US1197750A - Cattle-stall. - Google Patents

Description

G. A. NICCART.

CATTLE STALL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. eI 1916.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

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Inventor FCPIRT GA A. M

Cufomlct G. A. VIcCART.

CATTLE STALL.

APPLICATION FILED IEB. 9, I9Is.

1,1 97,750, Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

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CATTLE-STALL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 12, 1916.

Application filed February 9, 1916. Serial No. 77,235.

To all w from t may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. MCOART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county of Linn and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cattle-Stalls, o-f which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying, drawings.

This invention relates to stalls, and particularly to a stall designed for cows.

One object of this invention is to provide an improved stall in which the hay rack is adjustable to suit the height or length of the cow or other animal, and particularly to provide means whereby the whole rack may be shifted forward or rearward or whereby the inclination of the rack may be adjusted, or whereby the inclination of the front of the rack may be changed relative to the rear of the rack.

A further object is to provide means for maintaining the bedding within the stall, preventing the animal from scattering the bedding, said means being mounted adjacent the floor and at the entrance end of the stall and being adjustable toward or from the hay rack, thus adapting it to animals of different length, this means also acting to compel the animal to lie down on the bedding and also serving as a brace to prevent slipping when the animal arises from a recumbent position.`

Other objects have to do with improvements in the details of construction and arrangement of parts such as will permit the structure to be. readily assembled and installed, and such as will make the structure particularly strong and rigid and effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

Still another object of the invention is to so design the structure that a plurality of stalls may be provided with a minimum of parts.

Other objects will appear in the course of the following description. y

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure 1- is a front elevation of a stall constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the stall shown in Fig. 1, the floor and feed box bv ing partly in section; Fig. 3 is a perspective detail View of the means for supporting the bottom of the rack upon the guides 40; Fig.

4 shows the means whereby the front section of the rack is hingedly connected to the rear section of the rack; Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view of the floor of the stall, the supporting members 51 being shown in section and the bar 50 in elevation; Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of one of the supporting members 51 for thebar.

Referring to these figures, it will be seen that I provide a plurality of pairs of vertical standards 10 and'll, the standards 10 beingthe forward standards and the standards 11 being the rear standards. The lower ends of these standards are preferably embedded in the side walls of a concrete feed box 12 while the upper ends of the standards may be supported each pair in a sill 13. The concrete feed box is preferablylcast in one piece with a concrete floor 14, though this, it will be understood, is a detail of construction which may be varied in many ways. Connected to each of the vertical standards 11 by means of an elbow 15 is an outwardly extending partition or division bar 16 which extends outward andl then` downward, and the rear end is bent vertically downward and disposed in a suitable floor plate 17. Preferably sunk into the concrete yfloor below the upper portion of each bar 16 is a plate 18 which engages the lower ends of vertical rods 19, these rods being preferably tubular and the upper ends of the rods being engaged with the pipe section 16. The rods are preferably about three inches apart and are of any suitable height.

Rotatably mounted upon the standards 10 in a manner which` will be hereafter stated is a front rack section, designated generally 20. This is formed of an upper longitudinally. extending pipe 21, a lower longitudi- Y nally extending pipe 22, and a plurality of bars 23 also formed of pipe sections tapped into the pipe sections 21 and 22. The end bars 24 are relatively larger than the bars 23 and at their upper ends are engaged with Ts 25 into which a connecting rod 21a loosely passes as illustrated clearly in Fig. 1. At the ends the 4Ts 25 are smooth on their inner faces and'have rotative engagement with the short rod 21a in the manner illustrated most clearly in Fig. 1. These rods 21EL pass through elbows 10a on the standards 10.

The rear section of each manger rack is formed of a rectangular frame comprising the end pipe sections 30 and the upper and lower pipe sections 31 and 33 joined to each other' by means of elbows 34. The lower pipe section 33 of the rear section of the rack is connected to the lower pipe section 22 of the front section of the rack by links 35. These links are short pieces of pipe having looped heads at their extremities which engage loosely around the pipe sections 22 and 23. Riveted, bolted or otherwise attached to these links is a plate 36 which forms the bottom of the manger. It will be noticed that this plate is spaced. from the rear of the rack so that chaff, seeds and other like material may fall into the feed box. The upper end of the rear section of the rack is adj ustably connected to the standards 11 by mea-ns of links 37 which are pivotally connected to the pipe sections 30 and which are provided with a plurality of perforations for engagement by pins 38 passing through the standards l1.

