US1711107A - Disinfecting hen's nest - Google Patents

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April 0 1929- c. P. BETTENGA 1,711,107

DIS INFEC'IING HEN S NEST Filed April v, 1927 glwwmtoz Creno Z. Eatanga Patented Apr. 30, 1929.

UNITED STATES CRENO P. BETTEN GA, OF MARSHALLTOWN IOWA.

DISINFECTING HENS NEST.

Application filed April 7, 1927. Serial No. 1815800.

My invention relates to improvements in disinfecting hens nests, and the objects of my improvements are first, to provide a disssemblable housing for a nest having a pertal shaped to prevent roosting of a fowl thereon, and second, to supply as an adjunct of the detachable bottom of the housing a removable container for a volatilizable repellent composition for repelling insects, and which also may serve the purpose of an artificial nest egg under a setting hen.

Other improvements will be referred to in the following description and the appended claims.

In the annexed drawings, Fig. 1 1s a perspective view of my improved hens nestas suspended on a fixed support. Fig. 2 1s a vertical longitudinal section of the same on an enlarged scale, and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the detachable bottom of the device including the repellent holder.

The numeral 7 denotes a wall or other erect supporting structure. and on which the nest housing is suspended spaced from the ground or floor below. The housing 1s composed of sections, connected by sllp oints and secured together thus to be disassemblable for storage or transportation in little compass or volume, which is important, as transportation charges are commonly based on volume rather than on the weight of the articles carried. The housing has a top plate 3 inclined it'orwardly to shed rain as also to preventroosting of fowls thereon. This plate has comatiug reversed marginal edges 4i at front and sides to receive outlui'ncd marginal. parts slidably and separably of the two side wall plates 2. The housing has no back-plate, and has an open bottom to be closed by a detachable bottom closure to be described.

Aportured hanger-bars 5 are bolted to the rear upper part of said housing to be removably suspended upon headed pins or screws l3 fined in the wall 7. A crossbar 18 is fastened across the back of the housing spaced from its lower end. 0

The front plate or wall 1 of the housmg 1S slidably marginally connected to the abutting outturned edges of the side plates 2 1n the same manner as at 4 to the top plate 3, all stiffened also by having outturned marginal edges where not so slidably connected.

The front plate 1 has an open portal 8 whose threshold 10 has a medial upwardly directed projecting part 9. Spaced in parallel from the front plate at a level with said threshold is a step bracket-bar 12 fixed to the forward ends of side arms 11, the latter medially pivoted to the side walls 2 on pintles 13, and having their rear ends stopped from upward movement from the horizontal by projecting bolt ends 14: in said sidewalls. The medial projection 9 with sloping side edges is only high enough to prevent the roosting of a fowl on the threshold 10, without preventing the fowl from passing to and fro through the portal from or to the ste bracket 12, the side portions of the threshold 10 being wide enough to afford support for the fowls feet on either side of said proection. i

I have supplied a detachable bottom for said housing, particularly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. This is an elastic metal plate 15 haw ing a number of spaced transverse crimps 19 directed upwardly, which crimps render the plate hingedly bendable between the crimps so as to be shaped into a segment of a hollow cylinder with concavity directed upwardly as a hollow nest, and having sep arated side edge projections 15 directed upwardly spaced from theabuttinginner side walls of the housing to provide ventilating openings. The rear marginal edge .of the. plate 15 is hooked over at 17 to be suspended on the rear crossbar 18 detachably, while the forward edge of the plate is provided with spaced hooked parts 16 to be supported upon the lower threshold parts 10.

The numeral 20 denotes an open end container for a filling 26, which may be a porous material impregnated with a repellent substance which will be readily volatilizable by a moderate heat suchas that of a hen in said nest sitting across the container, in which relation the container serves the further function of a medial artificial nestegg. The container may be of any other suitable shape and size, the one shown having been thoroughly and successfully used in practice. The container shownis in the shape of an elongated trough 20 of inverted Ushape,- and may have end projections 22 bent downwardly to prevent escape of the filling material 26. Small apertures 23 are provided along the top of the container for exudation of the volatile fumes from the repellent sublUl) stance therein when warmed by the heat of i the hens body, which approximates 104 degrees F. These fumes repel or kill mites or other Vermin which commonly infect or penetrate the hens leathers and down.

The container 20 may be secured to the bottom plate 15 by bolts and nuts 24. and 35, or in any other desired. manner, and the side walls of he container may be notched at 21 to receive a raised crimp l9, dividing the middle of the nest into shallow compartments to re. e a layer at soil with a top dressing of raw or the like, but the top of the container should be raised above the tops of the crimps tor the purpose of an artilicial nest egg, touching the body of a hen setting on the nest above the container.

The bottom 15 may be readily detached from the housing for cleansing and return. It should be noted that the curved segmental bottom 15with its crimps 19 is so elastically bendable between said. crimps, that when the housing parts are disassembled for shipping or storage, the bottom 15 may be bent over flatly to be piled in a tier with the other wall plates, in a small low compact bundle and secured together in a minimum space. When taken from the bundle, the bottom 15 will elastically react to resume former curvate shape ready for use. its so shaped and arranged any number of these nests may I c positioned in horizontal or superposed rows suspended on a wall, for convenient and economical employment.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, is:

it. A device of the character described, comprising in combination, top, front, side and bottom members dctachably connected in a hollow knockdown housing structure, one of said members having a portal whose threshold has a medial raised projection which prevents a towl from roosting on the threshold with horizontal top and sloping sides meeting horizontal parts.

A device of the character described, con- .ing of a hollow housing one wall of which has a portal with the middle part only of its threshold raised with horizontal top spaced high enough to prevent the roosting of a fowl on the threshold, ,while atl'ording side foot-holds for the fowl to step upon securely.

3. A device of the character described, com prising a hollow housing having a portal and a rcmovably connected concave bottom closure, said closure being an elastic transversely crimped plate with its crimps directed upwardly and which plate reacts to be planar when disassembled.

A. device of the character described, comprising a hollow housing having a pertal and a removably connected bottom closure spaced from the side walls only ot the housing and having separable coimections at front and rear to the housing, said closure being an i.ip .'-ai'dly concaved tl'tlE1H\'Ul'H(!- ly crimped elastic plate which reacts to a planar shape when di:-.as:--embh-1t.

A device of the character described, conn rising a hollow housing having a portal and having an open bottom, a closure for said open bottom detachably end con nected to the housing and spaced from its side walls only, and a medial longitudinal elongated. hollow apertured inverted U shaped receptacle for an insect repellent composition volatiliz ble by heat and removably secured on said closure to also serve as a simulated device.

(3. A device of the character described, connirising a hollow housing having a front portal, said housing having a debu-bably connected lJOtitOll'l closure shaped from an elastic plate with raised transverse crimps and edge projections spaced from the adjacent side walls of the housing, and said closure also being shaped as a segment ot a cylinder when. elastically bent between the crimps, and when disassembled as a planar body.

7. A device of the character described, comprising a ported housing having a detachable bottom closure, said closure being concaved cylimlrically upwardly, and an iiiverted Uehape container for a repellent cmnposition, having top apertures and open ends, and detzu-hably SW'lll'Wl n'iediallv lon gitudinall along said closure to also serve tor nest c purposes for a setting :Iowl bestriding In testimony whereof I allix my signature.

GRENU P. BETTENGA.

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