprising the side walls and the top 1 and the other the bottom 2. The lower edges of the opposite side walls 3 are hingedly secured to the bottom by means of the two tapes (3. The chick openings 5 are formed in the side walls 5, each portion being similarly recessed in complementary manner so that when the two portions of each of these side walls are brought together they form a single chick opening as clearly illustrated in-the drawings. In this modified form the false top or hover-strip support 9 has shortfiaps or flanges 9 secured to the opposite walls 3 in suitable manner as by means of the staples 9 Furthermore in this modified construction the yard strips 1 1' and 15 do not have any sliding engagement with the brooder but only with each other, their portions 14 and 15 sliding upon each other and being held in any position of adjustment in any suitable manner as by means of the clothes pins 18; In other respects the two constructions are substantially the same and in particular the walls a and 5 are detachably held in position by the cleats 8 but adapted to be readily opened out to give any size of chick opening as illustrated in dotted lines in Fig. 8.

I claim:

1. A brooder comprising side walls in two sections and top and bottom closures, one wall of each section being secured at its top and bottom edges to both of the closures and the remainder being freely movable with respect thereto to a position within the lines thereof, one of the side walls of the brooder having a chick opening.

2. A brooder comprising side walls in two sections and top and bottom closures, said walls and closures formed from a single blank with the corresponding wall of each section hinged at its top and bottom edges to both of said closures and the remainder being freely movable With respect thereto to a position Within the lines thereof, one of the side Walls of the brooder having a chick opening.

3. A brooder comprising side Walls in two sections and top and bottom closures, one wall of each section being secured at its top and bottom edges to both of the closures and the remainder being freely movable with respect thereto to a position Within the lines thereof, one of the movable side Walls of the brooder having a chick opening.

4:. A brooder comprising side Walls in tWo sections and top and bottom closures, one Wall of each section being secured at its top and bottom edges to both of the closures and the remainder being freely movable with respect thereto to a position Within the lines thereof, the corresponding movable side Walls of the brooder having chick openings.

5. A brooder having a substantially octagonal brood chamber and comprising eight side Walls in tWo sections and top and bottom closures, the middle Wall of each section being secured to said closures and the remaindcr being free from said closures and hinged to said middle Walls and arranged to be swung to open or closed position, the side Walls adjacent the said middle Walls having chick openings.

6. A brooder comprising top and bottom closures and Walls, tWo of the opposite Walls being secured to the top and bottom and the remaining Walls being hinged to said tWo opposite Walls but unconnected With the top and bottom, and projections on one of said closures for detachably holding said remaining Walls in position.

7. A brooder comprising a top 1, bottom 2 and pairs of side Walls 3-3, 4-4: and 5-5, the opposite Walls 3-3 being secured at tWo opposite edges to both said top and bottom and the remaining Walls being unconnected therewith but the Walls H being hinged to the Walls 3-3, and the Walls 5-5 being hinged to meet at their outer edges to form a side Wall, and projections on the top behind Which the Walls 5 engage for detachably holding the latter in position.

8. A brooder comprising a top 1, bottom 2 and pairs of side Walls 3-3, 44L and 5-5, the opposite Walls 3-3 being secured to said top and bottom and the remaining Walls being unconnected therewith but the Walls 4-4 being hinged to the Walls 3-3, and the Walls 5-5 being hinged to the Walls H, each pair of said Walls 5-5 being arranged to meet at their outer edges to form a side Wall, said Walls 4 having ventilation openings at their upper portions, and the corners of the top extending beyond said Walls at and protecting said ventilation openings.

MELVAN L. TWOMLEY.

WVitnesses:

ROLLAND M. PETTIT, FRANCIS V. POWELL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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