US127461A - Improvement in hog-traps - Google Patents

Description

M. C AYWOOD.

Improvement in Hog-Traps.

Patented June, 4. 1872.

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PATENT QFFIGE.

MARTIN UAYWOOD, OF FARMINGTON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOG-TRAPS.

- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 127,461, dated June 4, 1879.

SPECIFICATION.

I, MARTIN OAYWOOD, of Farmington, in the county of Fulton and State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in the Method of Securing and Holding Swine, to Snout or Ring their Noses, of which the following is a specification:

The object of this invention is to provide means by which one or two persons can speedilyand successfully secure swine to cut their snouts or place rings in their noses to prevent them from rooting.

For explanation of this specification and the means I use, reference is made to the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a snoutin gpen. Fig. 2 is a ground plan of the same. Fig.

' 3 is an end elevation, showing inside of front end. Fig. 4 is a side elevation.

General Description.

twelve inches above the foot of the posts. Vertically of these front strips and board G I nail groovedbearing-strips H I, between which is to slide up and down the gate K, in the lower edge of which is cut the half of an ellipse, and which is secured to L at any desired height by a pin and series of holes. This gate passes down and in front of Gr. I put in a floor in the front half of my pen, raising the front enough to my lifting-frame and the hole in the gate, so that the pig can readily stand astraddle of the middle bar of frame and put its nose through the snonting-hole. Between the upper sideboards I cut in, and, at the proper height, nail the boards M and N, which have their lower edges cut out to receive the back of the pig when raised ofi its feet by the lifting-frame. This frame consists of the sills F 0, bars P Q R, (Q being the handle by which the rear end is raised,) and S a hinged leg, all properly framed and-fastened together. Any ordinary gate may be used to allow only one pig at a time to enter the pen and secure it there until on the frame. When the pig goes to the circular opening in front gate it must stand in the openings of the lifting-frame; in that position it is raised off its feet by the frame, which, by raising the hind end, slides the pig forward, entering its nose in snout-hole and securing its back in the cuts of M and N. With a proper hinged leg, S, the foot resting in holes cut in the inclined floor, the pig may be easily secured and left in that position, so that the same person who drives in and lifts the pig may shut down the gate K, secure the nose, and then cut or put rings in the snout or rooter.

I claim as my invention The gate K, board or bar G, and the liftingframe, constructed substantially as described,

and combined to operate in the manner substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

MARTIN OAYWOOD.

Witnesses:

A. J. STRONG, J. M. TROYER.

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