US654311A - Chicken-brooder. - Google Patents

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"No. 654,3". Patented July 24, |900.

F..S. JAUUITH'. CHICKEN Bananen1 (.Application led Aug. 10, 1899.)

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FRANK S. JAQUITH, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN A. GETOI-IELL, HARRIET E. JAQUITH, AND MARY G. JAQUITH, OF SAME PLACE.

'. CHlCKEN.- BROO;DER.

SPECEFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 654,31 1, dated July 24, 1960.

Application filed August l0, 1899. Serial No. 726,798. (No mode-Ll To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK S. JAQUITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of IOWa,have invented a new and useful Ohicken- Broeder, of which the following is a specification.

Heretofore in many instances baby chickens taken from an incubator and placed in xo an artificial brooder have become feeble for want of a suficiently-warm and continuous equal temperature in all parts of the chamber in which they were confined and many have died from such cause.

x5 Thermostats for regulating heat in brooders have in many instances operated in such a manner as to allow currents of wind to extinguish lamps, so that no heat was generated and chickens in the broeders perished from zo cold before such accidents were discovered.

Disease also often occurs in chickens confined in broeders on account of the fioors becoming foul and neglected because of the labor and difficulties incident to cleaning them frequently.

My object is to provide broeders in which an even temperature and proper degree of heat can be readily secured and maintained uniformly throughout all parts of the spaces 3o or chambers in which chickens are confined, to dispense with the use of thermostats for regulating heat, prevent accidental extinguishing of lamps by currents of wind, to facilitate cleaning the floors, and to maintain a lpure atmosphere in the broeder under the floor, as well as above the floor.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of separable parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in 4o my claims, and illustrated in the accompany- -ing drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my inven tion from a rear point of view, showing it resting upon the surface of the ground and the lamp-chamber partially embedded in the ground. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview taken from a position in front of the brooder and shows the opening in front through which chickens can pass in and out. Fig. 3 is a ver- 5o tical and longitudinal sectional view showing the relative positions of the lamp-chamber under the base, the Water-heating tank, the heat-conductor under the tank, the removable lioor on top ofthe tank, and the removable case iitted on top of the base. Fig. 4 is 55 a transverse sectional view on the line as @cof Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional view of the lamp-heater and air-conductor combined therewith. Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view on the line g/ y of'Fig. 3. Fig. 7 is a diagrammatical view of one of a number of interchangeable plates provided with openings that vary in size for the passage of chickens of different size; and Fig. 8 is a detail view, on a horizontal line immediately above the passage-way in the front of the case, and shows how the Vplates are detachably connected with the inside faceof the front of the case.

The letter A designates the base ofthe structure,composed of a rectangular wooden frame and a wooden iioor A2, fixed to the frame by nailing or in any suitable Way in such a manner that a tank can be detachably placed upon the iioor and within the frame and a cover litted on top of the frame and removably placedthereon to inclose the tank. A lamp-chamber B, made of sheet'metal and provided with iianges at its open top, is xed to the bottom of the floor A2, at a rear corner portion of the base, in such a manner that it Will extend rearward. from the base, as shown in Fig. l.

B2 is an air-conductor fixed to the outside of the lamp-chamber to communicate there 85 with, as shown in Fig. 5. It has an arched top B3, that serves as a guard to prevent currents of wind from entering and extinguish ing the lamp. s

BL is a removable cover on that part of the 9o lamp-chamber that extends outward from the frame and allows access to a lamp in the chamber.

O is a flat tank made of sheet metal and adapted in shape and size to be placed on top of the lioor of the base A. It has a hot-air conductor C2 fixed to its bottom to extend from the lamp-chamber at its one end portion to the other end, as shown in Fig. 4c, and an open-ended tubular extension O3, fixed to the conductor to enter the top of the lamp-chamber, as required to establish communication therewith. An open-topped tube d is fixed in the top of the tank and adapted for pouring Water through it into the tank.

