US443446A - Stock-watering trough - Google Patents

Description

(NQ Model.)

` W. KOUNS.

STOCK WATBRING TROUGH. N0.-443,446. Patented Dec. 23, 1,890.

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VESLEY KOUNS, OF SALINA, KANSAS.

sTocK-wATERlNe TRouel-l.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,446, dated December 23, 1890.

Application filed December 16, 1889. Serial No. 333,978. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WESLEY KOUNs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salina, in the county of Saline and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in' Stock-IVatering Troughs; and I do hereby 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 saine.

My invention relates to new and useful iinproveinents in stock-watering troughs; and it consists in the improved construction and arrangement or combination of parts, hereinafter fully disclosed in the description, drawings, and claims.

The objects of iny invention are, iirst, to provide improved means for keeping water in a stock-watering reservoir or trough at a substantially uniform temperature during the different seasons of the year, or cool in warm weather and at about the same temperature, or free from freezing, in cold weather; second, to provide a stock-watering reservoir or trough with outer, intermediate or central, and inner walls or shells for forming two or incre air-spaces; third, to provide such a stockwaterin g trough with a bottom which is raised a considerable distance toward its top, so as to leave a large air chamber or space below said bottom, and, fourth, to provide improved means for connecting and securing the component parts of my stock-watering reservoir or trough. These objects are accomplished by the novel construction and arrangement of the parts illustrated in the. accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which the saine reference-numerals indicate the same parts, and in which- Figure 1 represents a vertical section of my improved stock-watering reservoir or trough, showing it in operative position or seated in a cavity in the earth; and Fig. 2, a horizontal transverse section of said trough, the sect-ion being taken on a line beneath the waterchamber.

In the drawings, the numeral l indicates the entire stock-watering reservoir or trough, which is preferably cylindrical in foi-in, although it may be constructedV in any other suitable desired shape. This trough is closed at its upper end by atop or cover 2, having an annular flange 3 projecting downwardly from its periphery and overlapping the upper end of the outer wall or shell 4. of said trough; 5 5

also, said top or cover is formed with another inner annular flange 5 on its under side for supporting and spacing or holding apart the intermediate or central wall or shell 6 and the inner wall or shell7 of said trough, which 6o are respectively placed with their upper ends against the outer and inner sides or faces of said iiange 5. The lower ends of these cylindrical walls or shells rest upon blocks 8, formed with curved transverse grooves 9 in their up- 65 per faces, within which are fitted the edges of the lower ends of said shells. The reservoir or trough, as thus constructed with three shells, is spaced or formed to contain two airspaces 10. A suitable number of rods or long 7o bolts ll are passed through the outer air-space lO and are formed with screw-threaded upper and lowerA ends, which extend through the cover 2 of the trough and the blocks S, and

are secured in place by the washers l2 and 7 5 the nuts 13. These rods or bolts, washers, nuts, grooved blocks, and the flanged top or cover of the trough serve to properly space and rigidly hold the three shells in their proper relative positions when assembled for 8o use, and also to permit of their detachment for cleaning, repair, transportation, and similar purposes.

Interiorly of the inner shell 7 and at or near the mid-length of the trough l is suitably se- 85 cured the bottom le, which, in connection with the lower portion of said inner shell, forms a large air-space l5 within said trough and beneath the water-chamber 16, this air-space, in

connection with the surrounding air-spaces 9o air-space and enters said water-chamber cen- 9.5

trally of its bottom. This pipe along its inner vertical portion is also practically isolated from the effects of heat and cold. Also, said pipe is provided with the inlet-valve 18, se-

cured to the inner end of the lever 19, which ico is connected to the iioat 2O by means of the rod 21, these parts operating to regulate the flow of water into said water-chamber in the same manner as the corresponding devices in the patent granted to me November i), lSSG, No. 351,781.

The cover is torlned with the. openings 22 for receiving and supporting the removable buckets 23, which are formed with small holes in or near their bottoms, which are covered by the Hap-valves 2l, pivoted to the inner walls of' said buckets. These valves admit the inflow ot the water while the buckets are in place, but close by the pressure of the water when said buckets are removed for cleaning and the like, and prevent the escape into the water-chamber of any refuse or dirt which may accumulate in said buckets. rlhe cover 2 is preferably made of cast metal and provided on its under side with the re-enforcing rib or strip 25, which may be made of any suitable material for strengthening said cover.