To provide for a firm support for the rack whereby it may be adjusted from front to rear and also vertically, I attach to each pair` of standards 10 and 11 a pair of vertically adjustable angle irons 39 having inwardly extending flanges provided with perforations 40. These standards are formed with a vertical series of perforations 40a whereby the angle irons 39 may be vertically adjusted and thus the manger or rack vertic-ally adjusted. Riveted, bolted or otherwise attached to the lower corners of the rear rack section are the irons 41 whose inner lends are transversely curved to fit the curvature of the elbows 34 and whose outer ends are upwardly deflected and perforated at 42, these perforations 42 being adapted to register with the perforations 40 in the angle irons Pins or other suitable fastenings may be passed through the perforations 40 and 42 to hold the rack in any rearwardly or forwardly adjusted position.

Dividing the feed box belonging to one stall from the feed box of the next adjacent stall are forwardly and rearwardly extending boards 43 which may be clamped by U-bolts 44 to the standards l0 and 11, and extending along the front of each feed box are the boards 45 which may be connected to the transverse boards 43 in any suitable manner, or connected to the standards 10 and resting upon the upper edge of the rear wall of the feed box is the transverse board 46. These may or may not be used in order to deepen the feed box and may be con* nected to the standards 11 by means of U- bolts or any other suitable manner.- Connected to an eye or staple 48, which is carried upon the bar 33, is a chain 49 having branches which may be disposed around the neck of the animal to fasten it in the stall.

In stalls as ordinarily'constructed there is considerable difficulty in keeping the bedding in place within the stall. The animals are very liable to push the bedding out toward the entrance end of the stall and the bedding becomes therefore very dirty. In order to avoid this and also in order to as far as possible prevent the animal from lying down off the bedding or backing away from the feed rack so far that it will lie down upon soiled bedding, I provide the transversely extending bar 50. This consists of a pipe having flattened ends, the ends being drilled for the passage of bolts and the ends of the pipe being supported upon oppositely disposed supporting members 5l extending longitudinally of the stall and beneath the division bars 16.

While I do not wish to be limited to the particular means for supporting the bar 50, I preferably embed in the concrete floor the longitudinally extending blocks 51 which project above the floor about three inches. Eachblock 51 is protected by a longitudinal strip of iron 52 and bolts 53 pass downward through the strip and block and are embedded in the concrete floor. The strip 52 and the wooden blocks 51 are tapped for the reception of half-inch bolts 54 which pass down through these tapped holes and are adapted to hold the bar in place. There are a number of perforations for the passage of bolts 54 and hence the bar 5() may be adjusted longitudinally upon the blocks 51 and strips 52 to any extent desired. Thus if the cow is short the bar may be adjusted toward the front of the stall and to the full extent. If the cow is long, however, the bar may be adjusted nearer the entrance to the stall.

It will be obvious that the hay rack may be swung bodily upon the pivot formed by the pipe section 2l so as to adjust the rack nearer to or farther from the entrance to the stall, and that this will also adjust the inclination of the rack. Furthermore, the rear l section of the rack may be rotated upon its pivot so as to change the inclination of this section so that the rack may be adjusted in every respect to suit the animal for which the stall is provided. The capacity of the rack may also be adjusted by shifting the front section toward or from the rear section.

It will also be seen that by adjusting the angle irons 39 the rear section of the rack may be held in a raised position, the rear section of the rack swinging by reason of the links 35 and the links or braces 37. Thus the rack or manger may be shifted vertically so as to adjust it to animals of di'erent heights.

The bar 50 not only confines the bedding in that portion of the stall toward the rack and prevents the bedding from being kicked out from the stall, but inasmuch as it extends about five inches above the level of they ioor it will prevent the cow or other animal from lying down at the entrance end of the stall because if the cow does so lie downit will be very uncomfortable. This causes the cow to use only the clean bedding in the forc ward portion of the stall. Furthermore, this bar serves as a brace to prevent slipping when the cow rises from a lying down position.

