US581623A - Stock-watering device - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

J. SEILER. :swocx WATBRING DEVICE.

Patented Apr. 27, 1897.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS.

NlTlE Sra'rns JOSEPH SEILER, OF MAPLE RIVER J UN OTION, IOYVA.

STOCK-WATERING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 581 ,623, dated April 2'7, 1897.

Application filed J l 21, 1896.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOSEPH SEILER, of Maple River Junction, in the county of Carroll and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Stockatering Device, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a stock-watering device adapted for attachment to a tank, a barrel, or other source of liquidsupply, the device being furthermore adapted to be used in connection with a reservoir or storage-receptacle for liquid, and a watering trough, tank, or the like, in which, when the water has reached a predetermined level, the liquid from, the supply-tank will be cut off, and whereby, further, when the liquid in the watering-tank, or tank from which the stock is to drink, or liquid to be taken is exhausted, so that its level will be lowered beyond a predetermined point, the device will be au tomatically acted upon in such a manner as to supply the deficiency of liquid to the said watering-tank.

A further object of the invention is to provide a stock-watering device of the character above described which may be attached to a hydrant instead of to a tank or a barrel, if so desired.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the device, a supply-tank, and the receiving or watering tank or trough, a portion of the latter being broken away; and Fig. 2 is avertical section through the stock-watering device in its entirety.

In carrying out the invention the body A of the device is made in the nature of a T- fitting, comprising a vertical tubular member and a horizontal tubular member 11, and where the two parts of the body portion of the device connect interior lugs 12 are formed, adapted to prevent a strainer 13, usually of conical construction and located in the horizontal member 11, from passing Serial No. 600,016. (No model.)

into the vertical member, and the apex of the conical strainer is made to face the receiving end of the horizontal member of the aforesaid device.

The receiving end of the horizontal member of the body of the device is provided with an interior thread 14, which is adapted to receive the reduced forward end of a hollow plug 15, and the said plug is made tapering from a point near its center in direction of its rear end, and the rear end portion of the plug is provided with an exterior screw 16 of wood, or a screw of a like type, whereby the plug may be made to conveniently enter a cask E, a tank, or the equivalent thereof, adapted to contain the liquid which is to be supplied to a feed-trough B, in connection with which the device is also employed.

The upper end of the vertical member of the T-body of the device is provided with a removable screw-plug 17, and at the bottom of its vertical member a nozzle 18 is screwed or otherwise secured, and the said nozzle is preferably made tapering and enters the trough B a predetermined distance, or sufficiently so to prevent the wind from driving the liquid out from the trough while being delivered therein. The nozzle 18 hasatop 19, in which an opening 20 is made, and this opening 20 in the nozzle is adapted to be normally closed by a valve 21, preferably of the disk character, the valve being located within the vertical member of the aforesaid T-body A.

A trip-rod 22 is secured to this valve, and v the rod extends downward through the opening 20 in the top of the nozzle and out through the body of the same, terminating at its lower end in an adjustable foot 23. This foot is adapted to rest normally against a float 24, which is contracted at that end engaging with the foot and at its wider portion is pivoted in the trough B through the medium of a rod 25, the major portion of the float being forward of the pivot, as shown in both of the views. lVhen a sufficient quantity of liquid is contained in the trough B, the forward or larger end of the float will have been raised, and the float will occupy the horizontal position shown in Fig. l, and the valve 21 will then drop by gravity, so as to cover the opening in the top of the nozzle and shut 01f the supply of liquid from the trough. That end 21 proportionately, so that the liquid from the source of supply with which the device is connected will flow into the trough to establish the desired level. The strainer 13 effectually prevents any extraneous matter from enterin g the trough.

When it is desired to attach the device to a hydrant O, for example, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the nozzle of the hydrant may be attached to the top of the vertical member of the body of the device, the plug 17 beingremoved and the outer end of the horizontal member being closed by the said plug or its equivalent; or the plug 17 may be permitted to remain in place, and the nozzle, if its shape necessitates, may be connected with the body of the device at the horizontal member 11 thereof, the supply-nozzle 15 having been removed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a watering device, the combination, with a substantially T-shaped body, its vertical member being provided With a plug, an inlet-nozzle connected with the horizontal member of the body, and an outlet-nozzle connected with the vertical member of the body, the outlet-nozzle having an apertured top, of a valve adapted to close the aperture in the top and having movement in the vertical member of the aforesaid body, a triprod connected with the valve, extending outward through and beyond the outlet end of the outlet-nozzle,and a float engaging with the outer end of the said trip-rod, regulating the action of the aforesaid valve, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a stock-watering device, or a device of like character, the combination, with a substantially'T-shaped body provided with a removable plug at one end of its vertical member, and an inlet-nozzle connected with the outer end of its horizontal member, of an outlet-nozzle having tapering form and a closed top provided with an outlet-aperture, the said outlet-nozzle being located in the end of the vertical member of the body opposite the plug, a valve adapted to normally close the outlet-aperture in the aforesaid outlet-nozzle, a stem attached to the said valve and extending outward beyond the lower end of the outlet-nozzle, terminating in a foot, a receptacle over which the device is located, and a pivoted float located in the said receptacle, one end whereof is in engagement with the foot of the aforesaid valve, as and for the purpose specified.

JOSEPH SEILER. WVitnesses:

J. E. GRIFFITH, O. HENDERSON.

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