US416951A

US416951A - Poultry-vermin exterminator

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Publication number: US416951A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-12-10
Anticipated expiration: 1906-12-10

Description

(N0 Model.)

E. RooP. POULTRY VERMIN EXTERMINATOR.

Patented Dc. 10, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EIJHANAN ROOP, OF CENTRE VIEV, MISSOURI.

POULTRY-VERMIN AE XTERMINATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,951, dated December 10, 1889.

Application filed June 28, 1889.

`Serial No. 315,940. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, ELHANAN ROOP, of Centre View, in the county of Johnson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Poultry-Vermin Exterminators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a new and improved device for exterminating vermin on poultry, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improvement, showing same in position for use. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the same. Fig. 4 is a detail view of a slight modification hereinafter described, and Fig. 5 is a sectional detail view taken through the oil-cup and sponge.

The same numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

It is well known to poultry-raisers that chickens afiiicted with lice will not thrive, and while poultry-houses can be readily cleaned it is a tedious undertaking and consumes far too much time to catch and grease the chickens. My device applies the insect-exterminating compound automatically, doing away entirely with the loss of time and trouble required to catch the chickens and apply the exterminator in the old method.

Referring to the several parts by their designating-numerals, 'l indicates a box, which I prefer to make about eighteen inches long, eight inches high, and eight inches wide. In one side of this box, near its top, is formed a hole 2, preferably round and three inches in diameter. In this box is preferably secured an inclined false bottom 3, slanting down from below the lower edge of the feed-hole 2. The top of this box is closed by a lid 4, which may be hinged to one side of the box and secured down by any suitable catch; but I prefer to employ the loose lid shown, which is held on the box by hooks 5 5-one at each of its endswhich hook under pins 6 at the ends of the box.

u The feed for the poultry is placed in the box 1, and the only entrance to the box when the lid is on is through the feed-opening 2. At the upper edge of this opening is secured a sponge 7. The inner side of the front of -the box from its upper edge down to the upper part of the hole is recessed at 8,- and a curved metal holder 9 is removably secured at this point, being placed in position by sliding its ends down in the ends Sl of the recess S. In this recess and holder is held the sponge 7, so that its lower part extends in the upper part of the feed-hole 2. The insect-exterminating compound-whatever may be used for that purpose-is placed on the sponge, and the chickens soon becoming accustomed to the feed-box will feed from it regularly, and as there is only one feed-opening 2, giving but little light, the chicken will not keep his head in the box, but will withdraw it, and seeing the feed in the box will constantly renew this effort, and the compound on the sponge will thus be eifectually applied on all the Hock without any trouble or loss of time on the part of the owner. Vhen the fowls thus get their heads automatically anointed with the exterminating compound, they commence picking themselves, and then renew the effort tofeed.

My invention is simple in construction, and is the most rapid and effectual means for applying any external remedy to poultry.

Instead of'securing the sponge in the holder 9, it may be fastened to the under side of the lid by means of a screw 10, having a washer ll on it, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. In place of the sponge any absorbent material can be employed.

The box can be formed with more than one feed-opening 2, each having a sponge secured at its upper edge; but I prefer to use only one, as more than one will give too much light in the box and the chicken will not then remove its head from the box until it has eaten all it desires.

An oil-cup 12, having a perforated bottom, is secured in a shouldered opening 13 over the sponge and automatically feeds the exterminating compound through its perforated bottom upon the sponge, thus keeping the sponge always moist and saving much time and trouble.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letteis Patent, 1s-

1. The combination, with the closed feedbox provided with a feed-opening 2 in one side near its top, of an elastic absorbent material 7, disposed over the upper part of said opening, the lower edge of said material projected below the upper edge of said opening, whereby said opening is contracted, and

5 whereby when the fowl pushes its head therethrough said material will bear against the upper part of its neck, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the box having the 1o removable lid and the feed-openin g in its side and the sponge secured at the upper edge of said opening', substantially as set forth.

The combination of the box having the feed-opening in its side andthe shouldered I5 opening 13 in its lid, the sponge secured at the upper edge of the feed-openinggand the Vitn esses: JOHN H. KIYOU,

A. M. GIBBs.