US1366234A - Stock watering - Google Patents

Description

0. M. WOODS.

STOCK WATERING APPLIANCE. APPLICATiON FILED MAR. 14. 1919.

1,366,234. Patented Jan.18,1921.

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STOCK WATERING APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.14, 19 19.

Patented Jan. 18, 192.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORA M. WOODS, 0F CLIFFS, IDAHO.

STOGK-WATERING APPLIANCE.

T0 aZZwhom it may concern: y i

Be it known that I, ORA Mawoons, a cit zen of the United States of Americayresid ing at Cliffs, in the county of ()wyhee and State of Idaho, have invented new and useful Improvements in StocleVV-atering Appliances, of which the following is a specification. a

The object of the invention is ,to provide an appliance for use in conjunction with wells, whereby the stock in a large pasture may, as they need the water, raise the same into a suitable drinking tank in approaching the latter. In carrying out the invention provision is made for returning to the well immediately the stock leave the tank of any water left in the latter, after the stock have drunk, and further provision is also made for automatically shutting oil thesupply of water to the tank when it reaches a predetermined level. i

Further objects of the invention to pro 'vide an appliance of this character, which is simple in construction, durable and effective in. operationand inexpensive to manu facture and apply. a

Other and further objects appear in, the following description. wherein the invention is set forth indetail.

To the exact construction in which it is shown and described, the invention is not to be restricted. The right isreserved to make such changes or alterations as the actual re duction to practice may suggest, in so far as such changes or alterations are compatible in spirit with the annexed claims.

The same numerals of reference designate the same parts throughout the several figure of drawings, wherein: 1

Figure 1 is a view partly in section and partly in elevation showing the practical application of the invention. a

Fig. 2 is a top. plan view-of structure of Fig; 1. i i

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectioinal View of the drinking tank showing the automatic valve for the waste thereof. y i i r 1 Fig. 4 is a detailed sectionalview ofa portion of thefdrinking tank showing the automatic filling valve.

Referring to the drawings, the purpose of the invention is evidetit. It is designed for Specificationof Letters Patent. t t Jan, 1 192 i Application flled Ma reh 14,1919. Serial No. 282,662. i

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i A pump cylinder 5 is positioned in the well adjacent the bottom and is suspended from guy rods 6 which are attached at uniformly spaced points around the surface of the cylinder and attached also to the walls of the well near. the upper edges thereof, this means of supporting the pump cylinder permitting its placing in the well without having to go below the water line indicated at 7 Looking in the cylinder 5 there is a piston 8, this piston having secured to its upper face the lower ends of diverging bars 9, the latterbeing L shaped in crosssection and extending close to the upper edge. of the well to receive a latform 10, which is positioned between the two sections of fence 3so that stock seeking the tank will be required to step upon the platform. Obviously, such movement ofthe stock on the platform will cause a depression of :the latter and the p downward movementof thepiston 8 in the,

cylinder. To provide for moving the piston to the upper end of the cylinder when no weight is imposed on the platform 10. a

transverse bar :11 has its ends set in the walls .of the well and this bar is strengthened by a truss l2 toresist a downwardtransverse strain and carries on its under edge or face a pair of sheave pulleys 13 over which there are trained the cables 14. One end of each of these cables let is attached to the piston 8 and the remaining end. of each carries a weight 15, the two weights obviously operating to raise the piston and the platform immediately the weight is removed fromthe latter. i i m a On the upward movement of thepiston S,

f it is designed to take in water and to that end the bottom of the cylinder 5 is provided with an inlet valve 16 opening on the up ward movement of the piston and closing on obviously permit the transfer of water iin the cylinder to the tank 2 when the piston moves downward as is the case when stock step on the platform 10.

"In order that the tank 2 may not be supplied with water higher'than'a prescribed level the inlaid end of the pipe 17 is performed to provide ava-lve seat with which the: lever valve 20 may engage, one arm of this valve being connected with a float 21 by means efa chain .22 and the valve being pivotally mounted as at 23, in the bottom of the tank 2. .YVhen the water reaches a level where the lioat21 will. be raised high enough to draw the chain"22 taut, the valve 20 will be. engaged with its seat 'and the supply I through the pipe 17 will be cut off.

