US647778A - Poultry-brooder. - Google Patents

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"No. 647,778. Patented Apr. l7, I900.

- A. S. WHITNEY.

POULTRY BRO0DEB.

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ALEXIS S. WVHITNEY, OF GOUVERNEUR, NEXV YORK.

POULTRY-BROODERL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 647,778, dated April 17, 1900.

Application filed July 17,1899. Serial No. 724,031. (No model.)

To all whont it may concern/.2

Be it known that I, ALEXIS S. WHITNEY, of Gouverneur, in the county of St. Lawrence, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Poultry-Brooders, of which the following, taken-in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to the class of appa- 1o ratus which are employed for taking care of and raising young broods of fowl.

The object of the invention is to provide an apparatus which shall be simple and inexpensive in construction and convenient, efiicient,

and safe inits operation; and to that end the invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the component parts of the apparatus hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

The invention is fully illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which 1,

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the brooding apparatus.

View of the same with one-half of the top removed. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section on line Y Y in Fig. 2 with the hinged section of the top open. Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section on line X X in Fig. 3 with the top closed, and Fig. 5 is a rear ele- 0 vation of the apparatus.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents the case or'housing for inclos ing the brood and means for caring for the same.

B denotes the floor, which extends across the entire interior of the case A and is placed at a proper distance from the base thereof to form a basement 0 for protecting said floor from moisture and from the efifects of the temperature at the exterior of the case. In this basement, preferably at the center of the rear portion thereof, is a heating-chamber D, formed by a wall (1, extending through the basement, parallel with the rear wall thereof, and by transverse wall'sb 12, extending across the space between said walls, thus forming at the same time two compartments 00, respectively, at opposite sides of the heating- So chamber D, in which is placed a lampZ or other suitable heater.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan' The purposes of the compartments 0 O are first to confine the heat within the limited area of the chamber D and to serve as moderators or controllers of the currents of air which pass through said compartments and into the heating-chamber D to supply the lamps with the requisite air for combustion of the flame. This controlling of said currents of air is effected by means of inductionports 0 c in the end walls of the case A and by smaller air-diffusing apertures 61 d in the transverse walls I) b, which latter apertures control the passages pf air to the chamber D, so as to check the currents suiiiciently to prevent their extinguishing the flame of the lamp Z.

The chamber D is provided with a door e to afford access to the lamp.

The floor B is provided with an opening directly over the lamp Z, and in said opening is secured a metal thimble t, as more clearly shown in Fig. 4: of the drawings. This thimble projects above the floor B and has fitted to its exterior a vertical cylinder 9. To the upper portion of said cylinder are attached pipes h h, which extend divergingly there from and toward the main portion of the chamber F above the floor B, in which chamber the young brood is confined.

To the free ends of the pipes h 7b is attached a horizontal drum i, which extends through the greater portion of the length of the chamher F and has connected to it the vent or exit pipe j, extending through the stationary section of the top 11, the companion section at of which is hinged or otherwise removable to afford convenient access to the interior of the chamber F. The thimble t is secured closely to the under side of the bottom B, and the Ma denote ventilating-apertures in the Walls of the brood-chamber F, and u u are dampers or shutters for opening and closing said apertures, as may be found necessary.

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having side and end walls and a raised floor;

relatively arranged to provide a brood-chamber above and a closed basement beneath said floor; a partition ext-ending transversely-of.

the basement and from side to sidethereof and partitions extending from the rear wall of thebasementto saidtransversepartition, said partitions being relatively arnangedto form, with said floor of the brood-chamber andfwal-lsof the basement, a closed central heating-chamber and air controllingand mod-;

' heating-chamber, alllocated side by side and ati one end 0 f ,,the basement; air-induction crating chambers 'at opposite sides of: said.

i openings leading tosaid'moderat-ing-andlcont Y 2; A poultry-brooder: embodying acase 1 having sideand end walls and a; raised floor, 1

i trolling chambers; air-diffusing apertures of 'sina-lle'r'diaineters than said induction-open I ings, through which the heating-chamber hasv communication with the air controlling andin oderatin gchambers a lam p in said heati n g-l chamber and means for conveying heat from the heating-chamber to the brood-chamber.

relatively arranged to provide a brood-chamber aboveand a closed basement beneath said floor, said floor having an opening leading to the basement and the walls of said broodcharnber havin g ventilatin g-ports; a partition extending transversely of the basement and from side to side-thereof, and partitions extending from the rear wall of the basement to said transverse partitions, said partitions being relatively arranged to form, with said floor of the brood-chamber and walls of the basement, a closed centralheating-chamber beneath said opening in the floor and air controlling and moderating chambers at' opposite sides of said heating-chamber, all located side by side and at on-eend of the basement; airinduction openings leading to' said moderating and controlling chambers; 'air-diffusin g apertures of" smaller diameters than said induration-openings; through which the heatingchamber hasicommunication'with the air controlling and moderating chambers 3" a lamp in said heating-chamber; a cylinder extending -in't0 the brood-chamber from the opening in :thefioor thereof; pipes extending'from said c'ylinde'r; adrum'in. the brood-chamber, into which said pipes discharge; and an exit-pipe leading from said drum.

ALEXIS Slgl/VHITNEY. [n s] Witnesses: I I v A. S, WQODVVORTI-L 1 GEORGE P1KE.

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