US1794589A - Chick feed trough - Google Patents

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March 3, 1931. w coL s 1,794,589

CHICK FEED TROUGH Filed May 11, 1928 INVENTOR glgillter [1. Collins ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 3, 1931 U i if;

WALTER ii. COLLINS, or SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY CHICK FEED TROUGH Application filed May 11, 1928. Serial No. 277,070.

This invention relates to feed troughs for small chlckens or ch cks and has for an ob ect to provlde an lmproved construction where access to the feed may be readily had while the chicks are prevented from entering the trough.

Another object of the invention is to provide a chick feeding trough wherein a rotat- V able protecting bar is positioned across the trough.

A still further object, more specifically, is to provide a trough with the 'parts pressed from sheet metal so as to interlock when assembled.

In the accompanying drawing, r

Figure 1 is a perspective 'view of a'chick feed trough disclosing an embodiment of the invent-ion; j

Figure 2 is an enlarged. fragmentary sectional view throughFigure .1 approximately on line 22;

Figure 3 is an'enlarged transverse sectional view through Figure 1 on line 33;

Figure 4; is an inside end view on an enlarged scale of one of the end members shown in Figure 1.

Referring to the accompanying drawing by numerals, 1 and 2 indicate end members and 3 a connecting trough-body. The end members 1 and 2 are identical in structure, and therefore, the description of 1 will ap ply to both. As shown in Figure 2, end member 1 is provided with a turned-in flange 4 presenting a supporting foot and a groove portion 5 for receiving the end of the troughbody 3. In order to hold the parts together after assembled, as shown in Figure 2, solder 12- is applied to the ends of the trough 3 so as to secure the same in the respective grooves 5. By pressing these grooves in the end members upstanding exterior beads are presented which provide stiffening means for bracing the respective parts. At the upper part of the end member 1 a portion has been cut and bent to present a horizontal section 6 which is bent a second time to form-the up standing abutment 7. The abutment 7 is provided with a pressed boss ,IOI' portion 8 presenting a. journal pin for the tube 9. The tube 9 is adapted to be rotatably mounted on the journal. pins or abutments 8. The

ends 1 and 2 and the body 3 are preferably g made tromsheet metal, and the tube 9 is also preferably made from sheet metal, although it could be made from an ordinary pipe. From Figure 3 it will .be noted that the trough-body 3 has the upper edges curled, as indicated at 10 and 11. This makes a smooth surface over which the chicks bend when feeding from the trough. The space between the bent edges 10 and 11 and the pipe 9 is ample to permit the passage of theheads or" the chicks but willnot permit the bodies to pass. In this way the chicks are prevented from entering the trough and by reason oftherotatable mounting of pipe 9 the chicks cannot roost thereon as the movement of the pipe would prevent this action.

What I claim is v 1. In. a chick feed trough, an end member comprising a single sheet of metal formed with a pressed-out portion presenting a trough-receiving groove and a pressed-out" tongue having an offset portion, said offset portion being formed with an integral pressed-out boss acting as a projecting 'journal pin.

2. A chick feed trough, comprising a body of sheet-metal, a pair of sheet metal ends formed with grooves for receiving the ends of said'body, each of said ends having a pressed-out oiiset portion presenting a shoulder, each of said pressed-out portions having a pressed-out boss acting as a journal pin, and a tube loosely and rotatably mounted on said pins, said tube extending longitudinally of said body and substantially centrally thereof at'a point above the body.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 8th day of May, A. D. 1928.

WALTER H. COLLINS.

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