US808808A - Brooder. - Google Patents

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No. 808,808. PATBNTBD JAN.,2,'1900.

BROODER.

APPLIUATION FILED 0018.8. 1805.

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BROODER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 2, 1906.

. Application filed January 3,1905. Serial No. 239,533.

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Be it known that I, CHARLES J. BECKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Broeders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for the articial rearing of young chickens or other birds, and has for its obj ect the production of a-brooder in which the heat, light, and fresh air are uniformly distributed.

A 'further obj ect is to provide a brooder in which the hover is separated from the nurseries byllexible partitions, whichprevents the crowding and huddling together of the young birds.

I accomplish these objects by the device described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 'is a perspective view of my improved brooder. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the heating device with parts broken away and parts in section. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary perspective of one of the flexible partitions which separate the hover Jfrom the nurseries.

In the drawings, 5 is a rectangular boxlike structure inclosed on all sides and divided by a floor 6 into an upper and lower chamber. The upper chamber is subdivided, by means of flexible partitions 7, into three compartments, consisting of a central compartment or hover 8 and end compartments or nurseries 9 and 10. The hover has a roof 11 and hinged doors 12 and 13, controlled by adjustable straps opening into it, the door 13 having a glass in it for the admission of light to the hover. Attached to the sides of the roof ofthe hover are hinged covers 14 and 15, which have glass in them and cover the nurseries. These covers can be raised up, and thereby permit a freer circulation of air and facilitate the cleaning of the brooder. The opposite ends of the brooder have screencovered openings 16 and 17 for the passage out of foul air from the brooder, and the front sides have openings 18 and 19, having hinged adjustable doors 20 and 21, permitting ingress and egress to and Jfrom the nurseries by means of stepped runways 22.

Attached to the under sides of the outside edges of the hover-roof are transverse braces 23, to which is attached the adjustable partitions 7. These partitions consist of a swinging cross-board 25, which is hung d1- rectly beneath and attached to the brace 23 by means of a strip of cavas 26. This canvas is held in place by cleats 27, which are attached to the cross-board 25 and brace 23, thus forming a hinge 28. Attachedv to the lower edge of this swinging cross-board is a piece of felt 29, which extends transversely across the brooder and which hangs downwardly to within a short distance of the i'loor. This piece of felt has a series of vertical slits for the purpose lof permitting the easy ingress and egress to or from the nurseries. Attachedv at the center and near the top oi' the brooder on the cross-braces 23 are eyes 30, which engage with a hook 31 to permit of the adjustment of the partition as the chicks or f birds increase in size.

The lower division oi' the brooder beneath the Hoor is provided for the fresh-air supply and heating apparatus, which consists in this instance of a lamp 32, seated on a transverse spring 33, which crosses the brooder in the center. Projecting upwardly through a hole 34 in the floor of the brooder and into the hover is a cylindrical fresh-air drum `35, closed at its upper end and provided with a number of heat-outlets 36. Mounted inside of this cylinder and extending below the licor-line and seated on the wick-holder of the lamp is a cylindrical metal chimney 37, which extendsupwardly to within a short distance of the top of the fresh-air drum. This metal chimney has heat- oultets 38 and 39, which pass through the' fresh-air drum near the top and connect with radiating pipes 40, which distribute the heat evenly and uniformly throughout the hover. These radiating pipes are connected with the roof of the hover by ventpipes 41, which extend upwardly toward the roof of the hover and discharge through the roof by means of small vpipes 42, attached to the top of the vents 41.

An opening 43, having a hinged door 44, is provided in thefront wall of the lower division of the brooder to provide access to the lamp and regulator. This heating device may be connected with any heat-regulating means. In this instance I have shown a vertical cylindrical tube 45 extending through the floor and roof of the brooder and adjacent to the fresh-air drum, through which extends a rod 46, which is in contact with a trip on the wick and to the outer end of which is IOC mounted the counterweight 47. A thermometer 48 may be placed at any convenient point in the hover to .ascertain the temperature.

ln operation the lighted lamp is placed in 5 position on the spring 33, which holds it in close contact with the metal chimney37,which conducts the heat upwardly and around the radiating pipes 40 to the vents 41, through which pass all the noxious gases created by the lamp, and at the same time the heat from the chimney continually draws fresh air from the outside through openings 49 in the lower front wall of the brooder. This air is heated as it passes around the chimney and is discharged through the outlets 36, thereby producing additional warmth for the hover and at the same time creating a circulation of pure warm air through the hover and nurseries and dispelling the foul air created by the fowls out of the screened openings 16 and 17 of the nurseries. It will thus be seen that I have produced a brooder in which the heat can at all times be uniformly and evenly maintained and byvmeans of a free circulation of fresh air to the lamp keeps the lamp-font cool and free from any danger of explosion. The hover having no corners prevents the crowd.- ing and huddling together which is common in young fowls, the 'Iiexible partitions giving away whenanyattempt at crowding is started and forcing the fowls into the nurseries.

Having described my invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A brooder consisting of an upper and lower chamber formed into a series of compartments by means of adjustable flexible slitted partitions, said partitions forming unobstructed communication with the other chambers; heat-generating means located in said lower chamber communicating with heat-radiating means in said upper chamber to heat the same.

2. A brooder consisting of an upper and lower chamber, adjustable flexible slitted partitions in said upper chamber dividing it into a series of compartments consisting of a central compartment and end compartments, said end compartments having hinged roofs and provided with air-outlets and communicating means, said central compartment having in its front and rear walls hinged adjustable doors and containing the heat-distributing means, said lower chamber having heatjusted lamp having a metal chimney extendmg upwardly into said central compartment generating means, consisting of a spring-adand provided with heat-distributing outlets, said outlets communicating by means of metal tubes with heat-radiating tubes having outlet-vents terminating outside the central chamber.

3. A brooder consisting of an upper and lower chamber, adjustable flexible slitted partitions in said upper chamber dividing the same into a series of compartments consisting of a central compartment and end compartments, said end compartments having hinged roofs and provided with air-outlets and communicating means; said central compartment having in its front and rear walls hinged adjustable doors and containing the heat-distributing means; a springsupported lamp in the lower chamber; a metal chimney having heat-distributing outlets at the top thereof seated on said lamp and extending upwardly into said upper compartment and closed at its upper end; a closed cylindrical fresh-air drum open at its lower end and closed at its upper end and having near the upper end a series of heatoutlets; said fresh-air drum forming means to supply heated fresh air for the central and end compartments; metal tubes extending through the fresh-air drum and communicating with the chimney, heat-radiating tubes having outlet-vents terminating outside the central chamber, said radiating tubes being in communication with the tubes leading from the chimney.

4. ln a brooder heat-generating means, said means consisting of a spring-supported lamp exposed to cool-air currents, in combination with a metal chimney closed at its upper end having heat-outlet openings located near the top of said metal chinmey; a cylindrical fresh-air drum surrounding said chimney closed at its upper end, said freshair drum having a series of heat-outlets at its upper end, metal tubes communicating with said chimney and extending through the airdrum; radiating tubes having outlet-vents terminating outside the roof of the central compartment, said radiating tubes communicating with the tubes leading from the chimney.

In witness that I claim the foregoing l have hereunto subscribed my name this 23d day of December, 1904.

CHARLES J. BECKER.

Vitnesses:

EDMUND A. STRAUsE, G. E. HARPHAM.

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