US2235520A

US2235520A - Poultry feeder

Info

Publication number: US2235520A
Application number: US233621A
Authority: US
Inventors: Clarence E Hedrick
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1938-10-06
Filing date: 1938-10-06
Publication date: 1941-03-18
Anticipated expiration: 1958-03-18

Description

C. E. HEDRICK POULTRY FEEDER Filed 001;. 6, 1938 Margh 18, 1941.

G (W m I I 3 4a INVENTOR. .HE'D CK ATTORNEY.

5 D CLARENCE 5' BY Patented Mar. 18, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention relates to improvements in poultry feeders and has for its object to provide a sanitary feed container, collapsibly arranged and made from a single sheet of pasteboard or the like and \being scored for accurate bending to form the container, and the said sheet of pasteboard will hereinafter be referred to as a blank.

According to the invention, the structure comlo prises a bottom, sides and end walls rectangular in cross section. There is also provided a top closure extending obliquely upward from each side and a marginal portion thereof being vertically positioned for snug engagement of their adjacent sides and removably secured together by keys made of like material to that of the blank and produced therefrom and when assembled a ridge is formed at the top. Each end of the container is closed by bending end portions of the said bottom, sides, and top inward toward each other for interlapping engagement.

-In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference will hereinafter be made to the accompanying drawing illustrating the invention, in which:

Fig. 1 is a side view of the feeder.

Fig. 2 is an end view of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is an end view having one side in its assembled position, the other side collapsed, showing the end closing members more clearly with respect to contour. v

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan view of the feeder, illustrating the mode of inserting the keys.

, Fig. 5 is a reduced plan view of the blank from which the feeder is formed by bending the same on its scored lines.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged plan View of the key as embodied with the core of one of the feeding ports.

Fig. '7 is an enlarged plan view of the key removed from its respective core.

This invention herein disclosed consists of a bottom I, side walls 2, that are vertically positioned by bending the blank on lines A respectively, and a top portion 3, extending from each side upward and toward each other by a bend on lines B; each of said top members has at the outer edge thereof a marginal portion 4 that 5 forms a ridge vertically positioned by a bend at line C, the said marginal portions being attached together by keys 5 spaced therealong and extending through their respective slots 3', said slots being shorter in length than the key proper 55 and having an arcuate cut 3" at their terminating ends to provide a lip and when turned outward the key is free to pass through the slot, whereby the ends of the slots will seat in their respective inwardly extending notches D of the key, by which means the ridge members are secured together closing the top of the feeder, the ridge being adapted to receive advertising matter printed thereon.

Spaced along each top portion 3 is a plurality of elongated ports 6, through which poultry has access to feed placed in the feeder, the ports being formed by the removal of a core 6, said core being retained by a plurality of small points therearound that join the core to the wall of the port by which means the core is easily removed and the key is likewise retained and removed from the body of the core. Each end of the said feeder is closed by a plurality of members outwardly extending from score line E respectively, and on said lines the members will bend for their function as follows:

Each of the end portions 1, that are integral with the bottom is turned upward at right angles thereto and each has a curved slot 8 near the opposite ends thereof to receive hook members 9, insertible therethrough as securing means for their respective sides at a right angle to the bottom, while extensions in, functioning as flaps and being joined to their respective ends of each 30 ported top portion, are adapted to interlap each other at their respective ends, also engaging on the inside of portion 1, as closing means for the ends of the said ported top portions, and the said end extensions II) when rocked inward as shown by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 4 will form a temporary opening through which poultry feed may enter the feeder, said extensions automatically closing when released.

As heretofore stated, the said poultry feeder is a collapsible structure and the blank from which it is formed contains preparatory means for accurate folding and means to secure the folds in operative position as a feeder, the assembly being done by the purchaser of the blanks, the performance of which is accomplished without the use of tools.

The feeder thus constructed is an article of manufacture, and the blanks are packed in bundles as a convenient storage and shipping 5 means therefor.

It will be understood that at the time of cuttingthe blank the core of the ports will remain intact-and also the key portions, but severed sufficiently for prompt and clean removal at the time of assembling the feeder as above described by which means an ample number of keys are available. While I have shown the key produced from the core of the ports, I do not wish to be restricted to such alone as the said key may be produced from other source of like material. Such modifications may be employed as lie within the scope of the appended claim.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a poultry feeder of the class described, the feeder formed from a single :blank and having sides, end walls, bottom, a pair of slanting top members and a ridge, said ridge comprised of two members, each integrally joined to its respective top member and vertically disposed from its points of intersection with the top member, there being a plurality of slots spaced along and passing through the ridge members where they intersect the top members, the slots of one member being in registry with the slots of the other member when said members are placed together, the ends of each slot curved upward to provide a rockable tongue between the curvatures and following along the slot at one side thereof, each top member having a series of ports spaced therealong, and keys, each being notched at both ends, and each being inserted in a pair of slots with its notches holding the ridge members together, each side wall and top member having at each end an extension, these extensions and the end walls completely closing both ends of the feeder, each end wall having a pair of oppositely disposed curved slots, each extension of the side wall being hook-shaped and engaging in one of these slots, the extensions of the top members overlapping and being inside of the end walls and of the extensions of the side walls, the feeder being held together by the engagement o1 the keys and of the hook-shaped extension with the slots.

CLARENCE E. HE-DRICK.