It will be obvious from the foregoing that in the use of my improved stock-watering` reservoir or trough it is so placed in a correspondinglyshaped cavity formed in the earth that a sufiicient portion of its length will project above the earths surface to enable stock to easily obtain access thereto; that the wa ter-supply pipe projects downwardly and horizontally, leads to a source of supply tor the water, and is embedded in the earth to a sutficient depth to prevent the water passing therethrough from freezing in cold weather and keep the same cool in warm weather, but that this pipe as thus arranged is not always indispensable, as the water maybe delivered into the water-chamber in other ways, as through the openings in the cover, and the usefulness of the trough remain the same; that the water-chamber in the form et the in vention herein disclosed is surrounded by a double air-space and arranged above the large airspace which is formed below its bottom and surrounds the water-supply pipe; that these air-spaces will practically keep the wan ter in said water-chamber at an even te1nperature, or prevent the same from freezing in cold weather and keep it cool in warnt weather; that the rods or long bolts, the nuts, the top or cover of the trough, and the blocks at the lower end thereof serve to llrinly unite or se cure together the several parts ot' said trough when operatively assembled; that the use ot the last-named devices permit the several parts ofthe stock-wa teringI trough to be manufactured, shipped, and sold separately, so as to provide for wear and breakage,to be easily placed together, and also secured in position by an ordinary wrench in the hands oli' any person of average intellect, and to be easy ol l removal for cleaning and repairs, and that minor changes in the construction and arrangement ol the parts can be made without departing lroni the nature or principle of my invention, such as providing the trough with more than two surrounding air-sjaces.

Having thus fully described the construction and arrangement or combination of the several parts of my improved stock-watering trough, its use, purposes, and advantages, what l claim as new isl. ln a stock-watering trough, the combination,with a water-chamber, of walls or shells surrounding the same and forming air-spaces, a cover extending over said chamber and closing the upper ends of said shells, and a raised bottom secured to theinnersurface of theinner shell and forming an air-space below said bottom, substantially as described.

In a stock-watering trough, the combinaA tion, with a water-chamber, of walls or shells surrounding the same and forming air'spaces, a cover extcndin g over said chamber and closing the upper ends ot' said shells, a raised bottom secured to the inner surface of the inner shell and forming an air-space below said bottom, and a water-supplypipe communicating with said chamber, substantially as described.

ln a stoclewatcring trough, the combinaA tion, with an outer, an inner, and a central wall'oi.` shell, of a cover having a peripheral flange overhanging the upper end ot the outer shell and an inner flange upon its under side for spacing said inner and central shells, and means tor holding said cover in place, substantially as described.

,t. In a stoclewatering trough, the combination, with an outer, an inner, and a central wall or shell, of a cover having a peripheral f'lange overhanging the upperend of theouter shell and an inner flange upon its under side for spacing the inner and central shells, a water-chamber having' a raised bottom secured to said inner easing, and means for securing said shells aud cover together, sub^ stantially as described.

ln a stock-watering trough, the combination, with the walls or shells arranged to form air-spaces between them, the cover, the waterchamber having the raised bottom, the supporting-blocks, and means for connecting said cover and blocks and holding said shells in place, substantially as described.

G. In a stock-watering ltrough, the combination, with an outer, an inner, and a central wall or shell and a cover having a peripheral flange ovcrhanging the upper end of said outer shell and an inner flange upon its underside t'or spacing said inner and central shells, ot nutted rods or bolts and suliporting-bloeks secured to the lower ends of said rods or bolts and formed with grooves in their upper surfaces for supporting and spacing the lower ends of said shells, substantially as described.

7. A. stock-watering trough l, provided with the outer shell Ll, the central shell 6, the inner shell 7, the water-chamber 1G, having the raised bottom ll, the cover f2, formed with the openings 22 and with the peripheral and inner flanges 3 and 5, the buckets 23,supported in said openings, the supporting-blocks 8, formed with the curved grooves 9 in their upper faces for receiving the lower ends of said IOC IIO

shells, the rods or bolts 11, formed with soreW- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in threaded upper and lower ends, extended presence of two Witnesses. through said cover and blocks and provided with the Washers l2 and nuts 13 at their up- WESLEY KOUNS. per and lower ends, and the Water-supply pipe AWitnesses:

17, entering said Water-ohamberoentrally of F. C. MILLER,

its bottom, substantially as described. I. D. LOCKWOOD.

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