US899125A - Rack for feeding-troughs. - Google Patents

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W. A. MOCOLLOUGH.y

RACK PORFEEDING TBOUGHS.

APPLIoAT'Iox FILED APR. s, 1901.v

Patnd, sept. 22, 1908.

XYILLIAM A. )ICCOLLOUGIL OF )[ARSHALLTOW, IOWA.'

l RACK Fon FEEDING-TROUGHS.

Specification of Lettersi'Patent.

Application tiled April 5, 190". Serial No. 366,489.

To all 11:71amy it may concern:

Be it known that l, 'ILLIAAI A. MCGN Loren, a citizen of the United States of Amerie: and l'esident of )larshalltowln arshall county, Iowa, have invented a new and. useful Rack for Feeding-Troughs, of which the following is a speeilication.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for preventing the entrance of live stock to a feeding trough;

A further object of this invention is to provide. improved means for )ermitting the insert-ion of the snout or head of an animal to a feeding trough while at the same time the feet and body of the animal are excluded from said trough.

A further object of this invention is to provide means for hinging a rack to a feeding trough whereby said rack may be superposed onthe trough or removed therefrom as desired, conveniently and readily.

A further object of this invent-ion is to provide improved means for hinging and latchmg a rack to a feeding trough whereby said rack is rigidly connected to the trough when superposed thereon.

A further object of this invention is to provide an improved construction for racks for feeding troughs wherein the partition bars of the racks are staggered on opposite sides thereof to avoid face to face meeting of animals feeding therein from opposite sides` thereof.

A further object of this invention is to provide a rack for feeding troughs made in sections and separately hinged and latched to a trough whereby a trough of considerable length may be equipped and the racks thereon be readily and conveniently manipulated and adjusted.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is aA plan of a complete trough showing a rack formed two sections mounted thereon in position for practical use. Fig. 2 is side elevation of the same device. Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the. same. device, the dotted lines indicating the position assumed by the rack when turned away from the trough.

In the construct-ion of the device as shown, the numeral. 10 designates a feeding trough which may be of any desired form, but for convenience I have shown it rwtangular in elevation and plan. A rack is'pnwided and is formed of marginal bars 11. 12 amd-a median bar 'hetween them. Partition bars 14 are rigidly connected at their emails tothe marginal har 11 and the median bam" 13 and other partition bars 15 are rigidly c-:we'inected at then ends to the marginal bar 1. :and the median bar. The partition hars E-l .and 15 65 are arranged .in staggered relations so that the s mee between two of the bars R4. is opposed by one of the bars 15 and tine reverse. Cross bars 16, 17 connect end portions ofthe marginal bars 11, 12 and extend arr-oss the trough 1() at the ends of the-mel; sections. The cross bars 16 and 17 each have downturned end portions, whereby said cross lia' are of ap noximate arch or invertall U-shap and stratldle the trough, the downtrmzned end portions being secured to cach side ihar am ying in contact with the outer faces of the side walls of the trough.

The spaces between the partition bars 14 or 15 is suflicient for the' introduction of the head of an animal or fowl for the purpose of feeding from the trough but will be determined in respect of the size and type of animal or fowl -using the trough as that the feet and body ofthe feeder will be exctudlfed from the trough during the operation. of :eat-inv. Strap hinge members 17', 18 are. tired rig.. idly to one wall of the trough 10 amil een-d portions 19, l0 of marginal partition 15 are extended and curved into circ-nier form to pivotal y connect the hinge nier-.ib i 7', 18 to the hinge members 19, 20. Trie hinge pins 21, 22 may be removed from hinge members to permit the rack to be removed from the trough. An angle piaae 23 is mounted on the central )ort-ion of' :be front wall of the trough 1() an( a bail :2 is i ivoted to the central portion of the marginal bar 11 and is adapted to engage with said hinge plate and prevent accidental oeeilation of the rack.

In practical use the trough is equipped with one or more of the sections of marks constructed as above described, the nirnber of sections employed being dependen; on the length of the sections and the le -of the trough. The rack sections are :a sted as shown, crossing and arching above the trough 10 and in such position permit suHiilo , t z' i cient access of the feeder to the trough for feeding purposes and exclude the remainder of the feeder. il hen itV is desired to have access to the trough for the purpose of cleaning` it. or for any other purpose manual force is applied to release the. bail'24 from the angle plate. 23 and lift the forward portion of ,the

rack. AThis done, the-,rack articulates on the' hinge pins 21, '.22 and may be turned into the position shown bydotted lilies in Fig. 3 where itl 'is supported bythe ground or plait.- foinil adjacent the. trough until replaced manually iii the initial position shown.

The rack preferably is made of ilat steel bars cut andshaped as desired and riveted together into the form shown but I do notl dcsirc to be understood to limit myself to the preciso construction herein illustrated and set forth as various inoditications may be employed without'departing from the spiritl of my invention. i

I claim as iny invention- In combination, a rectangular box like feed trough and a skeleton cover hinged to said trough at one side thereof and comprismf?r longitudinal side bars, a longitudinal medianiiar, spaced partition bars connecting said median bar with each side bai' aiid a. straight cross piece coiui'ectmfjr said side bars and having downturned end portions secured thereto, said end portions lying in Contact,

with the outer faces of the side'ivalls of the trouvh said median harbeiuv dis )osed above saidsidc bars whereby said cover has an arch shaped cross section. I

Signed by nie at Des Moines, Iowa, this twenty sixth day of February, 1907.

WI. LLLUI. A. McCOLlOL'Gl-I.-

Witnesses: S. (I. SWEET, Awami ANDERSON.

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