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L. M. REED.

PEEDING DEVICE FOR` ANIMALS.

Patented June 7, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

LEWIS M. REED, OF PATTERSON, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-I-IALETO JAMES W. HIOKMAN, lOF SAME PLACE.

FEEDING DEVICE FOR ANIMALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,310, dated J' une 7, 1892. Application tiled January 5 1892. Serial No. 417,108. w(No model.)

T all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS M. REED, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Patterson, in the county of Harvey and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Feeding Animals; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled 1o in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has relation to means for feeding small or young animals; and the object is to provide improved means whereby young and dependent animals-such as little pigs and calves-may be provided With food. which zo they take from the food-receptacle much in i the manner that nature furnishes them; and With this obj ect in vievv my invention consists in the novel features of construction and their combination, as Will be hereinafter fully described, and as the same is particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view of my improved stock-feeder. Fig. 2 is a view of the base portion or heating- 3o drum of the feeder. Fig. 3 is a view of the upper portion of the feeder, being the foodreceptacle. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the bottom portion of the apparatus. Fig. 5 is a vertical central section of the food-receptacle-and the heating-drum arranged together and the lamp in the lower port-ion or drum. Fig. 6 is sectional detail of the teat. Fig. 7 is a plan detail of one of the baili ears on the foodholder.

4o A designates the base-plate, consisting of a plate of such size and shape as may be dcsired, the purposes being to leave a rather Wide flange surrounding the vertical supportcle or holder. This heating-drum is prefer- 5o ably a cylinder having its lower edge firmly secured to the base plate by any suitable means. I have shown it as being secured and riveted thereto by brace-pieces. In the top edge of the cylinder or heating-drum are formed recesses 2, as many as may be desired, in which the bases of the food-ports rest When the food-holder is in position. In the [heat-v ing-drum is a port or Opening 3, closed by a slide 4, through which port 3 the thumb-piece of the wick-raiser of the lamp 5 can be con- 6o veniently reached for manipulation and the flame of the lamp thus regulated. The lamp is detachably secured in the drum and to the bottom thereof. On the opposite sides of the `heating-drum are bail-ears 6 7, having holes 65V `to take and retain the hooks of the bail by which the device may be carried from place toplace.

C designates the food-holder, consisting of .a cylindrical vessel of such size as may be de- 7o sired and of less diameter than the heatingdrum or base portion, in or on Which it rests, substantially as shown in Figs. l and 5 of the drawings. The bottom 8 of the food-holder is higher in the central part, so that the liquidV food will have a tendency to run outward and drain the vessel.

In the center of the food-holder is arranged and secured the flue or lamp-chimney 9, the lower portion extending below the bottom and 8o the upper portion or top reaching above the rim or edge of the food-holder, as seenin the drawings. This chimney serves as the draft to the lamp, and by this means the current is created and the radiations from the pipe, con- 85 stituting the chimney, heat the food in the receptacle. In the holder just above or on a line with the upper surface of the bottom are secured a number of short tubes 10, radially arranged and adapted to lit in the recesses 2 9o of the heating-drum, as shown. The outer ends of these short tubes lO support an annular ring 1l, which, when the food-holder is put on the heatingdrum, sets around the outside of the latter and serves to prevent damage at the intersection of the parts. To each of the short tubes l() is secured a flexibleteat l2, having a small puncture at the end, through which the food vis drawn when the animal sucks on it when taking its food. roo

These flexible teats are made of india-rubber and are clamped tightly against the outer ends of the short tubes by means of clampingplates 13, secured to the ring 11,substantially as seen in the drawings.

D designates the lid of the food-holder, of the usual construction, to set on a cylindrical vessel and having a central opening 14, havl ing arranged over it a hood or cowl to set over it, the Wall of the hood having openings 16 to let the current from the lamp escape. The hood may be hinged to the lid. When desired, the llame of the lamp may be viewed through the chimney When regulating the flame.

On the sides ot' lthe food-holder near the top are secured bail-ears 17 1S, formed With slots 19, and having a cross-piece 2O of wire secured across the slots, as shown, one of the ears beingillustrated in detail in Fig. 7 of the drawings. As the bail E must be adapted to carry either the food-holder alone or both vessels when set together, it is made detachable at both places, and hence may be pushed down through the slots of the ears 17 and 1S until the turned-in en'ds can be sprung into the holes in the bail-ears of the heating-drum, as shown in the drawings.

When it is desired to remove the food-holder from its seat on the heating-drum, the tu rnedin ends of the bail are sprung out of the ears and the bail drawn up until the hooks engage the Wires of the bail-ears on the food-holder, and then the holder may be lifted and carried by the bail. It will be perceived that when the bail is engaged in the ears of the heating-drum they also serve as a locking means to hold the heating-drum and foodholder together, since the ears of the drum project above the ring 11 and the turned-in ends of the bail engage or rest on the upper lsurface of the annular ring and thus hold the parts together.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the supporting heating-drum adapted to hold a heating means and formed with recesses in its upper edge and the food-holder having a draft-chimney, tubes in the holder, adapted to drain the holder and set in the recesses of the heating-drum, an annular ring on the outer end of the tubes, and teats clamped to the annular ring over the open ends of the tubes, substantially as described.

2. In a feeding device for animals, the combination of a heating-drum formed With rel cesses in its upper end and having bail-ears, a food-holder having radially-disposed tubes, and an annular ring arranged about the base of the food-holder on said tubes, and a bail the ends of which engage the ears of the drum and lock the holder and heating-drum together, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

LEWIS M. REED.

Witnesses:

N. P. BELL, C. E. LrvENGooD.

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