US285759A - Stable - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

G. A. KNIGHT.

STABLE. No. 285,759. Patented Sept 25, 1883.

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GEORGE A. KNIGHT, OF LAMARTINE, PENNSYLVANIA.

STABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent.No. 285,759,

dated September 25, 1883.

Application filed April 28, 1883. (No model'.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. KNIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lamartine, in the county of Clarion and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stables; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same reference 1 being had to the accompanying drawings, and

and by the rack-partitions to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal sectional view of my device, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

This invention has relation to stables for cattle and horses and it consists in the 0011- struction and novel arrangement of devices, as hereinafter set forth, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, A designates the foundation-wall of the building, which is usually made about three feet high, and is surmounted by the sills B, on which the uprights which support the wall and loft are placed. The plan of the building is usually rectangular, the design being to arrange the stalls around a well or water-supply, so that the cattle can be fed and watered from the center. tition-walls O, which separate the mangers, D in rear thereof, said rack-partitions traversing the rear portion of the stallway, which is wide enough to allow a wagon to pass through the stalls in V rear of the mangers.

The rack-partitions consist of the perforated uprights E and the round-end rails F,

which engage the perforations of the uprights,

The stalls are separated by the par-' of the cattle, a vertical stop-bar, G, is ap plied behind the upright E, to which the partition-wall O is attached, said stop-bar being secured in position by means of a staple, a, secured at the lower end of the uprights E, to receive the lower end of the said stop-bar, which is secured at its upper end by means of a latch or other common fastening above, so that it can be easily removed when it is desired to lay the rails down or to adjust them in higher position.

g H H represent perforated uprights, through which pass the rods or bolts Kfwhich support the inangers L. These rods or bolts K are adjustable, in order that the mangers may be raised or lowered, according to require ment.

In front of and above the manger is an adjustable guard-bar, M, which is. connected to the uprights H by suitable bolts, and serves to prevent the cattle from climbing into the mangers, or upon the feedingfloor P, which is connected to the sills which are next to the mangers, as shown in. the drawings.

Usually it is designed to raise the ground slightly underthe mangers, so that it shall slope gradually from the head toward the outer end of the stall. A fair drainage is thus provided, so that the manure is kept in good condition. It is not designed that the manure shall be removed during the winter, and as it accumulates the floor of each stall is raised, so that at intervals the mangers and rackpartitions require to be adjusted to higher positions. The manure becomes well packed and forms a solid floor or bed for each stall. At the end of the seasom when the animals are turned out, wagons are driven through the stable and the manure is removed for purposes of fertilization, for which it is remarkably well fitted, having been kept in good condition throughout the winter.

I am aware that adjustable troughs have been heretofore used, some of whichh. ve been employed in sheep-racks, and raised and lowered for the different heights of stock' by means of pulleys and ropes with balance-weights, the troughs sliding in guideways, and therefore I do not claim such devices.

Having described this invention, what I claim; and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, adjustable guard-bar M, and mangers L, all I0 is constructed and adapted to operate substan- 1. The combination, with the perforated uptially as specified.

rights and the rails forming the rack-parti- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in tions between the stalls, of the stop-barand presence of two witnesses.

its fastenings, substantially as specified. GEORGE A. KNIGHT.

2.7 The combination, in a barn or stable of WVitnesses:

the partition-Walls O, perforated uprights H, O. F. MONUTT,

arranged as described, the rods or bolts K, the 131120. MUNGEN.

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