US1390061A

US1390061A - Calf-weaner

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Publication number: US1390061A
Application number: US411154A
Authority: US
Inventors: Schmidt Frank
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1920-09-18
Filing date: 1920-09-18
Publication date: 1921-09-06
Anticipated expiration: 1938-09-06

Description

F. SCHMIDT.

CALF WEANER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18, 1920.

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A TTOR/l/EYS sTAras FRANK SCHMIDT, GE SWANWICK, ILLINUIS.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK SCHMIDT, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident of Swanwick, in the county of Perry and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Calf-\Veaners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to calf weaners, and has for its object to provide a device of this character which is of extremely simple and light weight construction and easy and inexpensive to manufacture and which will not work injury to the animal and is entirely humane in all other respects although effective in use.

Other objects and advantages of the invention reside in certain novel features of construction combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, and in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the device in use;

Fig. 2 is a front elevational View thereof;

Fig. 3 i a transverse vertical sectional view on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the hanger arm and a section of the hanger shaft and one of the cotter pins.

Referring to the drawings it will be seen the invention contemplates a mouth plate 10 constructed of light Weight sheet metal such for instance as aluminum. The mouth plate 10 is provided at its upper end with a cutaway portion 10 constituting a recess.

A bracket bearing 11 is arranged in the recess 10 and centrally of the mouth plate. The bearing is constructed from a single piece of light weight sheet metal folded over on itself to provide a pair of spaced plates designated at 11 and 11 respectively. The lower portion of the spaced

plates

11 and 11 embrace the adjacent portion of the mouth plate 10, as shown in Fig. 3 and are secured thereto by rivets or similar fastenings 12 which extend through the

plates

11 and 11 and through the mouth plate 10. The bend of the metal of which the bracket bearing is constructed is formed to constitute the bearing which is designated at 13. The portions of the spaced plates which constitute the bearing 13 are notched at spaced intervals, as indicated at 13- and 13, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 18, 1920.

Patented Sept. 6, 1921.

Serial No. 411,154.

A hanger shaft 14 is rotatablymounted in the bearing 13 and consists of two sections 15 of identical" construction. As. shown in detail in Fig. each of the sections of the hanger shaft is of semi-cylindrical construction and the sections are adapted to overlap when assembled in position in the bearing 13. Each section is provided with

openings

15 and 15 extending diametrically therethrough and whenthe sections are overlapped the openings of one section are alined with the openings of the other and in assembled position these

alined openings

15 and 15 are disposed respectively in the

notches

13 and 13 of the bracket bearing. A cotter pin 16 extends through the alined openings 15 and a cotter pin 17 extends through the alined openings 15*. Both cotter pins are of identical construction. These cotter pins serve to secure the sections of the shaft together and they further serve to prevent longitudinal displacement of the rotatable hanger shaft from its bearings 13 as they are adapted to.

engage the vertical walls of the

notches

13 or 13 when the shaft is moved longitudinally.

At each end the hanger shaft 14 is provided with an upwardly curved hanger arm 19, the extremity of which is provided with an enlargement 20. I The arms 19 and the enlargement have their axes lying in the same plane, and these arms and enlargements extend toward each other.

In practice the enlargements 20 of the hanger arms 19 are entered into the nostrils of the animal and thus support the mouth plate 10 which depends from the hanger shaft carried by the arms. The mouth plate is freely movableon the hanger shaft as the hanger shaft is rotatably mounted in the bracket bearings secured to the mouth plate. The device may be easily applied and removed and when in use does not workinjury to the animal and it is entirely humane in all respects.

I claim:

1. A device of the character described comprising a mouth plate recessed at its upper end, a bracket bearing disposed in 15 I a 7 ed for engagement wlth the nostrlls of the vided with spaced notches, means extending through the spaced plates and the mouth plate for securing the spaced plates to the Vmouth plate, a rotatable hanger shaft mounted in said bearing and consisting of two semi-cylindrical sections overlapped and having their'plane surfaces abutting and having alined openings disposed in said notches, a, cotter pin extending through animal. I

2. A device of the character deszribed, comprislng a mouth plate, a bracket bearing secured to said mouth plate and having spaced notches, a rotatable hanger shaft mounted in sa1d bracket bearing and consisting of two semi-cylindrical sections having thelr plane surfaces abutting and having alined openings disposed in said notches,

a cotter pin extending through each'set of sald calmed openings for securing the sectlons together andto prevent longltudinal displacement of the hanger shaft, and

hanger arms integrally formed with each end of the hanger. shaft and having enlargements at the extremities adapted'for engagement with the nostrils of theanimal.

T "FRANK SCHMIDT.