To adapt the base A and tank O to be sep- ICC arated at pleasure and also to provide an exit for products of combustion from a lampchamber under the Hoor and through the conductor C2, an auxiliary conductor f is'iixed in the base, as shown in Fig. 3, or in any snitable way to communicate with the said main conductor, so that smoke and fumes will be prevented from affecting the atmosphere in the brood-chamber above the tank and to facilitate separating the different parts.

H is a removable floor composed of thin wooden boards fixed to cross-pieces on their under sides and adapted to rest upon the top of the tank C in such a manner that heat radiating from the tank can circulate under the wooden floor; also, in such a manner that the floor can be readily lifted out to facilitate cleaning.

J is a wooden case fitted on top of the frame of the base. Its rear portion has a fixed top J2 and its front portion inclines downward therefrom and has a hinged window J 3, that can be raised to gain access to the interior and through which chickens on the floor of the chamber can be observed when thewindow is in a closed position, as shown in Fig. 2.

ventilators fm are fixed in the top J 2 of the case.

At the ends of an opening in the front and center of the case J are fixed bearings n to support interchangeable metal plates R, that have openings differing in size, as required to adapt the brooder for chickens differing in size at different ages.

S is a movable door for closing the openings.

A thermometer is suspended from the fiat top portion of the roof to indicate the degree of heat within the brood-chamber,as required for governing the generation of heat by means of a lamp placed in the lamp-chamber.

It is obvious that by extending the draftflue horizontally through the frame and under the tank it will not enter the brood-chamber above the tank, and consequently will not discharge smoke or gas into the chamber or prevent the maintaining of a uniform temperature in all parts of the brood-chamber, all parts of which chamber are designed to be occupied by the chicks at their pleasure.

Having thus described 'the construction,v

function, arrangement, and combination of the different parts, the practical operation and utility of my invention will` be readily understood by persons familiar with the art to which it pertains, and

What I therefore claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent therefor, is-

l. In a chicken-brooder a base consisting of arectangular movable frame having a floor fixed to its under side and a lamp-chamber nxed to the bottom of the board and a portion of said chamber extended outward laterally from the base and provided with a movable cover on the upper side for gaining access thereto and an air-conductor communicating with the lower part of the lamp-chamber and provided with an extension at its top opening downwardfto admit air to pass upward before it can descend through the conductor to the lam p-chamber, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.'

2. In a chicken-brooder, a base composed of a frame having a passage-way for communicating with the heat-conductor of a lampchamber, floor-boards fixed to the frame and adapted to support a tank, aremovable tank fitted Within the frame and upon the fioor, a heat-conductor fixed to the bottom of the tank and adapted to communicate with the passage in the frame at one end and with alampchamber at its inner end and a removable lamp-chamber under the tank and a portion thereof extended beyond the tank and provided with a movable cover and a fixed airconductor extending from the lower portion of the heater upward and its top opening downward, arranged and combined to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

3. In a chicken-broeder, a lamp-heater fixed to the bottom of a movable base to communicate with a heat-conductor fixed to the bottom of a tank and a portion of the heaterextended from the tank and provided with a movable cover and an air-conductor having a top to open downward and communicating with the lower portion of the heater, in combination with a removable base and a removable flat-bottomed tank having a fixed heatconductor extending from the lamp-heater to the end of the tank, as shown and described, for the purposes stated.

et. A chicken-brooder comprising a plurality of separable parts, to wit: abase composed of a frame having a passage for a heat-conductor, a heat-conductor in said passage and a fioor fixed to the frame, a lamp-chamber fixed to the bottom of the base and an opentopped portion of the chamber extended outward from the frame and provided with a movable cover, an air-conveyer fixed to the lamp- -chamber to communicate with the lower part thereof and opening downward at its top, a fiat metal water-tank placed removably on IIO IIS

top of the fioor portion of the base, a hot-air conductor fixed to the bottom of the tank and one end communicating with the lamp-chamber and the other end with an airpassage extending through the frame of the base, a removable fioor fitted on top of the tank and a` FRANK S. JAQUITH.

Witnesses:

REUBEN G. ORWIG, THoMAs G. ORwIG.

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