While I have illustrated the details of construction and arrangement of parts which I have found to be particularly eective in practice and which are peculiarly designed to cheapen the construction of the stall by reducing the number of parts and simplifying the structure, yet I do not wish to be limited to this as it is obvious that many changes might be made in the details of construction without in any way departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having described the invention, what I claim is:

l. In a stall, a rearwardly and forwardly adjustable hay rack including a rear section independently angularly adjustable.

2. In a stall, a hay rack comprising a front and a rear section, the front section being rotatably supported at its upper end and the rear section being adjustable with the front section and independently angularly adjustable relative to the front section.

3. In a stall, upwardly extending supporting members, a hay rack comprising front and rear sections, the front section being rotatably supported upon said supporting members, the rear section being angularly adjustable relative to the front section, and links pivotally and adjustably connected to the supporting members and pivotally connected to the upper end of the rear section whereby the rear section may be held in angularly adjusted relation to the front section.

4. In a stall, oppositely disposed pairs of supporting members, a hay rack comprising front and rear sections, the front section being rotatably supported operatively upon said supporting members whereby the hay rack may be angularly adjusted and the lower end of the rack shifted longitudinally, the rear section of the hay rack being pivotally supported for independent angular movement and means for holding the rear section of the rack in a plurality of adjusted positions.

5. In a stall, supporting members, a hay rack comprising a front section and rear section, and links pivotally connecting the rear section at its lower end with the front section, the front section being pivotally connected at its upper end to the supporting members to provide for bodily swinging movement of the rack relative to said supporting members, and means for holding the rear section in adjusted positions relative to the front section, and means for holding the front section in any adjusted position.

6. In a stall, supporting members, a hay rack swingingly mounted at its upper end upon said supporting members for bodily swinging movement, said rack including a rear rack section pivotally mounted upon the body of the rack for independent angular' movement relative thereto, means for holding the rack as a whole in angularly adj usted positions to the supporting members, and means for holding the rear section in angularly adjusted positions relative to the body of the rack.

l7. In a stall, supporting members, tracks extending parallel to the sides of the stall mounted upon said supporting members, a hay rack having a front and a rear section, and members pivotally connecting the front and rear sections, the front section being swingingly supported at its upper end upon said supporting members, the bottom of the rack operatively engaging the tracks, and means for holding the rear section at angularly adjusted positions.

8. In a stall, oppositely disposed pairs of vertically extending standards, a hay rack comprising a front section, a rear section, and a bottom section, the front section being pivotally connected at its upper ends to the front standards, the rear section being swingingly engaged with said bottom, tracks extending between the front and rear standards and with which the bottom of the rack engages, means on the rack and on the tracks for holding the rack in angularly adjusted positions, and means engaging the rear section of the rack for supporting it in any angularly adjusted relation to the bottom of the rack.

9. In a stall of the character described, a feed box, upwardly extending pairs of laterally disposed standards extending upward from the feed box, tracks mounted upon said standards and extending rearward and forward, a hay rack comprising a front section, a rear section and a bottom section, the rear section being swingingly connected to the bottom section at its lower end, the front section being swingingly connected to the front standards, the bottom resting upon and movable over said tracks, means cartically across the frame, linking members connecting the lower end of the front section with the lower end of the rear section and having portions at the ends embracing the frames of said sections, and a bottom mounted upon said linking members, means for swingingly supporting the front section of the hay rack, means for holding the rack in angularly adjusted positions, and means for holding the rear section of the rack in angularly adjusted position relative to the front section.

11. In a stall of the character described, a concrete loor7 longitudinally extending blocks embedded in the floor at the entrance of the stall, metallic strips mounted upon said blocks and tapped at intervals, fastening members passing through the strips and into the blocks and into the concrete floor and holding the blocks and strips to the floor, a cross bar having perforations at its extremities, and screws passing through the cross bar and engaging the openings in the strips.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE A. MGCART. Witnesses:

M. V. WEATHERFORD, FRANCES MoCoURT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patent:

Washington, D. G.

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