Inforder to provide against freezing of wat'er' inthe tank, that is filled and the water not removed as when the animals drink from the same, a waste pipe 24 is "provided, this Waste pipe passing through thebottom of the tank 2 to form a seat on which the lever valve 25 may engage, the pipe24 extending downwardly and entering the end through one of the side walls thereof, as "clearly shown in Fig. 1. After the valve 25 is raised, the water in the tank will perforce flow through the pipe 24 and back into the well, but if the valve 25 is closed such transfer of the water is precluded. It is the intention to have the valve 25 open except when the platformdO is depressed, as when an animal is standing thereon and the valve 25 is, therefore, operatively conne'ctedwith the platform, a lever 26 being vfulcrumed on the upper edge of the tank and having its one end connected to the tail ofithe lever valve 25 by aconnecting link 27. Theremaining endof this lever 26 pivotally connects with the upper section 28 of a telesco in .two part rod. comprisin in addi- P a. a g

' 'tionftocthe section 28 a'section29, which is secured to theplatform'lO. These two sections are normally 'heldin a positionwhere their combined length is shortest by a spring "30, whichsurrounds the two and has one end connected to the section 28 and the other to the section 29, the rod being lengthened by sliding movement between the two sectionsagainst the tension of the spring 30.

. l/Vhen no animals are on the platform 10,

the latterwill be in raised'position as a result ofthe action of weights 15, and the "piston willbe at the upper end of the cylinder having drawn in a quantity of water on its upward movement to reach its highest position. The valve 25 will also be in open position as the two part rod composing the sections 28 and 29 will be raised thus do.- pressing that end of the lever 29 to which the link 27 is connected with the result that the valve 25 is raised from its seat. If any water was in the tank before the platform raised, such water will flow through the waste pipe 24 back into the well upon the opening of the valve 25. If now an animal seeks a drink from the tank it will be required, because of the sections of the fence 3, to stand upon the platform 10 to gain access to the tank and this act will result in a depression of a platform with the forcing of the piston 8 downward in the cylinder. and the consequent raising of the water through the pipe 17 into the tank 2, water continuing to flow into the tank until stopped by the closing of the valve 20 through the operation of its float 21, by the depression of the platform 10, also results in lowering the rod comprising the sections 28 and 29, and working the lever 26 in the opposite direction so that the valve 25 is closed thereby and the waste discharge pipe thereby prevented from conducting water back to the-well, the spring 30 providing enough resiliency between the two sections 28 and 29 to permit the same to extend the length of the rod of which they are a part, to prevent the engaging of the valve 25 against its seat with too great a force.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. In a stock watering appliance, the combination with a well, of a pump cylinder positioned below the water level of the well, a tank adjacent the well at one side thereof, connections between the cylinder and the tank, a platform disposed in the mouth of the well, the cylinder being opened at its upper end, a piston disposed in the cylinder, diverging bars connected with the piston on top and extending to and connecting with the platform, a pair of pulleys, means for mounting the pulleys just below the top of the well and below the platform, flexible members trained over the pulley and having one end connected with the piston, and

"counter-balancing"weights connected to the remaining ends of theflexible members in the mannerand for the purposes specified.

2. In a stock watering appliance, the combination with a well, of a pump positioned below the water well, a tank adjacent the well at one side thereof, a platform mounted in the ,mouth of the well and operatively connected with the pump, a supply pipe between the pump and the tank. a waste pipe connected with the tank and entering the well for the return o'l: water from the tank into the well, a valve closing that end of llll) llll the waste pipe entering the tank, a pivotally mounted lever on one end of which the valve is carried, a second lever pivotally mounted at the top of the tank, a link connectingthe two said levers, a lodge composed of two telescopic sections one of which is secured to the platform and the other connected to the last said lever, and a spring surrounding the said rod and connected respectively to the two sections thereof to provide for ex- 10 tension ofthe sections against the tension of the spring when the platform is lowering to close the valve. t In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ORA M. WOODS.

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